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Thursday, October 24, 2019

Art Hurumanu - Narrative Writing Blogpost

For Art Hurumanu, we have been working on Stop Motion movies along with narrative writing, Our narrative writing had to be based on Manaakitanga (Kindness).  Currently our group have been creating figures for our Stop Motion Movies using Clay, after we've created our figures we have to film our movie then we edit and add our voices in the background. Below is our narrative Writing. Hope you enjoy it! 

NARRATIVE WRITING! 

After a long boring day at School Ana was walking home she was just around the corner from the crazy woman's house, She turned her mobile phone on - She checked the answering machine for new messages, she found a least expected message, it was from her mother’s divorce lawyer. Even though she was aware of what was happening between her parents, she was still surprised. Things were bad between her parents, and her mum had already threatened to divorce with her father one that year. They started going out on dates again afterwards, though, and Ana thought they were fine after that. Before things turned sour Ana though her family was normal. Even Suzie her best friend once commented that her family was perfect, It turns out not so much. 

Unfortunately her parents officially divorced that September, Soon Ana and her mother moved to a completely different place. For Ana it was a nightmare.. One day she was living among the piles of boxes at their house, and the next she was sleeping on a mattress on the ground in a foreign house, going to a completely different bus stop in a different neighbourhood. Ana’s 17th Birthday was only a matter of months after the divorce, and it was a nightmare. Both of her parents were there, along with most of her mum’s family. Everyone tried to pretend that everything was normal, but it wasn’t. Some of Ana’s relatives didn’t even want to attend her birthday. 

A year later after the divorce,
it was very stressful for Ana, although she settled into a routine after six months,
she still wouldn’t stand everything that has happened in the past. Ana’s was juggling
both of her own problems and her family’s problems, along with a whole advance of
school overdue work. She almost broke under the pressure. The fact that she didn’t
talk to anyone about the divorce at first, and then moving to a completely
different place and not being able to see her friends. On the other hand, Ana's
mother was facing
some financial problems, such as no income, trying to pay the same bills, and no
way to afford groceries. 

Then One day Ana was  strolling the boring street around from her house.
Coming home she found a box with heaps of food inside, she was filled with tears of
joy and she remembered one of the days that her father had got her a box of toys
when she was young but now it was a box of food. This went on for months;
coming home
finding a grey box of food in front of their door. When her mother finally got a job
their
angel stopped providing food. Ana and her mother never did find out who it was
who left the box of food for them, but that kind-hearted person truly saved their
lives. 



Tuesday, October 22, 2019

Wildlife of Aotearoa : Manaia Seahorse

Here is a poster of my research based on Manaia Seahorse.

Friday, October 18, 2019

Science Hurumanu: Measuring Weather

Wind power|Conservation|Sustainability
              
         Extreme weather|Measuring weather

Definitions:

  1. Anemometer: Is an instrument which measures the wind.
  2.  Beaufort Wind Scale:  It is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observe conditions at sea or on land. 
Materials:
  1.  Sellotape
  2.  Pencil
  3.   2 Pencils
  4.   4 cups
  5.  Pin
Steps:
  1. Sellotape the sticks to the cups
  2. Sellotape the sticks together to make a cross
  3. Pin the cross to the rubber on the pencil   
Group Investigation:
 Group Sizes: 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 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. 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.Field20
2.Old J Block site15
3.Grass hill in squad10
4.Tennis court gate3
       

WHICH IS THE WINDiEST AREA AND WHY?

 WHICH IS THE CALMEST AREA AND WHY?

WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE ON LAND TO BUILD A WINDMILL?

Conclusion:

On the old J Block site, the Anemometer spun 60 spins per minute. It had a wind speed of 13-20 kph. This speed is 3 on the Beaufort Scale.

On the Grass Hill in the squad, the Anemometer spun 40 spins per minute. It had a wind speed of 2-5 kph. This speed is 1 on the Beaufort Scale. (Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.)

On the Tennis Court gate, the Anemometer spun 12 spins per minute. It had a wind speed of 2-5 kph. This speed is 1 on the Beaufort Scale.

