SETTING SAIL!

For this activity, make a list of ten food items that you could take with you on your journey out to sea. Remember to think carefully about what you would take as you won’t have access to a refrigerator or freezer while at sea. Explain why you selected each food item.

Food Number 1 - 

The first item of food I would choose would be Canned Tuna as it doesn’t need to be kept in a refrigerator and it gives you high-quality protein and vitamin D.

Food Number 2 - 

The second food item I would take is canned beans as they would last the whole trip and will give you protein and iron. And they would make a great Breakfast! 

Food Number 3 -

The third food item would be Canned Vegetables because they have all the health benefits of fresh vegetables. 

Food Number 4 -

The next food item I would choose to take is beef jerky! This would be a great snack (or a meal ) As I LOVE beef jerky! One of the benefits of beef jerky is that it gives around seven grams of protein per piece. 

Food Number 5 -

The next food item is cereal (Weetbix, sultana bran, Special K, etc) Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, cereal contains energy, carbohydrate, protein, and fiber which will help maintain a healthy diet. 

Food Number 6 - 

Milk powder is the next thing I would take on the journey. Milk powder is milk dried into a powder and turns into milk when mixed with water. Milk powder can last up to 2 - 10 years! Three cups of milk a day will meet daily nutritional needs. 

Food Number 7 - 

My next food item would be Potatoes as they can last up to 4-5 weeks (so the internet says.) Potatoes can also be eaten raw or cooked and can make a delicious lunch when is eaten with baked beans!

Food Number 8 -

Dried Pasta is my next food item as it can last up to 1-2 years and would make a great healthy nutritional dinner!

Food Number 9 - 

My next food item would be tomato-based pasta sauce to go with the dried pasta and can be stored outside a fridge and can last for around a year without being opened and around 3 weeks if it has been opened but is still sealed tightly. 

Food Number 10 -

The last food item I would pick would be rice. Rice can last outside a fridge for 4-5 years! Rice can be eaten with pretty much anything and can be eaten for any meal of the day!

LED LIGHTING!

For the past week, we have been working on yet another fun project. The Item that we made is an LED light stand when it is plugged in will light up the acrylic strip. We started off by glueing five strips of wood together, then threading the LED ribbon through the gap in the wood. We then finished our project off by designing and laser cutting our stips of acrylic. This was a very cool project and the end product turned out AMAZING, this was a lot of fun to do.

Renewable Energy

Aim: To make a presentation that investigates different renewable energy.

Section 1: Title Page

Section 2: Definitions

Hydro Energy

Hydro Energy is created when water rushes through the dam and pushes a turbine which creates electricity. 

Solar Energy

Solar energy is created from light and heat from the sun which is harnessed by a solar panel or other objects. 

Wind Energy 

Wind energy is the use of wind to provide mechanical power through turbines to turn electric generators which creates energy.

Wave Energy

Wave energy is created when people harness the current of the waves to create energy. 

Section 3; Investigate each of the 4 Energy types.

(Hydro, Solar, Wind, Wave ) 

Hydro- 

Wind- 

Solar-

Wave-

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

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

Electric Cars

Electric Heating 

Using renewable energy for trains

Electric public transport 

Electronic machines (Robots, production machines) 

Electronic Machines (diggers, etc) 

Renewable energy Factories 

Renewable energy household items (ovens, fridges, etc) 

Renewable energy light bulbs 

Renewable energy outlets (Powers phones, computers, etc)

My Carbon Foot Print Pledge

Today in Science we got given a sheet which we colored in, in blue what we are currently doing. Then in pink, we color in what we want to start doing. Five things that I want to start doing are. 1. to check labels of food to try and buy more local foods. 2. To shop as little as possible and am considerate of the environment. 3. To reduce the amount of meat I consume. 4. Use energy-efficient light bulbs and turn everything off every chance I get. 5. To conserve water every chance I get. Those were the five things that I want to start doing to shrink my carbon footprint.

LASER CUTTING!

