Hurumanu- Climate Change and the future

Hurumanu: Climate Change and the future

Aim; To look at the different ways we can prevent climate change in the future.

How is sea level rise going to affect us in NZ

What places will be affected?

pacific islands

different places in Newzealand closest to the sea.

What else do we need to think about?

Homes near rivers getting affected because of sea-level rise.

New areas for people to live in.

What other places around NZ will be affected?

Christchurch, Napier, south Dunedin and Miramar in Wellington Timaru, Gisborne, Whangarei, Nelson, Whanganui and Invercargill are other cities.

What does this do to our drinking water?

The water is gonna get more saltwater in it if you live near the sea, because of the underground.

What are the main concerns?

1.   Houses close to the sea flooded more.
2. Underground water getting all salty instead of drinkable

What can we do to prevent climate change?

What can we do?

1.  Use public transport.
2.    Use hybrid and or electric cars.
3.     When you are building a house try to make it use less power.

Curbing climate change

What is the one, silver bullet solution?

There is no one silver bullet.

What is the mix of things we need to start doing?

1.   Use renewables more for electricity
2. Using solar heating for warming up buildings  
3. Electric vehicles more.

What are 3 others you can think of?

1.   recycling more and using less plastic
2. Walking more and using the car less.
3.   Looking after our trees and gardens.

Activities:

Carbon Footprint: 

Carbon Footprint explained

Dwelling
Water
Recreation
Heating and cooling
Electricity
Transportation
Food
Waste
Air Travel
Consumption

Colour 1: for actions they are already doing 

Colour 2: for actions that they pledge to undertake in the future

Ecological Handprint The Ecological handprint builds on the concepts from the Carbon Footprint. We will look at the positive actions of:

1. Transportation
2. Community
3. Consumption
4. Water
5. Food
6. Home
7. Waste

1 Colour: For each action, you are already doing 

2 Colour: For each action, you would like to do in the future

Hurumanu- Solar energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis:

I think that what will happen with solar energy's or what will happen with one...

Hypothesis meaning... It means to guess something... but out of the information you already have...

I think that the black covered cup will heat up the most because of how the heat will or can get threw the black paper but also make the heat stay inside of the surrounding black paper... 

Materials:

1.  Three plastic cups
2.  Tinfoil
3.  Black paper
4.  white paper
5. Water 
6. Heat lamp

Steps

1. Get the materials.
2.  Set up the cups.
3.  Cover the clear cup with a cut black plastic bag.
4.  Put the cup with a black plastic bag on top of another black plastic bag.
5.   Put the tinfoil cup on top of the paper.
6. Put the white cup on top of the paper.
7. Measure it every minute.

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16 degrees	16 degrees	16 degrees
15	18D	19D	17D
30	21d	26d	23D
45	23d	24.5	25d

In this photo, there is a heat lamp heating up our 3 cups

Conclusion

THE BLACK CUP HEATED FASTER THAN ALL THE OTHERS BECAUSE IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE AND THE HEAT LAMP WAS AIMING AT THE BLACK CUP. THE WHITE CUP WAS TIED WITH THE TIN FOIL AT SAME DEGREES IN 30 MINUTES. I LEARNT THAT HEAT LAMPS CAN GET VERY HOT IN SHORT AMOUNTS OF TIME.

Activity:

In pairs rate the livability of coal vs solar energy.

Comparing Coal energy with Solar energy ( Rate; 1 = poor to 10 = great)

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability	10	1
Sustainability	10	1
Accessibility	10	1
Cost	10	1
Your choice...	10	1

Solar Sharing ( from 2040)

hurumanu- Fossil Fuels

Fossil fuels

aim: To learn about the impact of fossil fuels on our environment 

The first thing we looked at was mining fossil fuels, the questions we had to answer:

What Fossil Fuels are mined?

