Science Roadshow 2018 T4

Wednesday 28th of November which is today had an amazing event to experience it was the Science Roadshow the event was only pulled for the year 7's at HHS. We had a payment of eight dollars but we were lucky enough that the school provided 6 dollars so we only had to pay 2 dollars. This event was held in the learning street where all the science classes were, 7TZ and 7AL were first up to experience the show and the 70 experiments. The MASSIVE guy Shane and Samantha showed and hosted the show for us, The amazing thing was is that I got to have a photo with Megan Woods and she PUT HER ARM AROUND ME. It was amazing to have a photo with the parliament of Wigram, the first experiment was involving a ball fitting through a hoop at first with normal temperature the ball fell right through so it fitted. Then we tried dipping the hoop into liquid Nitrogen Shontell was picked out to help since she volunteered by putting her hand up really fast for safety she had to use safety glasses and some thick gloves. When Shane dipped the hoop into the Liquid Nitrogen a lot of smoke came out so he demonstrated how cold it was by gently blowing on the smoke, he told us the reason why we should use gloves it was because of it to cold that our hands would stick to the hoop. The second time Shontelle tried sliding the ball through the hoop it didn't go through it confused everyone he told us it was because all the molecules came together making the hoop smaller. and when it gets warm the molecules spread out making it bigger after that experiment. Shane went up with Samantha and showed us a sheet of galvanising steel and burned a hole through it with blow torch it was really cool, my favourite experiment was mostly all of them and I did them all with Skyler.

Photos from the event

Passion Passion Update

26.11.16

Today's session in passion projects we were still working on our hei matau like sculptures, It was really fun my sculpture broke since one side was really thin it all happened when I was trying to get it to the right shape with a chisel and it suddenly broke without my notice. I was with Skyler and Megan also Mika I was scared to tell them I thought they were gonna overreact and say my name, but Megan saw it first and she did not care and she told everyone else and I was relieved cause they did not care either. So I told the teacher, Mr. Mitchel, and he checked it up for me he wasn't able to do anything to it yet since he was busy drilling holes in everyone else's normal sculpture my one looked like an uneven teardrop. The now here I am researching and blog posting about my on hand on period.

SLJ: About Me

Hey, Emma

I'm Rieya N, I am year 7, and 11 turning 12 years old. I like to play with my dog Chase and spend time with my 3 sisters I am the oldest out of all, I like to play basketball and volleyball. My ethnicity is mixed I am Fiji/Indian, Filipino, and Kiwi so for me it is really hard when I get asked where I come from. I like to hang out with my friends also going to school, my friends are Skyler, Megan, and more.

I want to join the Summer Learning Journey because I want to win a prize not only that it is so easy to win all I have to do is regular school day work which I love. It is super simple since it is a blogging programme and I can do fun kinds of blogging, once I learnt about the summer slide I really don't want to go down I want to keep my grades up and not let them drop.

If I ever won the Summer Learning Journey I would like to win a drone or a Bluetooth Speaker, Mostly the drone if it has a camera since I travel and camp a lot. I love music that's why I would also want a Bluetooth speaker but again most probably a drone with a camera.

                     

                                                    Skyler is the one that has her hair out

Ph red cabbage: Science

Purple Cabbage Experiment

Method:

1 Peel off three or four big cabbage leaves and put them in a blender filled half full with water. Blend the mixture on high until you have purple cabbage juice.

2 Pour the purplish cabbage liquid through a strainer to filter out all of the big chunks of cabbage. Save the liquid for the experiments to follow.

3 Set out three beakers, side by side. Fill each glass three-quarters full with cabbage juice.

4 Add a little vinegar to the first beaker of cabbage juice. Stir with stirring rod and watch the colour change.

5 In the second beaker, add a little laundry detergent and stir.

6 Take a photo of your 3 beakers side by side.

That was our instructions and also like a quiz for the only twist was is that we had to experiment to get the right answer. I have a few photos from throughout our experiment. It was a success and my answers were right, I was in a group with my friends Megan and Skyler. and I was the one that ended up cleaning the mess.

After watching someone else do their experiment we ended up waiting a long time because they kept needing to blend it because they just shoved their red cabbage in the bottle. So I thought it would be a good idea if we broke up the cabbage first the idea was ok we ended blending the things faster but we needed to keep adding water. It had to be really fine and smooth we finally got to that point and experimented we set out 3 beakers and filled them up a quarter way up. one glass we added a little bit of vinegar and it turned a pinkish redish colour and another glass we added washing powder then it turned a greenish blueish colour. then we compared them all to each other.

For the vinegar my answer was right but for the washing powder I got it half right.

Stone Sculpturing Art Blog#2

Today in our passion project we finally finished our small model of our Koru and at the moment we thought we were done and going to move onto our larger project. We had to create something related to "Hei Matau" I wasn't very successful in the shape. It turned out with one side being really long and thin and the other side being thick and short, I wasn't really proud of it "yet" but I kept working with it. The was our on-hand things then we were up to research not so fun stuff but also it was fun since most of was drawing and figuring out what we would want on our big sculpture. I had also finished my design on the piece of paper I finished writing how I wanted it to be and what the meanings of it are I found something on the web. But modifying it with different kinds of things depending on the size of the block we are provided with, The things were adding a Koru onto it and the Manaia. A koru is part of New Zealand's native plant the Fern, and the Manaia is a Maori known mythical creature. Please comment if you know anything about carving stones or if there is more I could add :)

SLJ: Japan!

Today in cyber smarts we were practising for our summer learning journey in the holidays we had a choice between 10 countries my choice was Japan. Our task is to use our Google skills to research the selected country.

The first thing we have to research the capital city of the country we have picked I have a small quiz throughout the blog post. I get a question and you do to all you have to do is answer in the comments. The first question is what is the capital city of a country means.

The capital of Japan is Tokyo if I would travel there I have to check it out.

The population of Japan is 127,185,332 in 2018 but last year was 127,484,450 meaning the population has decreased. My second question for you is how many holidays are there in Japan.

If you are going to travel to Japan in January make sure to grab your coat and scarf because it is winter and there will be snow. It is probably a not so good time to go but I recommend going in late time spring so you can see the beautiful blossom trees. Next question for you is what is your favourite season in the year.

If you are wondering where is the capital city of Japan it is located in the southern region of Japan. The next question for you is What country would you travel to.

If you were ever to go to Japan obviously expect for a lot of people talking in Japanese.

Amphibious Cycle

Today in Cybersmarts we did a kind of search test and it was pretty fun we had to search up the answers of questions in different ways. Now we had to answer a big question one of the questions was what is the main purpose of the amphibious cycle. My answer was to go both on land and water and the invention was called an amphibious cycle.