De Nino...

My project is a imovie including pictures of my childhood and me now.
I like the format of this project. It was really fun to do.
I would have asked for more peer reviewers just to double check my work.

Q4BM Trosario

During this process we needed to use our knowledge of past present and future tense verbs to create full sentences. It was difficult to convert and translate what I had in my mind to what it should be in spanish. Over all I enjoyed this project and had fun creating the pictures for the powerpoint. If I could change it I would add more info and slides so I could have more pictures.


Be careful because the video is fast!

Element Project

My element is Xenon. This element is special because it is colorless, odorless, but extremely heavy.
This element is especially used for lights. This is because when it is a tight confined space, it turns blue.
I came up with the idea for a strong man holding Xenon because it is very heavy.
I took the idea of making a strong man holding nothing to a strong man holding xenon. This is because I felt that people should see what he's holding.
My thoughts about the project are it shows that xenon is a very powerful element and that I can take my knowledge of just drawing something and make it even better with these blocks.
If I were to do this project again, I would probably ask for a different element so that I can broaden my horizons on how much about the Periodic Table.


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My Spanish Stuff!!!!!

​In my project I did a keynote, which explains what I was, what I am and what I am going to do in the future.(http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2579256/SpanishBM.key)

Reflection.
This project was very interesting. It wasn't a hard project, however it required knowledge of what to say and when to say it. On the overall, this was a very interesting project. I really dont think how you can improve. I really liked this project, and I just might say that this was one of the best projects that we were forced to do in classes (it gave a lot of freedom). If I were to do something differently, I think that I might have thought about doing a poem. Frankly I would have timed my project a lot better, as in I would not have waited until the last 3 days to start the project!

SLA Students to Participate in PennState Science Camp

Congratulations to Bernecia Guercio, Marina Pyfrom, and April Woodburn who were awarded full scholarships to attend the Science U Leadership camp at Penn State this summer. These lady scholars will attend the Elements of Innovation institute from July 31-August 5th in State College, PA. These students completed application packets and were chosen based on their dedication to experimental design and influence when helping others.

Musical Blog Post #2

​1. How is sound produced by this instrument (now that you know more about sound, please try to refer specifically to the energy transfer and vibrations)?
For a flute, the referring to energy transfer and vibrations, sound is produced by having a standing wave of air in the column of the instrument. At the end of a flute, air moves freely. A flute is an example of a standing wave.

2. Based on your understanding, how are you changing the pitch? What physical characteristics are important in this instrument?
I'm changing the pitch by blowing into the different holes I will make. Each hole will be of a different frequency. 

3. What materials will you actually be using for your instrument and why? How will you play your instrument? What is your plan for constructing the instrument?
I will be using PVC pipe for my instrument. I will play it as I said before by blowing into the different holes.

4. What outstanding questions do you still have?
My design of the flute is different from the traditional design and I wonder will it still work as good.

Musical Instrument Blog #1

The instrument I will be creating is the flute.


How is it played? What does the person have to do to produce sound?

It is played by blowing thorough the top and moving your fingers over the holes that produces different sounds at different frequencies depending on where the holes are positioned.

How do you change a note?
A note is changed when your fingers move over different holes.


How is it shaped?

The shape of it is sort of like a miniature metal pole.


What does this make you think about how you can create and change sound?
It makes me think that sound is changed depending on how I make my holes
and where my fingers are positioned.


What connections (if any) do you think you can draw between what you are observing and you might already know about waves 
Connections I can draw about waves is waves change depending on movement or motion.


Humanity Portfolio 2011

During this year of ups and downs i have learned a lot about people, places, and myself. Some projects showed my strengths and showed what happens if i put myself in a different environment and what happens when you research about a place which you needed to learn and understand then you needed to write about.  

