Iulia's+Journal

=__Iulia's Journal__= //March 26th//

A: I am interested in the invention aspect as well as engineering and building and I'm also kind of curious about Phi and the mathematical part of it.
 * 1. You will be exploring a subject in Science, of your choice, and going into great detail. What subject or subjects are you interested in?**

A: I'm interested in the building part because I think it would be cool to make a model of DaVinci's inventions since he never did. It would be interesting to be able to look at his sketches and try to decipher them and figure out how to make them into an actual model. I would also like to invent something because it allows creativity and I would like to know more about how to design and create something of my own. The mathematical part of it interests me because I find it fascinating how nature follows certain rules and how the same proportions can be found in so many things.
 * 2. What interests you about your subject? Why is it something you want to know more about?**

A: I would prefer to work in a group because that way you can share ideas and have people to help you out and divide the work with. I find that projects are often more interesting when working in a group because, when I'm working independently, I tend to take an easier route since I'm working on it alone. With more people comes the ability to tackle more difficult and creative projects. The largest group I would be interesting in working in would probably be a group of 3.
 * 3. Would you rather work individually or in a group? And what is the largest group that you would be interested in working in?**


 * 4. Look at the images on the In-Class page for March 12th. For each of the levels/skills on Blooms Taxonomy that we discussed, use the key words in the image to tell us some of the things that you might do in your wiki assignment, in order to demonstrate each of the Skills.**

Remember/Understand:

Apply:

Analyze:

Evaluate:

Create:

//February 19, 2009//

Today, I visited the "Inventor's Toolbox" site and learned about simple machines that make up today's gadgets. These simple machines include the wheel and axle, pulley, wedge, screw, lever, gears, etc. I knew some of these simple machines from when I studied them in grade 4, but there are many more than I knew of. This site was very informative and I learned a lot from it. For example, I learned about the rack and pinion, which is used to power windshield wipers. It consists of a single gear called a pinion that meshes with a sliding toothed rack. This turns rotary motion into back and forth motion. I thought this was interesting, because I could easily picture it working in my head.