Summer Learning Journey

 This lesson we are learning how to use the summer learning journey website. These are some of the ones I have done in the time our teacher ha asked us to do it.

 

Business and Enterprise

Business and Enterprise Kete was a big project for the year 7-9 to sell and create products of our choice.

Our group name was Glass Designs, and we made glass frames with different paintings on them such a cartoon characters like stitch, Patrick star, bugs bunny, and some others.

Firstly our group planned out where we were going to get our glass from with a budget of 20$. For $20 we got 16 frames and each person in our group got 4 each. I made bus bunny, stitch, Patrick star, and the three bare bears. When we were done we made a poster for our table and then we were done.

Some of the jobs I specifically had was to sort the final decisions, make sure to update Miss Taylor, and make sure everything is going well.

What were you learnings?

Some of my learning was how to paint onto glass, how different pen worked on glass (what worked best), how to partly run a business, how pre order works, and some other things.

How Important were your decisions?

My decisions were pretty important because I was the CEO of our group and I had to make the final decision to tell the teacher what was happening and how we are going to do things.

Do you think you were successful?

I think we were successful because we sold out and everything was gone pretty quick. On top of that we made a profit of at least $40.

Do you believe you upheld the CARR values our our school?

I think I upheld the CARR values because our group rotated who got to stay at the table and who got to look around fairly, and when I was done I helped my friends group sell as well. I also upheld the Carr Values well because I was being sensible and I was usually either looking at the other businesses, helping the group (Christmas in a Candle) or just sitting down with my friends on the artificial grass.

 

Pasifika Art

 Instead of hurumanu we are doing passions projects. One of the lines i chose was Pasifika Art. For that line we are creating our own designs and creating our own stories with our drawings. 

What is technology?

Technology has changed the way we use it from the past to now. It is now so much easier to use and it is a lot more accessible to everyone.

Technology matters because it makes our lives easier, it benefits others, its safer and more secure, and it is a lot faster than life before technology was developed.

My evidence that Technology is now a lot easier to use is... 

-Transportation is a lot safer and faster to use:walking-cars-planes

-Communication is a lot easier and faster:Talking-Letters-calling-emailing

-Learning: listening and remembering-writing in a book-typing on a Chromebook

-Sustainability: jars and boxes-plastic and glass-biodegradable materials

-Delivery: carried on head-sent through the mail as a package-sent from oversies

Technology 

(perswasive writting)

Technology is the sum of any techniques, skills, methods, and processes used in the production of goods or services or in the accomplishment of objectives, such as scientific investigation It's very important to people now a days because it helps us with our day to day life and makes it easier. Some of the different ways technology has developed its in transportation, tracking, communication, safety, machines, and learning.

Technology has developed so much in transportation. People used to have to walk everywhere, then up to 5500 years ago people started to travel on horses and donkeys. After that in the early 20th century cars became available for people to get. From then for a while cars where just being developed into better and safer to use. In 1914 after 28 years planes then became available to use for people as well as the better developed cars. Now a days there are big variety of different cars, bikes, and things to use for transport.

Another type of way technology has changed is in tracking and transport directions. Tracking has changed in multiple ways tracking you used to not be able to track people but now you can track people on apps you can download on your phone, you can put GPS in animals to keep them safe, and  you can put trackers on your things you don't want stolen.

Custom Led lights

Project overview:

Design and shape:

For the design and shape I have chosen the clear , the design. I am printing in the laser cutter is a spotify song code. For the leds I have chosen is two green. I won't have many words but I will have the song name, artist, play button, spotify code, skip buttons, like button, and the photo of the song cover. The outside shape of the Acrylic cut out will just be a rounded rectangle. 

The voltage and resistors my led will need is:

Resistor:

1st digit-Purple

2nd digit-Green

Multiplier-Black

Tolerance-Gold

Voltage: 3.5v

purple, then gree, then black, then gold on the end

I am going to be using a clear acrylic with a green led light. The design I am be going to be putting on the acrylic surface is:

or 

 

Math and Science Project

 Report write up

Aim:What is the aim of this project?

The aim of this project was to showcase our math and science skills we have learned over the past weeks to our teachers.

Method:What template did you pick and how many light bulbs? What rooms did you give your house?

