Dear Me國(미국),

Principle of Research - Card House Project

Let me explain what a "Card House Project" is.

I know Card House sound pretty childish and 

doesn't sound like a Freshmen thing to do. 

Well, in this project, we were able to build our hypothesis.

Also, test out the hypothesis that we built. 

We pretended that the card house was an actual house to test out.

And the flour was the fake snow that we sifted on top of the "House".

Our Hypothesis was: 

The thicker the card house wall, the more flour it can hold.

We had to test out five different thicknesses of the "walls"

And three different amounts of the "snow" to sift it.

After a few different ways of building a card house, 

we found the best method to build the card house.

That was not complicated for us to build it 15 times.

And our hypothesis was proven correct.

As the thickness of the wall (thickness of the card) increased,

the amount of the snow (flour) that the card house can hold also increased.

When I started this project, I was kind of questioning

if this correlates with the things that we have to learn.

Like setting our hypothesis. 

But after I was done with the project, and presented what we have found,

I was able to understand the intention of the teacher. 

                                                        (This is the online version of our trifold)

So today's 🌟KEY TERMS🌟 are

Hypothesis: a claim you make before you test your idea [가설]

Variable: any factor tha can be controlled, manipulated, or measured in an experiement [변수]

Independent Variable: the variable you manipulate [독립변수]

Dependent Variable: changes(maybe not) as result of manipulating

                                  the independent variable(changing variable) [종속변수]

Dear Me國(미국),

 Principle of Research

Principle of Research, when you hear this name of the class,
What is the first thing that you can imagine?
Well, I thought of writing a lot of research papers.
But, I was mistaken.
In this class, we do a lot of research, but that research is to build our projects.

Our first project was called the "Card House Project".
I know it sounds very childish, but it's very informational.
Before we all start building the Card House,
We learned how to make a good Hypothesis.
It means a claim that you make BEFORE you test.

For example, this is the Question: 
Is there a higher incidence of respiratory illnesses in lower-income communities?
for this question, the Hypothesis will be 
"Lower-income communities are more likely to get respiratory illnesses."

To set and Hypothesis, you have to know what is your Variable.
Especially Independent variables and dependent variables.
Independent Variable is the variable that you manipulate(change),
and Dependent Variable is the variable that changes(maybe not) as a
result of manipulating the independent variable(changing variable).

Then, in the question above, what is the two variables that help us set the hypothesis?
"Respiratory illnesses" is our dependent variable.
Because it may have illnesses and may not have it.
"Lower-income communities" will be our independent variable.
Because incomes vary in a different town.

So today's 🌟KEY TERMS🌟 are

Hypothesis: a claim you make before you test your idea [가설]

Variable: any factor tha can be controlled, manipulated, or measured in an experiement [변수]

Independent Variable: the variable you manipulate [독립변수]

Dependent Variable: changes(maybe not) as result of manipulating

                                  the independent variable(changing variable) [종속변수]

Dear Me國(미국),

New Semester, New Classes

In Second Semester, I am taking a different class from the first semester.

My first block(first class) is Web and App Development.

Like the class name is Web and App Development, 

I learn HTML, how to make webs, and apps later on.

I have learned codings only a few times

when I was in 6th grade, and Middle School 1st grade.

But it was only surface-level things and by using

different coding platforms.

So I was very nervous and wasn't very interested in that class.

But after the first three days, I was like"Omg, this class is fun!"

However, the first week was very confusing and hard...

Because I have never learned HTML things.

This was the first assginment that I did.

That website was made from many different HTML languages.

Like there weren't any templates like this blog.

But after this assignment, I was able to understand

how this HTML works and how that word can effect

on the web page after I publish it.

So this class made me put more interest in

something a different field of study.

I am still not sure what I want to do later on,

But this class definitely helped me to widen

my perspective to see the world.

새학기, 새수업

 2학기에는 1학기와 다른 수업을 듣고 있다.

 내 첫 번째 블록(첫 번째 수업)은 웹 및 앱 개발이다.

 클래스 이름이 웹 및 앱 개발인 것처럼

 HTML로 웹 및 앱 만드는 방법을 배운다

난 코딩을 제대로 배워본적이 없다.

초등학교 6학년 때 동아리에서, 중학교 1학년 때

정보 수업시간에 배운 것이 다였다.

그리고 내가 배웠던 것들로는 완벽한 웹이나 앱을

만들기에는 너무 얕은 수준이였기 때문에

배웠다고 하기에는 조금 어려웠다.

그래서 긴장도 많이 되고 수업에 별 관심이 없었다.

그런데 수업을 3번 정도 듣고 나니까,

"음? 이 수업 좀 재미있는데?"라는 생각이 들었다.

재미는 있었지만, HTML을 배운적이 없었기에

어렵기도하고, 조금 헷갈리기도 했다.

This is called Text editor.

Which is a Chrome extension to built an website through HTML.

그래서 이 수업을 듣고 나니까,

내가 예전에 생각했던 진로와는 완전히

다른 방향으로도 생각해 보게 되었다.

아직은 내가 무얼하고 싶은지 확실하지는 않지만,

이 수업 덕분에 내가 세상을 볼 수 있는 관점이 더 넓어진 거 같아서 좋다!

Dear Me國(미국),

I haven't been checking my blog for a long long time.

I had some different even that I wanted to write, 

but I procrastinated for months and months.

My freshman year’s first semester ended a month ago.

I assume you have read the blog that I explained about the classes that I took!

(If didn’t, here is the link ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ RIGHT HERE!)

Math.. math had always been my weakest subject.

At the start of the semester, it was going okay, all the materials were handleable.

But the class goes on and on, some things that we were learning was

Understandable, but keep making weird mistakes and mistakes that

If I paid more attention, I wouldn’t have made it.

The gym was fairly okay, except for the health part. 

The gym is where you just do your best and do what you have to do.

Like, if I have to play basketball, then try your best even though you aren’t the best.

But health was unexpected. We had a few pop quizzes and different tests

On first-aid and different muscle pairs. 

And yet, I thought it was fine and just memorized it. That wasn’t how it worked.

I had to memorize all the pairs and their different usage of them.

Bible was the most interesting class, we were able to discuss 

and share different thoughts. Also, learn some new information about the Bible. 

A few times, we shared our prayer topics and we all prayed together.

That was very touching it felt good to see and know that many people

can pray for me as I pray for many different people.

English! Was actually, my favorite class. 

In our classes, we read many different books and talked about them.

Like Macbeth by Shakespeare, we all had different parts and

We read it together and sometimes we acted out.

That way, it helped me to understand what was going on in the book.

We had many written responses as homework, 

which wasn’t the best thing to do, but through that I know I have learned a lot.

CTE, which is an abbreviation for Career and Technical Education.

We learn a bunch of different things, mostly like presentation skills and

how to write a proper research paper properly. 

This class wasn’t my favorite class to be in, because the class was

covering so many things that we should have already learned and known.

My first semester wasn’t the best academically. 

I have a feeling that I should have done better.

There are some regrets that I have now, for the first semester.

But I know that I can get better and better and use this first semester

as a stepping stone to go forward!