Tsunami Graph

Today in my social studies I had created a bar graph based on the tallest tsunami in history. Called the "Alaskan Tsunami" this tsunami occurred on the 10th of July 1958. The graph shows how tall it is and what it is taller than. As extra information, the tsunami was taller than 500 metres to be exact 530 metres. That is taller than the empire state building which is 450 metres, so there is a big distance between the two of them.

Here is my graph -

Athletics Day 2020

Hello fellow people!

Yesterday, on the 5th of March, Hornby High School had their school athletics for 2020. Beforehand you were supposed to pick between competitive and social, social is where you do athletics but your scores don't matter. It's just a matter of trying and participating, you could even just skip or walk for sprints! For competitive it's the opposite you have to care about scores and be competitive. So you have to try your very best so you can get a high score. Which leads you to have an opportunity to participate in the Canterbury athletics. I have never picked competitive I had always picked social, so of course I picked social again. 

The day started off with us doing our first two periods of the day and having a short morning tea to get food into us. It took a while until we had our first round which was discuss. This particular sport is something I'm bad as I have small and wimpy arms before we went to discuss. My friends and I decided to watch the competitor's sprints and they were really fast. When I did discuss I was really surprised because I didn't want to try my best which you were allowed to do. As long as you participated, But it actually went pretty far. It stayed in the plate position while it was in the air which has never happen to me. After that we did sprints, and I was really excited because I love doing sprints but it turns out I trained too hard. For nothing, because I wanted to verse people and be fast but they decided to walk so It was a bit embarrassing.  

Next, we played shotput that was also our last it went decently far for my spaghetti arms so I was proud of myself. I achieved coming first in the sprints which didn't matter but was still proud of myself. The relay at the end was amazing I was screaming and cheering for  blue house. I was smiling at the end and was happy for my house which is blue. Because they won after trying so hard. This year my athletics was boring because I wanted to compete so now that I have learned my lesson. Next year I will be joining competitive instead so I can really run my best with competing with other people. I also want to be able to compete because I am competitive I love winning but I am not a sore loser.

My Timeline - 9/11

Recently for the past few days, I have been working on a timeline using Visme, it's a website that can help you with creating different projects. The 9/11was really disastrous for New York as many people died on that day. Now that day is called patriots day to honour all the people who have died, for the innocent and the people died being a hero.

Here is my Timeline -

Chaos activity: Zombie Apocalypse

In our "Chemicals and Chaos" Hurumanu, for the Chaos part of it, we needed to create a poster based on the top ten rules you must keep in check. When there is a Zombie Apocolypse you have to know how to survive so Mr. Wilson actually found a set of rules. after researching we found that there was really a set of rules. Altogether there are 33 rules, but our task was to list the top ten rules you think is most important. Here is the poster I made it is simple but you can see the rules that I thought were most important.

Creating Manufacturing - My Sign

In creative manufacturing for that last week or so we have been working on signs, to be specific the mandatory, prohibited and hazardous sign. Since last week we had been told to create our personal sign for our workshop. You were allowed to pick the kind of sign between the three, we started our draft on paper but it was optional so you were allowed to do digitally. Both my friends had picked mandatory signs and I had picked a prohibited sign.

At the start, it was a difficult choice you weren't allowed to copy each other, as to the results of having two of the same signs which aren't really ideal. My sign was based on food since it was a prohibited sign you needed to make it obvious on what it is trying to tell you. With mandatory signs, it is fine because it still tells you what to do but with a visual image as well. A hazardous sign also needs to be obvious since it is only a picture on a yellow triangle.

Mine was "no eating or drinking in the workshop" it is obvious since it has a red angular line through it, making people see it is something not to do. It has a burger in a drink bottle as the icon in the sign, everyone has a reason why that sign. Mine was because there are different kinds of chemicals in the workshop. if you touch those chemicals and then eat there is a potential you are risking your health because once you consume the chemical you could get sick. The same goes for a drink in the class as you might spill it and someone might slip. Or chemicals could get on your drink bottle and then you would drink it.

Well being Whare:

Hauora is a Maori philosophy of wellbeing and health, it is the same as six dimensions of wellbeing. They are pretty similar apart from us having 4 dimensions as you could say, each dimension has a meaning and an important impact in our lives. In New Zealand, each dimension represents a wall. All the walls create a house that's why there are only 4 dimensions. 

Here are the meanings of each of the walls - 

Taha Tinana:

This wall means physical wellbeing, this impacts on your life since you need to stay healthy physically. For example, eating healthy would be apart of Taha Tinana or exercising. 

Taha Hinengaro:

This wall means mental wellbeing, this impacts on our lives to stay mentally healthy or be happy and calm. Also exercising or calming your brain preventing you from being stressed all the time. Just simply sleeping can be part of Taha Hinengaro.

Taha Whanau:

This wall means social wellbeing but in English, it means family, this impacts our lives because everyone needs someone to depend on sometimes. Hanging out or spending time with family and friends would be apart of Taha Whanau.

Taha Wairua:

This wall means spiritual wellbeing, this impacts our lives because some would be really religious or have a religious family. But this is not only about gods or souls, but it is also actually about what you believe in. so if you believe in aliens then so be it.

In our classroom, we had created our own whare's at the start we had to write on each thing (foundation, walls, roof). On the foundation, we had to write down everything or everyone who makes us happy or defines who we are. On each of the walls, we had to write one of the dimensions (one wall = Taha Tinana/Physical) 

At the front of my whare which is really the door, the side that is the most important dimension to me is Taha Tinana. The reason for it is because the sport has been important to me since I was young. I loved to play netball and football when I was in primary in my last year I liked to play basketball. I carried on playing basketball for my first year in intermediate but also started to play badminton. Then badminton started to be my passion, and it turned out it was something that played throughout my whole family. Now I love to play badminton and netball and they are also my favorite sports.

When building our wellbeing whare it was like living our lives, our teacher Mr. Stock purposely cut off a few flaps to make it challenging for us. He explained to us that we are always allowed to ask for help. Because in our lives we are always allowed to ask for help when we need it. 

Everything is built on our foundation which keeps us happy and we need all the dimensions in our lives our roof is our happiness so we need all these dimensions to hold up our happiness. 

Solubility Experiment

Aim:
To find out which of salt or baking soda will dissolve more.

Hypothesis:
In my opinion, I think salt will dissolve more than baking soda depending on the heat of the water.

Equipment:
1. 250ml Beaker
2. 100ml measuring cylinder
3. Salt
4. Baking soda
5. Stirring rod
6. Teaspoon

Method:
1. Fill the beaker with 100ml of tap water.
2. Add a leveled Teaspoon of baking soda, (with the Bs the same level of the rim of the spoon.) 
3. Stir until all is dissolved
4. Repeat steps no. 2 & 3 until no baking soda needs to be dissolved.
5. Write down how many teaspoons of baking soda was used.
6. Repeat the experiments with the table salt.

Solute	No. of Teaspoons
Baking Soda	17
Salt	22

Discussion:
This experiment was to figure out which of our substances would whether or not become a solvent. This was also to investigate which substance would dissolve more.

Conclusion:
My hypothesis was that salt would dissolve faster, as it was always used in cooking and would normally always dissolve. But really sometimes it depends on the heat of the water. It turn out I was right salt dissolves more than the other substance.

This was a really fun experiment and went smoothly, as it was an easy experiment. It was simple since you didn't have to be so precise with the measurements.  All you needed to do was count the spoons of the substance you put into the solvent.

In the results for the baking soda, it started to form clumps at the bottom of the beaker and made the water look like soapy water,  Same happened with the salt.