How Does an Internal Combustion Engine Work?

This week, we are learning about internal combustion engines with hands on a 1967 Jaguar E Class.  These are some of the websites we visited to gain a foundational understanding of engine basics.

1500 × 1125 - blog.hemmings.com 

1967 4.2L Jaguar, 

4 stroke, 

naturally aspirated, 

triple carburator, 

Straight 6

How a Car Engine WorkS



Engine animation





How Car Engines Work on HOW STUFF WORKS

CARBURATORS: Study diagram       

Aerodynamics

AERODYNAMICS

Long road trips can be excellent opportunities for learning.  Besides the endless discussions, questions raised by circumstance, exposure to new places, new territories, the teacher has a captive audience (haha ;).  We talked in depth about distances (math) and fuel usage.  We dealt with an uncooperative roof storage bag which raised question of fuel efficiency.  We passed countless 18 wheelers and felt the wind resistance as we passed.  We also felt the lack of wind resistance when temporarily following behind a semi (drafting).  We had many questions that we explored the answers to below...

Introduction to AERODYNAMICS:  Click Link

WikipediaWikipedia- DRAFTING (aerodynamics) Click link

Why do we care about aerodynamics?

FUEL ECONOMY is one reason to care.
How to Choose a Cargo Box for Your Vehicle 

Efficiency, Competition and Fun is another.
How to Draft on a Bike



NOTE: Drafting with vehicles is DANGEROUS and DO NOT DO IT, here is why>>>>>>
Dangers of Drafting



Car Aerodynamics Basics and How-To Design Tips

Washington State History, Pikes Place Market

Pikes Place Market

by Baron Molo for Washington State History Project Requirement

NOTE::::::This is a work in progress until it is final.

Seattle was booming in the late 1800's and early 1900's with the Gold Rush and many immigrants moving in.  Gold rushers, loggers, fishermen, shipbuilders, farmers and merchants, Japanese and Italian immigrants came to the city.  Pikes Place Market opened August 17, 1907 with just few farmers selling their produce.  Today it is one of the most famous markets in the United States and many tourists visit Pikes Place Market year round.  It is the oldest famers market still in business in the nation.

Pikes Market became one of the best places to shop for food during the Great Depression because they had the least expensive food around.  So in that time of the 1920's and 1930's it grew because lots of people where able to sell things to make money. However, in 1942 the market lost more than half of its farmers who were Japanese, because they were put into immigrant camps during World War II.

Pikes place market used to be the cheapest place to shop for the locals but in 1907 many of the people that sold at the market bought from farmers that sold them the product for very cheap prices and then the sellers shot the prices up and profited more than double what they got it for. They are called wholesalers and were doing what is called price gauging. Price gauging is a way people made extra money and ruined the market. For example, the price of onions went from $.10 to $1.00 a pound!  But the people of the city did not like that so they changed the rules and made the farmers sell direct to the people.

Even now Pikes can be one the most expensive places to shop but despite the higher prices on some things, the merchants do sell the most wonderful fresh produce, fish and flowers. It is known to be one of the most popular tourist spots with over 10 million visitors a year and most of them tourists.  They come because it is historical and fun.

Pikes Market is not just a place to go buy food, it is a place to go have a good time!  Lots of the merchants like to entertain the people and drawing attention to their shop or stand makes them more successful. Such as the fish markets, they interact with the public, they like to shout and throw fish and crabs across the room which can be pretty funny. Others like to hand out samples so that people can taste what they have and hopefully buy it.

1970 was put on the National Register of Historic Places.
1971 Starbucks opens its first coffee shop.

Map of Washington
Seattle is located in the north west corner of the state.  Seattle is located in the Puget Sound and is the capital of the state. Pikes Market sits in the heart of Seattle and has a rich and interesting history.  

