http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXnD6L863T4
I chose this movie because it is very interesting. I am wondering how the person who did this managed to program it to solve it. The way the claw moves is amazing. I really hope that we can look for instructions on how to do build and program it. If we could we could have a competition to see who’s robot could do it the fastest. I really liked this because it amazes me that a Lego robot can solve a Rubik’s cube when most people (including me) can’t solve it.
Dear Mr. Friend,
In your last letter you asked me if war could be avoided after what happened on April 19, 1775. Now I am responding to your question. I was there at the battle of the North Bridge. I commanded my men to cross the bridge and not to fire at the King’s soldiers. As we moved towards the bridge the redcoats started to shoot us, killing two and wounding several others. We did not provoke them. I think that if we don’t act out against the King, we all will perish. The redcoats are ruthless, and don’t care about the welfare the colonists. So, in answer to your question, no I don’t think peace is an option now.
Sincerely,
James Barrett
Our environmental goal over all is keeping the SuAsCo watershed and the surrounding area clean. We want the watershed to look nice and raise awareness like last year, when we were advocates for the turtles; just this time it’s a broader topic. We are advocates for the watershed. All of the groups work to protect the watershed quality and try to spread awareness about the watershed. My group, the invasive species group, wants to spread awareness, educate people about the invasive species and explain that not all of them are bad, and finally to run experiments on them. Our research and discussion about invasive species helped us understand our goal because before this project I didn’t really understand anything about invasive species and what they did. After researching the topic, we discussed what we learned with each other and with a local expert. Afterwards, I had a better idea of what invasive species were.
I have been participating by helping to make a website about the invasive species. The website explained some of the different types of invasive species and what they did. Along with that, I ran soil tests and made graphs on bittersweet, honeysuckle, Norway maple, garlic mustard, and burning bush to see the phosphorous, pH, potash, and nitrogen levels. I have also participated by working on a small write up about each graph. Also I am working on a portfolio page, and I finished a movie about invasive species.
My most memorable experience was on our DPC day where our group mapped out all the invasive species on the school grounds. We found lots of the invasive species and my understanding of the goal increased after we were told that not all of the invasive species are bad. We just need to give the native plants an edge because we realized that if we let them grow on their own they might take over the whole schoolyard, and letting them take over the schoolyard isn’t really giving them an edge.
Three major accomplishments of our project are mapping out the invasive species in our school grounds, getting the test results, and learning about the invasive species. The maps were important because they showed where all of the invasive species are and that we didn’t just find the information off the Internet, but we went around identifying different types of plants. The test results were very important because without them we wouldn’t be able to ask questions and learn more about the invasive species. Equally important was learning about the invasive species from a local expert. He explained to us that the invasive species have been here a long time and are here to stay. Only when an invasive species is endangering a native species should it be taken out.
Our class project makes a difference because we will hopefully alert the community about the watershed and try to keep it clean by not causing erosion, not planting invasive species, and reducing littering and things like that.
I personally made a difference by making lots of maps of the invasive species and creating the graphs of the soil amounts. These were important because the graphs made me explore a little about them. I read that Norway maples inject toxins into the ground and I wanted to find out if that affected the soil around it.
I will keep the projects goals alive by explaining it to other people. Our test with a purple loosestrife plant might continue with other classes after we leave because the beetles don’t destroy all of them in one go. Other people might learn about the invasive species if we have a river night and then they may be more careful about what they allow to grow in their gardens.