What Makes a Good Leader?

Last week on our Wananga time, us year 9's have a leadership program which always happens during Wednesdays. On this leadership program, we learn about what a leader is and what makes a good leader. We were tasked to write what qualities we think a good leader has, and after we finished writing the qualities we then had to make a video of ourselves talking about the qualities. As well as who we think a good leader was. I personally chose 'Winston Churchill' because he showed courage and was an inspiration to others. 

Anyways, here are the qualities that I wrote for what qualities a good leader has. The video that I made wasn't really the best, because the camera was below me and my list was above. So I wasn't really looking at the camera and the volume was really low, however, I still finished the video so here it is!

My friend also made a video with all of the other videos collected into one, so you can see what my friends put into their video. Here is the link to the video.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c3wRTX5G126RnpPMMBmsttqE6UGbwlYN/view?ts=5f9888db

 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Studies | Coraline |

This week on Hurumanu 2, for our film studies we learned about SEXXXY paragraphs. The letters from SEXXXY are abbreviations, each letter had a meaning to it. Here are their meanings "Statement, Evidence, Explanation, Explanation, Explanation, Link". Anyway, after we learned about this paragraph technique we had to use it on four different scenes from the movie. Our teacher first demonstrated how to do it, so that we have a bit of knowledge on how we can start our paragraphs. Moving on I chose 4 different scenes and wrote a paragraph for each of them.  

What am I learning?: I am learning about SEXXXY paragraphs.

How does this show my learning?: My four paragraphs for each scene shows, how I did my SEXXXY paragraphs and I also put the letter beside to show how I used that technique.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning?: I am not wondering anything at the moment.

CMM | Metal Work | Drill Gauge |

For the past few weeks on CMM, which is our metalwork. We are making a drill gauge, we have made 2 different types of drill gauge so far. One of them being made from acrylic as a mock-up, which we designed using tinkercad. We made an acrylic drill gauge to guide us with the right measurements for the aluminium one.  Anyways, we are finished making the one made out of aluminium. However, I did make some mistakes during the making of my drill gauge. 

First of while drilling the different-sized holes, I have made some mistakes. Some of the holes are slightly bigger than what it is supposed to be, and some are smaller. I also cut the aluminium unevenly, although, I think I slightly fixed it. Anyways, here is my drill gauge. 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Study | Coraline |

This week on hurumanu 2, for our film studies we have set another task that is about the theme of the movie. We had to choose from 2 tasks and those were, create a coggle that shows as many examples from our visual text of one of the themes listed. The second one is Write a theme guide booklet for a student to use whilst viewing. After we have chosen the task that we want to do, we had to choose a theme to write about. The themes that we were able to choose from were; Be careful about what you wish for, looks can be deceiving, be grateful with what you have, bravery is doing things even when you are afraid, and last of all don't judge a book by it's cover. I chose to do the bravery one and showed my learning using coggle.

What am I learning? Analyse the ideas and themes of a film.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by discussing the way a theme or idea is portrayed in the text.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering if I have missed anyone who also portrayed bravery through the film.

 

Hurumanu 2 | Film Study | Coraline |

Last term on hurumanu 2, we watched the movie, Coraline. We watched the movie for 2 periods and finished it. We were given 2 tasks that we can choose from, we either make a resume or a character's challenge chart. I chose to make a challenge chart and used google drawings to present my work. 

What am I learning? I am learning what challenges the characters faced throughout the movie, as well as what kind of personalities they have and feeling they had in the movie.

How does this work show my learning? This shows my learning by explaining how a character was portrayed in the movie.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? I am wondering If I have missed any important pats of the movie. 

| Hurumanu 1 | Sustainability and Climate Change |

This week on hurumanu 1, we are learning about sustainability as well as climate change. You presumably already know what climate change is since it is happening right now. Climate change is caused by the human activity we use different fossil fuels to help us power different things. This fossil fuels, however, is not good for our planet. They produce Co2 which is carbon dioxide, these things are produced by burning coal, oil and natural gases. We were tasked to watch videos about things that are happening due to climate change, and then make a small summary about it.

Anyway, the first video I watched tells us about how climate change is affecting our oceans, and mostly our corals. Our coral's reefs are dying due to massive amounts of carbon emissions absorbed by the ocean, the ocean absorbs most of the carbon emissions and heat created by climate change. However, we aren't only losing our coral reefs, yet we are also losing species before we even discover them.

Video: Journey into the deep ocean

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This week on Huruamnu 1 as part of our sustainability subject, we have learned about the three aspects of sustainability. There is environmental sustainability, social sustainability, and last of all economic sustainability. These three aspects are an important role in sustainability, we were also tasked into putting the definitions of these words; Bearable, equitable, and viable. Anyway, here is my learning and I hope you have learned the three aspects of sustainability. 

Sustainability: 

The three aspects of sustainability

Environmental Sustainability: Environmental sustainability is mostly about how we can maintain the living and natural resources that reside on our planet. 

Social Sustainability: Social sustainability--about creating fairness between social groups and generations. Meaning that our generation now and in the future will have access to these resources. 

Economic Sustainability: Economic sustainability means taking; using our resources at a rate that guarantees the future generations will also have access to the same resources.

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Sustainable Development: Economic development is a conducted progress that is without the excessive diminution of natural resources. 

Definition and meaning:

Bearable: Resources are shared and provided equally between social groups.

Viable: The environment must be used in a way that provides for ongoing economic needs.

Equitable: Society's use of the environment must not be destructive. 

The three pillars of sustainability

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Today on Hurumanu 1 we leaned different terms that relate to our subject, (Climate Change).  We looked at different terms and had to connect it to its definition, we then colour coded the words into red, orange, and green. Red meaning that it's getting worse, the orange is between worse and better, and green is getting better. The task that was given was pretty easy to do since we were already taught of some of the terms. 

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Today, we have researched and made a graph about a topic that we have chosen to make a graph about. My partner and I have chosen to make a graph about "which country over-fished the most", by looking at the graph above it can be seen that China over-fish the most. There are a total of 7 countries in total; China, Japan, US, South Korea, Indonesia, Peru, and the Philippines. Anyway, I hope that you have learned something about countries that over-fish. We also made a slide show, talking about our topic in more detail. 

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For the past few weeks, on our hurumanu 1. We have been working on a sustainable project of our choice. Axle and I chose to make a game board that relates to sustainability. We also took some aspects from the board game 'quelf' and mixed it in our game. In the game quelf, there are a total of five different types of cards in the game there is; showbiz, roolz, quizzle, stuntz, and scatterbrainz. These cards have different actions that we changed to relate to sustainability. 

We chose to make our game with a mix of the quelf's rules, cards, and board. Because we believe that the different cards of the game we could just change and make it relate to sustainability. Our game relates to sustainability since we changed the cards to relate to a sustainability topic. 

Hurumanu 2 | Bones | Working Hand |

During last week and this week we for the other science part of Hurumanu 2, we have been learning about the bones in our bodies and what each bone do. We have also learned how our hands work, we have made a working hand out of a paper hand, yarn strings, and some straw. 

Anyway, how do our hands work? Our hands move by the muscles in our forearm, however, only thin tendons which are holding the muscles are found directly in our hand. The tendons represent the yarn strings that we have made on our working hand, and the straws represent the bones. 

How we made a working hand: 

You will need:

• A paper hand
• Straws
• Yarn Strings
• Tape

Methods:

1. Cut out the paper hand.
2. Cut some pieces of straws mostly the same length.
3. Tape the straws into where the fingers are. 
4. Put the yarn strings inside of the straws, then tape the yarn strings at the end.