I learned how to put myself in the places of other people. I learned that from reading about different experiences you can go off of what you learned and create a complete understanding story and or make up your own person from that time or place. A good example of this is the Monologue Project. Our monologue project was on world problems. For mines i chose westernization. When i started this project i was pretty sure and convinced that westernization was a good thing, then when i started i noticed it was a half thing. Somewhat of westernization is really bad then other things are good. So when i started this project i wrote about both sides, some people believed it was a good thing and then other believe that it was a bad thing. During this project i went through ups and downs. I went through those times which i did not have a clue of what i was going to write, then i had those times when i knew exactly what to write and when i knew exactly what i had to express and what i had to do. Some times i had those moments when i had to go back and do a little more research. Every now and then i had to go back and ask myself the question, This is good but how can i make it better? But in the end the project turned out great. I also learned a lot about Ladakh. 

            During the poetry unit, i learned a lot about different types of poetry. I was already writing poetry but it wasn’t like the ones we wrote in class. In class we used certain genres of poetry. We started of with the Poetry Project. In this project we were allowed to start off by doing certain poetry. Then we researched a poet when I learned that every poet has a different type of writing style. Once in a while each poet had tried or attempted to do one of the traditional poetry writing styles. Personally I believe now that writing styles in poetry are guidelines for people to start off from.  

 

            The next thing and yet to be my favorite thing we worked on was the Scene/ Descriptive Writing. This was my favorite because I did not know how many things you could do with one little place or one little thing to turn it into a story or a paper. At first I had difficulties doing this, like I had difficulties learning what exactly I should do and also difficulties turning pieces into something more then they were. After three papers I learned how to make my descriptive writing as strong as I could. Now that I know how to do these things i can write about a item, and I can also make it into something different.

 

            During this year I also learned more things about thesis statements. I learned more about giving more inside of the thesis information. I also learned that the more you use familiar sources people understand the paper more. In quarter one I believe it was we wrote Lord Of The Flies Thesis statements. Once I got use to the thesis exercises we did, I aced this paper.

 

            Through this year I learned a lot in history and in English that will help me write papers and understand myself more.

 

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Q1 Benchmark Rburenstein

Throughout Lord of the Flies the kids become more savage. The boys start out as somewhat civilized, but as they realize that they might not get saved, they get more savage. In several instances in our world, there have been people or groups who are against technology. The example about groups not having or wanting technology relates to the boys because they go back to their animal instincts.. The real life example hurt people for a not very good reason, and they either didn’t have or want technology. The diminishing amount of technology affects people in ways so that they revert back to their instinct of savagery.

During the book Piggy’s glasses go from good condition to being broken. While the glasses are diminishing, the savage instinct of the boys becomes more prevalent. A quote from the book from where the glasses are half broken is “You didn't ought to have let that fire out... one side's broken." page 71. During this section the kids are in the middle of being animals humans. This quote shows that they are starting to abandon one form of technology that they have, fire. They left the technology to go hunting; and because of this the ship that passes by didn’t see them. If they had kept their technology, then they would not be fighting about not getting rescued from the ship. The fire would have also kept them from killing the pig, so that they would be less savage. Only savages would leave something as important as the fire, to go kill a pig for food that they wouldn’t need if they were rescued.

Many of the older boys were hunters, or wanted to be with jack to kill a pig. Luddites were people in the early 1800’s who were against some new technology. The new technology would do their job faster, but they claimed that it wasn’t as authentic, or good. The luddites destroyed many of the machines, and killed some people in the riots. The luddites are similar to the boys in Lord of the Flies, because they ignore or demolish technology, and in the process they hurt things. This new technology made them destroy technology, which showed how they went back to their animal instincts, and didn’t think about anything else. The luddites were against new technology, while the hunters were against watching the fire. Both of them had their priorities wrong, the luddites could have found new jobs, or solved the problem without violence. The boys had their priorities wrong because they chose hunting, and fun over being saved.

