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Info to Know- Luddites
From http://www.dictionary.com/browse/luddite comes very interesting information:
"noun
1. a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811- 16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
2. someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies or technological change."
Pretty cool if I don't say so myself. Thanks, dictionary.com for the enlightenment. :) SO BASICALLY, from what I read from this definition, a Luddite in the 1800s was someone who destroyed machinery so that they and others didn't experience unemployment. Understandable. Today, a Luddite is someone who doesn't agree with some, or a lot, of the technological outbreaks today.
There it is, folks! Until next time, Meg ;)
"noun
1. a member of any of various bands of workers in England (1811- 16) organized to destroy manufacturing machinery, under the belief that its use diminished employment.
2. someone who is opposed or resistant to new technologies or technological change."
Pretty cool if I don't say so myself. Thanks, dictionary.com for the enlightenment. :) SO BASICALLY, from what I read from this definition, a Luddite in the 1800s was someone who destroyed machinery so that they and others didn't experience unemployment. Understandable. Today, a Luddite is someone who doesn't agree with some, or a lot, of the technological outbreaks today.
There it is, folks! Until next time, Meg ;)
"The Great"
Alexander the Great- a common name brought up in many American social studies classes today. But who is he really?
EARLY YEARS
Alexander the Great, only known as Alexander in his early life, was born in 356 BC in Macedonia, to King Philip II and Olympias. He experienced fame since childhood, when local rumors and theories were developed that the young prince descended from two Greek heroes by the names of Achilles and Heracles, and some locals even believed that Alexander had received blood from Zeus, the king of all the ancient Greek gods and goddesses.
As Alexander grew older, he got to pick his own horse at the age of twelve at a horse market. He found a horse, but it turned out to be very jumpy and scared at first. Alexander used reasoning to help the horse overcome its fears and let Alexander saddle him at the market. As stated in Who was Alexander the Great? by Robin and Kathryn Waterfield, “This is Alexander’s first conquest. Suddenly King Philip sees his son with new eyes” (Waterfield, page four). Alexander later used this very same horse, named Bucephalas, to conquer many ancient cities.
While growing of age in a royal home in Macedon, Alexander’s father made sure that his son received a good education. In fact, before Aristotle, a greek philosopher, was willing to tutor Alexander, Aristotle first requested that his whole howntown, which had been conquered by Philip, would be freed- and Philip agreed!
WARS AND CONQUESTS
Alexander was made king at age twenty, and his adventures began. First, he went to the Asia Minor to meet up with Parmenion, one of his father’s best generals, to finish what his father had started before dying...
MORE SOON!!
-Meg
EARLY YEARS
Alexander the Great, only known as Alexander in his early life, was born in 356 BC in Macedonia, to King Philip II and Olympias. He experienced fame since childhood, when local rumors and theories were developed that the young prince descended from two Greek heroes by the names of Achilles and Heracles, and some locals even believed that Alexander had received blood from Zeus, the king of all the ancient Greek gods and goddesses.
As Alexander grew older, he got to pick his own horse at the age of twelve at a horse market. He found a horse, but it turned out to be very jumpy and scared at first. Alexander used reasoning to help the horse overcome its fears and let Alexander saddle him at the market. As stated in Who was Alexander the Great? by Robin and Kathryn Waterfield, “This is Alexander’s first conquest. Suddenly King Philip sees his son with new eyes” (Waterfield, page four). Alexander later used this very same horse, named Bucephalas, to conquer many ancient cities.
While growing of age in a royal home in Macedon, Alexander’s father made sure that his son received a good education. In fact, before Aristotle, a greek philosopher, was willing to tutor Alexander, Aristotle first requested that his whole howntown, which had been conquered by Philip, would be freed- and Philip agreed!
WARS AND CONQUESTS
Alexander was made king at age twenty, and his adventures began. First, he went to the Asia Minor to meet up with Parmenion, one of his father’s best generals, to finish what his father had started before dying...
MORE SOON!!
-Meg
The Scientific Method
There are many important discoveries in the field of science and engineering. For example, Isaac Newton with the law of universal gravity. What comes up must come down! What would we do without Isaac Newton?! Without him, we would forever be wondering why it can be so challenging to do a pull up on the pull up bar. :) And it's not just Issac Newton! We have Michael Faraday with electricity (No, sadly Thomas Edison did not discover electricity, he only made the light bulb, but that's still AMAZINGLY AWESOME!), Charles Darwin with evolution, and (wait for it....) my role model Albert Einstein with The Thereoy of Reletivity! Although scientists do not always follow this method, it is common and recommended to be used when doing scientific experiments. This method is...
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD!!!
