Anushka's SAS Blog

In social studies, we learned about multiple interesting religions. Check them out, you could learn something new!  Islam is coming soon!

Egypt Excavation I grabbed my paintbrush and a pick and head for the excavation site, where we had already dug up many ancient Egyptian artifacts like vases and pieces of beautifully crafted pottery. It was a hot day here in Egypt, sweat was already pouring off my face. The heat reminded me of the time we dug in an area that was once an ocean when I was a little girl. I had found my first fossil of an old fish. I saw a shiny object in the ground at my feet. Excited, I effortlessly dug the coin out. However (I did absolute dating ), it was modern since it said “ made in 1994” on it. Someone said that they had dropped that. I prefer relative dating to absolute dating since I get to examine the artifact and compare it to things that we already know the date of (I know, I wouldn’t know the exact date, but at least I’ll have an idea of the date). Once, I remember, at my home, I decided to find out more about my mysterious neighbor by doing the only thing I knew how to, kitchen...

An Emperor, a Ruler, . . . a Tyrant? The first emperor of China. Was feared by enemies. Had an iron fist policy. The not so nice military genius. Ch’in Shih Huang Ti, the first emperor of China, ran the country, but wasn’t China’s favorite. Of course, since he made China so much bigger, was powerful and so cruel, he had many enemies. However, he didn’t fear them. China was becoming like a prison camp for many, where they got tortured and killed. Executions happened often, sometimes in slow, painful ways where they were whipped until death or parts of their body were cut off. He took in families, including young children, as slaves. He was very powerful and was well protected with guards and many weapons. Ordinary people feared him so much, enemies feared him too. Imagine how terribly they would be punished. Ch’in Shih Huang Ti ruled with an iron fist policy. He killed his favorite son for disagreeing with him when he wanted to burn ancient books because he believed himself ...

Here is a model of the expression we are solving. The expression is 4 - (-3). in math, we are working on integers, so me and my partner, Rahini, decided to to model it like this; a chip model. The black little ovals represent one positive, and the not filled in ovals represent one negative. In step one, there are four ovals, so we start with positive four. In step two, we bring in the negative three, however, there is nothing there to subtract it from. The solution is to create zero pairs by adding one positive underneath it, because one plus negative one would equal 0. This works because the expression is saying take away negative three, and now you have something to take it away from. Then we crossed out three of the white ovals, because we needed to take away negative three. Then you are left with 7 black ovals, so 7 is the difference.  Here is a another model of an expression- soon to become an equation. The expression was -4 * (-2). This was a little harder, as it...

In science, we had a task. To make fishing rods and win the fishing derby! Not any kind of rods though,  we had to make electromagnet fishing rods! Me and my partner had decided on a plan like this... We were going to have is work like this. The batteries would be on the edge of the wooden rod, then there would be the negative and positive wires extending out from the battery packs. The positive wire was attached to one end of the wire which was wrapped around six bolts. Six bolts would have more surface area, helping us pick up more items. Then we had the negative wire attached to a paper clip that had been taped down to the wooden rod. The plan was that the other end on the wire which had been wrapped around the bolts to also be taped down on the wooden rod, but right under the paper clip with a little piece peeking out, so that when we pushed the paper clip down, electricity could flow through (making the paper clip a switch). That didn't actually work out that great, tho...