Learning conrences

For the last week we have been working on our learning conferences slides that we will be shearing with our parents.

Gratitude letters.

Today in CIP we had to create a letter to someone who is important to us we had to write why where grateful to have them in our life and why they are important to us. I wrote my letter to my parents in my letter I said how Im thankful for them for being there for me and always being there to support me by watching all of my sport games and a lot more.

Fossil fuels

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

 

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:

a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal
2.  Gas 
3. oil

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?

Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.

Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.

Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?

Coal, oil

How are they mined?

1. digging, scraping, or otherwise exposing buried resources. Drilling methods help extract liquid or fossil fuels.


Where are they mined?

1. Caves
2. Holes
3. Hills
4. Rivers

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Toothpick
2. Cookie  
3.  Plate 
4.  Paper

Steps:

1.   Get a toothpick
2.   Get a cookie
3.  Pick all of the choc chips out of the cookie 
4. Try not to break the cookie  
5.   Try get 20 choc chips out

Art stopmotion

For the last 8 weeks in art we have been creating stop motions. Our goal for our stop motions was to make it about Manaakitanga. Manaakitanga  has a lot of meanings but my group Hans, Jayden and myself chose to pick what we thought was the most important thing about manaakitanga which is kindness. Then we had to make clay sculptures and paint backgrounds to show the story my group and I made two humans and a Monster, this was our thirst time making stop motions so at first it was a bit of a struggle but we ended up getting use to it and we ended up being pretty successful and we made a pretty good stop motion. During us making our stop motion I think we got a little of track and our stop motion wasn't really about kindness but we still finished. My opinion on this hurumanu is alright it was fun at the start but during the middle it was a bit of a struggle when our clay sculptures would break and get squashed but it ended up good.

KidsCan

Today in CIP we were making posters, letters or creating videos about Kids Can because for the last couple of weeks they have been creating a New Zealand wide mufti day for all of the schools in NZ. All of the money that they make they will put it towards more supply's for the kids in need. Today I made a poster and added in what Kids Can is and what they do...  so this is my finished project.

Weather and Climate Change.

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIAL 

1.  Straws (4x)
2.  Cups (4x)
3. Pin.  
4. Pencil.  
5. Tape.

STEPS

1. Join the 4 straws together  
2.   Put the straws into the holes in the cups
3. Tape the straws to the cup  
4.   Push a pin threw the middle of the straws and tape
5.   put a pencil rubber at the bottom and push the pin into the rubber.
6. draw a green mark on one of the cups
7. Go out side and test it

Once you have made an anemometer we are going to record the wind speed.

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind generator

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. If possible, repeat the above step four (4) times and record the average number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10 seconds	7
2.	10 seconds	7
3.	10 seconds	6
4.	10 seconds	7

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 

Recycling.

Hurumanu - Recycling

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie 

Video questions:

What has human activity done to our planet?

Human activity has created Global activity.

What is Zero Waste?
Definition: 

One of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate impact.

What stuff has a carbon footprint?

Cloths, Food, Cars, Technology, Every day accessories etc.
What are 4 easy things to help our planet?

1.   Reduce
2.   Redesign
3.  Reuse
4.  Repair

What do we need to recycle?

1. Repair broken products
2. Sharing
3.  Glass, Cans, Plastic etc
4. Recyclable equipment

What does recycling do to our planet?

Get ride of all of our waste.

How much of our rubbish is made up of food scraps?

50%

What does methane gas do to our planet?

Traps a huge amount of sunlight on Earth.

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

Pulls carbon dioxide down from the atmosphere.

What do using zero waste practices do to our planet?
To lower co2 emissions

What is a carbon footprint?

What is your Carbon Footprint?

Carbon Footprint Calculator

You are now going to look at your own carbon footprint by taking a questionirre. Remember to 'Add details to improve accurcay'.

Based on the questionaire what is your:

1. Ecological Footprint

2. Carbon Footprint

How many planets did you have?

What is your personal Earth overshoot day?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

MY INVESTIGATION.

• Choose 6 items from the list.
• Investigate them using Google.
• Answer the 4 questions below.

Name: Coke bottle

1. How long does this resource take to decompose? 200-400 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Aluminium
3. How does making this object contribute to climate change? They use lots of electricity to create the cans and the soda creates a lot of carbon dioxide.
4. How is this resource recycled? The consumer throws aluminium cans a recycle bin. Then it goes through a re-melt process and turns into molten aluminium, this removes the coatings and inks that may be present on the aluminium. The aluminium is then made into large blocks called ingots. Each ingot contains about 1.6 million drinks cans.