This week, I went back to studying. I did Taekwondo classes, swimming classes, and violin classes! I also found this really fun physics “game” called “Line Rider.”
The video’s finished, here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duAJspp0I3I
Kaidyn made his own version too, the link for HIS is in the description of mine.
I started unit 4 in big history project, called the Solar System and Earth.
I love the Big History Project and the concepts of threshold events!!
I think you will find looking at history in this way very engaging for your scientific mind.
If you feel inspired to approach this as a course their are online courses focused around this too, but I think the Big History website is awesome. Enjoy and tell me what you think about it Ethan. Maybe you will be making some new films inspired by the project. There is even a course on Khan Academy!
https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/big-history-project
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/eight-thresholds-of-big-history/.
Here is an interesting interview on NPR with one of the founders, David Christian. https://www.npr.org/transcripts/461997753
His TED talk is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_YBFVEC7Gg&feature=youtu.be
I kept learning about applications of derivatives, and I did a quiz about the applications of derivatives.
I learned about the Mean Value Theorem (MVT). Basically, if you have two points of a graph, and you take the slope of the line connecting those two points, there is some point (C) between A and B that has the same instantaneous slope as the slope of the line connecting points A and B.
Thank you for taking the time to describe what some of these new concepts mean…
I wrote a (very long) article about chess, basically talking about the history of chess, and how to play.
How is your chess playing progressing? You playing much these days?
Did you learn any new strategies by writing this article?
I relearned about Conway’s Game of Life, because i was learning about cellular automata, which is basically a zero player game. you enter a certain condition, and you leave it to do it’s thing.
Then I learned about this new cellular automata, called Langton’s Ant.
I coded Langton’s Ant in Scratch! it was pretty easy, because you just needed a few different types of block, and I understood the idea of Langton’s Ant well.
Impressive application to deepen your understanding of a new concept Ethan! I went to Wikipedia to learn more about it, thank goodness for the Internet!
I worked on my collaboration video with one of my book club members! We’ve actually been planning this for a few weeks, but it was a secret!
I watched the video. So great that you have made some connections with other home learners and now you are collaborating on a variety of projects. I really appreciate how you too respect and admire each others strengths and knowledge of different disciplines.
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