There is a lot of symbolism in Lord of the Flies. One big part is Piggy’s glasses. They symbolize technology, which also shows civilization and how put together they boys are. In the beginning of the book, when the boys are civilized the glasses are fine. When the glasses are half broken the boys are splitting apart, and most of them are going back to their animal like instincts. Close to the end of the book the glasses become fully broken because of the Savagery. A quote close to when the glasses are broken is “”How can we make a fire?” Jack squatted back and frowned at the pig. “We’ll raid them and take fire.”” Page 136. This shows that Jack has turned savage; he wants to steal from other kids on the island without asking first. His animal instincts have taken over, where he thinks that violence is necessary and doesn’t even consider talking to them. Another type of technology that they have on the island is fire. At the beginning they use the fire because they realize that it is an important part of them getting saved. The first time that they let the fire go out was when they first started to become savage. They decided to kill a pig instead of get saved by a ship. The technology was not present, so the boys reverted back to their animal instincts. After the boys split into two groups the fire is almost not present, which shows that they are barley separated from animals. At the end of the book there are two significant fires. The first one is the cooking fire, which would not serve their purposes, this shows that they are using a different type of technology and have disregarded the signal fire. The other fire is when they light the forest on fire to try to kill Ralph, this fire shows how much of savages they are; that they would destroy the jungle in order to find and hurt one person that wouldn’t join them.

There is much symbolism around the technology in Lord of the Flies, along with much emphasis on how anyone can become savage.. Technology is one thing that separates us from animals, so when it goes away we go back to our animal instincts. The boys lost almost all of their technology throughout the book, which made their savage instincts easier to see. This happens in our world, where people loose their technology, or the technology changes and they revert back to being animal like.



RBurenstein Op-Ed

Op-Ed on video game violence

 

The shootings at Columbine high school were blamed on many things. Among drugs, alcohol and mental disorders was the first person shooter video game called Doom. Many people blamed the video game because there was not a lot of drugs or alcohol that showed up on the tests. Bill Manville on NY daily news said “"Doesn’t that sound like they were trying to rack up a record score in some video arcade?" This isn’t a very realistic idea, there is no way that a violent video game can make you think that on your own.

 

Many studies say that when testing violent video games on kids, they test whether the games made kids more violent. Almost all of the studies concluded that the kids who played violent video games became more aggressive after playing them. Many people who play violent video games become more aggressive, but they don’t make you act on these emotions.

 

The reality is that millions of people play violent video games, and there are not millions of school shootings or violent crimes every year, so it cannot be affecting people so much that they want to act on their emotions. Recently, video games have become more popular.  As an article on PBS says, “According to federal crime statistics, the rate of juvenile violent crime in the United States is at a 30-year low." This combined with the fact that many of the other studies only said that the people playing violent video games only became more aggressive supports the idea that it makes people more aggressive, but they don’t act.

 

Violent video games do make people more aggressive, but they don’t act on these emotions. If the violent video games were having such an impact so that they made the kids to things like the columbine shootings, then there would be a lot more juvenile violent crimes. The study was only for the United States, but these statistics could be different for other parts of the world. A lot of these studies are not 100% accurate because they don’t account for everything in the game players life. This is almost impossible to do, so the data will never be completely correct for these kinds of studies.

 

The shootings at Columbine or any other school shootings are not majorly caused by the kids playing video games. Many people try to blame video games because they are something that many people can easily put the blame on, even though according to PBS 83% of video games that kids shouldn’t be playing are bought by their parents. Less of the blame should be put on video games, and more on other factors like illegal substances, or mental problems.

 

Overall many people find that violent video games are something easy to blame problems on. In fact the video games do make the players more aggressive, but not as violent. Although violent video games do hold some blame in violence today, there are many other factors such as drugs, alcohol, or mental problems that contribute to this violence more than violent video games.

History Journal #1

 Are your hands clean?

  When looking at my hands they do appear to look clean, but when you dig deep down and think about everything they have touched and everything they have been through, I can no longer say my hands are clean.  The song talks about how this lady buys a shirt at Sears and gets it on sale even though so much work and blood has been put into it. There are people over seas forced to work to make these shirts, barley getting paid and then their final products go to the store and they have the nerve to sell it cheap. It is degrading to the workers and everyone has a part in it, which makes out hands unclean. 