There are a series of steps that are used in the Scientific Method. Here they are-
1. Making an observation- Be curious! Find something that gets you wondering, or interested.
2. Forming a question- After making an observation, make a question about that observation. That question should include an independent variable (what you change in each test) and a dependent variable (what you measure). This makes the question testable. Here is an example of a testable question: "Does the color of light that a plant receives effect how tall the plant grows in 30 days?" The red represents the independent variable, and the blue represents the dependent variable.
3. Making a Hypothesis- Make an educated guess about what you think will happen in the experiment, or what the answer to the question is.
4. Conducting an Experiment- Make sure to take notes, and make drawings and graphs as you go! Make sure that you write your procedure, or the steps in which you did your experiment, too! It is recommended that the procedure should be in enough detail that someone else could redo your project the same way you did it from reading your written procedure.
5. Drawing a Conclusion- Analyze the data. What did you find out, or learn, from this experiment?
Keep on sciencing, and I'll see you next time!
-Meg
(MEG HAS GREAT SCIENCE HUMOR EVERYONE!!! -B)
(Why thank you. -M :D)
THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD!!!
There are a series of steps that are used in the Scientific Method. Here they are-
1. Making an observation- Be curious! Find something that gets you wondering, or interested.
2. Forming a question- After making an observation, make a question about that observation. That question should include an independent variable (what you change in each test) and a dependent variable (what you measure). This makes the question testable. Here is an example of a testable question: "Does the color of light that a plant receives effect how tall the plant grows in 30 days?" The red represents the independent variable, and the blue represents the dependent variable.
3. Making a Hypothesis- Make an educated guess about what you think will happen in the experiment, or what the answer to the question is.
4. Conducting an Experiment- Make sure to take notes, and make drawings and graphs as you go! Make sure that you write your procedure, or the steps in which you did your experiment, too! It is recommended that the procedure should be in enough detail that someone else could redo your project the same way you did it from reading your written procedure.
5. Drawing a Conclusion- Analyze the data. What did you find out, or learn, from this experiment?
Keep on sciencing, and I'll see you next time!
-Meg
(MEG HAS GREAT SCIENCE HUMOR EVERYONE!!! -B)
(Why thank you. -M :D)
Pandas
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It is estimated that there are about 1,864 pandas in China's wild today in the mountain forests of the west.
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Average HeightHabitat |
The average height of a panda ranges from 2-3 feet.
In the wild, pandas are usually only found in the mountainous regions of Central China, Shaanxi, Sichuan, and Gansu provinces. This type of habitat consists of cool, wet, bamboo forests, witch are perfect for the needs of the panda.
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Computer Programming
Have you ever played a game on your electronic device and think, I wonder how this all works? Well there is an answer. Computer programming. It's kind of complicated to explain, but basically it is a bunch of phrases and numbers all put together to make a code. Meg and I have learned about two different kinds of code. JavaScript and HTML. HTML is webpage coding. It uses tags (<example>) to tell the computer what to do. It is a bit difficult and a little non-user friendly. It takes a while to remember the HTML code. If you want to learn how to make HTML you can go to www.khanacademy.org. Now for JavaScript. Probably one of the best inventions of all time. It is user friendly and fun once you get the hang of it. It uses commands like ellipse (circle), rect (rectangle/square), and triangle (triangle). There is a required four number code for those. As I said before, this is kind of hard to explain, so I will show you an example of a program I made!!!
CODE IF YOU WANT TO COPY:
// color the background navy blue/purple
background(23, 11, 69);
// body
fill(255, 255, 13);
ellipse(200, 350, 150, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(200, 350, 100, 150);
// face
fill(255, 255, 13);
ellipse(150, 30, 50, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(150, 30, 20, 180);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(250, 130, 50, 300);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(250, 110, 20, 180);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(250, 13, 40, 70);
fill(87, 82, 7);
rect(240, 10, 20, 20);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(200, 200, 200, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
triangle(200, 100, 250, 212, 150, 212);
triangle(200, 120, 250, 212, 150, 212);
rect(100, 230, 40, 30);
rect(255, 230, 40, 30);
fill(0, 0, 0);
ellipse(200, 250, 30, 30);
fill(252, 252, 13);
// eyes
fill(255, 255, 255);
ellipse(150, 200, 50, 50);
ellipse(250, 200, 50, 50);
fill(158, 91, 9);
ellipse(150, 200, 40, 40);
ellipse(250, 200, 40, 40);
fill(0, 0, 0);
ellipse(150, 200, 30, 30);
ellipse(250, 200, 30, 30);
fill(255, 255, 255);
ellipse(140, 195, 10, 10);
ellipse(240, 195, 10, 10);
RESULT:
CODE IF YOU WANT TO COPY:
// color the background navy blue/purple
background(23, 11, 69);
// body
fill(255, 255, 13);
ellipse(200, 350, 150, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(200, 350, 100, 150);
// face
fill(255, 255, 13);
ellipse(150, 30, 50, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(150, 30, 20, 180);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(250, 130, 50, 300);
fill(87, 82, 7);
ellipse(250, 110, 20, 180);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(250, 13, 40, 70);
fill(87, 82, 7);
rect(240, 10, 20, 20);
fill(252, 252, 13);
ellipse(200, 200, 200, 200);
fill(87, 82, 7);
triangle(200, 100, 250, 212, 150, 212);
triangle(200, 120, 250, 212, 150, 212);
rect(100, 230, 40, 30);
rect(255, 230, 40, 30);
fill(0, 0, 0);
ellipse(200, 250, 30, 30);
fill(252, 252, 13);
// eyes
fill(255, 255, 255);
ellipse(150, 200, 50, 50);
ellipse(250, 200, 50, 50);
fill(158, 91, 9);
ellipse(150, 200, 40, 40);
ellipse(250, 200, 40, 40);
fill(0, 0, 0);
ellipse(150, 200, 30, 30);
ellipse(250, 200, 30, 30);
fill(255, 255, 255);
ellipse(140, 195, 10, 10);
ellipse(240, 195, 10, 10);
RESULT:
THANKS FOR READING!
