This week, I didn’t go to nature school on Wednesday, because I was tired from the taekwondo class I had on Tuesday. But I did take violin on Monday and Tuesday. I also went to orchestra on Saturday. Other than that, I worked on a racing game on the weekend in Scratch, and made a population simulation as well.
I worked on the racing game in Scratch over the weekend. 
I learned about centripetal forces. 
I learned about logistic models, which model how populations grow. 
I made a simulation of population growth in Desmos, which is a graphing calculator. 
I made a simulation about population growth. Find it here: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/534289822/ 
I made a video about simulating populations. Find it here: https://youtu.be/rfDa7sHQ8pU 
I started learning about how you can solve separable differential equations. 
I learned and played Minesweeper! 
I was looking for a weather app on the computer, and this was in my recommended games, so I tried it out, and it was really fun! Here is Wikipedia: “Minesweeper is a single-player puzzle video game. The objective of the game is to clear a rectangular board containing hidden “mines” or bombs without detonating any of them, with help from clues about the number of neighboring mines in each field. The game originates from the 1960s, and it has been written for many computing platforms in use today. It has many variations and offshoots.” 
I learned about radio telescopes and ASKAP, which is a grid of 36 radio telescopes set up a few hundered meters apart. 
I remembered this video about slope fields… 
And so, I made a Scratch project that creates a slope field for you! Here is the link: https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/534223133/ 
And to see if I made it correctly, I tested it against this actual slope field plotter to see if the graphs match up. I inputed the equation into the the text box, and the plotter spit out a slope field. 
Oh, what a cool mask! What’s that red thing on it? Well, that’s a huge ladybug on the galaxy.
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