My PBL project is called compression ignition. This name makes it sound a little fancy but in reality its kind of simple. What is this compression ignition, you may ask?. Well it's simply the every day working car engine. The compressor igniter works exactly how it sounds. A object is pleased on one end and the gaskets drop down with enough speed and pressure that the object catches on fire. This needs no outside source of fire to ignite. The way fuel is poured into an engine and the fuel burns making the heat and compression move the head gaskets up and down. Its simply fuel burning and gasses expanding causing the engine to work efficiently.this type of engine is extremely efficient. the engine used increases the efficiency of the engine by over 70 percent. That is also the main reason I chose this topic. I have loved cars from a really early age. Learning the Physics behind a engine really draws my attention and I would like to learn more. for example, before knowing that this engine type did what it dues, I knew that disel engines did not need spark plugs. Now I know a deeper knowledge on why and the engine type. you see, diesel trucks have this type of engines running them that is why no spark plugs are needed only fuel. I will be choosing the first ELA project option as it requires journal entries with dates and detailed information on the processes you are currently working on and helps put the project together efficiently. I would like to use this as check points to my project to help me stay on task and also to revise as I move along with the project. I am looking forward to learning a lot of new things about how compression can make such drastic changes in temperature, to cause things that to the uneducated eye might seam like magic. Off course us knowing that these things are not magic we can accurately knowledge the science behind it.
Today I was assigned my P.B.L project. I"m not sure about how I feel about it because I have not done a project like this before, its a new thing to the harmony bored. I do, however, have done something similar last year for T.S.T.E.M. As I took Chemistry last year I did have to do a project, but not all on my own like this one . This project is suppose to be completed all on our own, and after school. The school is suppose to supply us with all the materials, and with some projects, they give you all the research as well. their is 3 kinds of project, judging by difficulty, level one, witch we ware not allowed to chose from, level two, and three. Well that's all the information I have for today. Sep,18
Okay, so today I talked to my teacher Mr.Aziz about my P.B.L project and the materials needed. He told me that the materials ware ordered all ready and that they ware on their way. Once the materials come in the Mail I will have to stay after school not to long, just like 10 or 15 minutes and take pictures of the materials so that I may upload them on my web site and get a grade for them.
Today I worked on my P.B.L website, it was really frustrating working on it because Harmony blocked a lot of webpages including Google sites, witch means I can't work on it during school or after school with the teacher. Therefore he could not view and give me a hint of how to improve. I had to go home, log on my P.C and work on it from there. What I am suppose to due is make a new page on my web site called "About My School." I have to write a paragraph talking a little bit about my school and how I like it there. It's not too hard but I don't want to talk to much about it, and make it look like a review of the school I attend. It's suppose too be a little introduction with a general idea of the school. I finished it and now it's up to the teacher to check it and tell me if that's okay or should I add more or maybe write a less descriptive paragraph.
So today I was told by my Physics teacher that the materials ware here. He seed that he was going to be here after school to help me take the pictures and up load them in to my website. The bell ringed and I went to my looker picked up my Chrome Book, my backpack and headed to his class room. When I got there there was no body there, except a couple of girls looking for him as well. I walked inside to check for the materials but I did not see mine. I asked the girls if they knew if he was going to come back soon, they seed they had not seen him since 3rd block. I really wanted to go home with something to work on to bring my grade up so waited for 15 more minutes but he did not show. I was going to have to come back some other time. I sow him the next day and asked when I could stay, he seed next Thursday, and so I did, next Thursday came and I stayed after school to take the pictures. Nov,14,2013
On December, 18 he asked were the missing tasks ware, well that weekend I had tried to work on them but the PBL website had bean taken of, according to the warning my Chrome book was giving out. I could not work on it because I did not know what I was suppose to do. I try telling him but he thought I was laying and simply got irritated and mad. He told me to sit down and do my work at home. This happened around 3 times, Nov,18,20,and 22 I had tried fixing it but no use. Finally on December 2 I got a little irritated my self, I did not listen when he told me to sit and do my work at home. I graved my Chrome book and showed him the error, and that I was not laying. He calmed down a little bit, but still he said that way had i not seed anything before, that's when I got mad and told him I had but he simply told me to sit down. He apologized, and ask how had I made it work last time, I told him that simply by logging on to the PBL website but that method was not effective anymore. I told him to log in to it and send me a link via Gmail so that I could get in, it worked, now I could work on it.
On December 2nd I was done with all the tasks that he had asked for. The next time I sow him was on December 6 and he called us up to his desk to check the website. Something really unexpected happened that morning. He got mad because in my website I had a picture of a car that apparently did not belong there. he told me to take it of. I was caught of Gard by that request, so I could not help but to ask him, why?. He got mad, I could tell by the expression on his face. He told me that the car was not part of the project and that I needed to take it of. I told him "It's pretty car but, okay" he must of not herd that I had seed okay, and he send me back to my set. A little confused I seed to my self in a not so low voice, "WHAT!" he seed ":you are not listening, I told you to take it of and you are not listening". I explained that I had seed yes to taking the car away but he had not herd me. He seed that there was another problem. The letters are not readable, he showed the class mattes and they all seed that they could read them, he insisted on me changing them.
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