Week 16

This week we worked on the trailer. What we did was cutting a thin piece of wood to put on as the roof. The other partv of our group did the trim. The roof however was really easy to do. Before we put on the roof we had to make sure the walls were evened out enough. As for the plants the tomatoes are little bit weird. What we did to kind of help it was putting in a fan to air it out. The reason for putting in the fan was to air it out because we do think that they are dying because they aren't getting enough air. So we are hoping that works as well as we think it will. The snap peas aren't doing as well as they were in the beginning, now they are dying and I have a feeling they won't make it but we can do everything we can to fix it. The outdoor tomatoes are still doing really good solely growing but making progress. The lettuce had been the same for awhile though but it still looks like it's growing good it hasn't had any problems I've noticed. I don't remember what other plants we did but I haven't seen any thing new.

This week's essential question: how do you get electricity from rotating a shaft? Why is this movement so important

What I found was that a turbine spins the shaft and electromagnets rotate very quickly inside a heavy copper coil that becomes a magnetic field and changes the energy to electricity. I don't know exactly why this movement is so important.

Week 15

This week didn't feel as productive for me. But the trailer is coming along I think that it will be done soon.  The group has been getting a lot done and everybody is seems pretty satisfied with how it's coming along. The plants inside still haven't been shocked and I was really hoping they would be so we can see improvement. I've noticed that they have just been dying but some flowers are growing. The plants outside are doing really good they are growing good and how they are supposed to.

This week's essential question: where does plastic come from and how do we form it into all those shadows

Week 14

This week was another productive week. With the plants we haven't shocked the indoor plants but I have noticed a couple flowers growing and hopefully these last and somebody doesn't pull them off this time. The plants outside are growing way better than the indoor plants, there is some baby cherry tomatoes growing still. As for the trailer it's also progressing we have been putting on the studs that seemed to go pretty helpful. It's better when the whole group is helping each other out with this project.

This weeks essential question: When you flush the toilet at Rancho, where does it go?
When we flush the toilets at Rancho the waste water goes to the Laguna Waste water Treatment Plant. Which is located about two miles North West of Rohnert Park.

Week 13

This week we came from spring break and it was a pretty progressive week. As for our plants they have been doing okay. The tomato plants inside aren't growing as good as the ones outside, the reason for that is because the plants outside feel like they are going to die anytime soon and the ones inside aren't feeling like that because they are being well taken care of. The snap peas are growing great! As for the trailer we raised the walls and put up support beams.

This weeks essential question: How Does The Water Crisis Affect You?
The water crisis affects me because it means that I have to cut down on certain things I do. There are going to be a lot of changes because of it. It's going to be hard to adjust to saving as much water as I can but i'm not the only one who has to try to save.

Week 2

This week I didn't really do much because I wasn't here most of the week, but the time I was here in class I helped out with the trailer doing the walls. I also didn't really do anything with the plants either because I was getting frustrated how we put our on cages around and they just fell right over. Obviously we fixed that up. But other than that not much was done.

Week 10

This week the plants have been all over the place. The way that the tomato's plants have been growing is crazy. The tomato's haven't been growing it's just the plant that has been growing the most. The snap peas are growing very well and they should be ready anytime soon. The plants outside have been growing very good to the lettuce especially. It seems that the lettuce outside grow a lot better than the ones inside. This week some how feels like things are actually getting done with the plants.

Week 9

This week we sort of helped on the trailer and still worked on the plants. On Monday we helped the group by spray painting the trailer a matte black. On Tuesday we tried to figure out how to build our own cages around the cherry tomato plants, at first it was hard to even do because of how big some of the plants have been getting but we figured out a couple things that helped out. On Wednesday we kind of did the same thing just trying to make it even better. We also did the same thing on Thursday.

The essential question was about if you knew that a hammer was really a hammer.
How I know that a hammer was really a hammer because I can see the hammer. Obviously I know what it is because people say it's a hammer.