For the past few weeks in term 4, we have been doing digital tech. In digital tech, we have been exploring cool sites like tinker cad and Thingiverse, were we design things like keyring name tags and all sorts of other things. We have also learned about the equipment that we use the create our desired object aka the laser cutter. During these four weeks of Digitech, I have designed and produced a nametag, and 2 keyrings. The first thing I designed and created was the Nametag which I designed on Tinkercad after spending an hour of sandpit time on Tinkercad It didn't take me long to design a name tag that I was happy with. The second thing I created was a keyring with my name on it. When I created this used a template that our teacher had sent us. To create the keyring we used an app called LaserWorks V8 that was where we added our names on the blank template and then cut our project out using the laser cutter. For my third and final project I yet again used another template but this time I used the laser cutter app and put an image onto the keyring. These were all the projects I had created. 

  

Sea Levels

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

How is sea-level rise going to affect us in NZ

What places will be affected?

Pacific Islands, Coastal areas, 

What else do we need to think about?

What other places around NZ will be affected?

What does this do to our drinking water?

The people who live on the coast's water supply in the ground will become salty water. 

What are the main concerns?

1.    People who live on the coast will have no homes. 
2. 
   

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1. Use more public transport.  (Create Less Carbon Dioxide) 
2. Walk to school (scooter, Bike) 
3.  Use fuel efficent veachels  (hybrid cars or Electric cars)

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no silver bullet. 

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

1.  Use renewable energy   
2.   Solar heating
3.  Stop using cars that depend on fossil fuels. 

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.  Use more public transport 
2.  Walking or biking instead of creating carbon dioxide 
3.  Recycle or reuse your things instead of putting them in the compost. 

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions, they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action, you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action, you would like to do in the future

Showing Emotion!

For this activity, we have to watch videos of actors acting out emotions in a movie clip. Then we have to list three emotions that we saw and how they acted out the emotion. For the movie clip, I decided to choose Rowan Atkinson in "Mr. Bean."

Link To The Mr. Bean Clip. 

He was feeling shocked and surprised when he sneezed and his sandwich and drink went flying.  
He showed this by shaking, Looking around in confusion and his body posture and facial expression. 

He was feeling proud of himself when he successfully finished making his lunch. 
He showed this by Sitting up straight and using his body language and happy emotions on his face. 

He felt grateful and happy when the guy offered him a sandwich. 
He showed this by smiling at him then followed by the plug for the hot water bottle popped out of his ear. He also finished with a thank you while smiling gratefully.  

ALL ABOUT CIP

Every Wednesday for the past 3 terms we have been doing C.I.P which stands for Community Impact Projects. In cool to be kind we go around and help others, talk to the elderly, and share our thoughts and ideas on our blogs. We want to make an impact on our community and make Hornby a better place to live. In our other C.I.P group, Tane Mahuta. We go and plant more native trees to keep nature in the world and we talk about what we are doing to destroy this plant. We want the native birds to come back to New Zealand by starting to plant those trees that the birds most likely go to. Making our home a better place to be without all the gases and oils leaking into our atmosphere. Help us make our world a better place to be by recycling, re-planting, and reducing the need for destroying our home. And keeping our community Clean. 

CIP- Its Cool to be kind.

For our, Cool To Be Kind C.I.P group we have been talking to the elderly, helping each other and learning the meaning of kindness by showing our values to help Hornby become an open and friendly community. I feel like we could be doing much more to help our community by doing more hands-on stuff like go to different primary schools and talk about what kindness means and how they could show kindness with just a simple smile. Maybe we could write letters and placing them all over Hornby so everyone can read them, or place some fun in the walls of our home with drawing and coloring competitions. Either way, I think that we could do a lot but we could do more with the help of the community. Be kind to your family, Help do the laundry or clean the house. Be kind to your neighbors, talk to them and compliment them once in a while. But most of all be kind to yourself, treat yourself sometimes and think good thoughts about how you look and what you do. And just spreading Kindness around Hornby. 

SOLAR POWERED OVENS!

Hurumanu - Renewable Energy

Aim: To make a solar-powered oven.

