Automobile

Automobile is invented by Ferdinand Verbiest who was a member of a Jesuit mission China around 1672. It was a small steam-powered vehicle and the gift for the Chinese Emperor. It couldn't carry a driver or a passenger, but it was the first working automobile. After this event, lots of tries to develope the automobile. In 1888, Karl Benz started to mass-produce the gasoline vehicles. Invention of automobile affects human life a lot. Before invention of automobile, it took long time to go to other places. But as automobiles invented the time we spend to move reduced. There are some weak points of automobile, such as air pollution and traffic accidents, but it makes us comfortable.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile

Cr. A Inventions and inventors

We were introduced about our new unit 'inventions and inventors'. We watched two videos about Benjamin Fanklin and Leonardo Da Vinci. Thses gae us background information about inventors. And we realize that inventors are multi-talented and have some same qualities. We made a list of it. Intelligence, creative, and risk-takers are the qualities that we added in the list. For the next, we did multiple intelligences in quiz which is in our planner. It was finding out the type of intelligences what you have. Some of us had the same results, but most of us had different intelligences. After this activity some students drew the unit poster.

Cr. E Evaluation

My gate didn’t work well. It has weak poles, because I couldn’t use an adhesive and just poked the poles in the polystyrene ground. It sometimes shakes. I planned to use the adhesive to attach everything that I use. But it melted the polystyrene and I couldn’t use the bond. That’s why my gate is not perfect.

I planned to make a cheap and light gate. Also it should be looked nice and work well. A nice gate is necessity in Ger Districts. My idea is nice, because people in Ger District can’t afford the expensive materials. I chose the wood to make a gate. Wooden gate is quite common, but it is the best material to make the gate. It is light, string and not expensive which the people in Ger District can afford it.

I planned to make the light, but strong gate. But I failed. The miniature of mine is very light but not strong enough. It breaks easily and can’t hold the gate. There was a problem during I made a gate. I should prepare the problem. I didn’t have attention to my assignment very much. I just bought an adhesive which is very strong. The adhesive is for the construction works. I had seen some adhesives melt the polystyrene. I needed to notice it. Because I wasn’t interested in the assignment, it didn’t finish well.

If I have another chance to do this assignment, I’ll make a nice rolling gate. As you know the present gate of mine is a hinged gate, but I didn’t plan to make it. It was also an accident. I couldn’t get any small circular things which will be suitable for the wheels of the rolling gate. In this time, I wasn’t prepared well. Thus, if I have another chance to do it, I’ll prepare proper and enough materials to do and make a nice and strong gate.

Test

Test
Mine is not work well. I didn't make my gate in the way that I planned. I made a rolling gate instead of a rolling gate. Because I changed the type of the gate, I couldn't follow my plan. There were no wheels on my gate. In addition, I make my gate with polystyrene in spite of the hardboard. I planned to use the bond to attach everything. However, I couldn't use an adhesive. I bought an adhesive, but it melted the polystyrene. Because I couldn’t use the bond, my gate became weak. The poles could hold the gates, but those shook and couldn’t hold the gate strong.
If I have a chance to improve my gate, I’ll look for some small circular things to make the wheels of a rolling gate. Also, I’ll find the proper adhesives which don’t melt the polystyrene. Then, I am going to make a strong rolling gate. It would be nice and strong. But it’s hard to find small circles. Thus, if I can’t find any small circles, I am going to make a strong hinged gate with new adhesive.



Only Haram answered my question. I didn't bring mine, but he knows everything about my work.

1. Is my gate finished correctly as I planned?
A: No, it’s not. I looked all, your plan, process and the gate. Yours is not built correctly. You planned to build a rolling gate, but you didn’t. You built a hinged gate in spite of a rolling gate. Because the type of gate is changed, you couldn’t build the gate as you planned before. In addition, an adhesive didn’t work. It melted the polystyrene. Thus, you used tape instead of an adhesive. You planned to make a gate with some hardboard. But you couldn’t find proper hardboard. Therefore you made the gate with polystyrene.
A:
2. What is the problem of my gate?
A: You couldn’t use a bond. It melted polystyrene and disturbs you a lot. You planned to stitch ever thing with the bond. Finally, you used tape instead of the bond. But you couldn’t use the tape for something and the poles were the one of them. Those can hold the gate, but it shakes. It can’t hold the gate strong.
3. What can be improved?
A: If you find an adhesive which doesn’t melt the polystyrene, it would be helpful. You can make a perfect new gate. The new gate would be strong. With the new bond, you can attach the poles on the ground that made with polystyrene.
Second, if you find any proper small circular things, you should try to make a rolling gate. Your plan was a rolling gate, not a hinged gate. I am sure that the rolling gate is going to be better than the hinged door.

Changes
1. I made a hinged gate instead of a rolling gate.
2. I didn't make my gate with paper. I made it with polystyrene
3. I didn't use adhesives becasue the adhesive melted the polystyrene.
4. I didn't start in November 13th.
5. I made some additional windows which weren't on the plan.