SSmith Quarter Four Art

This quarter I feel that there was a little more choice and freedom. We got to choose  the sculpture that we wanted to create and we also got to choose the art piece we wanted to copy. We also got to take pictures of anything that we found interesting. I think this was a nice way to end out the year.


For my sculpture I found approximately five different how to on wallets. I created three different types of wallets, varying from easy to hard. From the 200 photos I choice one found of clouds, one photo of lockers, and one photo of the disney castle that I took the week of spring break. I used photoshop to add and change several things on each of the photos. My choice for the copied piece of art work was White Flower on Red Earth by Georgia O'keeffe. I didn't not color the flower but I added some shading to make it look like it was in black and white. For m final pieces of art work this year I drew a bike three times. One with negative space, one with just lines, and one with just shading. Unfortunately I was unable to complete the outside drawing. See below for the completed pieces.

Three Wallets (Easy to Hard)
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Bikes (Negative Space,Line, Shading)
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Element Print Project 2011

My element is Technetium atomic number 43. Technetium is an element found in spectrum. Its silverish grey metal, that tarnish slowly in the air. It used to be available in small amounts. It is also radio active. That's how I made my print, I constructed the radio active symbol and then built from there. First I made almost everything that had to do with radio active, the spill in Japan, the symbols, and masks. I included that in my sketches, but then I wanted to plan and simple so I put words, little design, and the radio active symbol on my Block. Then I traced my sample on to my see through wax paper so it can be easy to trace on my block. So it took a long time to carve my block out. but then I painted it and printed. I got 3 colors and 3 different prints. This project was a great project and I enjoyed the process it was very difficult. If i could change the project I would have did a more difficult layout to show my true artist skills
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Humanities Portfolio

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What is religion?

“… the believing in something greater than oneself.” 9.23.10 

This year I began with religion and realized more than I ever have with eight years of catholic school. With an unbiased opinion, my eyes were widened to what religion really meant and how an atheists , or undecided, person like myself fits into that category and study. Reflecting on this course I acknowledge that my views have changed since then and there is still I have yet to explore with religion in different cultures and what spirituality really means. An interesting project for this topic was my Keynote on the different views religions had on sex, in this case Pagans vs. Catholics. Through out my research I not only convinced others there has been too many speculations about Paganism but also learned this myself.


Shakespeare Never Met You 

"...Shakespeare knows not about the loving lies and for arguments sake neither do I." 3.6.11

Hands down my favorite and creative project has to be the poetry portfolio I became more than indulged in this assignment. When I was younger I wrote a lot of poetry and I'm the type of person to dabble in different types of activities rather than excel in just one. When I lost interest I moved to something else. The course made me see poetry so much more broad and open, very similar to the religion project. I found a calling in poetry and I enjoyed it so much more than I did when I dabbled when I was younger. I not developed a new found respect for poetry but also an admiration for it. Because of this assignment I discovered my talent for the art form and still continue to write frequently on a personal level if only for the fun of it. 

 Toy Soldiers (Monologue Project)

"...​I mean maybe it's something out of the ordinary for you people to believe in, but there is such thing as mercy and rehabilitation." 2010-2011

My monologue project commanded all of my effort and I willingly put hours into writing this story. In the beginning, writing became difficult because I hadn't fully developed each character or even the entire story plot. For the past few years, I've been working on a book and even with that project I've been running into writers block. This assignment helped me conquer my writers block. My inspirations came floating back over the course of the project. I know that working with a professional such as Kate is a rare opportunity and I am so appreciative that we had her assistance with this project because all the feedback really showed dedication. That dedication must've rubbed off on me because I pushed through it all still not knowing the final outcome until I had published it. There are many things I would do differently with this project but  failing is not one of them. Failing gave me the chance to pick myself back up and eventually succeed to produce something  am really proud of. It's one of my best, so far. 

I have done many projects thesis papers, video diaries, and creative writing pieces and over all, I am very satisfied with all of my work and how much I've learned throughout this year. The religion course made me realize there is always different perspectives and over the course of my life I probably still will not be able to reach full enlightenment. The poetry portfolio helped me unlock my hidden talents and the monologue project showed me the creativity in history as well as the dedication a piece such as this one takes. 

