Led Light Box

For the past few weeks we have been making and designing a light board
First we imported a image to go on a piece of acrylic
Then we sent it to our teacher and he would connect it to the laser cutter
While we were waiting for our teacher to in grave our acrylic
We made a light box with 5 different sizes of wood and a led light strip and some wood glue then let it dry for a day and then when we came back our acrylic was done and we could put it in the light box that was done. Then we could take it home.Now I am the go to person for the laser cutter.

Jikoshokai

game

Rugby Ball
Hula Hoop

We played netball-touch so it was normal touch instead of scoring on the ground we shot I a hoop.
I like playing with my team and I got along with them.
The other team were just acting a bit stupid and didn't listen and I think we could improve on get our self sorted in time

Guitars

Gutair - Mr Mitchell

Mr Mitchell came into our music class to talk to us about guitar

Electric Guitar
Needs a amp
Steel strings
You can play a lot of features using the amp

Acoustic Guitar
Wooden body
Steel Strings
A range of different sizes the biggest one is called a dreadnought

Travel Guitar
Wooden
Full size neck
Smaller body
Does sound as good as a full sized guitar

Working as a Team

Blog Reflection 

The team game we played was:  Pancake Wars 

For this activity, I rate myself (circle one) 1 2 3 4

I gave myself this rating because (describe something that happened that supports the rating you gave yourself).      

I gave myself this rating because I worked well with my team. I contributed throughout the game by encouraged my teammates to get involved.  

What was something that was challenging about today’s activity? (in relation to teamwork)

What  I found challenging was we were near the end of winning the game and then the other team stepped up their game and where getting our pancakes.Also when we were trying to get our other teammates out of jail and then we got tagged and it was a bit frustrating. 

How did I overcome this challenge?

I stuck with the job I was doing which was getting people out of jail and if I got tagged I would just keep playing and not get angry about but in the end we won the game.

Music

In music a few weeks ago we went to the music suite. We got split up into two groups my group went with Mrs Allen Fletcher. When we got their Mrs Bear gave us a sheet and it was like a treasure hunt but for the instruments we had 9 instruments we had to find. We got questions like how many strings are on a ukulele and what songs we could play on the keyboard the song was Havana. We enjoyed going to the music suite because we got to learn and play different instruments that we've never played before well I haven't played before. I'm sure everyone learn't something new.The hardest instrument to play was the flute I enjoyed playing the drums and the electric drums.

KI O RAHI

Cooking

This week in food technology we have been looking at cookies, On Wednesday we prepared the cookie dough and on Thursday we weighed them and cooked them. I was in a team with Shontae and May.

When we weighed all of our cookie dough is came to a total of 369g. 

After we got our total we had to divide it by 12 because we were making 12 cookies and our answer was 30g per cookie so after we go that, we had made 12 cookies as equal as they could be. 

Then we rolled them into balls and put the one cookie we weighed on the corner then, we pressed down all of the cookies with a fork so there would be lines after that Shontae and May put them in the oven for about 14 minutes.

While they were cooking Shontae had a prediction that the weight of the cookies would go down because when they are cooking all the moisture would come out. She was correct our cookies now weighed 30g. We took the cookies out when they were a nice golden colour.

Decades of Music

I have researched decades of music and their artists and genres

Adele

For music on period 5, we did an activity where we need to research a famous artist ,  I chose Adele because she is a idle to me as she keeps trying even when things get hard.

Name: Adele laurie Blue Adkins

Date of Birth: 5 May 1988 

Challenge: She came over her vocal cords because she was meant to have surgery because her vocals were starting to bleed.After surgery and when her vocals fully recovered she had added 4 more vocals to her voice and if she didn't get surgery she wouldn't have been able to sing again. 

Decade: 2008

Genre:Pop,R&B,soul,blue-eyed soul

Famous Song : “Hello”,Someone Like You

Album:25,21

Instrumental Industries

Today in Instrumental Industries we learnt about different types of music and how or where you can play it, also we sat in groups and wrote it down on paper and wrote what we like to listen to. Then we saw some different videos on ukulele.Then we sat down and learnt a little about ukuleles and then we had to make a slide about ukuleles and the parts.

My Investigation

My Investigation

Aim: To look at how I can prevent climate change in the future.

1. Complete the activity 'Ecological Handprint'.

2. Complete the activity 'Carbon Footprint'.

3. Write down your 10 changes to climate change below. Using ideas from the Ecological Hand print and Carbon Footprint list 10 changes that you can make to stop Climate change?

