2021-22 Homeschooling Projects

  In this program I used the programing platform scratch to create a simple game. When you press space the game starts. You control the square by pressing wasd .You (the square) start spawning the "bullet" (the triangle). The purple circle is the "enemy". It drifts around the screen until it hits you. It then teleports away. It will also teleport away if the "bullet" hits it. This was a fun little project and I look forward to assignments like this one. 

  Compare/Contrast The books that I will be comparing and contrasting are ‘Five Smooth Stones’ by Kristiana Gregory and ‘The Sign Of The Beaver’ by Elizabeth George Speare. The first book, ‘Five Smooth Stones’, is about Hope, a girl that is about ten years old and lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She lives with her mother, brother, and later in the book, her little sister Strawberry. The time that the book is set in is 1776-1777 at the revolutionary war. The perspective is a first person view of the events that are happening at the time.  The other book that I read is ‘The Sign Of The Beaver’ whose main character is Matt, a 12-13 year old boy who made his cabin from scratch with his father. The year in which this book is set is approximately the year of 1770. His father went away for 3 months to go fetch the rest of his family. The place in which it is set is the Maine frontier. The perspective is third person. These stories are similar in that they both have characters th...

  WATER POLLUTION Water is vital to our survival. It covers about 70% of the surface of the earth, but only 2.5% of that is fresh and 1% of that is available for use. The truth is, we are hurting our environment by polluting our water sources and as a result, killing fish, turtles, and other marine critters. The EPA states that “46% of US streams, 21% of lakes, 18% of coastal waters, and 32% of the nation’s wetlands are contaminated by pollution.” 1 Causes Things that can cause pollution include sewage, toxic waste, oil spills, heavy metal bioaccumulation, plastic, and even invasive species, algal blooms, and ocean acidification. One of the main pollutants is untreated sewage. Untreated sewage is waste like feces, urine, and pharmaceutical products in water. It is estimated that 80% of the world's sewage is untreated. This kills 2.2 million people annually worldwide from diarrheal diseases. 2 Toxic industrial chemicals hurt the environment as well. These include heavy metals like l...

  How to Mitigate the Impact of Human Population Growth Our increasing population requires more resources to sustain, and our ways of collecting those resources are harmful to the environment. We consume those resources inefficiently and our waste products damage ecosystems. Some people say this catastrophic damage is inevitable, but we can mitigate the impact of human population growth with our activities and technologies.  We can use clean/green energy generation (wind turbines, nuclear fission, hydroelectric dams, solar arrays) to reduce carbon pollution from more harmful energy generation technologies. These would replace the three harmful power generation technologies, oil, coal, and gas power plants, which get their resources through drilling, mining, and fracking respectively. Wind turbines Wind turbines vary in cost because of the many types. The turbines generate power by having the wind spin their blades which spin magnets and generate an electric current. The main o...