Homeschooling Poetry and Shakespeare

This year, we started off with poetry and continue to move headlong into it.  From King Arthur and the Idylls of the King (depicting 5th/6th centuries) to Shakespeare's (16th century), A Midsummer Night's Dream, we are working our way through the complexities of old English. We are using the following resources and teaching sources:
History/Backround Life in 17th Century (mature)
Teaching Unit
Writing Style

Once again, I find it interesting how a collage of learning will come together when homeschooling.  For example, we started on the path of poetry studies for ELA and found detours opening up like investigating history when looking at King Arthur's legendary existence in the 5th and 6th centuries.  From there, questions came up asking, What is a century?  What does BC,AD,BCE, CE mean?  Questions like these take us briefly off the path which can feel frustrating until you realize, these are very valid points of interest and represent things we need to know.  We, as adults, take much of our acquired knowledge for granted but as teachers, we need to step back and allow for these detours and know that it counts.  But weren't we studying ELA? Yes, but then history and life present.  

Another example of 'homeschool magic' occurred when someone in our FB support group posted an opportunity for 7-12th grades to attend a 10 week Shakespearian actors workshop where students will study and perform, A Midsummer Night's Dream.  How perfect!  I quickly claimed a space for Niah and promptly made adjustments to our ELA path so that we could start understanding this play.  We weren't finished with Idylls of the King, but for the greater good, we put it on the back burner for now.  Niah is happy about that as she really doesn't like it.  I don't think she cares for Shakespeare at this moment either but hopefully, this course will open her mind.  After all, a very experienced USC Professor is teaching and is sure to light Niah up.  

Shakespeare at The Mermaid Tavern

  

Fairies were very popular in this time period.    

"Elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes and groves;

And ye, that on the sands with printless foot,
Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him
When he comes back; you demy-puppets that
By moonshine do the green-sour ringlets make
Whereof the ewe not bites," &c.,

Edwin Landseer 1802-1873

Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind.
Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste;
Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.”

BC, AD, CE, & BCE

Notes to self:

BC=before Christ AD=Anno Domini (Latin) for, in the year of the Lord.
There is no zero year-1 BC is the year before AD 1.
Now days, because of political correctness, CE, Common Era, is used for AD and
BCE means, Before Common Era and is used instead of BC, Before Christ. 

King Arthur - Idylls of the King by Alfred Lord Tennyson (1859-1892)

King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the 5th and 6th centuries which is (401 to 599 years AD). Some people who study history, believe he never lived. People believe he never lived because, the only way we know about him is from folktales and legends. 

Idylls of the King is a very long narrative poem written in blank verse and each line contains ten syllables, and is a non-rhyming poem. 

Notes to self:

BC=before Christ AD=Anno Domini (latin) for, in the year of the Lord. 

There is no zero year-1 BC is the year before AD 1. 

Now days, CE, Common Era, is used for AD 

BCE means Before Common Era is used instead of BC Before Christ

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Update Record

DAY6-17:
Khan Math, mostly review, reducing fractions, adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing decimals,
Khan Science- cardio vascular system, You Tube videos on system showing how red blood cells move throughout the body, life cycle of red blood cells, crossword and QA worksheets on cells- Prokaryotic and Eukaryotic.
Observed and discussed ocean tides, storms and waves, ocean temp variables, drought
Writing-started Sleeping Beauty as myth assignment
Social Studies- Watched The Butler (civil rights movement)
Life Studies- travel across US on airplane, mapping, mph, travel systems, navigation, how to work with TSA, getting around airports ie Atlanta, GA with its concourses, arrival/departure listings, subway system, baggage weights and dimensions, time schedules, tail and head winds, and lots of  people watching!

DAY18:
ELA Read part of Idylls of the King by Alfred Tennyson
Spelling (25 words for the week)
Khan Science - cell path video
Khan math- decimals, fractions; Saxon Math review; Circles

DAY 19:
ELA - Idylls of the King reading cont'd, discussed setting, characters
Math- Saxon, two-step equations, order of operations,
Life Studies - discussed Laws of Supply and Demand as we compared the products offered in California vs S. Carolina.  Demand for organic products is greater in CA therefore more products offered for sale in the market.  Also discussed water supply, water rationing, drought, and its effect on potential water cost, rationing, etc.
WHA- timeline studies, perspective for studying World History
Social Studies- King Arthur
Writing- edit and update blog profile to reflect higher academic standard
Music: Guitar practice and lessons