julien`s+journal

= __//February 19//__ =

the gadget page was realy cool i learned a couple of new gears. i got the first two question in the gadget anatomy

February 26 we learned 3 different kinds of levers 1st class 2nd class

3rd class

=March 31, 2009=

the da vinci crossbow
 * 1. You will be exploring a da Vinci inspired topic, of your choice, and going into great detail. What subject or subjects are you interested in?

2. What interests you about your subject? Why is it something you want to know more about? lots of litle mecanaisme and it would be hard to piece every peice togethor

3. Would you rather work individually or in a group? And what is the largest group that you would be interested in working in? i would rather work in a group rather than by my self. i dont like realy realy big groups

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: research observe

Apply: skeatch constuct stimulate

Analyze: compare

Evaluate: debate decide choose

Create: predict write imagine role play

=april 16 2009= I am in a group with macguire, geoff, and we are going to make a crossbow, first we will make a main frame and then worry about the ekastic we will use in the cross bow. we started a discussion [|here]. so the frame and the firing mechanism we gota make

june 11
me macguire and geoffrey where making a crossbow and we made the stock (the shaft) out of wood. we started making the limbs (the cross piece) out of plexiglas ® ™ and bolted it down with metal brackets.

what didn't work
we had a few problems we couldn't screw in the limbs to the stock cause of the grain (end grain) so we made 90* metal brackets and screwed it in the side of the wood instead of the end grain

what could have been better
nothing

what we learned in this project higher level thinking skills