1. Oil
2. Coal
3. Natural Gas

Mr Palmer gave us a cookie, we had to draw a picture of that cookie in our hurumanu books, we also had to draw a habitat around the cookie. For example my cookies habitat was underwater so I drew, sea weed, water, fish, and other sea creatures. After this activity we had to answer these questions.

What type of habitat is it?:
an underwater habitat.

What plants and animals live there:

Fish,crabs, sharks, seaweed and dolphins.

 How do humans use your habitat?:

usually to swim or fish for food, and most of the time mine oil.

Mining the cookie:

When we had done drawing our habitat and cookie we had to try and mine out all the chocolate chips with a toothpick with out making the cookie break. My cookie did sadly break but I managed to get about 16 chocolate chips out. 

After this we had to answer some more questions.

How has your habitat (cookie) changed?:

There is nothing left in the cookie and it has also crumbled.  

How can we avoid this in the future?:
By starting from the middle part of the cookie.

What lives there now?:

Nothing.

Materials:

1. Plastic plate
2. Chocolate Chip Cookie
3. A Toothpick

Steps:

1. Get a Plastic Plate and put the Cookie in the middle
2. take a  book.
3. Draw two drawings
1. Draw a picture of the cookie.
2. Draw a picture of the habitat.
4. With a toothpick, dig the chocolate chip.
5. After digging the cookie, count how many chocolate chips you have.
6. Draw the cookie after being dug up 
7. Eat the cookie

Conclusion:

I think this experiment is a good representation of how things like coal mining, and oil mining are ruining our environment, and also showing people how important it is to respect the earth just like how we were mining but also trying not to break our cookie. Even though some did.

I think the environment will defiantly get better if all of us try.

The deep sea wildlife of Aotearoa

The deep-sea wildlife of Aotearoa 
for reading, we have been reading a book called Wildlife of Aotearoa - Gavin bishop Dominique, and I chose to do the deep sea wildlife the sea animals you don't usually see or maybe even know about and thats exactly why we made these slides.

My favorite deepsea animal is the Giant isopod mainly because it's cute but also because it's a lone scavenger and lives in the darkness so I can relate 😂 there are more facts about this creature in the slide below.

Please enjoy!!

Hurumanu- Water cycle

How a water cycle works
For science this term we are learning about fossil fuels and climate change. We are doing this experiment where we are seeing what happens when you inclose water in a Ziplock bag and leave it in the sun. The steps and methods below explain what I think is going to happen and what we did.

Title	How a water cycle works
Purpose	To find out how the water cycle works
Materials	-Large ziplock bag x 2 -Black vivid x1 - 1 cup of water - Blue food dye - Baking soda  -Litmus paper -Double-sided tape
Steps	(Experiment 1) Grab the large Ziploc bag Draw the water cycle on the large Ziploc bag (in vivid) Show Mr palmer the drawing. Mr palmer adds 1 cup of water into the large Ziploc bag Then he adds 2 drops of blue food dye  And then you stick it on the window where the most sun gets through and wait (Experiment 2) Repeat step 1 and 2 of the first experiment. Show Mr palmer your drawing on the ziplock bag Mr palmer will then add 1 cup of water into the Ziploc bag Then he will add 2 drops of blue dye And then 1 tsp of baking soda  Stick your double-sided tape on and then stick it on the window and wait.
Conclusion	Experiment 1 I think the outcome of this experiment will be... Not so drastic as the 2nd experiment I think the water will either evaporate or collect water. What actually happened Experiment 2 I think the outcome of this experiment will be more interesting and have a lot more outcomes than the first mainly because it has baking soda and is enclosed in a Ziploc bag, therefore, creating more carbon dioxide then experiment 1  and carbon dioxide is a fossil fuel.

Nirvana the band

Nirvana the band 
If you like nirvana or are interested in learning more about nirvana this is the post for you. Nirvana has to be one of my favourite bands and Kurt Cobain the lead singer has a very interesting back story, No I actually do not like "smells like teen spirit" 😤😂 I actually like "Mr moustache" more and my favourite album is "Bleach".   

