This week, I worked on a lot of coding, using mostly Unity and Scratch. Unity is a free software which is great for making 3D and 2D games! I did my violin, swimming, and taekwondo classes as usual, and I went to nature school on Wednesday.
This week, I worked on a lot of coding, using mostly Unity and Scratch. Unity is a free software which is great for making 3D and 2D games!
Have you explored making 3D games with it yet? That sounds pretty incredible to be able to code in 3D!
What sorts of games interest you the most in terms of making?
You said your Youtube followers are most interested in your coding videos of late. What sort of content do you think they are responding to?
I did my violin, swimming, and taekwondo classes as usual, and I went to nature school on Wednesday.
To start the week, I learned about differentiating functions.
And I learned what conductors and insulators are.
I did some geography about Afghanistan.
And I colored it in, for my CIATCOTW (Color In All The Countries Of The World) project.
And I wrote some information about Afghanistan.
I have a book recommendation for you, it is set in Afghanistan. I had another learner do a whole novel study on it. It offers a firsthand perspective of life in current Afghanistan and the impact of the Taliban on young people’s lives.
The Breadwinner, also known as Parvana, is a children’s novel by Deborah Ellis, first published in 2000. As of October 2013, the English-language edition of the book has had a run of 39 editions. The title of the book refers to the role of the protagonist, 11-year-old Parvana, who is forced by circumstances to be the breadwinner for her family in a war-torn Taliban-era in Afghanistan.
For her research, the author spent several months interviewing women and girls in refugee camps in Pakistan, and used these interviews as the basis of her depiction of life in Afghanistan.The book has received several literary awards, including the Peter Pan Prize and the Middle East Book Award in 2002. The novel was followed by three sequels, Parvana’s Journey in 2002, Mud City in 2003, and My Name is Parvana in 2012.
Or if you prefer there is an animated film based on the novel: The Breadwinner was adapted into an animated film, directed by Nora Twomey, that was released on November 17, 2017
This is some of Layla’s (another SD learner) work based on the themes in the novel
“Parvana is like a flower because she is resilient, even though her family (her roots) are far away, even though everything is hard, she blooms through it all.”
Layla made a list of her favourite acts of kindness blooming through the hardships the characters faced. She painted a tulip (Afghanistan’s national flower) and wrote her acts of kindness around it.
I learned why resistors get hot when you run current through them.
I did some C# coding, because Unity uses C#.
I did Brilliant every day of the week, and I did this quiz on reflection.
I did my violin homework.
I made this healing, pain-relieving, muscle aching ointment that feels like lip balm at nature school. To make it, you immerse Cottonwood buds in sunflower oil, and leave it for about 12 hours. Then, Put the jug of cottonwood-buds-and-sunflower-oil in some simmering water, and leave it for 5 more hours. Then melt some beeswax, and put the cottonwood and sunflower oil inside the melted beeswax. Leave the mixture to cool!
I think this is so wonderful! Your nature school is awesome, they do so many different kinds of activities, games and projects.
Now that you have made one balm before you could use similar techniques to make balms of lavender, calendula and other healing flowers.
Have you ever made a healing balm before? It is also called Balm of Gilead. I will let you look it up and find out why it is called that.
I hope you use it for aches and pains. Here are some other medicinal uses:
When to use Balm of Gilead Ointment
Balm of Gilead Ointment is:
Analgesic
Anti-inflammatory
Anti-bacterial
Astringent
Helps detoxify
Helps heal coughs
Balm of Gilead ointment has done some miraculous feats on my homestead. It relieves pain, especially the pain from sore muscles, arthritis, and broken bones. It reduces swelling and inflammation.
I learned how to spot disguised derivatives, which are basically derivatives that don’t look like derivatives. Sounds pretty tricky!
I learned how to take second derivatives, which are the derivatives of derivatives!
I learned about LOL diagrams (LOL!) which are ways to represent potential and kinetic energy. LOL indeed, had to look this one up so see what you were referring to.
I learned how to take the derivative of a logarithmic function.
I continued my work on this game where you have to move around, and get to the green cube without running into any red enemies.
I created a video on how to make a scrolling top-down game in scratch.
This video will teach you about the basics of scrolling in scratch, and shows you that it isn’t that complicated!
The YouTube links get an error message nowadays so I’m sharing the video this way. I know I have been getting those error messages too here on the Platform. Any ideas why?
Ethan, have you started the FSA?
I imagine the math will be a breeze for you. I am curious to hear how the English section goes and what they are asking you to write short responses and essay on. I hope it is a topic which you find interesting because you have a lot of amazing ideas and thoughts to share.
I wish you the best of luck and look forward to hearing more about it.
Natasha
Here was my nature school this weekend, ski touring into a hut in the Bonnington Range near Castlegar:
Thank you Ethan for being patient with my response this weekend. I had so much fun ski touring into a beautiful new remote cabin with some friends. We skied up and down many times, my favorite thing to do.
You can see tiny black dots at the top of the mountain, those are my friends before they skied down.
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