Fossil fuel!

Fossil fuel!

Aim: To learn about the impact of fossil fuels on our environment.

What are the three fossil fuels are mined?

1. Oil
2. Caol
3. Natural.

Materials:

1. Toothpick
2. Plate
3. Cookie

Steps:

1. Draw a picture of cookie
2. Draw a picture of habitat
3. Colour your drawings
4. Start to mine your cookie
5. Draw how the cookie looks like after mining it.

What type of habitat is it?

It is an ocean habitat.

How do humans use my habitat?

Swim, Surfing, Fishing, Go on boats

What plants and animals live there?

Seaweed, Starfish, Octopus, Fish, Crab.

After mining cookie:

How has my habitat changed?

It has a hole in the middle like a doughnut. 

How can we avoid this in the future?

Don't mine in the middle.

what lives there now?

Nothing.

Conclusion:

I learned that mining things and distorting things can affect many animals and plants and can kill them.

Hurumanu - Renewable Energy/Science Hurumanu.

Hurumanu - Renewable Energy

Aim: To make a solar-powered oven.

Materials:

1.   Tape
2.   Pizza box
3.   Black plastic 
4.   Scissors 
5.   Newspaper
6.  Glad-wrap
7.  Tinfoil
8.  Chocolate biscuit 
9.  Marshmallows 
10.  Straw

Steps:

1.   Cut out the flap on the lid of the pizza box so that it is 5cm around the edge.
2. Sellotape some tinfoil on the inside of the flap.
3.  Sellotape some glad-wrap so that the hole you have cut on the pizza box lid is covered over with glad-wrap.
4.   Put a piece of black plastic on the bottom of the inside of the pizza box makes a paper square that fits inside the pizza box and lays around the edge.
5.   Put a marshmallow on top of the chocolate biscuits, place it on a plastic plate and put it in the solar oven.
6.   Put it in the sun to cook.

Findings:
Our renewable energy oven took a little while to warm up. 

Section 3; Investigate each of the 4 Energy types.
( Hydro ,Solar ,Wind ,Wave ) 

1. Type: solar Energy 
2. Is it used in NZ?
3. Other Countries that use it?
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand-drawn using a ruler and labeled.

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

List 10 ways that renewable energy will be used in the future to replace our current activities.

Conclusion!
So in our class, we didn't put our smores in our renewable energy oven yet. But I think our group was a success because we managed to finish the oven. Maybe next time we could work on working as time and giving other people in the team a chance to help make the oven. But other than that we did a good job.

Hurumanu - Decomposing and Recycling Science

Hurumanu - Decomposing, and Recycling Science

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis: I think the banana is going to rot the fastest

Materials:

1. Bread + water.
2. Paper.
3. Banana.
4. Stylophone.
5. 4 test tubes.
6. 1 test tube rack.
7. Scissors.

Steps:

1.  Get your 4 tubes and place into the test tube rack
2. Cut the stylophone out, the cardboard/paper
3. Place the banana and the bread in the test tubes
4. carefully add water into the test tube with bread.
5. Then add the stylophone and the cardboard into the test tubes.
6. Then wait for 3 weeks to see which one rot first 

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	yellow	No
Paper	brown	No
Styrophone cup	white	No
Bread	white	No

3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow	Brown/Green	The banana was yellow the changed to Brown with green rot
Paper	Brown	Brown	The paper stayed Brown
Stylophone cup	White	White	The Strophone Stayed white
Bread	White	Yellow	The bread was white the changed to yellow

5 week	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow	Rotten green	The banana was rotten
Paper	Brown	Brown	The paper stayed Brown
Stylophone cup	White	White	The Strophone Stayed white
Bread	White	Yellow	The bread was  yellow

Conclusion:
This experiment was really fun but also disgusting.
The banana 3 weeks later was brown and also green it was very smelly and was rotten.
Paper 3 weeks later stayed the same.
The stylophone sup stayed the same it was still white.
The bread 3 weeks later Turned yellow and also a little bit smelly.


5 weeks later the banana was just all rotten and green.
5 weeks the paper stayed the same.
5 weeks later the stylophone stayed the same.
5 weeks the bread was yellow and also a little bit green.    

Oranna wildlife park school Trip!

On Tuesday we went to Oranna park with Wh and Ts. We went to have fun but to also learn about climate change about animals. we got there by bus, it was about a 13mins drive. When we got to Oranna park we lined up and waited for someone to come and take us in. After someone took us in and ate for around 10mins, then after we went and started to look at some animals.

Some Animals we went and saw! 

• Lions
• Kea
• Kiwi
• monkeys/Gorillaz
• Tiger
• Rhino
• Wild Dog
• And more

Facts:

• Did you know that when a giraffe eats trees it is also eating the seeds of the leaves and the leaves that its eating goes into its poop and then the seeds will be in the poop and the trees will start to grow.
• When rhinos find a space they like they mark it by pooping there so then other rhinos know that a rhino has already taken that spot. 
• Did you know that an ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain! What!
• Male Rhinos can get up to 2,300kgs But they can still run 50km/h.
• Monkeys/gorilla. When you beat your heart or steer at a gorilla/Monkey they think its a sign of threatening or danger.
•  possums are the key predators of a kea. 

