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I'm going to introduce my school projects that do in loj.

Thursday, March 29, 2012

extraordinaire instrument


extraordinaire instrument




令人难以置信的机器, 好的令人惊讶


请打开音响,然后打开附件,观赏之。如此美好的设计令人惊讶。这几乎是令人难以置信的。

看看所有的球风在捕手锥体,这是个令人难以置信的机器。


罗伯特M音乐学院和沙龙威克工程学院在爱荷华大学努力合作组成的。


令人惊讶的是97%的机器的零件来自约翰迪尔工业和灌溉设备的班克罗夫特,爱荷华州的农用设备!


它采取了团队联合13,029小时(6.26年)的设置、调整、校正和调整拍摄这部影片。


现在陈列在马修格哈德在大学校友会馆,并已预定捐赠给史密森。

The incredible machine, surprisingly good


Open sound, and then open the attachment, viewing the. Such a beautifuldesign is surprising. It is almost incredible.

See all the wind the ball catcher cone, which is an incredible machine.


Robert M. Conservatory and the Sharon Wick Engineering cooperative efforts ofthe University of Iowa.


Surprisingly, 97% of machine parts from John Deere industrial and irrigationequipment Bancroft, Iowa, farm equipment!


It takes a team of joint 13,029 hours (6.26 years) settings, adjustment,calibration and adjustment of shooting the film.


Now on display in the Matthew Gerhard Alumni Hall at the University, and hasscheduled to be donated to the Smithsonian.


Thursday, March 15, 2012

The Rise of Towns



  Why did people left the country side and moved to towns?
1.Black Plague
2.Shortage of work force  to work the land - peasants and serfs began to earn wages for working the land
3.Peasant class began to gain power and options
4.New farming techniques reduce the number of farmers needed to provide food
Peasant class 
The Rise of Towns: Power to the People    
2.Shortage of work force to work the land - peasants and serfs began to earn wages for working the land
With fewer workers, peasants could demand pay.
Why were there fewer workers? Yes, the plague!
Lords realized that they needed people to work their land. They had no idea what to do with a field!
3.Peasant class began to gain power and options
The Rise of Towns: Farm to Fork  
4.New farming techniques reduced the number of farmers needed to provide food
The heavy plow allowed for farmers to plant in richer soil, meaning a better crop.
With a better harvest, two things happened:
Fewer farmers were needed
It allowed others to move to towns
The peasants ended up with a surplus.
What are you going to do with a surplus? Specialization
This led to more power to the peasants!
  

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

new E.A.S.Y PROJECT


E.A.S.Y.
Experience Active Science Yourself
This is a long term project to give you an opportunity to do science activities at home related to your interests.
All sections underlined, in bold, large font MUST be turned in.
Quarter 3 Options
Photograph and Identify Organisms (2-3 days)
1. Go to one of the following places and photograph organisms that you find there.
  1. Oregon Coast tidepools--Cannon Beach at Haystack rock is a good choice. (10 organisms min.)
  2. Tryon Creek to find fungus--mushrooms, shelf fungus etc. (5 organisms min.)
  3. Any forest to look under rocks and rotting logs to find insects (slugs and snails are not insects).  (8-10 min.)
        2. Clearly photograph each organism you find.  Print the photos in color.  
3.  Identify the organism.  Write its common and scientific name.  You can use the following
     resources to help identify the things you find.  
  1. Mushrooms http://americanmushrooms.com/gallery.htm
  2. Tidepools: http://www.oregon.gov/OPRD/NATRES/RS_FAQtidepools.shtml#Back_to_Rocky_Shores_Main_Page
  3. Insects:  http://bugguide.net/node/view/3/bgpage
        AMP Add a description of each organism, what it eats, where it lives etc.  
Design and build something 1-2 weeks
Follow the engineering process outlined on pgs. 83-89 to make something that performs a function.  (a brush to         comb your dog’s hair, a clamp to attach hat to, a ball to play a new                 game)—it could be out of wood, metal, legos, recycled materials.
        1)  Journal of the process of design, include the following:  
  1. Identify needs
  2. Research
  3. Brainstorm
  4. Sketch
  5. Final draft drawing of your design (with measurements)
  6. Photo of prototype
  7. Troubleshoot
  8. Paragraph explaining the final outcome
AMP option:  Use all recycled materials to construct the product.
        
