Category: Hanga | Create

Wind Racer

Kia Ora people.

I’m going to be writing about my results for my wind racer experiment. The aim was to get more ahead than the other wind racers. What we used to build ours was tape, plastic bags, newspaper, wooden sticks and a wooden car base. Our method was we taped the plastic bag to the wooden stick, we put newspaper inside of the plastic bag and taped it up but left a gap for the air to get into it. For our results we travelled  5.6m and the time it took was 7.8. All together the speed calculation was 0.717948718 rounded up it was 0.8. As we were doing it the forces on it were push and pull because the wind was pushing is but it kept going different way the leaf blowers was thrust as it had on the racer.

Mr Kane then took us outside to test it and that’s when we got our time and distance. From my point of view our wind racer seemed pretty balanced. Net force is the force of any type of force. Being used against something and how strong it is which way it will go. It relates to this experiment because there was wind blowing one way and the leaf blower was blowing another way.

But because the wind was going one way and the leaf blower was going another, it caused some of the wind racers to suddenly go another way and some of them fell over. Its not because of how powerful it was it was because the wind was coming from a different direction and the leaf blower was just blowing straight. That’s why some of the wind racers ended up either falling over or turning to a different direction.

This is what our wind racers looked like ours didn’t look as good as everyone else did. Either then that we thought that ours was pretty good. If we did it again I reckon that we should make it bigger instead of making it so small as it might go further then what it did last time

End Of Topic Test- Science

Today this blog is about what all these words mean. We have been learning about it for the past term and what we all know about it. At the start of the term it was pretty confusing. The more you get to learn about it the more you will know. These are a few examples on what each word means.

DNA- Basically DNA  is the gene in everything. DNA is what makes you different to other people and what makes you, you. Everyone will have their own unique power.

Genc- Gene is whats found in chromosomes in the Naclus of sells.

Trait-  Trait is what make you, you. Like the colour of your hair and other things like skin colour and a few more things its like inheirt-.

Inheirt- The deffinition of this word is pretty much getting something passed down to you from your mum or dad and maybe other family members. Like same eye colour, texture of hair or the colour. There’s more like height and other things.

Punnett Squars-  What Trait is more likely to be inherited.

Natrual Selection- This mean what nature decides what species survive and don’t survive to go reproduce  and have species that die off.

Reproduction- Reproduction is where you reduce to make babies like human babies or animal babies. Its because you need to create off spring and give to the next generation

Evoloution- How a species changes over time due to natural selection.

DNA Extraction

Aim:To get the DNA from the bananas 

Method:

  1. Mush ⅓  banana (no skin) in a zip lock bag with a splash of water and a small teaspoon of salt.
  2. Strain the solution through a cloth into a beaker.
  3. Add a squirt of dishwashing liquid and stir.
  4. Pour into a test tube.
  5. Place the test tube in a beaker filled with WARM water.
  6. Leave for 10mins.
  7. Slowly pour 5mL of ethanol down the inside of the test tube.

Results:

Discussion: Where do you find DNA?- You find DNA in the chromosomes in the banana

What makes up DNA? Adenosine, Thymine, Cytosine, Guanina

How much DNA do humans share with a banana? 40-60%

Two things you learnt from this experiment. Nothing.

Three real life uses of DNA extraction.-  Forensics, Medical tests, Vaccines

Conclusion: Did it work? Would you do anything differently?

No it didn’t work it was a fail.

 

Safety and Medicine.

To be safe with certain types of medicine I get them from the doctors just so I know they will be safe to take and that they will make the people a little bit better while being sick, or having a cold or a sore throat ECT.-

Sometime it can be the medicine causing some of the problems, You can also end up causing your self harm by taking these medicines when not needed. You might not even take the medicine when you need to so it won’t help before you go to bed you also might take some other pills that might be mixed with the other ones you have.

The Writing Process

In English we had to do handwriting we had to write a story bout either superpowers or what we done in our hoiday.

When I looked at my handwriting and transferred it into my document, it felt really satisfying. Seeing my own words in my handwriting gave the work a personal touch, and typing it up afterward made me appreciate the effort I put into it even more. It was like watching my ideas come to life in two different forms. I enjoyed the process because it felt meaningful and creative, and it made me feel more connected to what I was writing. We had to fix up all the words or whatever we done wrong. We also got to put more sentences into it to make it make more sense.

