NewZealand Land March

 

 This task was to make a map of the New Zealand March and mark the places the marched through. For the New Zealand march over 5000 people paticipated in it. The March went from Te Hapua then through to Te kao, Kaitaia,  Mangamuka,  Otiria, Waipu, Wellsford, Orewa, Auckland, Ngaruawahia, Kihikihi, Te kuiti, Rae tihi, Whanganui, Ratana, Palmerston North, Shannon, Otaki, Porirua, and finished the march i wellington

What worked well?

The site I used worked well, and it was really easy to access and use.

What was challenging?

What was challenging was finding some of the specific places in the north island because when i would search some names it would come up with places America.

What would you do differently next time?

Next time I would try using a different type of site to see if there are better ones that give you more information. But there isn't any if the new site isn't better ill just use google earth.

Badminton

  For the past week, we have been playing badminton in PE. I am going to tell you how to score a game of badminton.

You can play badminton in singles or pairs. There are smaller lines for a single match and wider/deeper lines for a doubles match.

If you hit the shuttlecock over to the opposition side, and they don't hit it, but it lands within the court lines, you score a point

If a server is unsuccessful out of the lines/court, its a point to the other team.

If you don't hit the shuttlecock, or hit it back over the net, and it falls to the ground on your side of the court,its a point to the other team

The first team to 21 points wins the game. There are usually 3 games played, so you might win 3-0,2-1 or 2-0.

If the teams are both on 20 points in a game, the winner must get 2 points ahead to win, eg 22-20

Science Experiment (Lock Down)

For this weeks science work we were given a website and we had to choose one experiment to attempt, and I chose the Float a marker man challenge.

Aim:The Aim of this challenge is to end up with a whiteboard pen stick man floating on the surface of some water. 

Method:Firstly Get a Plate, Some water and a whiteboard pen. Then after that draw preferably a stick man (But if wanted a shape or anything) on the plate and once done pour the water besides the white board drawing and it should slowly rise off the plate and float on the surface of the water

Results: 

 

Discussion: The Reason the Stick man drawing detaches from the plate is because Whiteboard marker is a very delicate type of ink and it easily washes away with almost anything. 

Conclusions: In conclusion this ended up working but after a little bit the whiteboard pen drawing started to disintegrate and become very clear. It also started breaking into pieces. Next time I think I should make the lines of the drawing thicker so its stronger and less likely to break. 

Sophie Pascoe

Sophie Pascoe is a paralympian who has set many world records and received heaps of medals. She is one of New zealands most sucessful paralympians ever. So far she has won nineteen medals attending 4 Paralympics. She has eleven gold, seven silver, and one bronze. When Sophie was two she lost her leg due to a lawn mower accident. Sophie was born in Christchurch, NewZealand on the 8th of January 1993, and raised in Halswell. She is currently 28 years old and is competing in the summer Paralympics. Which began on the 28th of August and ends on the 5th of September.

Sophie appeared in the paralympics due to her competing in the CCS Independence games, Other paralympians Roly Crichton and Graham Condon impressed by her skills invited her to join the QEll Swim club and her Paralympics began from there.

2008 Bejing Paralympics

 -Gold-Womens 100m Breastroke SB9

-Gold-Womens 200m Individual Medley S10

-Gold-Womens 100m Backstroke S10

-Silver-Womens 100m Butterfly S10

2012 London Paralympics

-Gold-Womens 200m Individual Medley SM10 (World Record)

-Gold-Womens 100m Butterfly SM10 (World Record)

-Gold-Womens 100m Freestyle S10

-Silver-Womens 50m Freestyle S10

-Silver-Womens 100m Backstroke S10

-Silver-Womens 100m Breastroke S10

2016 Rio Paralympics

-Gold-Womens 200m IM Sm10 (World Record)

-Gold-Womens 100m Backstroke S10

-Gold Womens 100m Butterfly S10

-Silver-Womens 50m Freestlye S10

-Silver-Womens 100m Freestyle S10

2020 Tokyo Paralympics (Done in 2021)

-Gold-Womens 100m Freestyle S9

-Gold-Womens Medley SM9

-Silver-Womens 100m Breastroke SB8

-Brownze-Womens 100m Backstroke S9

Thomas Edison (Famous Scientist Research)

 Thomas Edison

Thomas Edison was an american scientist who developed heaps of devices as in electric power generation, mass communication, sound recording, and motion pictures. Thomas was born in Milan, Ohio the united states, he lived there until he was seven then him and his family moved to Port Huron, which was where he lived until he decided to move out at sixteen. Thomas was born Febuary 11th 1847, he died at the age of 84 on the 18th, October 1931.

Thomas was famous for Inventing the Incandescent Light bulb, Film, gramophone, Kinetoscope, Movie camera, Phonograph cylinder, Electric power distribution, Electric pen, Mimeograph, Vita scope, Vacuum diode, Carbon microphone, Quadruplex telegraph, Kinetograph, Tasimeter, Kinetophone and a photometer. Some of the most common inventions we still use today are light bulbs, a telephone, movie camers, microphone, alkaline batteries.

Facts about Thomas Edison...

-Thomas's first kids names were dot and dash.

-His first lab was set up in his parents basement when he was ten.

-Thomas was partly deaf

-His first invention was an electric vote recorder

-His 1093 patents are most on record.

-Thomas thought his poor hearing helped him concentrate

-Thomas gave his kids Telegraph inspired nicknames