Mr Scott had us make a D.L.O on something we find interesting in this case nirvana was my first pick so here is the final product.
Nirvana source 1
Nirvana source 2
Nirvana source 3

Hurumanu -Climate change issues

Climate change issues

Factories-

Factories pollute the air through fossil fuel emissions.
These emissions include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide and run constantly.

Cows-

A cow does on overage release between
70 and 120 kg of Methane per year (CO2) Just by farting and burping.

Transportation-

most cars need gas or diesel to work,
These come from oil which is a fossil fuel 

Electricity-

Electrictricity is a form of energy used to power homes and other things,
electricity can come from non-renewable
and renewable sources such as (fossil fuels) Oil, and gas.

Food- 

Transporting food by plane, ships and trains causes a lot
of pollution but of course, we need food to survive and also farming
causes greenhouse gases.

Landfill-

When waste breaks down in landfills it makes greenhouse gases,
methane and carbon dioxide.

Learning conferences!

Learning conferences!?!
This week we have learning conferences and I have made a learning conference slide and 2 learning storeys one for P.E and Digital technology/health I am going to present my slides with you they are basically about what we are doing for maths, writing, reading etc.

In conclusion: I think this is a good way to show my work with whomever I am sharing it with and it is a lot quicker and simple for me to switch between tabs and things.

Pe Fitness testing Hurumanu

Fitness Hurumanu

For this terms hurumanu we are doing P.E, for P.E we have been doing fitness testing and beep tests.
(What we did for fitness testing)
We had to do abdominal conditioning test, Sit and reach and vertical jump, we had a group of people 1 tester the person that writes down your marks and scores and the rest of us did the tests here is what the tests are and my marks.

(Power-Vertical Jump)
Basically what we did first was stand and put your arm up to the vertical marking on the wall and my standing measurement was 1.95 and then finally I had to jump and touch a marking 3 times all times I got the same measurement (2.3)  as you can see its not a big difference and I differently want to improve my vertical jump.

(Flexibility- Sit and Reach)
We had to sit on the ground with no shoes on, in front of us was a little slidey board with measurements on it and we had to stretch our legs out to touch the board and then move the slider to a measurement using only the tips of our fingers here is what I got (20cm). I also realised that the shorter the person the longer the measurement they get.

(Muscular Endurance- Abdominal conditioning test)
For this one, we had the mat on the ground and we had 30seconds, what we had to do in those 30 seconds was situps my final score was (20) and no one was allowed to hold your feet. I definitely think I can do better.

Conclusion
I think this was very interesting it was nice to know my different skills and how I can Improve them, These marks and measurements are deffinatly encourageing me to get better. Im also alot better at certain things then I thought I was.

100 word challenge

100-word challenge

So in class today I did the 100-word challenge basically we have to write 

a story about a phrase or a picture in 100 words my phrase was "I was so cross that" 

so here it is.

One rainy day I was in my bedroom playing ps4, I was about to beat my high score of 10 when all of a sudden my sister turns off the internet, I was so cross that I threw my controller across the room and it snapped.   Later that night I had to explain everything to my parents I could tell that they were not too impressed and the next day I had to do chores all morning. But my sister then came and apologised because she felt bad, I said “It's alright” and we hugged it out. The end?

Drama Hurumanu: My poem

Drama Hurumanu: My poem

For drama Hurumanu this week we have been working on poems, such as name poems, or poems we can act out here's mine. Little backstory so this poem is about anxiety and how it would feel here it is.

Teardrops falling 

People brawling

Butterflies swarming

Lights flashing

Cameras Action!

Face hidden 

Feelings faked 

Mood change                                                                                               

Realistic state                                                                                                         

Frozen face                                                                                                              

Frostbite fingers

the fear inside slowly lingers

creeping towards the open chords 

I am slowly forced to BREAK!.