Cr. D

I made my gate miniature for two days. Before I realized rolling gate is not possible to build with the materials which I could have. To make rolling gate I need some small wheels or small circular things. But I didn’t have it and couldn’t find in Mongolia. Thus, I changed my gate design to a hinged gate and drew the new sketch. I started this work on November 19, and there was a problem. I bought a strong adhesive, but it melted polystyrene. I couldn’t attach polystyrene with a wooden chopstick. I tried to find another way to stick polystyrene with a chopstick. But there was no way. Finally, I just poked chopsticks to the polystyrene (The chopsticks were the poles and polystyrene was the ground). Because the chopsticks weren’t attached to the polystyrene, it kept swaying and was weak. But it could hold the gate. I kept making gate. First, I made a walkway gate. It is made with black polystyrene and has a window. I stapled it to the wooden poles instead of sticking with adhesive and it worked successfully. After I made a walkway door, I made a gate for drivers. It is almost similar to the walkway gate. It is just bigger and has more windows. In addition, the driveway gate has a crossbar.

I connected the gates (a walkway gate and a driveway gate) with staples. It worked well and helped me a lot. Also, I had enough big polystyrene to be a ground for gates.

As I said, there was a problem, but that was not a serious problem. My adhesive melted the polystyrene, so I just poked the poles to the polystyrene and the poles could hold the gates.

If I have a chance to do it again, I would like to try a rolling gate. I will try to find small wheels. If I made a rolling gate, it would be nice. Also, I like to make nicer gate. Mine is not perfect although it works. I would like to make stronger gate.

Cr. D

Criteria C

Dates	Time	Steps	Resources	Materials
Nov 13, 2009	13:00 – 13.30	Sketch the final gate clearly on the A4 paper with just a pencil (no pen or marker). The sketch is going to be neat and detail without colors Take a picture.	The final design which I chose from Criteria B.	Pencil, A4 Paper, ruler, final sketch from Criteria B and camera.
Nov 13, 2009	13:30 – 14:00	Start to build the structure for the gate. Make the 3 poles which hold the gate with some wood sticks. Take pictures.	Home	3 small wood sticks, camera
Nov 13, 2009	14:00-15:00	Cut the box paper (thick and hard paper) in proper size for the walkway and driveway gate and attach on a pole with adhesive. Take pictures.	Home	Thick and hard paper (box paper), adhesive, camera
Nov 13, 2009	15:00-15:40	Make some wheels (6 or 8) with box paper and put on the bottom of the driveway gate. (Cut the box paper in a small circle.) Take pictures.	Home	Thick and hard paper (box paper), adhesive, camera
Nov 16, 2009	10:00-11:00	Type the whole process and add some pictures.	Home	Computer (MS Word), some pictures which I took while building the gate.

Criterion B design

The first driveway gate is a sliding door which made with iron. It is opened in just one way, left or right. It is quite heavy. But it has steel wheels which won’t be broken easily. There is an iron rail which helps wheels to roll easier. This door also has a locker, so strangers can’t enter the inside of the gate without a key. There is a window on the walkway door and it is made with iron. The window is only opened by the people who are in inside of the gate. The walkway door is a wooden door. It’s pretty light and easy to move. This door is a hinged door and stood by some iron hinges. There is a strong locker too.

The second driveway gate is a hinged door which made with wood. It has some strong hinges to prevent falling down of the gate, but those are too big which don’t look nice. It has a window which has steel bars to look out the people who knock on the door. But strangers also see the inside of the gate, because the window is too big. There is a strong crossbar which made with steel to lock the gate. The walkway door is a hinged door too. It is a wooden door which is moved easily. It has a few hinges but those are big and strong enough to hold the door. The roundish window is on the top of the door and it has some iron bars. It also has a locker.

The third driveway gate is a sliding door which made with iron. This gate has two parts, left and right, and can be opened in both ways. The left part of the gate is opened in the left side and the right one is opened in the right side. Because this gate is made with the iron, it’s heavy to move. For that reason, there are some wheels to help moving. The wheels are made with steel and roll on the iron rail. There is a huge window which has many iron bars. The iron bars prevent trespass of strangers. The walkway door is made iron, but it is not heavy, because the door is made with iron bars. The whole door looks like a window because it doesn’t have surface. There are some decorations. Because of the decorations the door looks nice; because the decorations are the sharpened arrows it also prevent jumping over the door.

The final gate is the first sketch of the gate. It is the most strong and safe gate out of the three gates. It doesn’t look beautiful or cool, but the most importance of the gate is safety and strongness. Therefore the first gate is the final gate.

