First week of Science!

Science Badges:

  

'Conservation'  

• Climate Science
• Global Warming
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Ecology
• Our Planet
• Water
• Plants

1. 15 Points are needed to get a badge
2. A high standard of work.

• All experiments are written up ( Aim, Materials, Steps, Conclusion)
• Two photos of your experiment
• 6 sentences at least for a conclusion

Science will be twice per week.

• Lesson 1: This will be an Experiment that involves blogging. You will be expected to open a new post, copy Mr. Palmer's blog and paste it on your new post.
• Lesson 2: This will be an Investigation that relates to the topic of Lesson 1. It will be own choice and displayed in a way that you prefer. For example - PowerPoint, Doc, etc

BLOGGING.

All the blogs and science lessons will be displayed on Mr. Palmer's blog: 

http://mrpalmersscience.blogspot.com/

Bookmark it!

Expectations:

• 1 blog must be completed per Hurumanu lesson.
• A completed blog must have the four headings ( Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusion), correct writing and punctuation under each heading and be published. No post, no points.
• 2 images of the experiment/investigation on the blog.

Using the Scientific method of investigation:

Aim: What the experiment/investigation is about.

Method: Instructions on how the experiment/investigation is carried out. This includes the equipment.

Findings: What have we learned or found out from our experiment/investigation. This is called Data, Information or Facts. It is displayed in a chart, table or picture.

Conclusion:  

2 Hurumanu Science Goals: 

1. I will try harder to finish the task I'm given on time. I will also try to be more focused on my task.

2. I will post more blog post and make it better, so I can get more points to get my badge. 

WATCH THIS VIDEO AND COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION.

THE BIG PICTURE

• What animals keep our jackets warm? Polar bears, sheep, and foxes.
• What animal makes our boots waterproof? Ducks.
• Where does the water in our rivers come from? Most of the water flowing in rivers comes from rainfall runoff from the surrounding landscape. Although the water in a river doesn't all come from surface runoff. Rain falling on land also seeps into the Earth to form groundwater.  
• Why do we need healthy rivers? We need healthy rivers because they provide water for humanity. 
• What are some of the good things about mosquitoes? Mosquitoes are very important to aquatic life. Many other insects and small fish feed on them. If they don't get food to eat, their population will decrease. 
• Why are bees dying? CCD (Colony collapse disorder) is the reason why bees are dying. It is when the worker bees leave their colony and disappear. They leave behind a queen, plenty of food and a few nurse bees to care for the immature bees.  
• What do bugs do to our leaves? The bugs/insects, poke tiny holes on the leaves and suck the juices out of them. 
• How much dung would we be in if there were no dung decomposers? If there were no dung decomposers, the ground will be covered with dung up to 7 feet.
• Who runs this planet? It's not only nature who runs this planet but it is the millions of species.

Fossil Fuels

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.




 

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to a black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.   Oils
3.   Gas

Activity: 

In groups of 3, you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1. Coal is mined by using huge machines used by coal miners. They use these huge machines to remove coal from the ground, there are also two methods of mining coal. Surface and underground mining.
2. Oil is mined by using instruments such as gravimeters and magnetometers, extracting crude oil normally starts with drilling wells into an underground reservoir.
3. Natural gas is mined just like how oil is mined.

Where are they mined?

1. US
2. Russia
3. China
4. India
5. Austraillia 

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Toothpicks
2.  Chocolate chip cookie
3.  Plate/bowl

Steps:

1.  Grab your plate and put the cookie on top. 
2.  Get your toothpicks.
3.  Start taking off the chocolate on the cookie.
4.  Try not to destroy the cookie.
5.  You should have a non-chocolate cookie!

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Picture 1: Before Mining

Picture 2: After Mining

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining? The cookie was a bit different that before, but it still had a bit of chocolate in the middle and the inside of the cookie. There were more cracks and holes than before. 

Conclusion: I have learned that fossil fuels are very dangerous such as mining. I also learned how coal, oil, and natural gas is mined. 

Poetry!

For the past 7 weeks, we have been working on poetry with Mr. Scott. On this subject, we had to find different types of poetry like; Limerick poem, Haiku poem, Free verse poem, etc. After we found some poems we focused on 3 poems that we can make a poem out of. The choices were; Limerick, Haiku and Free verse poems. Each poem has its own rule, except free verse poems. Anyways this is what each poem mean and what rule they have.

Limerick Poem: A limerick poem is sort of a silly poem. They are often funny or nonsensical. They also often start with the line "There was once a..." or "There was a..." 

Haiku Poem: Haiku is a traditional form of Japanese poetry. Haiku poems consist of 3 lines. The first and the last lines of Haiku have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. The lines rarely rhyme. 

Free Verse Poem: A free verse poem has no rules, it can be whatever you want it to be.

After that, we had to make our own poem we had to use some inspirations to make our poems. Although we only had to make 2, I chose to make a free verse poem because I was able to do anything, but I also found it cool because there were no rules. I also chose to do Haiku because I found it interesting that you had to have 5 syllables at the first and last line, and 7 at the middle line.

So here are the two poems I did and the inspiration I took:

Inspiration:

Link to inspiration

My poem: Free Verse

Inspiration:

My Poem: Haiku

Ways to be Physically Active!

