Albert Michelson

For inquiry we had to Research a famous scientists to study. So I studied Albert Michelson!

D.N.A

Here is my D.N.A Research! As we are working on forensic D.N.A testing research for our inquiry topic.

                  D.N.A

What happens to DNA samples after use?

Opinion: I think that it should get taken away somewhere or destroyed.

Reason: I think it gets taken away or destroyed because it won’t be any good anymore because it might be broken or not usable because the data might be personal.

Example: like maybe it’s a piece of skin and they have taken all of the cells of then they wouldn't need it anymore because the cells are DNA or part of DNA

Opinion: after research i found out that in some countries the DNA get destroyed in case someone analyses the DNA and opens personal data or saves from that person.

Final research: In countries like UK and Germany the spare DNA samples collected have to be destroyed as they wouldn’t want it to analyse personal data or saves from that person.

Natural Phenomena /phenomenon

Here is my second inquiry project that I made about Natural Phenomena!

Pyramids

Here is my pyramids project that I made for inquiry as part of our,
Exploring the Unexplained! :D I hope you enjoy!

Food Tech - Burger Heaven Presntaion

Easy Stradergy For Times Tables!

Here is a good way of learning your tables!! (it takes a while before he starts but he dose start at 30 seconds in!) :D I hope this helps we also learnt this trick in class!

Inquiry Term four 2015

In inquiry for term four we are focusing on a topic called exploring the unexplored.

Haunting's:

The Power Of The Minds:

Here are the questions and some things that we are researching

• What is the unexplained?
• Haunting's
• The power of the mind
• superstitions and symbols
• natural phenomena
• strange creatures
• disappearances
• ancient mysteries
• lost land secrets
• curves signs and secrets
• lights and labyrinths
• from another planet

Word Find 2015

Here is my Word Find that I made for inquiry! :-)

Why Do Some Animals Hibernate?

Why do some animals hibernate?

Animals hibernate because they need to survive the freezing cold winter and they won’t be able to find food in the freezing cold temperatures as the food will not be available as it won’t be able to grow and  it will die. Or if it's an animal they eat then they won’t be able to find them. If an animal's main source of food is very scarce in the winter, like insects or green plants, it may solve this problem by hibernating.

This deep sleep allows them to gather energy, and survive the winter with little or no food.Most hibernators prepare in some way for the winter. Some store food in their burrows or dens, to eat when they wake up. Many eat extra food while there  is plenty of food. It is stored as body fat to be used later for energy.

The largest hibernators are the bears. Although the bear's heart rate may drop from a normal of 40-50 beats per minute down to 8-12, its temperature drops only slightly, allowing it to wake up quickly. These bears are also unique because, unlike other hibernators, they do not eat or drink at all while hibernating, which can be as long as six months or more.

Sites I used:

• Google
• Conservation
• How it works
• Science

Anzac Diary Entry

28th April 1915

Dear diary

As I walked onto the battlefields around all  the thousands of  dead Soldiers my heart dropped as I gasped with fear, I then felt miserable and lonely. From then on I really thought deep into how lucky I am to be alive  because my friend has just lost his dad in a plane accident and now he is only left with a mum and a sister which I think is amazing, because I only have a mum and a dad, Our temporary shelter just got blown up and we now have nothing and my friend and I have to make a new one with little resources.

Sadly when we were fighting I shot an enemy straight away they shot back then having my friend behind me I dodged and the bullet went right through his chest. As I looked back at him falling to his death, I then had this huge big gush of brooking hearts spewing threw my guts as I walked towards him and it was too late! since then I have wanted to die myself.

Acids And Bases

Here is my acids and bases testing using household substances.

 

How A Kite Works

Here is my description on how a kite works.

       How  a  kite  works

A kite is a toy for kids that flies in the sky and is powered by wind.

Nylon is a type of fabric and it is used for making kites because it is strong and very light and will fly easily, compared to other fabrics which would be to heavy and won’t be very strong. Kite makers also use bamboo sticks instead of wooden sticks due to the bamboo being light and is also very strong unlike other wooden sticks. String is used on the kite to tie the bamboo and the nylon together and it is also used to control the kite when it is in the air. The bows on the kites are mainly just for decoration on the string coming down from the kite. The hand wheel or nut is used to hold on to witch which has the string  wheeled around it and it controls the kite  when you move it side to side. The tape is used to stick the bamboo and nylon together as well at the string.

    

Things you need

     1.Nylon

     2. Bamboo Sticks

     3. String

     4. Bows

     5. Hand wheel

     6. Tape (optional)

     7. Nut of some sort for weight    (optional)

     8. Scissors

To make a kite you need to grab your sticks and make a cross sign and tie the middle bit together with some string. Then once you have done that you can get your nylon fabric and cut out a triangle shape big enough to have the three ends of the sticks at each corner of the fabric. After that you tie the ends to the nylon or use tape I recommend using tape because it’s more tidier  but its your choise. Then once you have the frame made you then get a piece of string and attach it to the bottom end of the kite as shown above. then you can put bows made out of ribbon and you can stick them on the string.

    

Anzac Diary

Here is my Anzac diary writing that a wrote for homework!

28th April 1915

Dear diary

As I walked onto the battlefields around all of the thousands dead Soldiers my heart dropped as I gasped with fear, I then felt miserable and lonely. From then on I really thought deep into how lucky I am to be alive  because my friend has just lost his dad in a plane accident and now he is only left with a mum and a sister which I think is amazing, because I only have a mum and a dad, Our temporary shelter just got blown up and we now have nothing and my friend and I have to make a new one with little resources.

Sadly when we were fighting I shot an enemy straight away they shot back then having my friend behind me I dodged and the bullet went right through his chest. As I looked back at him falling to his death, I then had this huge big gush of brooking hearts spewing threw my guts as I walked towards him and it was too late! since then I have wanted to die myself.

