In this project, we made a tapestry based on the Bayeux Tapestry. The Bayeux tapestry is one of the world's most famous pieces of medieval art, and stretches 244 feet long, depicting the events leading up to the Norman Conquest of England. We used this as inspiration to create an embroidery of Anza Borrego, one tapestry showing the most memorable moments of our camping trip, and the other showing early civilizations of Anza Borrego, specifically the Kumeyaay. My section of the tapestry was of a campfire we had on our field trip, which I did half of while my group mate did the other half. This was embroidered by hand and sewn together with sewing machines.
In Physics, we went on a field trip to the Orange County Ropes Course. For this field trip, we did a project with two parts, the first part being a model of the Ropes Course made by a group of four. I made my model with Ruben, Matthew, and Malachi. The second part of this project was to write about a specific moment of the course that stuck with us, and to make a free body diagram showing arrows of the forces acting on us in a picture that a partner took of us on the Ropes Course.
In Math, we made an animation based on one of our Epic Journeys field trips. I chose to do my animation on our cardboard boat race at the Bay. My animation is of me sailing my boat, and was made in Khan Academy.
In Physics, we did a group project where we made cardboard boats and raced them across the Bay. We designed our boat to show what we learned about how buoyancy works, using a flat-bottom hull to keep it steady, making the front triangle shaped, and adding supports to make it sturdier. We won fastest boat that switched partners after making it across the bay.
Mission Trails Graph
Mission Trails Postcard
Our class went to Kwaay Paay at Mission Trails for a class hike. We turned this experience into two assignments, one in Math, where we measured our heart rate every 15 minutes. We turned that data into a graph using the Desmos graphing calculator, which shows how my heart rate fluctuated throughout the hike, with pictures and piecewise functions. In Humanities, we used pictures from the hike to create a postcard that we then mailed to someone. I chose to mail it to my older brothers (who live with me), because I couldn't think of anyone else to mail it to.
For our camping trip to Anza Borrego, people were split into four-person groups who had to make a short "movie" per 2 people about a specific part of our field trip. Our group's topic was "Roadtrip", so we took videos of A-roll and B-roll of our road trip experience. A-roll means video footage of a person speaking about the topic of the video, and B-roll is footage of what the person is talking about. We made our video and added parts about a smaller topic that each person researched to each video.
In Humanities, we wrote an article about a moment from Anza Borrego based on prompts that were the same prompts given to college students. The prompt I used to write my article was "Think about something that inspired you (during our Epic Journeys). Describe where that inspiration could take you?".
In Physics, we used data we measured from our Anza Borrego camping about the weather to create a weather forecast video. We measured the wet bulb, wind speed, pressure, and temperature of Anza Borrego. This was a group project where four people had to contribute to parts of the video like script, editing, and filming.
We made our own free body diagrams about our experience of paddleboarding at Mission Point in Mission Bay. I was unable to get a picture of myself paddleboarding, so instead I used a stock image. My free body diagram shows different arrows representing forces such as thrust, weight, buoyant force, and drag.