Do video games improve reaction speed?

Gone setting

The setting of the story Gone is in a small town called Perdido Beach in Alabama, USA. What happened is that every person age 15 and above disappears suddenly, leaving only young children. A sphere forms around the town and some of the surrounding area. The whole of the first book is set inside of this where the kids need to survive. The area around the town includes a big beach that leads out to the sea where the ocean is suddenly cut off by the border. There is also a school for troubled kids called Coates Academy. There is also a surrounding forest not far from the town. Another important part of the setting is a big island that is discovered which used to belong to a wealthy couple with a big mansion on it.

Protagonist and Antagonist

Protagonist is when the person is for a certain thing
Antagonist is when a person is against a certain thing

The protagonist in the story so far is Sam Temple who is also the hero. He is for the good of the citizens and is trying to support everyone. His heroic act at the start of the book was when he attempted to save a girl from her house that had caught on fire. He then went and took charge of the scared and worried kids.

The antagonist in the novel is Caine, he is against the town of Perdido beach. He is also against the mutants (the people with powers) even though he is one himself. He has done stuff like cover their hands in concrete so the could not use their powers.

Gone - Micheal Grant

For my dystopian book I chose the book Gone by Micheal Grant. It is about a small town in America called
Perdido Beach, one day all people over the age of 15 disappear and a dome forms around the town.
Sam (the main character) has suddenly found himself as the kids leader, he has become allies with Caine,
a boy from Coates academy (A school for troubled kids) Who he does not trust. The dome that has been
brought up has caused some problems suddenly there are all sorts of mutant animals such as talking
coyotes and swimming bats, on top of all this a number of kids have gotten powers such as healing,
teleportation and super speed, some powers stronger than others. Sam and the rest of Perdido beach are
fighting for their lives. They are being attacked by everyone who isn't them, food sources are running low
and they need to find a way to sustain themselves. Many kids have died and many more will.

Making Magnesium Oxide

A compound is made or two or more elements chemically bonded together.

Today in science we made a compound by combining Magnesium and Oxygen creating Magnesium Oxide. Magnesium Oxide is a white solid and in the process and while burning the Magnesium it became really bright like a small sun.

Mg + O2→MgO

Magnesium + Oxygen → Magnesium Oxide

Silver/grey solid + Clear colourless gas →white powdery solid

Adding Fractions

Robotics With Miss Chowfin

This year in robotics we were to make a buggy that we would send to mars. We used different robots and robotics to make our mars lander be able to stand mars conditions which is why we had to do loads to design it on our robotics journey.

To make a start on our mars lander design we had to see what the buggy was up against. We found out that mars is the fourth planet from the sun. Due to the rusty iron in the ground causing the red colour of the planet it got its nickname the red planet. Mars is mainly a rocky terrain with many craters and gullies. Also dunes and wind are a big threat to our mars lander luckily we built our mars lander to work with all these different obstacles.

After we found the information we needed we needed to see which one of the 3 robots was best for us to use. The first robot we used was the Sphero you control it using a iPad it was kind of hard to control. I really enjoyed using it because of the fact of the spherical shape which meant it wouldn't tip over and in mars with all the rocky terrains it would be very useful. The next robot was the Ozobot which was a small robot who traveled on ink that came from a special pen it was really fun to use. The last one is the Edison a robot that is controlled by coding the Edison was really hard to use and did nothing it was very useless to use.

Our prototype was a paper box with pipe cleaners and straws I thought it was really good as the magnets on the bottom allowed it to tip over to the correct side which as I said about the Sphero is very useful. Our buggy has a mini rocket to send samples to earth a digger to dig up samples its side windows allow camera angles. We also have a 360 degree camera on top for better views.

We built it out of Lego so we could see what it would look like and clipped it to the Edison.