According to the data, the most spins on the Anemometer is on the field, with 80 spins per minute and it had a wind speed of 13-20 kph. The least spins on the Anemometer was by the Tennis Court gate, it spun only 12 spins per minute. It had a wind speed of 2-5 kph. 

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.




Spins per minute
Wind speed ( kph)
Beaufort Scale
Field
8013-20 kph3
Old J Block site
6013-20 kph3
Grass hill
402-5 kph1
Tennis Court Gate
122-5 kph1





Science Hurumanu - Solar powered oven

Aim: To make a solar powered oven.

Materials: 

  1.   Pin
  2.   Four Cups
  3.   Two Sticks
  4.   Tape
  5.   Pencil
  6.   Scissors
  7.   Sticky note
Steps:
  1.   Sellotape the sticks to the cups
  2.   Sellotape the sticks together to make a cross
  3.   Pin the cross to the rubber in the pencil
  4.    
  5.   
  6.   
Findings:

Place name on school grounds                                    Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.Field                20
2.Old J Block site                 15
3.Grass hill in quad10
4.Tennis Court gate                  3 
Anemometer

  • USING A4 PAPER DRAW YOUR RESULTS ON A GRAPH.
  • TAKE A PICTURE OF THE GRAPH AND UPLOAD IT TO YOUR BLOG
WHICH IS THE WINDiEST AREA AND WHY?
WHICH IS THE CALMEST AREA AND WHY?
WHERE IS THE BEST PLACE ON LAND TO BUILD A WINDMILL?



Time
Temperature
0

15

30

45


Conclusion: 

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Science -Solar energy

Hurumanu - Solar Energy


Aim: To find out which colour attracts the sun's heat.

Hypothesis: I think that it the colour Silver or black with attract more sunlight than the colour white. 

Materials:

  1.  Tin foil Plastic Cup
  2.  Clear plastic Cup
  3.  Black plastic paper
  4.  White A4 Paper
  5.  A4 sized foil 
  6. Thermometer
  7. Heat lamp
  8. Plug for Heat lamp

 Steps

  1.   Get your materials, set them up like the photo below.
  2.  Plug in the heat lamp and place it facing in towards the cups.
  3.  After 15 minutes measure each cup with a thermometer and record findings.
  4.  After 30 minutes measure each cup with a thermometer and record findings.
  5.  After 45 minutes measure each cup with a thermometer and find recordings.

Findings: Below is a photo of how we setup our experiment and also how it should look like, so on the left side we have our heat lamp set up in the middle, we didn't put the heat lamp close up to the cups as you can see in the photo. 





Time 
Cup 1
White
Cup 2
Black
Cup 3
Tinfoil
0
161616
15
19.11920
30
252726
45
2024.522.5 

Conclusion:

Today in science we have started on a new experiment called Solar energy. I was in a group of four with Janel, Anneleise, and Rowina. We have to collect all of the materials that was needed for the experiment and had to record the temperatures of each of the cups. A tin foil cup, a white cup and a clear plastic cup covered with the black plastic. Overall it was a great experiment and lesson learning about solar  energy.

Friday, September 6, 2019

Science - Climate Change

Hurumanu - Climate Change and Greenhouse gases



AIM: TO LOOK AT CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT.

The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials

  1. Bottles
  2. Thermometer
  3. Baking soda and citric acid
  4. Heat lamp
  5. water
  6. Rubbing bung

Procedurer

  1. Plug in the heat lamps
  2.  Put the heat lamps facing towards the bottle
  3. Add the water and baking soda mixture to one of the bottles
  4. Add just water to the second bottle
  5. Put the rubber bung and thermometer in the bottle top.
  6. Start recording the temperature of the bottles every 5 minutes.



Findings:The Greenhouse Effect Data 



Minutes
Bottle 1: Water 
Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
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5

10

15

20

25

30

35

40

45

50



Conclusion:

Science Blogpost

How to make a water cycle Experiment:

What is a water cycle?
The water cycle is the path that all water follows as it moves around Earth in different states. 
Below is the link to my Climate Chaos Template work:
Link to Work