My Favourite sound

GUTAIR I got it off Google. It is a Peppa Pig Song 
In a house on a hill
     G
Not far away
            C         G      C
There's a friend we love to see
C                           G
She lives there with her brother
G                C         G     C
George, and the rest of her family
      Am             G
With Daddy Pig and Mommy Pig
          F           C
They're happy as can be
F                          C
Now, who could that friend be?
F               G
Sing along with me
 
[Chorus]
     F     C    F      C
Oh, Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig
     G                          C
And this is my little brother George
     F      C         F     C
It's Peppa Pig, it's Peppa Pig
     G             C
And here is Mommy Pig
F      C     F    C
Peppa Pig, Peppa Pig
     G             C
And this is Daddy Pig
       F     C          F      C
She's Peppa Pig, she's Peppa pig
      G      C
I am Peppa Pig!

Monkeypox

Questions and tasks Sentence starters (if needed ) Evidence 
1. Introduction: Write the sentence starter out or write your own introduction about this unit. In Health we have been studying about Death, Dying, and the Afterlife. We have learned about some different cultural beliefs and traditions. We have learned about what other people do when someone they know passes away. Because some people do it different and some do it the same way You need to select 3 pieces of your work to show as evidence for question 1. Put these pieces of evidence (hyperlinks or screenshot) underneath your Q1 answer.
2. What is your chosen topic for investigation? I have chosen to investigate about Monkeypox because it seems interesting and because a couple of years ago I was learning about it and it seemed nice to learn about what it was like and because it has been around for a while

 
3. Explain 3-4 interesting pieces of information you read about your topic. Provide links and or pictures to support what you are explaining. 

Link the words hauora and positive/negative inside of your answers

  Monekypox is mostly spread around by body fluids or infected animals – Mpox, formerly known as monkeypox, is a viral disease spread through close skin-to-skin contact with an infected person’s rash or body fluids, or with contaminated materials. Symptoms include a fever, muscle aches, and a rash that progresses through stages from flat spots to blisters and scabs, typically lasting for a few weeks. While most people recover within a few weeks, vulnerable individuals may experience more severe illness.
4. How did you demonstrate respect towards others’ cultural beliefs that are different to yours? There were a number of ways that I demonstrated respect towards other culture beliefs during this unit. I did this by actually listening to whom ever is talking about what they want to talk about 

For Excellence, explain how showing respect would enhance others hauora.
5. Why is it important that you take care of all areas of hauora when we experience change, loss, or grief? It is important that I take care of all areas of my hauora when I experience change, loss, or grief because if I don’t I can make it worst for my self because Im not telling anyone and I’m just bottling up all of my emotions and suffering all alone. 

I can take care of my hauora when I experience change, loss, or grief by- looking after my self, Making sure I’m okay and letting other people know what I am going through if I need to say something about it. 

For Excellence, complete the sentence starters AND relate your answer back to the Te Whare Tapa Whā concept (4 walls of the whare)

Drama

Today I will be talking about what a musical is

What is a Musical – A play or film in which singing and dancing play an essential part. Musicals developed from light opera in the early 20th century. So mainly all the key elements are dialogue, music, song, choreography and characters. Another thing is that musicals should have a clear story line and emotion in the music, song and dance

My favorite musical  – Matilda the musical, I like it because the normal Matilda is my  favorite movie since I was young but I don’t really like how they made the musical it was pretty boring but other wise it was alright not my favorite but I would still rather watch the real one. I do think the songs were good but they could have been better

 

Dance

What Ive liked during semester – I liked meeting new people and finding out that I liked to do dance and going to show quest for the first time. And making up dances just for us to have fun.

What I found challenging – What I found challenging was when we had to remember all the dances that were in the dance

Is there anything that we didn’t get to do that I wanted- I didn’t really mind what we had to do for dance but it was fun having Miss Beer for our dance teacher for show quest.

Dissection On A Sheep Heart

Today we were dissecting a sheep heart. It was pretty weird and it smelled really gross. It was pretty cool finding out what its like and what it looks like. There was many blood vessels and there were a lot of blood clots. The more you squeezed it the more all of the blood came out of the holes there were in the heart.

During the dissection of a sheep heart, me and my group closely examined its structure to understand the function of the human heart, as they share similar features. I followed the proper dissection method by first identifying the external parts, then carefully cutting along the ventricles to view the internal chambers, valves, and major blood vessels. The results showed clear distinctions between the left and right sides of the heart, with thicker muscular walls on the left ventricle, indicating its role in pumping blood throughout the body. This hands-on activity helped reinforce our understanding of cardiovascular anatomy and the flow of blood through the heart.

Cutting into it was pretty hard because we couldn’t find the right place to cut it because the side we needed to cut was the side that was thinner then the other side. But for my groups one both of the sides were really thick. We still cut into it but everyone else was just cutting the whole thing and chasing people around with it but my group did it and did it properly.