Read a science biography 3-4 weeks
1) You can choose a biography of any scientist.  Read the biography.  You will see the list below.  
Radioactive Boyscout by Ken Silverstein
Guinea Pig Scientists by Dendy, Boring, and Mordan
Longitude by Dava Sobel
Galileo’s Daughter by Dava Sobel
Genius: a Photobiography of Albert Einstein by Delano, Marfe Ferguson
Leonardo Da Vinci by Krull, Catherine (and other books in the Giants of Science series by Krull: Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, and Charles Darwin)
The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Freedman, Russell
Something out of nothing : Marie Curie and radium by McClafferty, Carla Killough
Starry messenger : a book depicting the life of a famous scientist, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, physicist, Galileo Galilei by Sis, Peter
Almost astronauts : 13 women who dared to dream by Stone, Tanya Lee
Charles and Emma : the Darwins' leap of faith by Heiligman, Deborah
A dangerous engine : Benjamin Franklin, from scientist to diplomat by Dash, Joan
Rachel Carson : a twentieth-century life by Levine, Ellen
 Inventing the future : a photobiography of Thomas Alva Edison by Delano, Marfe Ferguson
Any books not found on the list should be OK’ed by teacher before you begin reading.
2) Write a book report including:
1. A summary of the book
2. Description of important contribution this person made to science.
3. Explanation of what you liked and didn’t like about the book
4. Explain the importance of this person’s contributions to the world.  Do you think their discovery what important?  Why or why not?  
5. Use the LOJ standard format guidelines for spacing, font etc.
Grow some seeds.  2-3 weeks.
  1. You need to get 10-20 seeds (radish, lettuce, broccoli, spinach, bean, or pea work well).
  2. Set up two zip lock bags with a damp paper towel in each bag
  3. Put the seeds on top of the towel and seal the bag.
  4. Place each bag in a different environment (examples:   warm/cool, light/dark)
  5. Write a daily journal describing what happened each day.
  6. Take focused photos.
  7. Write a final paragraph summary.
  8. Turn in photos, journal and summary.
Astronomy 1 week
Leaf collection 4 weeks (AMP)
1.     Get a guidebook to native plants and go outside to an area with mostly native plants. Parks,    Natural areas, State or National Forests. State Parks are generally closed to collecting without permission. Feel free to ask at Tryon, they may say yes.
2.      Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast -Pojar/Mackinnon
3.      A Forest in the City: Your guide to Tryon Creek State Park-Friends of Tryon Creek State Park
4.      Using the guidebook identify 10 different NATIVE plants. (Remember the Native plants we learned at the begining of the school year?)
5.      Using the pictures in the guidebook, carefully collect leaves and flowers (if they are blooming) from each plant. Try to pick examples that look like the pictures in the book.
6. After collecting each plant, write down the scientific name, date collected, and location collected and attache this to the plant so you don’t forget.
6.      Keep the leaves flat and bring them into school to put them in our plant press for 2-3 weeks. Or you can press them at home if you make a plant press.
7.      Press the plants for 1-2 weeks.
8.      When the plants are dry, glue them to white paper and label them with their Common name, Scientific name, location collected, date collected, and collector’s name (you).
9.      Scientific names have two parts... Genus and Species.
10.  Write a paragraph that explains how to press plants.
11.  Write a paragraph that explains how to identify plants
12.  Write a paragraph that talks about what was easy/difficult about this project.
        
Grow a crystal 4-5 weeks
Grow Sugar or Salt (Sodium Chloride) crystals at home. (Sugar crystals are rock candy:)
Materials you supply: (You may not need all the following.)
Directions for crystal growing (cookbook, Internet etc.)
Materials to grow crystals from. Salt or Sugar not those crystal garden kits
Adult supervision at a stove at home.
Pot, pan, stick or string to grow crystals on.
Before beginning you must speak to your science teacher. (safety issues).


What to turn in:
1. You will need to turn in a copy of the recipe you used to make your crystals   (make sure your recipe includes directions and amounts of materials).
2. You will need to keep a every other day log of what your crystals look like. 
3. You will need to draw or take focused pictures of your crystals every other day to show the growth. (14 pictures over a minimum of 4 weeks.)
4. Weekly measurments in centimeters of your crystal’s size recorded in your log. (Minimum 4 weekly entries).
5. A paragraph about what you learned about growing crystals over a minimum four week period. (Paragraphs have a beginning, middle and an end. They are 4-6 sentances long.)
6. If after 1 week you see no crystal growth. Save your log entries/pictures and start agin with a new recipe.

Sunday, March 11, 2012

The English longbow


The English longbow

The string
Bowstrings were, and still are, made of hempflax or silk, and attached to the wood via horn "nocks" that fit onto the end of the bow. Modern synthetic materials (often Dacron) are now commonly used for strings.
Length
All but the last estimate were made before the excavation of the Mary Rose, where bows were found ranging in length from 1.87 to 2.11 m (6 ft. 1 in to 6 ft. 11 in) with an average length of 1.98 m (6 ft. 6 in).
Draw weights
The full range of draw weights was between 100–185 lb. (440–820 N).[10] The 30-inch (76.2 cm) draw length was used because that is the length allowed by the arrows commonly found on the Mary Rose.

Range and penetration
The range of the medieval weapon is not accurately unknown, with estimates from 165 to 228 m (180 to 249 yds). Modern longbows have a useful range up to 180 m (200 yd). A 667N(150 lbf) Mary Rose replica longbow was able to shoot a 53.6 g (1.9 oz) arrow 328 m (360 yd) and a 95.9 g (3.3 oz) a distance of 249.9 m (272 yd).[23] A flight arrow of a professional archer of Edward III's time would reach 400yds. It is also well known that no practice range was allowed to be less than 220yds by order of Henry VIII.[24]
History
Archery does not appear to have been especially significant in pre-Norman Conquest Anglo-Saxon warfare and the first great English archery victory was the Battle of the Standard in 1138. During the Anglo-Norman invasions of Wales, Welsh bowmen took a heavy toll on the invaders, using short, rough elm bows technically distinct from classic English yew longbows.[34] As soon as the Welsh campaign was successfully over, Welsh conscripts began to be incorporated into English armies. The lessons the English learned in Wales were later used with deadly effect by Welsh mercenaries on the battlefields of France and Scotland. Their skill was exercised under King Edward I of England (r. 1272–1307), who banned all sports but archery at the butts on Sundays, to make sure Englishmen practiced with the longbow. As a result, the English during this period as a whole became very proficient with the longbow.

Shooting rate

A typical military longbow archer would be provided with between 60 and 72 arrows at the time of battle.