I chose the excellence template and I put 12 light bulbs in my house. The rooms I had in my house was a lounge, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom, garage, dining room, and some other randoms (storage, hall, extra lounging room) 

Results: Area Ohm's Law calculations

Discussion:What do the terms voltage, current, resistance mean? How did you do the calculations? Do the calculations make sense?

Current means the flow of electricity, Voltage means the force of electrons, and resistance means the force against the current. I did the calculations by taking the knowledge i already know and working out the numbers that were missing.

Page of answers

Conclusion:Did you enjoy the project? Would you do anything differently if you were to do it again? Different level? Number of bulbs?

I enjoyed the project and I wouldn’t do anything differently. I liked the template I chose, and I didn't mind the amount of light bulbs I chose.

Some other working :

Area of house: 219m

Perimeter of house: 60.17m

Garden area: 30m

Garden Perimeter: 32m

The voltage and current of each light bulb in the house:

Light Bulbs voltage

1)	V=200 v R=25 o I=8 a	2)	V=66.7 R=25 I=2.7
3)	V=66.7 R=25 I=2.7	4)	V=66.7 R=25 I=2.7
5)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3	6)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3
7)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3	8)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3
9)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3	10)	V=33.3 R=25 I=1.3
11)	V=200 R=25 I=8

 

Bonus Inclusions

What is a fuse? How does it work?

A fuse is an electrical safety device that operates to provide over current protection of an electrical circuit. The way it works is the fuse breaks the circuit if a fault in appliance causes too much current flow. This protects the wiring and appliance if something goes wrong. The fuse contains a piece of wire that melts easily. If the current is going through the fuse is too great, the wire heats up until it melts and breaks the circuit. 

Design a back garden using different shaped area to equal 30m2. What vegetables would you plant in it for this time of the year? Why?

*Photo of garden is up in the photo of the house (blue outline)*

I would plant some celery, lettuce, and baby spinach because they can come in handy a lot. You can put them in burgers, wraps sandwiches, you can have it on its own, and you could eat it in many other ways.

Discuss what scientist invented the idea of electricity. How did he come up with the idea? When?

One of the people that should get the most credit for discovering electricity is Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin was one of the smartest scientists in his time. He was interested in many different areas of science including making discovery, inventing new things, including bifocal glasses. In the mid-1700s, he became interested in electricity. 

Ancient Roman Inventions.

 Lots of the ancient inventions have helped this generation in multiple different ways.

The Roman Inventions still matter a lot in these days because they are very well built and have been evolved into to different versions from the first made.

Some evidence that the Roman Inventions are really important and used still to this day are the aqueducts, arches used in structure building, roman numerals, and surgical tools (there are way more examples)

Overall Roman Inventions were so smart and helpful that they are still used to this day.

Roman Research

 Some Roman inventions have really impacted and help or lives from day to day.

No.1

Roman numerals.

Roman numerals are somethings that has helped our lives a lot. It is used a lot when numbers series of movies, and numbering sets of things. This has impacted the way people number things. For example the iPhone (x, xr, xs, or xs max), Roman numeral clocks, and other things.

Example

No.2

Arches

Using arches in structural building is a really helpful to hold and support lots of wait. It has impacted our live a lot in a good way. It has been used in a lot of bridges that have been build, doorways, and used in some big castles.

No.3

Aqueducts

Aqueducts have helped improved the future (now) so much. It has helped with the water flow and currents.

 

No.4

The first surgical tools. Having the first surgical tools have been  a big improvement and helped. They were the cause of all the develop into what they are now. They were very helpful back then because before the surgical tools were made nobody's wounds and sores could be fixed.

Gymnastics

For the past four weeks for gym we have been doing gymnastics. We have been using 6 apparatus -bar, beam, parallel bars, trampoline, mini tramp, and floor/mat. 

One challenge for me was doing a head stand because I get really light headed easily.

One achievement for me was doing a bridge because I didn't think my back was that flexible.

I have included my assessment form.

Exploring Characters

 Task 1)

Three of these characteristics that Martha had a strength in was Love, Bravery and Forgiveness. Martha was a very brave character in this story. There are some parts of the book that shows it like when she started at her new school it was very brave of her, and Martha walking the same way home with all the kids following and teasing her was very brave. She had a strength in Love because she was able to become good friends with someone who was part of bullying her in the past. And Forgiveness also comes along with that too because she was able to forgive Scott after he joined in with the kids that followed her home and she then became best friends with Scott. Three of the characteristics she lacked was Appreciation of Beauty, Honesty, and zest. Martha lacks Appreciation of beauty in her character because she is shown as insecure and believes people are always judging her even when she has never talked to them before when she shouldn't be thinking like that. The character Martha lacks the personality trait Honesty quite a lot because she lied about things to Scott and tried to hide things from him like her house and she hides other things from him. Martha's character in the book abomination lacks the trait zest because she would never really show much energy in her personality and she would always come off as if she didn't really care that much.