C.I.P Wednesday!

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. Today for C.I.P Gardening we got a choose to,

• Create your own recipes of which includes at least 3 different fruit or vegetables. Try to come up with 2 main meals and 2 desserts
• Use TinkerCad to create a 3D model of your dream house and Garden. Use google to get some inspiration for your house. 
• Look at these raised garden plans and use the bunnings website to work out how much the materials will cost (you may have to convert the measurements into cm/m). Or design your own raised garden bed using TinkerCad and work out the cost to build it.
• Research ways to keep the garden watered over summer. Focus on recycled materials.
• Research a variety of plants that we could be planting this term. For each plant explain why that plant is suitable for us to plant and what it might need e.g soil types, particular nutrients, etc...
• Share at least one of these activities onto your blog.
• Often we have excess food during the peak season. Research 5 different ways that food can be preserved for a long time.
• Your choice! If you have something that you would like to design or research, explain your idea to the teacher and get their approval before you begin.

I chose to Use TinkerCad to create a 3D model of your dream house and Garden. So I am making this blog to show you guys what I have done so far. What I am making is not really my dream house it's just a creation that I made of a house.

This is my creation so far. As I said before I am not done yet Creating this house. But I will update you guys when I am done.

Thanks for reading my blog post!

Extreme weather / Measuring weather. Hurumanu

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1.  Anemometer: An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
2. Beaufort wind scale: Beaufort wind scale is for measuring wind speed.
3. Monsoon: raining season. 
4. Typhoon: S tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.  

  Materials:

1. 2 Sticks
2. 4 cups
3. Tape
4. A pencil with a rubber
5. Pin 
6. Sticky note
7. Scissors 

Steps:

1. Collect Materials. 
2. Tape the 2 sticks together. 
3. Then tape the four cups on each end of the 2 sticks.
4. Then get the pin and tap it to the middle of the sticks.
5. Then get your pencil and stick the sharp bit of the pin into the top of the pencil.
6. Get the sticky note and write your names on the sticky note then stick it to your creation. 

	Spins per minute	wind speed ( kph)
Field	16	6-12	2
Old J Block site	10	2-5	1
Grass hill	5	0-2	0
Tennis Court Gate	3	0-2	0

WHICH IS THE WINDEST AREA AND WHY?

the windest area is the field because it is an open space and there are not that many buildings and tall trees around the field.

WHICH IS THE CALMEST AREA AND WHY?

The calmest space is the court because there is fencing around the courts and there are trees around the fencing and that makes the wind not get into the courts.

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE ON LAND TO BUILD A WINDMILL?

the best place to build a windmill is the field because it is an open space.

Conclusion:

The field spins per minute were 16 spins/wind speed (kph) 6-12 and the Beaufort scale was 2.
Old J block spins per minute were 10 spins/wind speed (kph) 2-5 and the Beaufort scale was 1.
Grass hill spins per minute were 5/ wind speed (kph) 0-2 and the Beaufort scale was 0.
Tennis court Gate Spins per minute 3/wind speed (kph) 0-2  and the Beaufort scale was 0.
The spot with the most wind was the field because it is an open space.

What happened on the Holiday?

    What happened on the Holiday?

Hi, guys welcome back to my blog. How is everyone doing? How was your holiday? my holiday was amazing in fact that is what I am going to do Right now I am going to share a highlight and a lowlight of Holidays?

Highlight!

My highlight was that I went to my cousin's house for most of the holidays. My cousin's name is Maustina. I am going to share 1 thing we did

Swimming!

So one day I went to my cousin's house Maustina and we went swimming At Jelly park. So we got there by car we also went with my uncle Maustina's dad. For both of us to go swimming it was $7.00. We went to get changed, then we went swimming. I and Maustina did some challenges like the handstand competition and won. I also did some front flips underwater. 
We were at Jelly park for 3 hours we went there at 1.00pm and came back home at 4.00pm. When Me and my cousins got to her house we were really tired, But we did have lots of fun.


Lowlight!
My lowlight happened when me and my cousin went to the park Margaret Mahy to play and hang out. So we were playing around and running around the park and there were lots of seagulls flying around in the sky I was so afraid that one of them was going to poop on me so I said "please don't poop on Me" But then 5 seconds later one of the seagulls pooped on my arm. 
It was really gross but some people say its good luck when a bird poops on you, but when the bird pooped on me it didn't feel like good luck to me it felt like bad luck. After it pooped on me I went and washed it off my arm.

Conclusion:
it was really nice and calm in the holidays I hope you all had I lovely holiday spending time with your family and friends.
What did you do in the weekend?