Investigation

Criterion A (part 1)

In technology class, I started a project about the Ger Districts in Ulaanbaatar. The goal of the project is to choose one thing to improve the people’s lives. I want to learn how simple technology can affect the people who live in Ger Districts. There are 1,500,000 people in UB and 800,000 of them are living in Ger Districts. I went to the Bayanzurkh Ger District where about 7,200 people live. The majority of the people have hard lives. Most of the gers do not have running water and there are not enough public services nearby. Because they don’t have designated area to throw the trash away, there are many landfills in Ger District. In addition, the fences and gates are in poor condition. Most of the gates have been made with a variety of materials. People in the Ger District don’t have enough money to make nice gates, so they just use whatever materials are around them. Generally, the fences are built with wood, but this is expensive. There are about 10 well stations in Bayanzurkh Ger District which are supported by the government. The water is ground water which contains unhealthy materials. Water costs 1MNT per liter. People carry the water bottles, which are very heavy, or else push them on water carts. They use water to wash vegetables, to bathe, to do the dishes and to do everything else that needs water. To heat their ger, people use coal or wood. A bag of coal costs 1500MNT and wood costs 1200MNT. People build outhouses inside of their fences which cause land and water pollution. Though there are many problems in Ger Districts, some of them can be solved by simple technology.

I went to the ger district twice and at the second time I dig holes for poles which hold the gate and for the outhouse. We, the grade 9 student, couldn’t finish it. It was a hard job to finish in two hours. Some of the students carried water bottle and they said it was very heavy to lift it up. Though the water bottle is heavy, the people who live in the ger district have to carry the bottles every day. Also I saw the place where the community center will be built. There were some poles to hold the gates, but the gates were not there. The community center needs two gates, one was smaller than another which might be the gate of pedestrian, and another one was bigger which might be for the cars or huge objects. We visited the ger district with some teachers and guides, Mr. Chilton the humanity teacher, Mr. Wilson the technology teacher, Sukhee and Troy Tvrdik.

I noticed a few technologies in Ger District. People use the water cart to carry water easier. They built enough high fences to protect their privacy and land. Some of people built walls around their ger with sand bags to stop the wind. I saw some technologies, but almost all of them were in poor condition.

Criterion A (Part 2)

I chose the gate of the community center that will be built soon to design as the technology project. Although the gate is necessary to live in Ger District, the majority of the gates that I have seen were in terrible condition. Most of them are messed up. And it looked weak and dirty. Thus, I decided to design clean and strong gate.

There are two gates in the community center. The width of one of them is about 6m wide and another is 1m. The bigger gate will be designed as a sliding door with wheels to move easily. For the material of the gate, titanium is the best. It is light and hard, but it’s too expensive to be a gate of the fence of ger district. There are other materials that are suitable for gates, but most are too expensive for the people who live in ger. So, if someone supports them, the best material for gate is titanium. But titanium is too expensive to make a gate, so the material of gate should be iron. Most of the gates are made by iron it can be little bit heavy but it has wheels, so it won’t be broken. Though, iron is not very expensive, the people who live in gers can’t afford the price of iron. Therefore, no one supports them, the material of door must be wood, wood is not expensive and it’s not very weak and heavy. If the gate made by wood, it must be painted to prevent enfeeblement the gate. If wooden gate wets, it becomes weaken. But if it is painted, the paint will prevent weaken of the gate. The door which is located next to the gate must be painted wood. Wood is not so heavy and weak, therefore wooden door is the best door for the passengers’ door. And to hold the door there must be some hinges. The best material for the hinges is iron. Iron is strong enough to hold the wooden door, and it doesn’t cost very much.

The place where I 've been to

The tower of Shanghai(Left)

Niagara Waterfall

The cyberspace of past, present and future

The adjectives that come to mind when I hear the word cyberspace
share
complicate
huge
rude
nice
fun
interesting




20 years ago, cyberspace was just for specific person. Not many people contact to cyberspace. So at that time, cyberspace would be very awkward for people who live at that time. But now, cyberspace is no special and limited space. Everyone can contact to cyberspace easily. Thus, now cyberspace is comfortable place for people and lots of people contact from whole world. People sell something and buy something from cyberspace, but they can't take something from cyberspace. I mean, people can't take some objects from the monitor at their house. The seller should sent them the objects what they want. But in future, there will be the techniques that can be taken from monitor. Then, they don't need to wait for their objects.

Cyberspace was not so opened place for people 20 years ago, but now it is much opened. As lots of people use cyberspace, there are also something bad happened. Some people steal others information or crack someone’s important stuff. Now, there are lots of viruses in the cyberspace. As viruses occurred, some vaccines also appeared. But, most of them are expensive and almost of them can’t figure out the new type of virus. In the future, there will be some certain way to prevent viruses.

In the cyberspace people don’t face each other. By this reason, some people do something bad for another. They write something bad on someone’s writing and fight against someone. These things are happened more easily than real life in cyberspace. So people should notice who they are, before they use cyberspace. People should use their real name on cyberspace and if they want, they should have their pictures in their profile. Thus, in the future, people who use cyberspace should notice who they are exactly.