Fossil Fuels

Fossil Fuels 

Aim: To learn about the impact of Fossil Fuels on our environment.

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
- Oil
- Coal
- Natural Gas

What type of Habitat is it?
The Ocean.

What Plants or Animals live in it?
Seaweed, Fish, Corals, Whales, Shark, Jellyfish and many more.

What do Humans use your Habitat for?
Diving, Swimming, Fishing, Sailing, Surfing and many more.

( 1. COOKIE ) ( 2. OCEAN ) After Mining:

Has your Habitat change?
1. The Cookie is broken into pieces and really messy.
2. The animals and everything that lives there died or disappeared.

How can we avoid this in the future?
1. For the Cookie,I'll do it carefully and not rush next time.
2. Make sure it's protected.

What lives there now?
Nothing.

Materials:
- Chocolate Chip Cookies
- Toothpick
- Plate

Step:
1. Draw a picture of the Cookie.
2. Draw a picture of the Habitat.
3. Start mining your Cookie with the Toothpick.
4. Count the Chocolate chips that you got out from the Cookie.
5. Throw the Cookie away or eat it.
6. Draw the look of your Cookie after the mining.
7. Record your points.

Conclusion:
I learnt that when your mining, it's going to affect the surrounding of it and the animals that are living near it.

Extreme Weather - Wind Power

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1. Typhoon: A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or the Western Pacific Ocean.
2. Monsoon: A seasonal wind in the region of the South and South East Asia. 
3. Anemometer: An instrument/tool for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
4. Beaufort wind scale: The Beaufort scale is an empirical measure that relates wind speed to observed conditions at sea or on land. Its full name is the Beaufort wind force scale.
5. What is it when a weather is really nice and turns to hail?  Climate Variability.

MATERIALS

1. 2 sticks 

2. Tape

3. Pencil

4. 4 cups

5. pin

6. Sticky notes

  

STEPS

1.   Collect Materials.
2.   Tape the 2 sticks together to form a cross.
3.   Tape the sticks onto the Cups.
4.   Get the Pin and stick it through the sticks and through the rubber of the Pencil.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

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

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. Repeat the above step four (4) times and record the number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.

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

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	20
2.	Old J block	15
3.	Grass hill	10
4.	Tennis court gate	3

CONCLUSION:

On the field, the Anemometer would spin 80 times per minute. The wind scale reaches about 13-20 kilometres per hour and the Beaufort force reaches to 3.


At the Old J block, the Anemometer would spin 60 times per minute. The wind scale reaches about 51 -60 kilometres per hour and the Beaufort force reaches 7.

On the Grass hill, the Anemometer would spin 40 times per minute. The wind scale reaches about 40 - 50 kilometres per hour and the Beaufort force reaches 6.

At the Tennis Courts, the Anemometer would spin 48 times per minute. The wind scale would reach 6 - 12 kilometres per hour and the Beaufort force would reach 2.

Decomposition

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis:
I think that the Banana and Bread will get rotten first before the other ones because they are food and the other materials are a bit more solid. The Bread will have Water with it so it will turn soggy and not as solid as before.

Materials:

1.   1 x small slice of Bread + Water
2.   1 x strip of Paper
3.   2 slices of Banana
4.   1 strip of Styrofoam 
5.   4 x Test Tubes
6.   1 x Test Tube Rack

Steps:

1.  Get your Test Tube Rack then put the Test Tubes inside.
2.  Put two slices of Bananas inside one of the Test Tube.
3.  Put the slice of Bread inside the other Test Tube and so on. 
4.  Put Water with the Bread.

Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Brown	None	Still the original.
Paper	Brown	None	Still the original.
Styrophone cup	White	None	Still the original.
Bread	Brown	None	Still the original.

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3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Greenish	Moldy	It got Moldy and Watery.
Paper	Brown	None	Still the original.
Styrophone cup	White	None	Still the original.
Bread	Light Brown	Mushy	Got so Mushy.