Scott's characters strengths in his personality was bravery, hope, and Perspective. Scott showed a lot of Bravery in the book when he stood up to the people that bullied Martha and then became friends with Martha and then began to start liking her. Scott showed a lot of hope in Martha when he became friends with her and he showed that he truly cared about her. In abomination another trait Scott showed well was perspective, he was thinking about how it made Martha feel and he began to start sticking up for her. Three traits Scott lacks to show is Kindness (at the start), Curiosity, and Judgment(towards the end). Scott lacks to show kindness at the start because he was joining in bullying Martha and he would follow along with the group that would bug Martha. Through out this book Scott lacked to show curiosity, because when he wanted to pay for Martha he only thought of one reason why she couldn't go and believed that was the definite reason why. But really his farther had to explain to Scott that it could be a religion, family or different reason other than money.

Task 2)

Task 3)

Land March DLO

 What was the NZ Land March (what was the Nz land march, where was it and who was involved?)

The New Zealand Land March was a Protest led by Dame Whina Cooper with over 5000+ people involved so the Maori could gain there land back that was taken. The Protest started on the 17th of September 1975 and was led through Te Hapua all the way to Wellington. The protest finished on the 13th of October 1975 which means it lasted about 29 days.

Understand the events that caused the protest (Why did the protest take place? What problems did the Maori face in the past that lead to the Land March?)

In the early 1970s, growing Maori anger over land alienation led to activism. In the 1975 hīkoi ('stepping out'), protesters marched from North land to Wellington to ask the government to halt further losses of Maori land. Here they walk past Porirua towards their final destination, Parliament.

Understand how the event helped to shape NZ's future (What happened after the NZ land march? What changes took place? )

After the NZ March the Maori were listened to more and got the respect they deserved and hadn't gotten in the past. The Maori language is now used and taught a lot more than it was previously.

What worked well?

What worked well was my map and the notes worked well as well. It has all the information I need and can answer all the questions I currently need it to.

What was challenging?

I found the finding the information a little bit hard when I started but it got easier as I worked along.

What would you do differently next time?

I wouldn't do anything differently because it worked out pretty well and i got all the information i needed.

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

Human Rights

 This week we have been learning about human rights. Our task was to write all the human rights onto a poster. (we were given a site to work off of).

Reflection: Next time I will try to re write and change more of the words in the sentence than this time and I will also try to stay on task in class so I can get my work done quicker. Next time I will also try and improve on the quality of my work. Unfortunately I was not able to make the slide very interesting because if I did the site i used would make me pay to download my poster. So next time I should consider using a different slide or just google drawings to make my poster.

Discovery tp

Reflection:

It was challenging when choosing the topic because I had no idea where to start and what topic to choose. I coped with the challenge by working with a friend so it would be a little easier and less stressful. I work well with others because when im stuck I can ask them for help and you can split the work with the person you are doing it with. Next time I will try and get my work done faster and to put a little more writting. I am really proud of how I chose a topic that would be just right for me because i thought i would choose one either to easy or to hard.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Pita Pockets (Home Ec)

 Pita Pockets

Ingredients:

• 1 Pita Bread per person 

• Lettuce - shredded or torn

• Cheese - grated

• Tomato - sliced or diced

• Carrot - grated 

• Cucumber - sliced

• Red Onion - rings or finely chopped

• Other vegetables: Celery, Capsicum, tinned Beetroot etc

• Sauces – Choice of Tomato, BBQ, Mayo, Hummus, Sweet Chilli

• Ham or Cooked Chicken Breast 

Method:

1. Prepare the vegetables and meat as required

2. Place pita bread in microwave for 20 seconds (optional)

3. Cut open the pita bread along the crease to make an opening

4. Fill pita pockets with required fillings and sauces

5. Serve

                         

When I made my pita pocket I put Spinach, ham, chicken, celery, carrots, and cheese in mine.

The nutrients in the pita pocket we made were Vitamins, protein, and minerals.