Then I realise it's all being staged inside my mind full of fear.

Brando "WildBoy" Yelavich: Book review

This week we are reading WildBoy the book here is most of the information I got from the book.

Reader review: This book had a alot of interesting facts I really liked it.

Brando“WildBoy" Yelavich

Brando Yelavich is also known as “Wild Boy” Got his name because he was the first person to walk the New Zealand coastline which is 15,000 kilometres long and on top of that filled with stretches of beach, sheer cliffs, sharp and slippery rocks etc. But there was still possibilities of hypothermia, drowning or even serious injury but that did not stop Wildboy for achieving his goals.

Brando said “I’d been told so many times that most people are ‘gunnas’”, Brando says “They’re gunna do this gunna do that. I decided to be a doer.

He also decided he wants to be self-sufficient along the way: Hunting, Fishing, and Foraging for food. Wildboy’s biggest challenge was surviving off the land sometimes the food was gross, sometimes it was good, and sometimes he didn't eat at all.

Brando yelavich Walked the coastline to raise 10,00 dollars for Ronald Mcdonald house he raised more than anticipated and managed to raise 30,00 dollars. Also after the big walk he writes the book wild boy and it went onto best sellers .

Drama: My weekly physical activity

Drama: My weekly physical activity

This week: For drama, we are working on intense and challenging activities or sports we do on the daily to see how it affects our body and why it affects our body at school and at home.

I Have a goal set and that is to get my stamina up and build muscles on my legs here are some things I can do

My activities

Monday: Jogging around my neighbourhood + 40 mins

Tuesdays: Playing soccer on the field + 50mins

Wednesday: Doing situps +30mins 

Thursday: Basketball practice + 55 mins at least

Friday: Basketball game + 1 hour 

These are all really good sports for leg muscles but they also help with stamina and coordination.

I am Malala Novel study: Five important things about I am malala

For reading this term we have been reading the novel I am Malala,  I really enjoyed this book it had so many interesting things in it like I didn't know that girls in Pakistan weren't allowed to go to school CRAZY RIGHT!  Malala is a true fighter and she deserves more recognition.

Nikora's  Blog Because he is cool and helped me : Here

Home Chemistry: Crystals Salt,Borax, and salt

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals

Crystal video

Definition of solution:

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid (eg: sugar in water)

Definition of saturated:

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something (when no more sugar or borax can be dissolved into the water)

Borax Crystals

Borax Crystals time lapse video

Ratio; 3 Tablespoons Borax per 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) Pipe cleaners

2) String

3) Regs

4)Borax

5)Cups

Process

Step 1: Shape pipe cleaners into star shapes.

Step 2: Hang star on a peg.

Step 3: Mate up borax solution.

Step 4: Label your cup.

Step 5: Pour three spoons of borax.

Step 6: Pour half a cup of cold water into the borax cup.

Step 7: Steer the borax and the water so it can mix together.

Sugar Crystals

Sugar crystals video

Ratio: 1 cup sugar to 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) pipe cleaners x 3

2) string

3) peg x 1

4)cups

5) stirring sticks

Process

Step 1: Pour four spoons of sugar into sugar cup

Step 2: Add hot water to the cup

Step 3: stir sugar and water till dissolved

Step 4: Tie string on the stirring spoon in the middle

Step 5: wet the string

Step 6: Put sugar on it and wait......

Salt Crystals

Salt crystals time lapse video

Ratio: 4 Tablespoons salt to 1/2 cup water

Materials

1) Salt

2) Stirring spoon

3) Cup

4) Hot water

5)

Process

Step 1: Pour three spoons of salt in the salt cup.

Step 2: Tip half a cup of water into the salt cup.

Step 3: Steer the water and the salt to mix them.

Step 4: Put string in the cup pull out

Step 5: Add salt to string

Step 6: Put back into salt water and wait