Digital Technology - Light bar

Digital Technology - Light bar

For the past 2 weeks in digital technology we have been building a light bar. First we had to choose a image to import on our piece of plastic. Then after that we down loaded the file and sent it to print in the laser cutter. We then started on making our light boxes. We had 5 pieces of wood. We glued them together and put a LED light strip in the middle. The next week we sanded our boxes to make them smooth. We the had our image printed on our piece of plastic and put it in the light box. It worked perfectly. 

Year 8 Japanese - Introduction

Free Writing Awesome Cards

Free Writing Awesome Cards

Cards:
-Family
-Identical Twins
-A Fart-gun
-The Cricket Ground

At Veggie intermediate a Family of Onions were getting ready to showcase their new invention.  It was the schools cricket game and the identical twins Gedian and Fabian were banned from the cricket ground. After they changed the water fountains to spray garlic water instead of normal water. But this time their going to use their new invention A Fart-Gun. Gedian and Fabian laughed to themselves and walked towards the cricket grounds. They stood at the top rows of seats and sprayed the fart gun. The farts went everywhere. Then the principal Mr. Broccoli yelled at the twins. Running up to them the twins slid down the railing. They ran into the night laughing and spraying the fart gun as they did so.  

Ki O Rahi

In P.E. we have been learning and playing Ki-O-Rahi. We Have learnt the skills and whakapapa of the game. We continue to play and get better.

Cookies

This week in cooking we made cookies. First we made all split into pairs. Them we got the recipe to make 12 cookies. We got all the equipment needed:
2 rubber scrapers
2 big metal bowls
2 plastic plates
2 knifes
2 measuring spoons 
1 measuring cups
4 measuring jug
After getting all the equipment we told our instructions.  
One person in the pair would beat the butter in the bowl. While the other person would measure 1 cup of flour and 2 tsp of baking powder. Who ever finished first would then get the sugar.
After beating the butter we then got 1 tsp of vanilla essence and put it into the butter. We then continued to beat the butter and vanilla essence. Later after the vanilla essence was no longer visible we added the sugar and continued.
Then when all of it was combine nicely we added the flour and baking powder. But we did not stir or beat the flour and baking powder. Instead we pulled the flour and baking powder to the sides of the bowl. After the dough looked light and fluffy they were ready to get wrapped up and put into the fridge. 

The next day the dough was pulled out of the freezer. We got back into our pairs and put the dough on a cutting board. We were told that we must measure the weight of the dough my dough weight was 367g also that you must divide it into 12 equal parts. My desired weight was 30.5 grams per cookie. Once that was sorted we had to cut one part of the dough and make sure it was your desired weight. But once one part of the dough was your desired weight you couldn’t go up and weigh the other ones. Once we got our desired weight, it was time to cut the others. We measured the other ones by size of the perfect one. We then set them out on the baking paper in 4 by 3. After that was done we pressed on them with a fork. Once they looked right it was time to put them into the oven. One tray was put at the top while the other was at the bottom. They in the oven for 7 minutes then they were switched around. Our ones had to stay in the oven for longer as they did not look cooked yet. Them after about 3 minutes we took them out. We moved the cookie to the cooling tray and got one to weigh. Our desired weight was 30.5g the weight it was unbaked was 31g and the weight it was cooked was 28g. Most peoples weight dropped. As the moisture in the cookie wasn’t there. My cookie looked great we got 6 cookies each.

Review
My cookies were delicious they were nice and my family thought so to. MY dad said they were yum and my sister said they were really nice.

Instrumental Industries - Music Through the Decades

This week in Music we researched music and artist that were popular in that decade.

Instrumental Industries

This is the slide show where I will be sharing my work that I am doing in Music Hurumanu. For this week we had to write the biography of a New Zealander musician and band. I chose Vince Harder and JGeeks.

Instrumental Industries

This term we are learning about music and music instruments. Our music class is called Instrumental Industries. Today in music we listen to different music. Stomp performance, Gospel music, Poi e and pop music from the 90s. We are now learning about the ukulele the songs and how it works. Also we saw 3 of the 4 different types tenor, concert and soprano. We we be learning with our two teachers Mrs Hastie and Mrs Allan. In this Hurumanu we hope to make songs. And learn about different genres of music.

Left Alone

I woke up and felt dizzy. I wandered to the beach that my family was camping at. I felt like I was walking for hours. I arrived at the beach but nothing was there. I was sure that this was where we stayed. I could see footprints in the sand. But then I asked myself, “Where are they?” “Where did they go?” “Did they leave me behind?” I felt so sad and frustrated how could they leave me behind. “Why didn’t they look for me?” There was no shelter or food left. For days I sat at the beach waiting for them to come back. Then one night I heard voices. I followed them and fell. Then there was this small box with voices coming out of it. It was a radio. For the rest of my days I talk to this radio. It was my only friend and family.