This week on Drama, we learned how to be physically active. If you want to be physically active you can go to the gym, play sports, run or walk, dance and you can also do some martial arts. On Drama, we also had to describe two people who were our role models. I chose two people who were physically active. 

1. Kobe Bryant: Kobe is my role model because he is good at playing basketball. But when he doesn't have a game, he works out 6 hours a day, six times a week, for six months. On his workout session, he works on track work, basketball skills, and weightlifting. On this workout he spends two hours on every workout, meaning he spends two hours on track work (running). Two hours on basketball skills, and two hours on weightlifting. 

2. Jackie Chan: Jackie Chan does; martial arts, judo, karate, and taekwondo. He is also; an actor, a singer, a film director, and a stuntman. He keeps physically healthy by eating healthy food such as fruits and vegetables.

After that, we had to choose one person who will be interviewed. We chose Lars to be interviewed as Kevin Durant. Axle and I were the people who will be questioning him. We had five questions related to how he is physically active. The question we asked was; what do you do for a living? How are you physically fit? What do you do to keep healthy? For how long do you train? What does it feel to be healthy? Our Drama teacher recorded all of us interviewing and asking questions. 

This is the link for the video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nRnkyZ0LTuhmvNKDiql2o2NoNGEvk9vu/view?usp=sharing

Climate Change

Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.

Climate Change video; The Facts video

As you watch the video answer these questions:

What is our greatest threat in thousands of years? Climate change

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?

1.   Sea level rising 
2.   Temperature rising
3.   Natural disasters
4.   Heatwaves

1. Car, Trucks, and boat are affecting the world by releasing smoke and carbon dioxide. We, people, can help that by only using a bike, scooter or electric car so that there will be nor gas and carbon dioxide will be released.
2.   The factory is also one of the problems in the world because it delivers oil to our ocean.
3.  Rubbish is bad for our planet because it tricks animal to eat it. We can help that by not throwing rubbish in the ground or in the ocean so that no animal can get harm. 
4.  Greenhouse gases trap heat radiating from Earth to space. This heat, in the form of infrared radiation, gets absorbed and emitted by these gases in the planet's atmosphere warming the lower atmosphere and the surface. 

Freeze Frames (Drama Hurumanu)

After we finished our hurumanu on P.E, we moved into drama. Unforntually I was sick, so I didn't get to experience this hurumanu. Although we still had drama on Friday, and that is today so I get to at least experience it. Although we are not doing activities, we are making a blog post about what they did last Tuesday on drama.

This is what they focused on:
Freeze Frames: Participants create an image using their bodies – with no movement. Freeze frames can be made by individuals, small groups or even the whole group.

• Taha Hingeraro
• Taha Tinana
• Taha Whanau
• Taha Wairua
• Each group created 4 freeze frames showing the 4 aspects

Anyways because I wasn't here last Tuesday for drama. Here is a picture of my friends doing a freeze frame. 

In this picture, they are stretching.

 In this picture, exercising 

 In this picture, they are resting.

 In this picture, they are fighting.

All these pictures focus on, Psychical Health (Taha Hingengaro)

Making our own game: Tangaroa

This term, we have been learning about Tane Mahuta and the other gods that are associated with it. We had to be in groups and research and write facts about Tane Mahuta and the other gods. After we have researched we had to focus on one god, our group chose Tangaroa (God of the sea). After we chose a god to focus we had to find an environmental issue that links to Tangaroa. We then focused on over-exploitation, after we finished our research. We had to pick either make a game about over-exploitation or make an app about it. I chose to make a game because it found more interesting and maybe a bit more fun to do. There are several apps to make our game in; there was Gamefroot, Code.org and Scratch. I chose to make my game in Gamefroot because I found it easier to use than the other apps.

Reflection:

Before my group and I start to make the game, we made a script as our plan. The plan was to figure out how much fish you will bring back to your village to feed, but still, have enough for the next day. It was supposed to be harder every single level...

Back to when I was making my game I started by making the terrain of it, which took a lot of time since it was my first time and the map was actually pretty big. After I made the terrain I made obstacles around the island. I placed random Maui hooks around the game and coded them so they could be collected. It was pretty simple since I learned how to code them in a tutorial. The task was pretty much to find all the Maui hooks and collect them. Then my problem occurred. I didn't know if it was possible to code it where you can go fishing in the game. Although if it was possible, it might be too hard to code and might take a lot of time.

So I just made it that you had to collect all of the Maui hooks that are on the island. I didn't quite finish the game but I was almost done. Anyways I hope you enjoy the game!

Things that I could have done better:

• Time Management
• Focus
• No messing around
• Self Management

Sources:

The game: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xlKAG4h4zLmFmC-mMXZcS0SZwTP7HEZr/view?usp=sharing 

Gamefroot: https://make.gamefroot.com/

Research: 

• http://www.mfe.govt.nz/marine/we-all-have-role-play/what-you-can-do
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-12/what-you-can-do-to-reduce-plastic-pollution/9642352
• https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-04-11/thin-dead-whale-found-washed-up-on-beach-in-spain/9640408