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!

My Fourth Tinker Crate

What is going on guys! Me again and today I'll be showing you another unboxing video this time on my fourth tinker crate. The unboxing video for my lab on polymers wasn't uploading well. ( YOUTUBE HATES ME!!!!!!)

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I hope you liked the unboxing video. Please like and comment. BYE!!

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Tinker Lab on Polymers Part 3

Hello again Guys! I'm here with another post for my tinker lab on polymers. This is the last part for my tinker lab on polymers. ( FINALLY!!!)

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Before I get to the last project, I have a fun fact. Did you know that rubber bands, (I hope they don't play awful songs. RIM SHOT!!) bike and car tires are just ONE polymer molecule? It looks impossible, but it's true!

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My last project was called "making plastic from milk."

I  put one cup of milk in a mug and put the mug in the microwave for 5 min. Then I mixed in 2 tablespoons of white vinegar in the milk and mixed it with a spoon, as I mixed, the milk mixture separated into a yellow liquid and white curds. I scooped out the curds with the spoon onto a layer of paper towels to dry. It was a cool project!!

It looked a lot like feta cheese.

 

The protein in the milk is what I turned into plastic. The protein is called casein. The casein under a microscope look like squiggly balls. The vinegar made the casein turn to plastic by unfolding the squiggly balls and connecting them together. What I tried to do with the plastic is make it into christmas ornaments but it was too crumbly.

 

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I hope you liked the post, please like and comment and I will see you in the next post!

Tinker lab on Polymers Part 2

Hello again guys! Today I'm going to my post on my tinker lab about polymers.

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Last thing we left off on was making the super slime and putty, so lets get into the recipe on how to make the bouncy ball.

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Borax Mixture

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 I mixed in 3 blue scoops of water and 1 blue scoop of borax.

 

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Glue Mixture

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I mixed in 1 large scoop of cornstarch with 1 large scoop of glue, 3-6 drops of liquid watercolor and 8 tiny scoops of glow powder.

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Making the Bouncy Ball

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I added in all the borax mixture into the glue mixture. Then, I stirred the mixture until it formed a blob around the craft stick. Then I squeezed and rolled it until it shaped into a ball. ( It lasts for 2-3 days, it hardens after 3 days.)

 

There is also another recipe called "creepy critters." ( It's the same recipe as the bouncy ball.)

 

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Making the Creepy Critters

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I mixed in the borax mixture and glue mixture with a clean craft stick until it formed a blob on the stick. Then I rolled it and squeezed it a bit. Then I got 2 pipe cleaners and cut them in half. Then, I wrapped them around to make spider legs. (I made 2 sets of spider legs.) Then I took a half of the bouncy ball and wrapped it around the spider legs.( I did the same to the other spider legs.) Then, I let it harden for 2-3 days.

Tessa's spider.

My spider.

 

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My next project was called "magic mud."

 

I had to mix 1 large white scoop of cornstarch in with 1 small blue scoop of water in a bowl with a clean craft stick. It was too much like a liquid and it wasn't like mud. :-(

 

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I hope you liked this post, part 3 will be coming soon and I see you all next time. BBBYYYEEE!!!

 

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Tinker lab on Polymers Part 1

Hey again guys! I'm back with another post on my third tinker crate. My third tinker crate was all about polymers. It's pretty cool. ^_^

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There are two types of polymers, natural and synthetic. Natural and synthetic polymers are all around your home.

   Natural          Synthetic
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   Paper                Tires
   Silk               Containers
Cornstarch       Vinyl Bags

Polymers are made of small molecules called "mers." They all link up to make a polymer, which is one big molecule.

Poly = Many
Mer = Part
Polymers means "many parts."

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The gummy bear was 11/16 in. before.

My first project was called "Growing Gummies."

What I had to do was fill a bowl with water and put gummy bears in it. First I had to measure the gummy bears before. Then I let it sit over night. I measured it afterward.

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 11/16 in.      1 in.

All of the gummy bears before put in
the bowl.

I couldn't find my picture of a gummy bear after so, sorry. : (
The after gummy bears were sticky like Jell-O and were 1 in. tall.
 I got to eat some gummy bears while I was working. ^_^ YUM!

I guess if instant rainbow gummy bear Jell-O, this is the project for you. Just one bag of gummy bears in to a bowl of water and let I sit overnight. :-)

The point of  this project is how this ingredient in Jell-O called "gelatin" absorbs water. That's why the after gummy bears felt like
Jell-O.

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Now lets add a bit of history into this post. Long ago, there was the "accidental" discovery of silly putty!! Long ago, a guy named James Wright was trying to make rubber out of silicone oil, but it didn't work. He threw the goo on the floor and guess what happened? It bounced back at him!! It was a failure, but James was so fascinated with the goo that he couldn't just leave it on a shelf. He showed other researchers his amazing discovery.  And that's how one of the most popular toys has been discovered. I <3 putty!

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There was this blueprint I got in the tinker lab for making slime!! It was pretty cool. There were three recipes. There was super slime, play putty and bouncy ball. Here is the recipe for super slime.

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Borax Mixture

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I had to fill a small cup one halfway with water and added 1 small blue scoop of borax and mixed it with a craft stick. ( Don't know how much the large or small scoop holds.)  

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Glue Mixture

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I added 2 large scoops of water with 1 large scoop of glue and 6 little scoops of glow powder and mixed it with a craft stick.( Don't know how much the tiny scoop holds.)

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Making the Slime

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I used a pipette to squirt 6-10 squirts of borax mixture into the glue mixture. Then, I mixed it with a clean craft stick until the mixture formed a clump around the craft stick. Next, I kneaded the slime for a minute or more. (It lasts for a few weeks.)

 

Now here is the recipe for play putty.

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Borax Mixture

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I filled a small cup halfway with water and added one blue scoop of borax. Then I stirred the mix with a clean craft stick.

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Glue Mixture

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In a clean cup, I added 1 large scoop of water, 1 large scoop of glue and 2 small scoops of cornstarch. (I wanted some color in it, so I added 10 drops of green liquid watercolor.) Then, I mixed it with a clean craft stick.

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Making the Putty

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I used the pipette to squirt 6-10 squirts of borax into the glue mixture, then I mixed with a clean craft stick. Then I kneaded the putty for a minute or more. (It lasts for a few weeks.)

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I hope you liked this post. This is just part 1 of this post and please like.
BBBBYYYYEEEE!!!!

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Bacteria Experiment #1

Hey you guys! Welcome to another blog post. Today I'll be talking about this bacteria experiment me, Aidan and Mom are doing. We're growing our own bacteria colony's! Pretty cool, huh? :-)

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What we did first is Mom had to prepare 10 petri dishes by filling them up with melted agar. Then, she had to quickly put lids on the dishes and let them sit for one hour to solidify ( I had to guard the dishes from our cat). Next, we put 2 dishes outside on the porch with their lids off for one hour to gather bacteria, and put the lids back, next we flipped them upside down until later. The other 8 were for other later experiments.

The bottle that's in the picture
is agar

The petri dishes on the back porch.

 

 

When we were ready for the experiment, we put the dishes in the attic for 4-7 days. When we brought the dishes out, bacteria colony's were in the dishes!! AAWWEESSOOMMEE!!!!!!!!

Dish 1
(Four days in the Attic.)

Dish 2
(Four days in the attic.)
 



Dish 2
(One week in the attic.)

Dish 1
(One week in the attic.)

 
 Next, we had to add cleaning chemicals on sensitivity squares. The cleaning chemicals we chose were, hand soap, dishwashing soap, rubbing alcohol, and kaboom foamtastic. Then we put the sensitivity squares in dish 2, dish 1 is our control. Finally, we put the dishes back in the attic for a few more days.


The letters D, H, A and K stand for
dishwashing soap, hand soap,
alcohol and kaboom foamtastic.

These are the squares soaking in the
 chemicals.





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I hope you enjoyed this post, please give it a like and comment.

I will see you in the next post. BYE!!!! :-) <3

 

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