Climate Change and The Future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

Changing Our Future

Name 3 fossil fuels?
Coal
Oil
Gas

What is the cost?
Carbon Dioxide

The CO2 level has soured since when?
Industrial Revulsion.

What are the effects in the UK?

1.    Hot Days
2.    Heat Waves
3.    Species Could disappear.

How many climate refugees will there be in Britain by 2050?

200 million

When will Fairborn be flooded?

26 years

What are some of the other things that will be 'swallowed by the waves'?

1.   1.5m homes in England at risk of flooding by 2080
2.   1000 toxic sites at risk
3.  100,00 homes at risk of coastal erosion.

How can we stop climate change?

1.    Replacing gas boilers in homes into something renewable.
2.    Run every car on some clean energy
3.     Plant 1.5 billion trees

What ideas are school children having about climate change?

1.   That they will die of climate change and not old age.
2.   Having a protest.
3.   Speaking up about climate change to politicians.
4.   Them not wanting to have kids of their own.

What is the atmosphere called?

a __Waste__ __Dump__.

What is the last statement the reporter made?

We know what we need to do, we have got the__technology__. What we lack is the

 __political__ will__.

How is sea level rise going to effect us in NZ

What places will be effected?

Veracious places in New Zealand.

What else do we need to think about?

People and new areas for them to leave.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

The pacific Islands.

What does this do to our drinking water?

Makes it Salt water.

What are the main concerns?

1. Coastal Erosion  
2. Coastal Flooding

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use less fossil fuels by using public transport. 
2.  Buy an electric car.   
3.  Design a house in a Eco friendly way.

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Renewable energy
2.   Solar heating
3.   Transport away from vehicles using fossil fuels and toward more electric vehicles.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   Walk to places not drive
2.   Recycle
3.   Reduce, Reuse, Repair.

My Investigation

Where does our food come from?

• Choose your favourite food.

1. Upload a picture of it. 
2. Draw a picture of it on A4.    

On your blog answer the following questions.

• Where does the food come from (e.g. is it from another province or country, was it purchased or made locally)? 

Pizza is from Italy

Butter Chicken is from India

• How many kilometers away did the food travel to get to you?

Pizza - 18,419,71 km

Butter Chicken- 12,010,12 km

• What are the main ingredients? 

Pizza- 

Cheese

Tomato Sauce

Dough

Butter Chicken - 

Chicken 

Rice 

Naan

• How is the food packaged? 

Pizza- In a box.

Butter Chicken- In a container or on a plate.

• What resources do you need to produce this food item (e.g. land, water, oil, food, etc.)? 

Pizza- 

• Wheat for the Crust. Pizza crust is made from wheat. Farmers plant tiny wheat kernels, or seeds, in the ground using a drill. 
• Tomatoes for the Sauce. Pizza sauce is made from tomatoes. Tomato plants take 75 to 85 days to produce ripe fruit. 
• Cheese from milk.

Butter Chicken - 

Chicken, 

Butter from milk.

Yogurt from milk.

Spice.

Green chillies that farmers plant takes about  2 to 4 weeks to grow.

Coriander that farmer plant takes about 7 to 9 days to grow.

• Would this item have been processed? 

Pizza- Some box pizza is processed and is more likely to have unhealthy ingredients.

Butter chicken- Butter Chicken is processed till it is very smooth.

• Is there anything unique or significant about the food item (e.g. fair-trade, local)? 

Pizza- Some pizzas are unique like New York they are known to have thin pizza with a lot of cheese. So in some ways in different places pizza is unique.

Butter Chicken- It is unique by it's flavour and spice. Also the fact that it was a accidental discovery.

• What else do you notice about this food that affects its climate friendliness? 

Pizza- The fact that pizza needs livestock to make it mean that it is contributing to the 18 percent of green house gas.

Butter Chicken- This contributes kind of like pizza because butter chicken needs livestock it to is contributing to the 18 percent of green house gas.

• Do you think this food is climate friendly (Circle)?       YES   NO ? 

• Why?
• Because for both I am not sure.
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Drama-Week 7

On Tuesday we talked about emotions:Not all the changes of puberty are physical. Some changes are in your head! Puberty hormones can make you feel overly emotional.

Name your feeling. 

look at the list of feeling words.Is there a feeling you see that you felt yesterday or today?

Your feeling face.

Emoticon [or draw a face] to match how you feel.

Take responsible action for your feelings.

Respond to the feeling in a way that is kind to yourself and others. Write or draw your idea.

Yesterday I felt bored because there was nothing to do.

This a video from drama performed by other students.

From Trash to Gas: Biomass - Investagation

Biomass Fuel types.

Name: Agricultural crops and wood fuels.

Definition:

Agricultural crops:  are plants that are grown or intentionally managed by man for some purpose.

Wood Fuels: Wood fuel is the largest use of energy derived from a solid fuel biomass.

