Hurumanu - The Greenhouse Effect

Aim: To look at Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect.


Materials:
1. Plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 thermometer.
5. 100 ml water
6. 1 rubber bung


Steps:
1. Collect materials from Mr Palmer.
2. Setting up the lights, bottles, thermometers and bungs.
3. Mr Palmer adds the Baking Soda Mix with 100 ml of water.
4. Wait for 5 minutes and start recording the temperature.


Variables:

All the water added to the bottles was from the classroom tap.



Findings: The Greenhouse Effect data.

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18'c	18'c
5	22'c	25'c
10	25'c	25'c
15	26'c	25'c
20	No recording	No recording
25	No recording	No recording
30	No recording	No recording
35	No recording	No recording
40	30'c	41'

Conclusion:
This week in Science, we have been focusing on Climate Change. We did a experiment on the Greenhouse Effect and we had to get in a group of nine. We wrote all of the materials from the teachers blog down and also followed the steps from Mr Palmer.
The bottle of water didn't heat up as much as the bottle with gas in it. Its the same with Climate Change.

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in Tane Mahuta CIP, in period 2 just after Kiwi Kaha, we did a little bit of shifting and cleaning the outside classroom, while it was spitting of rain. Keyana, Janel and I got told from Mrs Allan to heave out the Ivy weeds and stack them into piles. Everyone else was just shifting some wood and other furniture to the side and got some work done.

In Period 3 it was pouring rain outside so we did some painting designs on rocks. We were painting rocks because we were going to put them in the classroom once we've finished cleaning it up. The design that I have chosen was related to my culture which was a Samoan turtle. Here is a photo of my rock that I've painted and I hope you like it.  I enjoyed painting designs on rocks and looking forward for the next CIP.

Climate Change Issues

Aim: To learn about the different emissions of climate change.

1. Transportation:
 The carbon dioxide in oil goes into the atmosphere when the car is running.

2. Electricity:
Electricity can come from renewable sources (water, wind, sun) and non renewable sources like fossil fuels (oil and Gas).

3. Factories:
When Materials like plastic, cardboard, metal, and cement are made, harmful gases are released into the air water.

4. Landfill:
Our landfills are growing and using up more healthy land.

5. Food:
We need food to survive, but it creates a lot of pollution.

6. Cows:
With about 1.5 billion cows around the world, methane is having a big effect on climate change.

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in Tane Mahuta, CIP, I have done some planting Spinach, Celery and Coriander seeds next to where we planted the beetroot and the other vegetables we've planted in week 5. We have been clearing some weeds in the greenhouse and also found some stone tiles that we needed to stack to the side, and also for us to get prepared to do some new planting in there.

There were others that were separating scrap metal to sell to earn some money. There were not as many people doing some gardening because they were at there passions and some were at Kiwi Kaha, so there were enough work for me to do.
Overall I enjoyed carrying on doing some more planting this week and the whole three periods from period two has been successful for me.

Hurumanu Art

In Hurumanu Art we have been focusing on planning about our stop motion and doing some storyboards. I am in a group with Keyana, Kineka and Chloe and it has been success through week 5 and this week. We had to discuss with our group who is going to be doing which role and Keyana and I are the directer, Kineka is the drawer and Chloe is the camera person.

My story is about a girl named Trinity who has just started High School and on her first day she gets teased about her clothes/style by two girls named Victoria and Jasmine. Later on in the story, another girl named Natalia becomes friends with Trinity and starts dressing up like her to make her feel better about her style. So basically in my story its showing Kindness from Manakitanga.



     

Splitting Strategy - Maths

Today in Maths Interchange we have been focusing and learning how to do our new strategy. The Splitting Strategy. We had to answer some questions from the group slide from Miss Birtch's site and then had to create a DLO showing how to do the strategy. I have made my DLO on a google drawing and I hope you have learned and enjoy what I was trying to show and tell you.

  

Tane Mahuta - CIP

This week in CIP Tane Mahuta, we got back into our groups and started planting and cleaning up the classroom. I started planting beetroot with Addyson and Keyana and the others were planting Lettuce, Cauliflower and Cabbage. Once we finished planting, we layed a thin sheet over the plants and jammed thick sticks as pegs so the sheet won't fly away. We left the ends open so that the plants can get air and not die.

After all of the planting, we had nothing else to do so we got straight into helping to clean the classroom. I helped a group clear out all of the wood and logs that were broken apart from the old furniture and then started filling up some buckets of rubbish that were lying around everywhere. The period was a success for me and I really enjoyed doing Tane Mahuta and I'm glad that I chose Tane Mahuta but we will be back into it next Wednesday.