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How to Make an Infrared Scope
Learn how to make an infrared scope!
Nou X – March 20, 2007 – 4:46pmNou X's blog – login to post comments
Goop/ Bloop
Have you hear of materials called non-newtonian? Non-newtonian is a substance that acts like a solid when force is applied and becomes a fluid when you let it sit. An example of this is something called goop/bloop. This material acts like a non-newtonian. The materials that are required to make goop/bloop are just water and corn starch. Its a fun activity to do with kids of all ages as long as there are adult supervision. This is also one of the activities that the Make it Team is doing on the floor today, along with infred googles and kalidoscopes.
Kia V – February 3, 2007 – 2:25pmKia V's blog – login to post comments
Rubber band Powered Boat
Today Naana, Hannah, and I were in Ed Storage coming up with ideas on how to make Rubber band powered boats. Hannah and Naana came up with the idea of using foam cups and spoons to make the paddles for the boats. The spoon worked the best compared with the spoon. But attaching the broken spoon onto the rubber band that was wrapped around the foam cut out boat. Then just wind the rubber band up and let it unwind, the spoon should flip and the boat should move across the tube of water.
Kia V – December 5, 2006 – 5:47pmKia V's blog – login to post comments
Rubber band powered boats
Today we were given free time to work on our assigned project. I was assigned to created a rubber band powered boat along with Kia and Hannah. We finally got the boat to be able to float and water adn go. we all tried different ways and put a little of everybodies ideas into one boat that we will hopefully be able to teach on the floor in one of theses up coming floor work days. The materials we used consisted of styrophome, spoons, rubber bands, and paper clips. It was a big accomplishment to finish and have the boat work very successfully. Hopefully we will get enough boats made on the floor to go ice skating in a few saturdays.
Naana M – December 5, 2006 – 5:47pmNaana M's blog – login to post comments
Straw Rockets
On Saturday the Team went up to the floor top teach visitors how to make straw rockets. It went really well, except for the fact that the team didn't talk much about the current story that went along with the project. Everyone was glad that there wasn't any problems with letting the kids take the rockets that they made with them, but their parents did cooperate well with us at holding on to the straw so that the kids don't shot them any where else but in the area that we had provided for them.
We had a discision on how we could improve from what we did on Saturday to help us out this coming Saturday. Here are some of the suggestions that came up:
1. Let the kids explore on how they should make a straw rocket. But at the same time we are also giving them the general guide lines of how to make the straw rockets. Such as they need a straw for the body, fins for the sides to help the rocket fly better, and to make sure that they close the end of the rocket so that it would fly.
2. have the parents help the kids of the are too young to do some of the steps. ( Because there are times when one of the team members are helping more than one person.) So letting the parents get involve will help a lot!
3. Tell the kids about the new story before letting them go on their own at making their rocket.Overall the Straw Rockets went really well!
We also had some fun with rapping people up as mummies on the same day as we were doing the Straw Rockets. It was a loud of fun. Mai Kou and I were teamed up with Molly and she was our mummy, Keng, Cameron, and John were one group ( John was the mummy for their group, and Isabelle, Patricia, and Hanna were in one group (Patricia was their mummy). Here is a picture of all of us with our nicely rapped mummies!
Doesn't everyone look great all rapped up in toilet paper?! ^_^Kia V – October 10, 2006 – 4:17pmKia V's blog – login to post comments
Matchstick Rocket
Last Wednesday, Make It went outside to make rockets using matchsticks. We experimented with the rockets to try to figure out which was the most effective way to launch rockets and get them to go as far as possible. I tried making it using only one matchstick, then two, then three. Unfortunately, none of them worked. Each time I would put it on the launch pad (paper clip), and it was lit, it wouldn't go anywhere. It was very disappointing. There were some successes with the rockets with others though. Travis made a couple that went out pretty far. His trick was scrapping the red sulfur off of the big matchsicks and making sure that the foil was twisted pretty tightly (to prevent the air from leaking out). As a result, the rockets flew out very far and extremely fast.
It was pretty cool experiment.
Arwa O – September 30, 2006 – 1:44pmArwa O's blog – login to post comments
Matchstick rockets and the STEM day @ the SMM
WOW! Look at the flame on that thing! This is an image of one of
our first matchstick rockets trying to launch off. It wasn't really
sucessful, but it was very awesome to see. I tried to make my own
rocket to launch. it was very fun making them, but mine never went
off the launch post. It was also very cold that day and we had lots of
visitors coming to see us launch our rockets! Eventhough TRAVIS was
the only one who could actually launch his rocket more than a feet away
from the launch post, we all tried or best to make a successful rocket.Today (9/30/07) we had a whole hour to walk around the museum and
look at the STEM career fair.They had tons of representitives there to tell us
about engineering, sciences, 3M, different colleges, and doctors. They even gave
us a $7.00 gift certificate to the chomp eatery! We had lots of free things. I collected
a Pillsbury doughboy, a Sudoku keychain thingy, I have lots of pen and pencils, I have a
new pen that has flag-notes attached inside the pen, I have a mini bag of popcorn, and plenty
more items that I collected from the STEM career day thingy.Patricia M – September 30, 2006 – 1:40pmPatricia M's blog – login to post comments
Wednesday of rocket
On wednesday we made rocket out of matches. I made two rocket out of matches. They didn't fly very far. More like they didn't at all. The only rocket that flew was Kia and Travis. The rocket that Travis made was the one that flew the farest. It was something like twisting the top so that the pressure only go one way and not two.
Keng V – September 30, 2006 – 1:34pmKeng V's blog – login to post comments
bird flu virus
info about vaccine found in London, England
I'm interest in this because it's about something that happening around the world. It a major event that is killing a lot of peoplearound the world.
Keng V – August 8, 2006 – 3:24pmKeng V's blog – login to post comments
Project Z: Nebulas
In the YSC, Project Z seemed like it was a success. Our intruction video was perfect, the sound was good, and anyone could do it.
However, on the floor, things went a little awry. The first thing my group realized before we even set up was the noise. I guess we underestimatred the power of the voices of little kids when we decided to use laptop speakers. Many times both kids and adults had to listen multiple times to certain steps just because they couldn't understand what the computer was saying. Other times, certain "small" steps were not emphasized great enough, such as placing the paper at the BOTTOM of the dish, and only placing ONE drop in the water. But the experience was fun and they had a blast.Alex – August 1, 2006 – 3:19pmAlex's blog – login to post comments