1.  To turn off the lights more. 
2.   Turn off thing switches that dont need to be on.
3.   Stop Eating Meat.
4.  Recycle more
5.  Do my dishes once a day
6.  Conserve water
7.  Conserve electricity
8.  Eat more organic things
9.   Plant my own veges 
10.   Stop buying clothes

150 word challenge

It was silent. I looked out my window and everything was gone. My resources, my kai and even my fresh water.I walked outside and checked the village and no one was there.Then I went and checked if the waka was still there and it wasn't. I wondered why they left. I sat in my room for days starving and thirsty also wondering how I was going to survive on this island.As the days went past I was dehydrated and very hungry so I went out to the border of the island to the sea and thought to go fishing. I stood there for an hour, it was getting dark and no fish came up so I went back up to my village.I was feeling very drowsy and I needed to go to sleep.

drama

On Tuesday we talked about emotions not all the changes of puberty are physical your emotions are going to change. Its good to keep control of your feelings and make sure you responding to them in a kind way.

I looked at all of the plays and I really enjoyed this one because  I had a clear understanding of what they were talking and learning about

https://drive.google.com/drive/search?q=owner:ck%40hornby.school.nz

wind power

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

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

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. pencil 
2. tape   
3. pin  
4. cups x4  
5.   straw x4

STEPS

1.   Put holes in your cups
2.   Then put your straw in a cross and tape the straws together. 
3.  Then n the end of the straws. 
4. Then you will be putting the pin in the pencil in the rubber bit.
5. Then take it out side and see what happens.

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

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

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. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

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

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10	4
2.	10	7
3.	10	8
4.	10	8

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

CONCLUSION:

solar

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. Cup (4)
2. Water
3. tin foil
4. 2 sheets white paper
5. 1 sheet black
6. Thermometer
7. 1 large cup
8. 1 heat lamp

Steps

1.   Get your cups and fill them half way with water. 
2.  Then place your pieces of paper down on a hard surface.
3.  Then place your filled cups. 
4.   Then place a big plastic cup on top of the cup on 1 of the white pieces of paper.
5.  Get a heat lamp and turn it on and face it to the one with the big cup for 40 minutes.

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	12	12	12	12
40 minutes	15	14	20	20
15 minutes	13	13	19	19
30 minutes	17	19	22	22

RENEWABLE ENERGY

RENEWABLE ENERGY

Renewable Energy film

Biomass

Aim: To compare the amount of gas that is produced from different types of biomass.

Material:

1.   Plastic Bottle (3)
2.   Mashed Banana
3.   Horse Manure
4.   Veggie Peels
5.   Permanent Maker
6.   Disposable Gloves
7.  Funnel
8.  Water
9. Balloon
10. Cup

Steps

1.   Label all 3 bottles
2.   Manure
3.  Manure & Vegetable Peelings
4.  Manure & Mashed Banana
5.  Place 1cup Manure
6.  1c Manure + 1c vegetable Peelings
7.  1c Manure + 1c Mashed Banana
8.  Fill the bottle with water
9. Place a Balloon on top of the cup

   

Investigation.

Research the following Biomass fuels. You will need to:

Write a definition of the fuel.

Write 8 sentences about the fuel. 

• How is it made? 
• It is made from organic things such as vegetable scraps,banana,wood,corn and even horse manure.
• Where is it made?
• Brazil,Sweden,Austria,United States 
• What is it made with? 
• 
  
• What countries use it? 
• What uses will it have in the future?  

Place 1 image of the fuel.

Biomass Fuel types.

Name: Agricultural crops and wood fuels.

Definition:

Agricultural crops such as silver grass and straw from cereal crops can be used as a fuel for production of heat. Herbaceous material has a different composition from wood and its burning must be handled differently from that of wood.

Research:

Wood energy is the use of wood fuel to produce heat or electricity.

Crop, In agriculture, a plant or plant product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence. By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption wheat, potatoes feed crops, for livestock consumption oats, alfalfa fibre crops

Uses:

Heating or electricity

Image:

Name: Animal waste.

Definition:

Pig Manure, Horse Manure, Cow Manure

Research:

Animal wastes are commonly considered the excreted materials from live animals. However, under certain production conditions, the waste may also include straw, hay, wood shavings, or other sources of organic debris.

Uses: Planting

Image:

Name: Bio gas

Definition:

Ethanol

Methanol

Methane

Research:

Biogas means a gas produced by the anaerobic digestion or fermentation of organic matter. The organic matter can be manure, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste, biodegradable waste or any other biodegradable feedstock. Biogas is mainly methane and carbon dioxide.

Uses:

Vechiel,Cooking 

Image: