Category: Language Arts

Hi i’m back and today we are going to be talking about my self-directed science project.

My partner was Maia we both did everything together except our blog posts. We were doing a stop motion on how crystals grow and here is some information about crystals.

How crystals are made:

Crystals are made in nature when molecules start to cool and harden. That process is called crystallization it happens when magma hardens or water evaporates and when nature mix too.

What crystals are made for:

Crystals are used for rings and jewellery and housework for example quartz usually is on a table in a person’s house. You also usually would wear diamond necklaces or earrings.

Where to find crystals:

You can find crystals almost anywhere the most common place to find them are in reveens and forests.

Are crystals rocks or minerals?

Crystals are minerals, not rocks.

What is the mineral cycle?

The mineral cycle: The plant grows then it turns into olive oil then it reduces from olive oil into a type of rock ash comes in and the rock turns into a mineral and the mineral turns into a crystal.

now that you have read all the information I know i can tell you how me and Maia stop motion turned out: Me and Maia made a couple last-minute things. starting with a person and 3 more crystals for our stop motion. We also took turns recording and taking picture by picture and we had to have the right lighting which was hard to find. Then once we finished it looked alright but not amazing because the camera moved but it was okay. Maia made the moon I made the stars we both made the rock path and we both made the trees and we both painted it. It took around 1 week and 2 days to finish and it turned out just fine but it was really fun to make.

Here are some pictures of us building and our stop motion of crystals being made.

 

 

Hi it’s me and I am going to be talking about medieval times.

lords vs serfs

This starts in medieval Europe and its a second name for middle ages not everyone was treated the same it starts like this freemen a serfs were treated the worst but they might just be the most important. they grow food and other important things.

The disease

The disease was called black death. The black death is a disease was infected fleas on rats or raccoon those kind of animals. It probably killed around almost all of western Europe. This disease first happened in the 500’s and the second part was in 1300’s.  This disease was very very deadly a lot of people died from it.

The great hallway

The great hallway is where guests family members and friends would come together. Dinner,lunch,breakfast were eaten in the great hallway. Many things happened there they had people sleep the (aka their servants). They cook their meals and small windows were there and there was many fire places everywhere. 

Drawbridge

a drawbridge is a door that goes up and down. its very safe for everyone in the castle there are also sometimes chains on the drawbridge. drawbridges usually are up in the air and when people come in the castle they usually come in from the drawbridge. the drawbridge is a very important thing in a castle if you dont have it its not really a castle.

Feudal system 

you see this picture? well that is the feudal system. you can see at the bottom of the system the freemen and serfs they make crops for them and mostly for the king. now in middle class they need to do things that take lots of skill they would make clothes and much more they had very hard jobs. now in the 3rd section closest to the king there called nobles there was powerful people there not as powerful as the king for sure no where near as the king. There were leaders and church leaders. and finally the king had all of the power.

Gears

gears are a moving weal that usually touchs another gear. gears are also used to change the speed as well. and gears are very good for castles but some dont have some like mine. me and maia never made gears but the pully still works well like the others. so yeah me and maia never used gears at all but yet our everything still works.

Hypothesis: i think that me and maia did good and that its very detailed but the drawbridge dosent go down all the way so we need to fix that to add more metal to it so it goes down all the way.

Rubric: do you have more then 2 pictures ✔️ do you have bold righting and underline to help readers ✔️ do you have a video✔️ do you paragraph about castles,feudal system,drawbridge or gears,lords vs serfs✔️

 

other pictures of my work and a video of me and Maia explaining what it will look like

explaining what the castle will look like

our progress

What are gears