Sophia Henninger - Humanities Portfolio 2011

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Sophia Henninger

English - History

Copper

June 10, 2011


Over the course of the year in english and history we’ve analyzed, discussed, and read about many themes. We learned many truths about the government, economy,   and even people in general. One theme that repeated itself in many of our units is revolutions are never painless. This was shown in many units but also within many assignments. Personally, it was shown in my monologue project, poetry wiki, both trials (Cortes and sweatshop trials), and the revolution written response. All of these assignments demonstrate this concept whether is it very concretely or more abstract. 

The monologue project was one of the longest, yet most interesting projects we completed this year. We could truly turn it into anything we wanted. In my monologue project, a college student goes to Pakistan to research Nike’s labor conditions for his final project. In the end he locates a factory and convinces the workers the revolt against management, resulting in his death. This is a very concrete example of the concept that revolutions are never painless. In the end of the project, the boy causes an uprising in an attempt to restore basic human rights in the situation. Even though he and several others lost their lives, they brought light to the issue, allowing it to be address in court. He lost his life so the revolution could be successful. 

The following example is much less concrete but still illustrates the main concept.   The poetry unit allowed us to be creative and truly express ourselves in anyway we wanted. Some of my poems had some subtle themes of revolution though they were more centered on personal revolutions within one’s self. The poems centered on how I, or the reader, would like to change themselves. The one particular poem, When Did I Become a Ghost? speaks of how drugs trap people’s minds. Though it does not actually speak of overcoming the trap, it speaks of the difficulty that would involve and how that would actually make it impossible to overcome it. Even though no concrete revolution takes place within the poems, the difficulty it would take to change the situations in them would be a personal revolution. 

This year in our history class we had several trials, both demonstrating, quite blatantly, how painful and destructive revolutions can be but even though they’re not bloodless, they can still be successful. We had two trials, one was debating who had the most guilt in the slaughter of the Aztec people and this was called the Cortes trial. We had another trial called the sweatshop trial. This trial debated who held the most blame for the mistreatment of workers in the third world. Evidence of both of these wrong-doings involved blood. In both cases many people were murdered needlessly. This is a good example of how just because a revolution does have pain, does not mean it will be successful and this is shown by the Aztecs. The sweatshop workers are still in the midst of the this revolution. This shows that though revolutions are never painless, sadly, they are not always effective. 

In the revolution written response, we had to answer the question, “What separates revolutions from social change?” I argued that they’re not separate but social change is only the effect of revolution. Within it I used the examples of the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the recent Egyptian conflict. All of these examples were bloody but all of them were successful. Millions of people died in these wars and, though this is sad, without those deaths they may not have achieved what each of them wanted. All of these revolutions whether concrete or abstract, personal or social, ineffective or triumphant, all had pain and for some of them, that fact is what allowed them to be victorious. 


Humanities Portfolio 2011

My Monologue project
My Op-Ed!
My Language Autobiography!
My History Benchmark, Q4!
English Benchmark!