Common Loon
Loons are rarely seen in the United States. If you see one even in Ohio, it will be the first and last you will probably ever see. News has it that it is going to be named Canada's state bird. Believe it or not, a loon became stranded at my dad's work in a pond. He was eating all of the fish that the students had raised. My dad said that loons can "walk on water" and have to have at least 1,000 ft to lift of. `My dad's teachers and some of his students are going to catch the bird and free it. Here are some facts I found about the common loon.
"Named for their clumsy, awkward appearance when walking on land, common loons are migratory birds which breed in forested lakes and large ponds in northern North America and parts of Greenland and Iceland. They winter all along North America’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts as well as in Europe and Iceland."(http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/common-loon/, paragraph 1).
"Named for their clumsy, awkward appearance when walking on land, common loons are migratory birds which breed in forested lakes and large ponds in northern North America and parts of Greenland and Iceland. They winter all along North America’s Pacific and Atlantic coasts as well as in Europe and Iceland."(http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/birds/common-loon/, paragraph 1).
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Picture from Wikipedia
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William McKinley
FAST FACTS!!!
William McKinley was the United States 25th president and came from Niles, Ohio. He was born on January 29, 1843, and died September 14, 1901. After the American Civil War, he moved to Canton, Ohio and studied law. While he was there, he married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, and became a Republican. William and Ida McKinley had two daughters, Ida and Katherine, who sadly both died at young ages. Skipping a few years; McKinley was visiting Buffalo, he was shot twice and died. A large marble monument up 108 steps on the side of a hill in Canton, Ohio is the final resting place of William, Ida, Katherine, and Baby Ida McKinley. The monument from above is meant to look like a sword.
William McKinley was the United States 25th president and came from Niles, Ohio. He was born on January 29, 1843, and died September 14, 1901. After the American Civil War, he moved to Canton, Ohio and studied law. While he was there, he married Ida Saxton. In 1876, he was elected to Congress, and became a Republican. William and Ida McKinley had two daughters, Ida and Katherine, who sadly both died at young ages. Skipping a few years; McKinley was visiting Buffalo, he was shot twice and died. A large marble monument up 108 steps on the side of a hill in Canton, Ohio is the final resting place of William, Ida, Katherine, and Baby Ida McKinley. The monument from above is meant to look like a sword.
All information and picture found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley
Collies-Fast Facts!
Life Span: 12 to 15 or more years
Weight: Male 45 to 75 lbs Female 35 to 65 lbs
Hight: Male 22 to 26 inches Female 21 to 26 inches
Colors: "sable, mahogany sable, shaded sable, tri-colored, blue merle, sable merle, color headed white, double merle"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Collie)
Other Names: Collie, Scottish Collie, Long-Haired Collie, English Collie, and Lassie dog
Weight: Male 45 to 75 lbs Female 35 to 65 lbs
Hight: Male 22 to 26 inches Female 21 to 26 inches
Colors: "sable, mahogany sable, shaded sable, tri-colored, blue merle, sable merle, color headed white, double merle"(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rough_Collie)
Other Names: Collie, Scottish Collie, Long-Haired Collie, English Collie, and Lassie dog
Picture from http://windyacresfarm.org/OurLaddies.html
Atoms
Hey guys! It is B here and I am here to duscuss something that I am learning about in science class, atoms. Ever looked, I seriously mean, LOOKED at a Periodic Table of Elements? Good chance that you have not. Lucky you, I will provide one for you:
Ok, this table should proboly make no sense at all to you. Well, let me get deeper into this with another image that I made ALL BY MYSELF: