My Geography Project

Hey guys! Today I want to talk about a geography project I'm working on. It's all about marking down famous North American deserts, wetlands, grasslands, and mountains.

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Right now I've marked down 4 deserts. I first had to look up a desert on my tablet, let's say a really hot desert, like Death valley. Then I had to look for the location to see where it is and if it was in North America. Last, I take a piece of paper and cut out a tiny rectangle, write down the desert and pin the paper to a map where it's located with a tack. But something I did for fun, I took a cu-tip and paint the top of the tack yellow. I've marked down Death Valley, the Great Basin, Mojave, and the Sonoran. Here's a chart for which colors are which. WAIT! I have a joke! Knock knock! Who's there? Ghost. Ghost who? Go stick your head in a bucket of water! (Sorry, wanted to have a joke for Halloween! ^_^ )

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Yellow = Desert
Blue = Wetland
Green = Grassland
Brown = Mountain
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FUN FACT: People went to Death Valley and set up a gold mine there. But it didn't work out, many people died there. That's how it got the name, Death Valley. (BUM, BUM, BUM!)

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I hope you enjoyed the post, please like and comment. But I have another joke! What is a astronauts favorite candy? I will leave it to you in the comments. I'll see you in the next post. Bye Guys! <3

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My Sixth Tinker Lab

Hey again! Today I have a new unboxing video for my sixth tinker lab. I also want to say that the post for soda science part 2 isn't coming out yet. That's because I don't have all of the ingredients for the fizzy treat. But here is the video for my sixth tinker crate! :-)

 What will it be? What will it be? Just watch the video and go and see!

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I hope you enjoyed the video, please like and comment and I'll see you all in the next post. Bye guys!

P.S, I hope you don't get to impatient for part 2 on soda science. ^_^ <3

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Tinker Lab on Soda Science Part 1

Hey again guys! Me again and in this post I'm going to be talking about my fifth tinker lab about soda science. It's all about soda and how carbon dioxide does different things in different ways. Also, whoever answered "cat" on the quiz for tinker lab on flight part 2, good job!

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The first project I did was called "Dancing Raisins." (I don't have any pictures for this one. I forgot. :-(  )

What I had to do is fill a clear cup with clear soda, I used sprite, then I dropped a few raisins in it. They started going down and up and down like they were dancing!
How were they doing that? I saw bubbles form on the raisins, that's nucleation! CO2 bubbles are like life jackets for raisins, when bubbles reach to the top of the soda, they pop so the raisins sink again. Then bubbles form on the bumps of the raisin all over again. It's nucleation at work dudes, it's a nucleation site!

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Next I got to the blueprint, it was for a CO2 rocket! I made a video for it too, it was pretty cool!

There were 4 things I needed to make, I started with making the rocket.
First, I stuck on 4 clear fins on to a plastic bottle using two rivet stickers on each side. Then I used a circle piece of sticky foam to stick a foam cone on top for the tip of the rocket.



I couldn't wait for my first launch
as soon as I  made it.

Next I made the launcher, I first had to slide a cork into a launcher piece, then I added it on the last launcher piece. Last I added a zip tie to keep it together.

This helps build up pressure to launch the rocket.

Next I made a funnel for the rocket, I just had to add two clear stickers on a clear funnel piece.

 

This is just to load the mixture into the rocket.

Last I made the launch mixture. First I added two teaspoons of citric acid and baking soda into a little cup. Next I stirred it together until it was completely combined. How does it launch? When I added the launch mixture into the water, CO2 gas started building up in rocket and there was so much pressure in the bottle, it launched straight into the air! Cool, huh?

Here is a video for the launch too! It was awesome!

 

 

 

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My next project was called "Magic Balloons."

First, I filled a bottle half way with water with a teaspoon of citric acid in it. Next, I filled a small balloon with 1 teaspoon of baking soda. Last I stretched the balloon over the bottle and tilted it upwards. As the baking soda fell in, the bottle started to fill up with pressure and the balloon started to expand!

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I hoped you enjoyed this post, please like and comment. In the next post I will be talking about more CO2 projects and a super tasty fizzy treat. Bye guys!

 

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Fifth Tinker Crate Already?!?!

Hey guys! Today I have a new video but on my fifth tinker crate. Hope you enjoy.

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I hope you loved the video, if you did please like and comment. I so glad that this is my fifth tinker lab. Keep the tinker crates coming!

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Tinker Lab on Flight (Part 3)

Hello everybody and welcome back to another post. Today I will show you some of the awesome gliders I made. Some of them do tricks!

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Before I made the gliders, I had to make a rubber band launcher. It uses the power of thrust from rubber band to make gliders glide.

The rubber band launcher is designed to pull back the
glider with the rubber band. When you let it go, it shoots
the glider into the air.

My first glider I made is the Wright brothers plane. It's pretty cool how the gliders are made. The main part of the glider is a piece of wood that has a triangle slot in it. The triangle slot keeps the glider on the rubber band. How I put it together, I just used rectangle and cube sticky foam to attach the wings and tail to the base. I also had to put clay on the front. I made it spin and do tricks by flipping flaps on the top wings.



The Wright brothers plane.
(Decorated too!! ^_^)

The bottom of the plane.

After that I made a trick plane, what's different about it is that it has more flaps then the wright brothers plane. That means it can do more tricks then the other gliders I made. I went all out with the stickers. :-)

I used almost all of the stickers 
for this one.

Last, I made a shuttle. It doesn't do tricks like the trick plane. Instead, it goes farther when you launch it. That must be because it's flat on top.

AND WE HAVE LIFT OFF!!! 

After I made the gliders, there were some paper airplane instructions for 4 cool types of paper airplanes: the dart, t-wing, inverter, and cyclone.



Orange is the dart. Blue is the cyclone. Red is the inverter.
Green is the t-wing.

I like all of the planes and they all but the t-wing glided pretty well.

My Opinion

The dart earned 4/5 stars for being like the original paper plane. I gave the cyclone 4/5 stars because it's kind of hard to throw. The T-wing received 1/5 stars because it glided horribly.
 Last, the inverter I gave 5/5 stars because it glided really well and it looks AWESOME!!! What's your favorite? Tell me in the comments.

After the planes, I did this project called  "paper airplane tricks." (Only available for the dart.)

Here are the flaps.

It was simple, all I had to do was take some scissors and cut two lines on the dart plane. If I folded the flaps down, it had more lift. If I folded the flaps up, it creates less lift. What happens when I fold one flap up and one down? It spins! These flaps on the plane are called ailerons. Pilots use those flaps on the wings to make the plane turn. I'm just using it for tricks.

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I hope you liked this post, if you did please like comment and see you in the next post. Bye!! <3

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Tinker Lab on Flight (Part 2: History)

Hello again guys! Today I am continuing my tinker lab on flight.
This time, we'll talk about famous flyers and other gliders.

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So let's get to the first flyer, Amelia Earhart!

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.  She only had a can of tomato juice and a chocolate bar stocked in her single engine Lockheed Vega.

HOW CRAZY IS THAT?!?!?!

She took off at the coast of Newfoundland. During her flight, her altimeter stopped working. Then, her wings and windshield started to freeze over in a awful ice storm! To make the ice melt, she flew awfully low. After 15 hours of flying, she landed in a meadow in Northern Ireland, startling a farmer and his cows. She had flown 2,026 miles away from where she took off and became famous for her skill and bravery.

Now let's talk about the Wright Brothers.
 Orville and Wilbur Wright were  the creators of the first successful airplane.
In their plane, the pilot was supposed to lay on his stomach on the bottom wing and steer with an apparatus attached to his hips, while the engine was running. Even though the first flight lasted 59 seconds, they became famous for making the first working airplane.



Wright brothers testing the plane.

Bessie Coleman was the first female African American to have a pilot license. She had to walk 4 miles to school every day and she studied very hard. Since she couldn't get into flight schools in America, so she went to France and got her pilots license there. Then she returned to America and became a barnstormer stunt pilot. After she became a stunt pilot, she was known as "Queen Bess." (But she didn't rule over anything! Of course she didn't because America is free!!)



Queen Bess, the famous barnstormer.

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Two famous gliders were made by George Cayley, and Tito Livio Burattini.

 George Cayley found out about the 4 forces of flight (Remember the last post?) and came up with a concept for a modern airplane. It was able to fly a 10 year old boy down a several yard downhill slope. It became known as the "boy carrier."

Tito Livio Burattini was a Italian scientist that invented a glider that looked kind of like a dragon. It had 4 glider wings and was able to carry a body, but not a human body. Do you know what it was?



A. Dog
B. Cat
C. Hamster
D. Easter Bunny

Write your answer in the comments. I'll tell the answer in the next post.

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I hope you guys liked the post. If you did, then please poke that like button. In the next post, I will be talking about my gliders and paper airplanes. I will see you in the next post. BYE!! <3

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Tinker Lab about Flight (Part 1)

Aloha! Today I going to talk about my fourth tinker lab that is all about flight! I got to make a ton of stuff!

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Flying isn't just trying to strap  on wings your arms. It's not like Daedalus and Icarus escaping captivity by strapping wax wings to their backs. Yet, thanks to inventors failed attempts, we have learned a ton of stuff about airplanes.

Anyway, it takes forces of flight to make an airplane fly. Those forces are thrust, drag, lift, and gravity. Thrust makes the aircraft fly forward. The aircraft engine creates the thrust. Drag, created by air, slows the plane down.  Lift, created by the wings, makes the plane go up. Finally, gravity makes the plane go down.

Now lets get to my first project, it's called, "An Uplifting Experiment."

I had to cut a piece of notebook paper into a small rectangle. Then, I curled the paper to make it curl down. Finally, I put the paper next to my lips and blew air over the paper. That made it rise up! I did it the opposite way and it curled down! How did it happen? Lift happened!

It happened thanks to Isaac Newton's third law. "For every action, there is a equal and opposite reaction." If a balloon is filled with air and you let it go, the air goes down (The action.) and the balloon goes up. (The reaction.)

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Now let's talk about "biomimicry." It was used long ago when inventors were making flying machines. They were making machines with flapping wings. I read about the mechanical bird and Leonardo Da Vinci.

Da Vinci's early wing design.

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My next project was called "Designer Gliders."

First, I folded a piece of paper in half and cut out a pair of wings and a tail (I tried a bat wing design.). Next, I stuck them on a glider body with some sticky foam. Last, I put a piece of clay on the end to finish the glider. When I launched it, it didn't glide well. I made one for Tessa too.

My rubber band launcher.

My bat glider.

Tessa's butterfly glider.

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I hope you liked the post. In the next post, I will be talking about famous flyers and some more gliders. (That did work! :-) )
Bye!