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My favorite thing about my family is that they let me do a lot of sports. My mom and dad let me do basketball, baseball, soccer, and football. And my family cheers me on. When I lose a game and I am sad my mom, dad, 2 sisters and sometimes my brother all eat iceContinue reading “English 04 Lesson 115”

Mersenne’s Laws- Mersenne’s laws mathematically determine how to tune string instruments. Galileo had the idea first but Mersenne proved the laws experimentally. Mersenne’s laws govern the construction and operation of string instruments, such as pianos and harps. Cartesian Coordinates- The cartesian coordinate system unified geometry and algebra for the first time. Cartesian coordinates established aContinue reading “History 04 Lesson 11000000000000000000000000000000”

My talent is athletics and I am good at sports. I play sports all throughout the year. I play soccer, basketball, baseball, and football. I use my talent to play and win games.

Johannes Kepler- When he was 6, he saw a comet with his mom. And he saw a solar eclipse when he was 13. He is most known for are his laws of planetary orbits. He applied mathematics to physics, and to planetary motion he discovered that Mars’s orbit is not circular it is elliptical. HeContinue reading “History 04 Lesson 105”

Gila monsters are one of the two proven venomous lizards. A Gila monster bite is very painful to humans, but it rarely causes death. The Gila monster is in the family Helodermatidae. Its scientific name is Heloderma suspectum. Its predators are humans, coyotes, and birds of prey. Gila monsters lay 8 eggs most of theContinue reading “Science 04 Lesson 95”

True crocs are a part of the Crocodilia reptile order. There are only 14 species of true crocs. Crocs and alligators are in the Crocodylidae subfamily. Saltwater crocodiles are the bigger than all the other crocs and they are bigger than the biggest alligators. Saltwater croc males can weigh 3000 pounds and grow over 20Continue reading “Science 04 Lesson 109”

Compound Microscope- The compound microscope has at least two lenses one is where your eye goes to look through it called the eyepiece. One is at the end closest to the thing that you are studying. The earliest microscopes were known as flea glasses because they were used to study small insects.  Zacharias Janssen inventedContinue reading “History 04 Lesson 100000000”

If I had a superpower it would probably be shapeshifting so I could slip through tiny place and then turn big so I could scare my sisters and my mom.

Mercator Projection Map- Gerardus Mercator invented the Mercator projection map. It was invented in 1569.  It is a cylindrical projection map. Any straight line on a Mercator projection map is a line of constant true bearing that enables a navigator to plot a straight line course. Mercator- He was born in a poor family. HeContinue reading “History 04 Lesson 95 .”

Heliocentric Theory- It was invented in the early modern age. It is important so we can measure how far away planets are and to measure how heavy a planet is. Nicolaus Copernicus- Nicolaus Copernicus was born Feb 19, 1473. At Torun, Poland. He died 1543. At Frombork, Poland. He specialized in astronomy. He invented theContinue reading “History 04 Lesson 90”