If I were on SNAPS…

1. What is SNAPS?  SNAP is a federal program that gives people money to get food so that they can feed their families.

2. What is the average monthly benefit for someone on SNAPS?  A person on SNAP gets $256 from the program monthly. They have about $1.40 to spend on meals.

3. On average, I spend $193.5 on food per week.

4. My life would be different if I were on SNAPS because… I wouldn’t have enough money to get the food I eat and that would really affect my lifestyle and my choices. I would have to change everything that I eat and that would be a big change for me.

How to Help Close the Hunger Gap

1. Explain what the four factors of poverty are and how they impact one’s life.

The four factors of poverty are the main reasons that poverty and the cycle of poverty exist. They range from having a poor education to not having parents. The four factors are Health, education, family/house, and geography. They affect a person because it leads to a vicious cycle that most people can’t stop. It renders a lot of pf people useless and there’s not much that can stop it.

2. Explain how the cycle of poverty works.

First, you are born, go to a school that you don’t take seriously, and drop out. Or, you just weren’t lucky enough to get a good education and never got yourself off the ground. Then, once your older you get pregnant by a random person or impregnate a person. After that, the kid you brought into the world does the exact same thing you did, causing everyone to make the same mistakes that you did. They also might not have a good school or a very low-income household. Your parents might not be able to afford a proper school so you have to rely on a bad education.

3. How do we help people get healthy food cheaply (make sure your answer is realistic)?

As the previous eighth-graders proposed we could start a community garden. We could set up gardens in the city that we can come to after school or an arranged time during school to water the plants. Then we have a big sale, selling the produce we made for about ten cents to a dollar.

What government policy suggestions do you have?

I think the government should make a policy that produces shouldn’t exceed a certain price and if it does then the Government would find them a lot of money.

What changes can you/we make to help? We could decrease the cost of healthy food choices. Since the farmers are being hurt by this we could give them a bonus if they surpass a certain number of sales.

Defend your answer. Since the cost of veggies is so high and these low-income families have so little money to spend on food they can’t get healthy food choices causing them to be groggy, fat, lazy, and just not productive so if we decrease the cost then the overall population should work more efficiently and be productive.

Spool Racer No. 2

1. Given the challenge and the performance of your car on Test Drive #1, what change(s) will you make for Test Drive #2? We changed or the whole design. We extended our crossing bar to make room for a bigger and more stretchy rubber band.
2. What differences did you predict these changes would make in your car’s performance? What makes you think this? We knew it was going to go way further than the first iteration because in our first iteration we had no clue what we were doing and how the spools affected the movement of the racer.
3. Think about the variables such as the size of the spool, weight of the washer or tension of the rubber band. How might these affect how far or how fast your car will go? the weight would affect the racer greatly. If our racer was heavier it might have gone a little further or back.  Depending on the elastic energy we would have gone further say if we had a stretchier rubber band.
4. What worked better the second time?  The stretchiness of the rubber band really helped. It also helped to have an actual plan, not a dream that isn’t going to happen. On top of that, this time we were taking the whole project more seriously.
5. What still is not quite working? Nothing doesn’t work, it just doesn’t go as far as we would like it to go.
6. What questions do I have? None.
7. What might I try next? I would extend our rubber bands by connecting more to a rubber band for maximum elastic energy.
8. Explain the energy transfer that is taking place in the racer. The elastic energy is converting into kinetic energy.

 

Student Blogging Challenge

I went to Champions blog, http://champion2.edublogs.org/2019/10/27/community-service/?unapproved=21&moderation-hash=eba08db7d2a33aad66e6c70169e43662#comment-21 I went to Hannah’s blog http://hannahccbgs.edublogs.org/2019/10/28/camp-toonallook/?unapproved=63&moderation-hash=70f79b707fa32ebac1fa842948441a84#comment-63.  I went to Ryans blog http://www.blog44.ca/ryanc/2019/10/28/sbc-w4-free-form-post/comment-page-1/?unapproved=21&moderation-hash=62f89633d0713cfcd340b5288b443e6d#comment-21. I went to Challenge 2019. http://challenge2019.edublogs.org/

About Me

My name is Yosef. I am 12 years of age.  my favorite food is BBQ chicken and favorite color is green. I like playing Minecraft with friends, I like learning about WWII and love playing video games of almost any genre of game. I go to MJDS and live in Glendale, Wisconsin. I am excited to read your blogs!

Sukkah Day 12

. What did your group accomplish today? We completed a lot of studs and we secured the bottom plate corner.

2. What do you have left to complete in order for your wall to be finished? We have to secure the bottom plate and secure a few studs.

3. Explain how well your group communicated/participated today. Be sure to include one specific example. We communicated great besides the few yells. For example, when we were moving our wall if when we needed to stop everyone stopped immediately when we needed to pick it up we did just that.

Sukkah Day 8

1. What are the five steps to solving a problem (please list the steps)? Define the problem. Stay calm and remind yourself that you can work it out. Use calming strategies if you need them. Think of at least three ways to solve the problem. Discuss solutions. If the solution works you are done if not use another solution.

2. Your group identified a problem you were experiencing. What was the problem? What were your solutions? We weren’t communicating well. One solution was to take a break. The second was to stop talking until you are cooled off. The third was to compromise on anything you were fighting about.

3. Describe how it felt working with your group after you identified your problem and came up with solutions. We stopped fighting about stupid stuff like what we should get. It felt good not to argue.