We started by interviewing our partners for a story they took place in. We got to work building and doing math for the dimensions of the box, all while taking photos with models to simulate the story through pictures. Then we cut pieces of a wood board and sanded them. After cutting and sanding them, we put them together with super sticky glue. Once they dried, we ModgePodged the photos to the box, and after the foundation dried we put more over the photos so they stayed in place. After the next few layers of ModPodge dried, we used an electric drill to create a hole in one of the corners of the box. Then we wrote down a 3-4 sentence description of the story in a google doc, then printed it out with a photo of the person we interviewed (not visible in photo). We cut it into a small square, hole punched a corner and put a string through it. Before tying the string back together, we put the string through the hole in the box and make sure the paper is still on. Then we get a mini planter and put a plant in it.
During this assignment, we had to write down if we were the mean, median, mode, or range for certain topics. I decided to choose how many hours of sleep I get in a night, how many pets I have, and how many countries I have been to. We also had to describe something that happened to us from one of these topics.
We had gathered the information from surveys given to us by our math teacher Mrs. Chase. People had written down prompts for the survey questions about a week before hand, and all we had to do was choose three of those questions after finishing the survey.
The Desmos Self-Portrait was an independent assignment that used quadradic and linear equations to it's advantage to make pictures. You would have to take a photo of yourself, then use the equations to sculpt out your face with the lines. I worked extra hard on mine, because I didn't understand how to to do the equations until a week it was due.
When I had finally managed to figure out how to actually use the quadradic and linear equations, I had tried to put down as many lines as I could to make mine as detailed as possible. I didn't get it turned in on time, but my teacher allowed me a certain extension to work on it. By the time I had finished, I had over 230 equations on the graph after weeks of hard work.
We were required to write a letter to math to go along with our Desmos self-portrait. In this letter we explained how we felt about math and some of our personal experiences with it. We had to bolden certain words that emphasized our emotions towards math.
This was also supposed to go along with the Desmos Self-Portrait. For annotations we had to select two intercepting Linear or Quadradic Equations and solve them using Elimination and Substitution. We would combine the equations and use substitution to cancel out some of the number to get the Y-intercept.
During this assignment, I worked with a group of people to work on making a short novel. We did multiple weeks of planning and editing on each page. I worked on page five for photoshop, while also helping with editing in the finalizing stages. I took the majority of the photos for my own page, but also used other photos not being used by my classmates for my panels. Although I ended up only using the photos I had taken myself in the final draft, I believe it turned out very clean.
The pinhole camera was a particularly easy assignment with a very promising build up, and a heavy downfall. For this project we would have to allow very little light into the box, because we were using negative photo paper. We made a shutter for the small opening so no light could get in until we wanted it too. From this assignment, almost no one had very good outcomes because of the dark room we had used. The photos, after being developed the majority did not have any results, or was completely blacked out because of too much light.
The Camera Obscura is very similar to the pinhole camera. The only difference in design, is that we dont need any kind of photo paper to produce a picture. All you had to do after finishing the product, was put your head in the box and grab something to put around the base of your neck to keep as much light as possible from coming in through the bottom. All you had to do then is make sure you had the pinhole behind your head, and the screen of white paper (seen in photo) be Infront of your face. The smaller the pinhole and the brighter the area, the better the projection would come out. Although the picture was inverted, it would still be a pretty clear image of what was going on behind you.
The Physics In My Life Poster was an assignment where we had to draw properties of physics that happen in our everyday lives. We first made a rough draft and wrote the explanation for the picture on the back. After we finished the rough draft, we could then go on to finalize the poster. Some examples of everyday physics I chose to do was Sound, Heat, Motion, Acceleration, and Gravity.
I enjoyed working on these the most out of the majority of all my work during these few months. Drawing is a big passion of mine and it's something I really enjoy doing, so coming up with new things to draw every month for a new calendar was really fun.