Color Theory

Monochromatic colors: All the colors of a specific hue.

Analogous colors: groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel, with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and two on either side complementing, which tend to be tertiary.

Complementary colors: colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green or blue and orange, that when combined in the right proportions, produce white light.

Color triads: colors that are evenly spaced around the color wheel.

Split complementary: a variation of the complementary color scheme. In addition to the base color, it uses the two colors adjacent to its complement.

The Kaleidoscope project

In class we created kaleidoscopes with colored pieces of plastic cut up and put between two clear sheets of plastic. Inside the tube, we lined each side with mirrors to get the above result.

The textbook app

 As students, we have to carry textbooks around campus all day, every day and sometimes, we have to carry our books to and from school as well. All of these textbooks along with our binders and notebooks and other supplies, add up to a lot in our backpacks. Textbooks are normally 3 pounds on average. It may not seem like a lot, but when you have to carry multiple textbooks along with everything else in your backpack, it makes a difference.
Let's also talk about the quality of the textbooks we get from our schools. When these textbooks have been used for the past 10 years or so, they start to fall apart. It's really annoying when you're carrying all of your books in your arms and pages fall out or when you're trying to do your homework you don't have all of the pages to complete your assignments. And because the textbooks have to go back to the school, we can't make any marks in the book. Students that ignore this rule leave someone else with a textbook that has marks in it that could distract the next student to receive the book.
Then we also have to consider the price of textbooks in collage. Every year, college students spend around $1000-$3000 on textbooks every year. If they buy used books, they already have notes and scribbles written all over the page.
We've all tried using the online textbooks. You have to go to the website, put in your state, find your grade level, find your subject, and then find your book. Half the books we need aren't even on these online websites. It's a long process to get to your book and you can't find every book your need. Some of these aren't compatible with some devices, the pages are too messy, and you can't make any notes on the pages.
As students we have to deal with these expensive, inconvenient, heavy, bulky textbooks and annoying online textbooks.
But now we can say good bye to those.
With the textbook app, it is much cheaper to obtain every book you need on any device. Since the textbook companies aren't spending all this money on printing pages and such, they can sell it on this app at a much cheaper price or for entirely free. You can make neat marks on the pages that can be easily removed and you can click on little note bubbles that can enlarge to show the side notes you left for yourself and collapse when you are done reading them. No more messy, heavy, bulky, books that are falling apart with the tiniest touch. Every book you need will be on your one device. That's 12 pounds of books put into 1 to 2 pounds of tablet or laptop. You'll never lose or rip a page, you'll never have difficulty finding a place for all those books, and you never have to worry about your book falling apart, everything will be there, safe and sound, on your device.
These tools for education shouldn't be such an expensive hassle. With this app, it'll be easier and cheaper to have every textbook we need for school.