Research:

Agricultural crops: Agricultural crops are just like straws with bark.

Wood Fuel: Using wood as a renewable source of energy has the potential to deliver considerable social and economic benefits as well as mitigate climate change. 

Uses: 

Agricultural crops: provides most of the world's food and fabrics.

Image:

Name: Animal waste.

Definition:

Animal waste is mostly known as animal manure. But also animal waste can be considered as hay, straw and wood shavings.

Research:

Animal waste has an affect on the earth because it is a huge source of pollution.

Uses: 

Cow manure is the resource to generate renewable energy. The manure is collected and heated, creating the natural byproduct of methane gas. 

Image:

Name: Bio gas

Definition: 
Gaseous fuel, especially methane, produced by the fermentation of organic matter.

Research:

Bio gas is the mixture of gases without oxygen.

Uses:
Bio gases a renewable energy source.

Image:

Name: Bio fuels

Definition:

 A fuel derived immediately from living matter.

Research:

Bio fuels can also include solid fuels like wood pellets and bio gas or syn gas. There are two main types of bio fuels. Ethanol and bio diesel. 

Uses:

It can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form but it is usually used as a diesel.

Image:

                        

From Trash to Gas: Biomass

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Renewable Energy film

Biomass

Aim: To compare the amount of gas that is produced from different types of biomass.

Material:

1.   3 plastic bottles
2.   3 balloons
3.   Fresh Horse Manure
4.   Mashed Banana
5.   Vegetables Peeling
6.   Funnel
7.   Permanent Marker
8.   Disposable gloves
9.   Water
10.   Cup

Steps:

1.   Label all three bottles. 1. Horse Manure, 2. Horse Manure and vege scraps, 3. Horse  Manure and mashed banana
2.   Place all the ingredients into the bottles respectively. 
3.  Fill the bottles with water
4.  Place a balloon on top.

   

Investigation.

Research the following Biomass fuels. You will need to:

Write a definition of the fuel.

Write 8 sentences about the fuel. 

• How is it made? 
• When biomass is burned, this stored energy is released as heat. ... Many different kinds of biomass, such as wood chips, corn, and some types of garbage, are used to produce electricity. Some types of biomass can be converted into liquid fuels called biofuels that can power cars, trucks, and tractors.

• Where is it made? 
• Sweden, Austria and United States.
• What is it made with? 
• Biomass is organic, meaning it is made of material that comes from plants and animals. The most common biomass materials used for energy are plants, wood and waste.  Biomass energy can also be a non-renewable energy source.
• What countries use it? 
• Kenya, India, China, Brazil, Finland, Ireland, Sweden and USA.
• What uses will it have in the future?  
•  You can use it for transport.

Place 1 image of the fuel.

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1.  Cups x4
2.  Water
3.  Tin foil
4.  2 sheets of water paper
5.  1 sheet of black paper
6. Thermometer
7. 1 large cup
8. 2 heat lamp

Steps

1.   Get all the materials needed.
2.  Fill the small cups up with water.
3.  Put the cups on the respected place.
4.  Put the large cup on one of the small cups that is on white paper.
5.  Get the heat lamps and shine it on the cups. 
6. Wait till a time then measure the heat of the water.

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	15	13	12	13
40 minutes	17	16	24	22
-15 minutes	18	17	23	22
-30 minutes	17	18	22	22

Findings:

That findings that I have is that some cups temperature went up after the heat lamps were taken away. I think that it did that is because the room was closed in and we were talking and it heated the temperature. 

Conclusion:

My conclusion is that some water heat was different than others. Because of the material that some were on. Also the room that our cups were in was closed off. Also we were in the room so the heat of our breath had an affect on the temperatures. So I do not know if this is a precise recording. 

Drama

Drama - Week 6

In drama this week we did a lot of this. Firstly we learnt a little bit about puberty, and the changes we have to go through. We learnt about the scientific names of each part of the body and the menstruation cycle.

We practice our voice and doing different tough twisters. We also looked at slam poetry and chorus work. Then we got our poems and practice performing them. Later we performed them in front of the class. 

Weather

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

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

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS       

1. 4 straws

2. 4 Styrofoam cups

3. A pin

4. A pencil

5. Tape

STEPS

1. Tape 2 straws together then do that again.

2. The pin the straws into the pin.

3. Next put the pin into the rubber of the pencil.

4. After put to hole on each side of the Styrofoam cups.

5. Then put the straws into the holes of the cups.

6. The blow the cups and see it spin.

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 3

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper Chloe
• Counter Chloe
• Recorder Makaea
• Anemometer Manager Shontae
• Wind generator Shontae

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10	6
2.	10	8
3.	10	5
4.	10	3

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

CONCLUSION:

My conclusion is that our anemometer was not as good as real anemometers. Also that the wind today was very calm and not ruff. Our anemometer did not work very well.