Anzac Poppy Collage

Here is my poppy collage that I made in class and at home! :D

What Makes New Zealand Unique?

Here is my what makes NZ unique

 

• All Blacks
• Kiwis
• Black caps
• Black sticks
• All whites
• New Zealand land
• Marmite
• The Hobbit
• Pavlova
• Tuatara
• Pohutukawa Trees
• Hokey Pokey(Ice Cream)
• The Lord of the Rings
• Tip Top
• L&P
• Watties sauce
• Sir Edmund Hillary
• Tui Beer and tui the native bird
• Silver Fern
• Pineapple Lumps
• Whitakers/Cadbury
• Green stone
• NZ Sheep
• HuHu grubs
• Chocolate fish

Maurice Wilkins Project

Here is my project I did in term one on Maurice Wilkins 

What is his full name: Maurice Wilkins

Why is Maurice well Known for: Wilkins is most well-known for beginning the X-ray of DNA.

Where was he born: Maurice was born in Wairarapa on the 15th of December 1916.

Did he have children: in 1940’s Maurice married an art  student named Ruth after noticing her during his time in Berkeley California. And they had one son. Maurice then later on married his second wife named Patricia Ann Chidgey,a teacher,her he had four children and one son with Ruth.

When did he die: Maurice died on the 5th of October 2004.

Parents: Father- Edgar Wilkins and Mother-Eveline Whittack altho his parents were Italian he was born in New Zealand and then when Maurice was six years old

What school did he attend: Wilkins attended Mylde Green college,Cambridge to study physics.

Achievements: Maurice was awarded with the Nobel prize with Francis Crick and James Watson In 1962 Wilkins was awarded the Nobel Prize with Francis Crick and James Watson for his contribution to the elucidation of the structure of DNA. and much more!

      

Te Papa Museum

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Here is my advert that I made that's advertising Te Papa Museum, Sorry its a bit blury! 

Alarm System

Here is an Alarm that got made in technology.
I really enjoyed making it as it was challenging and I like challenging things.
I also like the results of the alarm. I gave you this pic as I didn't get one of mine!

Electronics

This is the model of a circuit I am trialing for my alarm. A breadboard lets you connect and reconnect components without out soldering  to see which circuit  suitable  to alert me when my brother opens my drawer full of pens.

Taking Photos

Here are some photos from around the school.

Pick A Path

here is my Pick a path story that I created. A pick a path is a story that has different  paths in it ad you start reading the book and it then after you have read it you pick a path to go down and most books have two choices and it says go turn page 3 or something like that but mine doesn't have that. Read it to found out its fun!

Cooler Bags

here are some cooler bag ideas and designs that we had to research in electronics tech.

Tarangawaiwai And Me

Here is a drawing that I made for Turangawaiwai and me we all did it
as a topic in class. 

Road Trip Presentaion

In maths we have been creating a road trip for you and a friend and then we had to find out what it all costs for everything that we planed to do. Here is Natasha And Nakita's one (nakita is me)

Throw Away Society

Here is our groups unsustainable work on throw away society. I hope you like it :-D

Bottle Measurements

Here is my bottle measurements that I have recorded through out the time that I was pouring and filling in to a measuring cup to see what the length of the water was. Everytime we poured out water we would measure the height of the water in the bottle then pour it out again. Here is a chart showing you the results. I hope you like it :)

Wolves Changed The Rivers

In reading we watched a video about wolves changing the rivers, and we had to  write notes as we were watching the video by using Viedonot.es here is a link so you can use it too! :-)

• the wolves kill all of the deer and Bambi
• yellow stone national park
• the wolves got removed from the park
• all the animals increased
• the wolves started acting different their behavior changed
• then the wolves were brought back to the park
• and the animals started to die and the
• the bears started to eat the berries on the trees because the trees started to grow faster and the bears started to eat the deer and wolves and the beers increased even more and the forest lots a lot of threes because of the bevas  
• the wolves changed the behavior of the rivers by the increase of the trees by the rivers.

P.E (Social Dancing)

For P.E this term we have been doing social dancing and learning a bunch of dances well doing it here are a list of dances we have learned

Line Dances:
  - Devil Dance
 - Sea Cruise
 - Red Hot
 - Bus Stop
 - Coconut Cream
 - Sha-la-la-la-la
Paired Dances
- Clap Dance
 - Gay Gordon
 - Figure of eight 
 - Ball in the Jack
-  Maxina
 - Cha-cha

Here are some pictures of us dancing

White mouse Glossary Task

For the glossary task we had to go to the back of the book and make sentences out of the words shown on the back then we would read the book and see if our sentience are almost the same as the ones in the book.

        Glossary task

Adolf Hitler: Adolf Hitler led the Nazi Germany group

Codes: Many codes were sent to send out messages to one another

Convoys: Convoys were humming around everywhere in France

Courier: Many different couriers were sending heaps of messages

Decorated: Nancy was decorated with many medals from her winnings

D-Day:  The day France got  invaded by the Allies

Explosives: During the war Heaps of different explosives were set off

Francs: Germany stole lots of Francs during the war

Gestapo: Heaps of people did not know about the Gestapo's

Journalist: There were Heaps of journalist reporting back about the latest news

Nazi: Hitler lead the Nazi’s

Nazi Germany: The Nazi’s controlled Nazi Germany

Neutral: Spain was a neutral country

Occupied: A lot  of countries were occupied by Nazi Germany

Electronics Emergency Light

At electronics we looked at GET READY GET THROUGH  website to see how we should prepare for an emergency. We needed a torch so I have designed and made an emergency light for my bedroom  that is battery powered. If the power goes out, I will have my own torch.
My soldering components was a success because as I had more practice I got better and better.