Have you ever tried using AR maker? The app is hard, frustrating, and rewarding.
My Final AR Maker Video
Watch my final AR Maker video here!
European Exploration
These past 5 weeks, we have learned about the cause and consequence of exploration. We read about the motivation of European exploration, early trading, and of course, the cause and consequences of exploration.
Storytelling
The driving question for this project was, how can we use storytelling to investigate what sparked global exploration and understand its impact? We can use story telling by making a story! We all made a AR maker video to do with this project. Mine tells the story of a girl called Anika. Anika desperately wanted to set sail with her father, and explore the world. One day when her father was leaving on a voyage, she decided to sneak her way along. She made it to the middle of the ocean, when a big wave hit her and knocked her overboard. Anika washed up on the shores of the land they called ‘Newfoundland’ (New Found Land). She somehow transmitted a disease called small pox to the people of the Americas. The disease grew and grew bigger, and it became exceptionally dangerous. Years later, her father reunited with her when he was on a voyage to the Americas. The two of them lived happily ever after in the land called the Americas.
AR Maker
AR maker can be extremely confusing and hard to operate. You need to press place 
in a specific area, and make sure that you do not lose sight of your little friend in the white placing box. It was a very frustrating app at first, when we were making our practice stories. My story was deleting over and over, and I was done with the app. I then just kept moving forward, and was glad when I finished.
Small Pox
I think my story shows my knowledge very well because I demonstrated how the 
Europeans transmitted the disease ‘small pox’ into the Americas. The disease lasted for many many years, and was highly contagious. Small children and women were most likely to contract the disease, while men were just the little bit more immune. The more people were exposed to small pox, the more their immune system built up, but the disease could still harm them harshly. Later, a vaccine was created to stop small pox, which helped a lot. Although people were taken care of, there weren’t enough hospitals for everyone, and thousands sadly past away from it.
Reflection
Overall on this project, I am proud of what I have accomplished, and created. I did get some revisions, but I took them in well, and used them to fuel me to make my next draft better. At the end, I got all 👌, and I feel good about that. In the future, I think I could’ve gotten the whole project done faster, but it’s all okay, because it is done and I am proud of the work I have produced. Thanks for reading, and keep your eyes peeled for my next post!
Doing DI this year was different through. We didn’t get to choose our groups, and we were working with people we hadn’t before.
things done, so one weekend, when we had 2 professional days, we met up at my house and got to work! We had lots of fun playing with the saw, and painting. We finished all of our props on those 2 days which left only a couple things to do. We had to complete the costumes, forms so we could enter the tournament, and most importantly, PRACTICE!
them. Not all members were helping at times, because they were distracted by games, and texting on their iPads. As I’m sure most people know, it can be frustrating to work in a group that doesn’t help a lot of the time. My teammates showed up, and I that’s sometimes as much as you can ask of someone.
structure, and then the background of atoms. We talked about who discovered them, and what different scientists theories were. We did lab experiments, and took notes on what we discovered. We used math to figure out the mass of objects, and we even got to use iodine!
Our big project for this section of Science was making a video game in Scratch that 
displayed our knowledge about atoms. We handed in a plan for our game on Showbie, and then got the
to happen. A game might seem simple, but as soon as you try and code it yourself you will realize that, nope, it is super hard. It was all okay though, because I quickly adjusted to making a simple atom drop game, and my life suddenly seemed good again! I used a YouTube video to help me, because this is the first time I have ever used Scratch, and it was hard. The video explained the different steps really well, and it helped me a lot.
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