Materials: 

1. Tinfoil   
2.   Pizza Box 
3.   Black rubbish bag   
4.   Scissors 
5. GladWrap   
6.  Stick 
7. pen 
8. Food 
9. ruler
10. Newspaper

Steps:

1.   Fold the pizza box into o box 
2.  Cut out a box from the top of the pizza box 5cm from the edges besides the fold. 
3.   Put the back rubbish bag in the bottom of the inside and up the sides. 
4.   Sellotape the tinfoil into the inside of the square you cut out. 
5.   Cover the whole that you made with GladWrap 
6.   Put your food inside then line your box up with the sun and watch your meal cook.

Findings:

Time-	Temperature-
0
15
30
45

Conclusion

Puppet Show!

Today in drama we continued making our paper bag puppets that we had started last week. We then got into groups to start scripting our very own paper bag puppet show. My group was Heaven, Jasmine, me, and kahciar. For our puppets we went with a Starwars theme, Heaven made R2D2, Jasmine made Chewbacca, I made Yoda, and kahciar made a random cat. For our puppet show, we decided to do a music video. We had to make the video involve healthy eating in someway so we chose the song Apples And Bananas and to be honest I thought that this was the perfect song. Once we had everything planned out we had a practice then recorded the puppet show. Here is our final product.

WIND!

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1.  Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

Materials 

1. 4x Plastic Dishes 

2. 2x Skewers 

3. Tape
4. Pencil

5. Pin 

Steps

1. Tape the Plastic dishes to The end of the skewers.

2. Tape the skewers together to make a cross.

3. Stick the pin through the tape in the middle and put it into the pencil. 

4. Go out to different spots in your area.

5. Count how many full spins it makes in each spot.

6. Use the Beaufort wind scale to learn what the speed of the wind is. 

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind Manager

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper 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. Repeat the above step four (4) times and record the number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.

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

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Middle of Field	0
2.	Tennis Court Gate	0
3.	Old J Block	2
4.	Hill on The Quad	1

CONCLUSION:

I thought that the middle of the field would have the most spins but when we tested it I was shocked to know that it didn't do any spins at all. We ended up testing it again and holding it higher up so it would be easier for the wind to push it around but we got the same results as the first time. The old J block ended up with the most spins we held it up and the results we got were 2 spins within 15seconds. I think that this got the most wind because there was nothing blocking the wind in the direction that it was coming from. Also because right before we did the test I fixed one of the dishes that was facing the wrong way.

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 the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The 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 lose 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

The water cycle experiment results

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT WATER ON EARTH.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT WATER ON EARTH.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

THE WATER CYCLE SONG

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Purpose

The purpose is to duplicate the process of the water cycle under controlled conditions 

Materials

• A4 plastic ziplock bags x2
• 50ml of water 
• Blue food colouring 
• Permanent marker 
• 50ml of Soda water
• 1 t Baking soda 
• Litmus paper 
• Double sided tape. 

Procedures

1. Get your materials.
2. Draw a picture of the water cycle on the plastic bag.
3. Label the parts of the water cycle.
4. Add 50ml of water into the plastic bag.
5. Add a few drops of blue food colouring into the water.
6. Zip up the bag tightly.
7. Tape the bag to a window.
8. Get your other bag.
9. Repeat the drawing steps on your second bag.
10. Add 50ml of soda water.
11. Add one teaspoon of baking soda.
12. Zip up the bag but leaving a small gap.
13. Put a strip of litmus paper in, leaving it half in the bag and half out.
14. Make sure the zip lock is closed and securing the paper.
15. Tape the bag to the window next to the other bag.
16. Wait for a few days (maybe weeks)
17. Watch as the condensation builds up.

.

Findings:

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	1	2
Acidity	0	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

1 = small 

2 = large

 Comments: 

• The water cycle did cycle, there was a small amount of water and no acidity.
• The acid water cycle did cycle and there was a large amount of water and a small amount of acidity. 

Conclusion 

If you follow these steps correctly  you will be able to do the experiment successfully and replicate the water cycle process in controlled conditions