Sunday, August 24, 2008
Industrial Revolution Activities 1 and 2
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
Roller Coaster Ride
As I stepped onto the rusted yellow cart at Disney land, I could still smell the faint, acidic odor of vomit. Obviously, some just couldn’t hold it in. However I was to excited to be scared or disgusted. I had been waiting for an hour to get on and I wasn’t getting off because of puke. The man running the ride did the safety check list and then we were on our own. My hair was swept off my face as we picked up speed. At the top of the track we seemed to stop for barely a moment and then “voosh!” My hair whipped back and my stomach lurch. I was so scared I thought I would wet my pants. We started to slow down as we went up another hill but the pause was short live. I felt as I my stomach was about to be wrenched out of me. Everybody was screaming with excitement except for me.Far below me I could see all of the hundreds of people there and maybe even Mickey Mouse. Finally, the ride slowed down for good and we got of. The vomit smell came back and my mom, my dad and I hurried off before we also puked.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Necessity is the Mother of Invention
Necessity is the mother of invention means that need gives birth to invention.In other words, if someone needs something, someone creates it. One example is the wheel. Dragging or having to carry something over land probably started to be a pain. Naturally, at least somebody had a problem with the current method of transport and invented the wheel out of necessity. Another example is the light bulb. Edison knew that candles and gas lamps could be very dangerous so he invented the more safe way of producing light, the light bulb. Finally, there is the PC. Before that, computers were huge, expensive, and you had to know how to program it. But people needed a cheaper, smaller, and easier way to compute things. So when people needed a personal computer, Bill Gates invented one. This shows that necessity really is the mother of invention.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Quarter 1 Goals
My second goal is to take my time doing homework because I tend to get points off for making careless mistakes.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
How I Learn Best
I think that I am a visual learner. I feel that this is how I learn best this way because I tend to pay more attention while reading or looking at pictures. I have to have something to focus on or else I wander off and miss something important. My worst form of learning is probably audio because then I can’t focus on anything other than somebody’s voice which most of the time I absentmindedly block out unless I really trying hard to listen. Kinesthetic learning also works though I personally prefer visual learning. The best way that you could make my learning experience better is to provide handouts or show something on the board. This is how I would learn best.