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5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Green	Mouldy	It's gone Mouldy.
Paper	Brown	None	Still the original.
Styrophone cup	White	None	Still the original.
Bread	Brown	Mushy	Gone Slimy.

  

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Images:

We haven't taken any pictures yet.

Conclusion:
This Experiment was really fun and exciting. The second recording that I got was really surprising. The Hypothesis that I did was right but the bread didn't actually had water in it but still got Mushy. We are still doing the experiment and waiting for another 1 to 2 weeks and see what it looks like after 5 weeks.

LATE PUBLISH! 

Solar Powered Oven - Renewable Energy's

Aim: To make a Solar Powered Oven.

Materials: 

1.  Sellotape
2. Scissors 
3. Pizza Box 
4. Straw
5. Marshmallow
6. Biscuit
7. Glab Wrap
8. Tinfoil
9. Black Plastic
10. Ruler
11. Vivid Pen
12. News Paper

Steps:

1. Cut out the flap on the lid of the pizza box so that it is 5cm around the edge 
2. Sellotape some tinfoil on the inside of the flap
3. Sellotape some glad-wrap so that the hole you have cut on the pizza box li is covered over with glad wrap
4. Put a piece of black plastic on the bottom of inside of the pizza box
5. Make a paper square that fits inside the pizza box and lays around the edge
6. Put a marshmallow on top of a chocolate biscuit, place it on a plastic plate and put it in the solar oven
7. Put in in the sun to cook

Time	Temperature
0	No Recording.
15	No Recording.
30	No Recording.
45	No Recording.

Conclusion

Last week for Science, we got into groups of 4 or 5 and make our own Solar Powered Oven. We couldn't do the s'mores because we didn't have enough time but we might be doing it this week.

Dream Home!!

Hi guys. So today I'm going to be talking about the things that we did for this week's Tane Mahuta. I designed our dream house. We couldn't do any gardening things this week. This is how my dream house look like:

Holiday Highlights

Hi guys, so today I'm going to be talking about a highlight of my Holiday that I really liked.

Last Saturday, me and my Parents went to a birthday party. We were one of the first people that arrived at the location. I was pretty anxious at first, thinking that I'm going to be alone by my self but some of my closest friends also attended the birthday party. Some people were taking too long to arrive to the party so me and my friends found some ways to keep ourselves entertained. We found a hang out space where we could talk. It was just at the side of the house. We talked about the things that we really enjoyed doing the past few days and a lot of other things. After a really long time, all the people that was invited finally arrived. Then it's eating time.

We lined up one by one to get the foods that we want to eat. The foods were on a long table, a lined perfectly. There was a lot of delicious foods such as Spaghetti, Fried Chicken, and the most loved, Pork Lechon. I only ate two types of food which are Spaghetti and Fried Chicken. Me and my friends continued talking about random things outside while eating.

Once we finished eating, we were keep on going in and out of the house, getting random stuff. It was hard for me because I was wearing shoes and I couldn't be bothered taking it off. We finally decided t go out side and play Freeze tag. We didn't play it for a long time because it's so exhausting. We settled in my friend's bed room. We talked about random stuff again. It was really boring for me as well as for my friends. I asked my other friend if we could watch a horror movie and she agreed. We watched the movie called "The Conjuring".

Not done yet!

Orana Park - Climate Change

Today, I'm going to be talking about the Orana Park Trip that we had earlier this week. I'm also going to be giving some facts and how Climate Change affect them. I really enjoyed how the Lion Growled at me. It's a bit Scary but fun at the same time. The other thing that I also like was the Gorilla. I placed my hands against  the window and it placed it's hands against the Window near mine.

The Climate Change affects the way they live and their habitats. We get affected as well so we need to do our part.

Here are some facts that I got:

Meerkats - always have one out of all of them to look around and see if there's something that they need to be aware of

Giraffes - they have Purple tongue's to prevent them from having sunburn

White Rhinoceros - People believe that their horns can help us cure a type of sickness but there are no scientific ways to prove it. Their horns are the same as our nails.

That's all! Thank you!