This year has been life changing for me. In History and English we have learned about lots. Like, Change, freedom, religion, fight, struggle, hope, and victory. I’m going to tell you about something’s I’ve discovered in these yearlong courses. The first thing we learned about on History was religion. Me personally thought this was something that was boring and uninteresting, but later on I found it quite fun. We first got to look at our own religions and how they affect us. I am not a religious person, but my parents are Muslim and strong Muslims at that. Throughout the Religion unit, I found out that Religion isn’t one set thing that is controlled by a group of people. Religion is something that one person and his mindset can control. Jumping through a couple months ahead. Another topic we discussed was the revolution of industry around the world and how it has affected us. We watched Movies, had trials, and read about all the hardships that this has put on people and the world. A trial we did were, there were the multi national corporations, the factories, the workers, the elite, and the countrymen. We had a trial to see who is at fault. And, the general understanding I got from this until and that trial is that: The rise of industries ultimately helped the world, but with it’s help brought the rise of Super-Powers, like the US and Russia, that ultimately brought upon a lot of Modern Times problems. Another Topic that we came across was freedom. A project we did for that unit was our Monologue projects. We had to choose a specific point in History and do Monologues about them. The event I chose were the events of tieneman square Protests of 1989. A specific event that happened was the historic events of Tank Man. A lone Chinese man stood in front of 4 tanks that were heading for the square. Pedestrians ultimately took him away, but from his actions brought a global up roar and helped the Chinese take freedom. A more recent event that took place was the events that happened in a small country of Tunisia. A fruit vender lit himself on fire because he couldn’t get a job when he wants to school. This opened the eyes of the world the small country. And, the horrible conditions that the people had to live in. This small act by on person triggered a huge uproar from countries like, Egypt, Syria and Libya. The one thing I learned is: Any actions big or small can lead to huge changes in the world. Another small thing we covered in the larger, Freedom unit is the Psion System is the United States. After going to The Eastern State pennetantry, and researching about prisons. I realized that: The current Prison System does that work and is flawed. A system we should incorporate is that of a rehabilitation so past offenders do not come back.

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Element Print Project 2011

Questions:
- What is your element?
- What are some things your element are used for?
- How did you come up with the idea for your print?
- What steps did you take from your idea for the print to the final print?
- What are your thoughts on the project?
- What would you do differently if you did this project again?

Answers:
My element is called cobalt.

My element is use to make phones, parts of cars, for teeth and bullets.

My idea was that I would draw a poisonous frog and a skull and crossbones since this element is know to be poisonous this will tell them just that.

The steps I took to get to my Idea of a poisonous frog and a skull and crossbones was that at first I started to think that the it a German name means evil spirit. Then I thought about bullets but then it came to me since it is a poisonous metal I might as well make have something to do with poison.

This project was very fun we had to do a lot but I liked it a more then the other projects that we had.

What I would have do differently is that I would have thought of something more then just a
poisonous frog and a skull and crossbones I would have look into the project more and I might have fun something that I like more then what I had.

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Element Print Project 2011

Cool, isn't it? I would say so! This picture had so many steps. Types of art like this are called linoleum block printing. This was on of the hardest projects I did all year because it involved so many steps and time. And even a few bandages. Yes, I said bandages. 

Anyway, my element in called indium, also known as In on the periodic table. The atomic number of this element is 49. Indium is usually seen in solid wiring form and is very rare. It is used in many things such as film coatings for motor materials and used to make LCD lights. But don't think that indium is all cool because of the low amount of radiation it carries.

My inspiration for this picture is because of the high pitch sound the element gives off when it is places into a fire. Henceforth,y the scientist holding the indium over the Bunsen burner. 

Doing this project was quite hard. There were many steps even before the carving. Our teacher, Ms. Hull wanted us to draw three 6 by 6 inch draft prints. The first draft which was just the symbol and the atomic number. Then came a coil of indium. The last picture was the one I chose, which was the scientist experimenting with indium. After choosing the draft I wanted to copy onto the block, I let Ms. Hull take a look on my block and she gave me the thumbs up to go with carving my block. In the midst of carving my block, I cut myself with the carver. Instead of crying, I was laughing. I laughed my way over to Ms. Hull and she told me to wash it off. When I was done carving we poured paint on to the table and and painted our blocks with it.

To me, this project was awesome. I started off first with rough edges and then in the end you see some clear, clean cuts on my block. That was where I finally learned how to carve a linoleum block. That is also one of the things I would change in the project. Take away all of my rough edges. 


 
Print Making
Print Making

Element Print Project 2011.

For this project I had the element Yttrium, it is the 39th element on the product table with a symbol of "Y".  Yttrium is used to make the red coloring in T.V sets  and can be used to make synthesized diamond. I came up with the idea for my print by looking up pictures of what yttrium makes. When I made the final print the chain of the neckless was shorter then the new one. I thought this project was fun and kind of easy. If I did this project again I would take all of my prints home with me rather than leave them in the class.

