Technology

Digital Tech 

During our technology lessons we have been learning a variety of different things such as, Lazer cutting, tours around the space and area and just working on computers. For our first lesson, Mr Rzoska took us for our tour around his work shop showed us how to use the machines and what to do and what not to do. We had a piece of paper with a whole lot of rules on it, we had to go through those rules and then sign it if we agreed to them. 

On our second lesson we got to play around on tinker-cad. It is a site to make and create a piece of work that would be either lazercut or be put in drafts for something else. We played around with the site and got to cheek it out and see what we could do, I learned how to do make a key chain. 

On our third lesson we then played with a new site, it was very complicating. So we stuck to our original site. We carried on playing around with it. 

We have come to our forth lesson but unfortaunlly I was sick so I couldn't attend school. 

Today's lesson we are blogging about what we have done for the past lessons. 

Here is the link for tinker cad - https://www.tinkercad.com/ 
Here is the link for thingverse - https://www.thingiverse.com/

Solar Energy (science)

Solar Energy 

Aim: To learn about how solar energy is used. 

Hypothesis: I think that the colour black will attract the heat the most. 

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	21	24	22
30	21	23	21
45	21	22	21

Materials:

• Tinfoil 
• 1 plastic cup 
• 2 polystyrene cup 
• 1 heat lamp 
• Thermometer
• 1 white sheet of paper 
• Sheet of tinfoil 
• 2 sheets of black plastic 

Steps: 

1. Grab all your materials. 
2. Secondly you grab your plastic cup and wrap the black plastic around it and then place the cup on the other piece of black plastic. Grab one of your polystyrene cups and place it on the white sheet of paper, lastly grab your last cup and wrap it in tinfoil (NOT covering the top of it (so tuck it inside the cup) and place that on the last piece of tinfoil. 
3. fill each cup with 50ml of water. 
4. Plug the heat lamp in, and make each of the cups are getting light of the lamp. Make sure its a d

  

C.I.P

Community Impact Projects 

Today for community impact we were pulling out weeds from both gardens. I didn't enjoy any of it one because it was cold two because the grass was wet so it made our hands cold. Something I enjoyed today was Kiwi Kaha for the first time, we played a game called Spaceship and another game where we used our body language to create something. 

Hurumanu - Drama

Change and Challenges

In drama this week, we have been learning about two different learning objectives but in two periods, Slam poetry and puberty Our tasks were to complete our own piece of slam poetry and work together as a class to learn about puberty. 

Here is an example of slam poetry: 

We made out own slam poetry, we made them about ourselves, here is some of the information i put in mine: 

• My name 
• Three or four adjectives that describe you/person 
• Important relationship 
• Two or three things, people, or ideas that person loved
• Three feelings you/person has experienced
• The fears that you/person have discovered 
• Two or three things the you/person wanted to see or happen or wanted to experience
• His or her residence 
• Last name.....  

Hope you now know something about slam poetry, don't want to go to far into puberty... 

Science Wind power

Science (Wind Power)

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1. Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS 

1. PLASTIC LID X4
2. TAPE
3. PENCIL
4. PIN
5. SKEWERS X2 

STEPS

1. Get all the materials you need.
2. Tape plastic lids to the skewers. (two on each skewer.)  
3.   Tape the two skewers together.
4.   Pin the skewers to the pencil.
5.   Test to make sure it spins.
6.  Go to winding spaces to see the wind speed.

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( Chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0.5
2.	Old J Block site	1
3.	Grass hill in the quad	1
4.	Tennis Court gate	0

CONCLUSION:

There was much wind where we went today so the number of spins would be a low amount.

The places that had the most wind were the grass hill in the quad and the old J block site.

The field was the second most windest place in the school because it spun half the way around.

The Tennis Court was not windy at all and it spun 0 times.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	0.5	0-2	0
Old J Block site	1	0-2	0
Grass hill	1	0-2	0
Tennis Court Gate	0	0-2	0