Science - Current Electricity

 Science - Current Electricity 

Hi guys, welcome back to my blog. Hope you all are having fun during your lockdown but are also staying safe. For today's blog post I am going to be answering some questions that our Science teacher gave us to do. These questions are based on Current Electricity which means,  An electric current that is a stream of charged particles, such as electrons or ions, moving through an electrical conductor or space. Here are the questions and my answers.

If there is a high current in a circuit what does this mean?

This means that if the voltage is high the current is high, and if the voltage is low the current is low. In the same way, if we increase the resistance, the current goes down for a given voltage and if we decrease the resistance the current goes up. But if the current flow gets too high, the fuse will melt. This will destroy the fuse but will protect the remainder of the circuit.

How does electricity work to heat up a stove?

An electric stove works through coils. Unlike gas stoves, Electric stoves don't produce a flame. Instead, a Electric current causes a heating element to activate. If your stove top has coils, The warmth will directly transfer from these coils to your cookware.

Where is DC electricity used? Where is AC electricity used?

Dc Aka Direct current is like the energy you get from a battery, Direct current is used in energy sources in many industries. It is most likely used in low voltage such as aircraft applications charging batteries etc.

Ac Aka alternating current is like the plugs in the wall . Alternating current is used to operate appliances (A item of equipment that uses current) for both household, Industrial and commercial use.

The big difference between Direct current and Alternating current is that DC is a flow of energy, and AC can turn on and off and alsoAC reverses the direction of electrons.

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Aotearoa Map

Aotearoa Map:

Hello everyone, Welcome back to another week for this term. To start off today's session of wananga we were finding out where places/cities and oceans were located in and around New Zealand AKA Aotearoa. We also had to write down a fact for each city we had to find so here is my work.

Facts:

Wellington - Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand

Auckland - Auckland was the old capital city of New Zealand

South Island- South island is the biggest island in New Zealand

South Pacific ocean - The S-Pacific ocean covers more than 30 percent of the ocean

North island - Home to the worlds largest mainland colony of gannets

The Tasman Sea - The Tasman Sea is the sea between Australia and New Zealand. It was named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman

Christchurch - Christchurch is now the most popular city in the south island and is also the second-largest city (after Auckland)

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Family comment card!!

Hi, guys welcome back to another blog post and also term 3. For today, in wananga, we worked on a term 3 focus task board. This task board is full of tasks for us to do, some of the tasks are to make a quality blog post using the manaiakalani page, a Weekly reflection gratitude journal, and more. The task I have chosen to do is a family comment card, this family comment card will help your family understand how to comment on your blog, and it will also guide them step by step on what to write or what to say when commenting. Having this family comment card will mean that not only does your family get to comment on your blog but they will also get to see the work you've been doing and it will also encourage them to give you feedback.

This is my family comment card: 

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Science - Imploding Can!

Kia ora everyone. Today in the last period we had science and in science, we did an experiment called the Imploding can which is the opposite of an exploding can. We had many tries but the ending results were really cool. I give this experiment A 9 out of 10 because next time I would like to do it with different types of cans and also work a little better.

Aim:  To see what happens when a hot can is placed in water 

Equipment:

1. Gas tap
2. Can
3. Scissor Tongs
4. Tripod
5. Water
6. Bunsen burner
7. Container 

Method: First get a can and fill it up with a little bit of water (Don't put too much in the can). Secondly get a container And fill it up all the way to the top. Then Get your bunsen burner and set it up (Turn gas on and light the bunsen burner). Use your Scissor Tongs to pick the can up and put it over the flame. Wait until The water is boiling or when gas comes out of the can. Lastly, Put the top of the can upside down into the water so the lid is touch in the water, and then watch it implode.

Results: So what happened to the can? When we had put the hot can in the water upside down it had imploded meaning it and crushed inward. 

Conclusion: Why did it happen? Because when the hot steam touches the water it condenses meaning to make (something) denser or more concentrated. I think that this experiment was really cool but then it also takes a lot of practice to get it right and make the can implode.  v

Term 2 ICT!!

ICT semester 1!

Hi, guys welcome back to another blog post. For today I am going to be sharing about work that we have been doing in ICT for this semester with Mr. Cater. I had joined ICT about halfway through term 1 but I still got to learn a good amount of things. In this class, we used, Microsoft, Publisher, Word, and Excel. All these Apps were very useful for each of the topics that we were working on. The apps were also very similar to the normal Google apps that students would use every day. This is the work I have been doing for this semester.

List of work we did:

Using word Document:

Week 7 & 8

Drawing

Year 9 - boat, TV, Flowers

Week 9

Easter Recipes - numbered instructions

Week 10 & 11

Basic Design

Year 9 - Kids Eat Free, Disney

Using Publisher:

Week 4 & 5

Publisher

Greetings Cards, Calendars, Certificates

Using Excel:

Week 6-8

Excel

Yellow Book - basic formulae, graphs

Publisher:

publisher was a very simple app and it was almost like google slides but it just had more features to it. Using publisher it was very easy to present work like for example we made a calendar and publisher was very helpful because everything I needed was on there. our task was to make a 2021 calendar but unfortunately, I didn't get to finish it all. I added photos into my calendar, and it was based on things I loved, or when it was a family member's birthday month I added balloons or a cake. Using publisher was very simple which also made it sort of boring but I still had a great time learning about things you can make and do on publisher, anyways here is my work.

Link to more of my work

Word Document:

The second tool we learned to use is a word document. We just learned the basics of the tool. We used a pronto book to get all the information and work from it and how to properly use the tool. We worked on transferring/Copying the work from the book to the computer. I didn't learn much because it was very much like Google documents. But I did learn how to do other things like, Insert photos, Download things, and also how to put it on my drive. 

Link to more of my work:

Excel:

the last tool we used was Excel, which in my opinion it was my favorite tool to use because there were so many things that I learned that I didn't know you could do on Excel. Excel is similar to google sheets it looks the same but again with just different features. Our task was to enter data from the book into the spreadsheet and calculate prices using formulas. Using Excel We learned how to merge texts, Auto sum (where the computer will answer the question for you whether it's multiplication or times), and more. This was probably one of the more challenging tools we used but it was also one of the more exciting tools. But here is the work I did using excel.

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Conclusion:

So it has come to an end to semester 1 of ICT. ICT was differently full of work, but i am happy that I choose it because I got to learn many things using different tools on Microsoft. My favorite thing that we did in ICT was going on typing.Com for the first 10 minutes, because this helped me improve in typing skills, and I differently think I have improved. I liked using Excel the most because I learned the most from that tool. To sum it all up and think that this term of ICT was very helpful and also very fun. 

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Social studies work!

Kia ora everyone I am going to be sharing some work that we have been doing in social studies. For the past week or so we have been working on heroes and villains, And at the moment I am working on a famous leader/hero. I have chosen to do Jacinda Ardern because she has done a lot of good things to make our country and people feel safer and stronger. A leader to me is a person who shows true leadership to people and they learn to respect and take other people's ideas and opinions.   

This is my Slide show and Google drawing about Jacinda Ardern:

Types of Government!

Types of Government!

Talofa lava everyone. Last week in Social studies we learnt about different types of government. We learnt about 7 different types of government which were, Democracy, Monarchy, Dictatorship, Communism, Totalitarianism, Oligarchy, Anarchy. For each of these governments, we had to find out the definition, Pros and Cons (Bad good things about the type of government), What country the type of government is used in,( We used google maps showing where it was used), And lastly a leader that has used this type of government from the past or today.

Here is my slideshow:

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