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this is my draft all of my other prints went missing in the class room.
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Element Print Project 2011

The element that I am doing is Manganese, the symbol is Mn and it is number 25 on the periodic table. Some uses of this element are that the dioxide is used in drying paints and it is used in steel, batteries, axles, and rail switches. The way I came up with the idea was that I chose three ideas and then thought that batteries would be cool to do because I didn't know what was in them.

When I first had my idea for my print I was going to have five batteries; three standing and two laying down, that was going to have every detail that a battery have. Then when I was moving forward to putting it on paper and trying to find my negative and positive space, I had came to a problem. The problem was some of the line for the print shouldn't have been there and that some of the picture wasn't going to be able to be seen because of the negative space. So I did it over and had some out and had some line thicker. After getting the perfect picture that I wanted I transferred it to the linoleum block and then printed it by putting paint on it then putting it on paper. Then I did the final touches by ripping the edges off.

When I was working on this project, I thought that it was going to be super easy but I was wrong, there was some difficulties. One was cutting out the picture in the linoleum block. Another thought was that it was going to be fun  and it was. If I was to do it different I would choose another idea because I wouldn't mind going through that experience again since now I know what i am doing.
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Element Print Project 2011

Fluorine Erupts
Fluorine Erupts
​My element is Fluorine. Fluorine and its compounds are used in producing uranium. Fluorochlorohydrocarbons are used in refrigeration applications. Fluorine is used to produce many chemicals, including several high-temperature plastics. The presence of sodium fluoride in drinking water at the level of 2 ppm may cause mottled enamel in teeth, skeletal fluorosis, and may be associated with cancer and other diseases. However, topically applied fluoride (toothpaste, dental rinses) has been shown to help reduce dental caries.

Since fluoride is explosive and reacts to all of the other elements, I figured I would do a print of the symbol "F9" exploding. 

We had to brainstorm and think of why our element is special, then sketch out three ideas that we possible wanted to use. We had to decide the best one and trace it on tracing paper. Next, we transferred the drawing via the tracing onto the 
linoleum block. Finally we cut the block and printed it onto good paper. 

To show off our elements, we pasted them all on a big periodic table on the 2nd floor
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I think that this was a fun, but challenging project that took some skills to accomplish. If I had to do this project again, I would pick a different drawing that I wanted to print.

Copper Element

 Element: Copper
Symbol: CU
Atomic Number: 29
# of Protons: 29
# of Electrons: 29
Atomic Mass: 63.546

Discovery:
Copper was one of the earliest elements that were known to man. It has been around for more than 10,000 years. Copper is an excellent conductor of heat and electricty Copper's normal color is red which is made easier to identify. The symbol of copper, CU, comes from the Latin word Cuprum. Like aluminum, is 100% recyclable.

Some of the uses for copper are:
  • used for electrical wiring, pipe water supplies,
  • vacuum tubes use copper
  • some structures such as the statue of liberty, are made with copper
  • many musical instruments are made out of copper. 
  • cookware
 
Photo on 2011-06-10 at 09.02 #2
Photo on 2011-06-10 at 09.02 #2

Element Print Project 2011


  • My element for this project was Bromine 35.
  • It is used in industrial applications and it is also a strong oxidizing agent
  • It can be used to purify water.
  • First i had to make several draft drawings after doing research, then sketch it on special paper, the draw it backwards on the template, after that I scraped out the positive space so I could paint the template and make the stamp.
  • I think it was fun, especially because we got to make several different stamps.
  •  I would make the stamps clearer to understand
Bromine 35
Bromine 35

Element Print Project 2011

The element ​I was assigned for my element project was potassium.Two things my element is used for is fertilizer and it is in bananas.I came up with this print idea by researching and I found out that if you mix potassium with water it explodes.The first step I took in order to make this a final print was to draw my sketch in my sketch book. The second step I was to trace my sketch onto the tracing paper. The third step was to Trace it onto the linoleum block and cut out the positive or the negative space. I chose positive space. Then I just printed my linoleum block. I thought that this project was very fun. If I were to do this project over again I would spend more time making my prints look nice. 
print for art potassium
print for art potassium