Christmas

Hello and welcome to my blog this is the task I did for C.I.P.

Here it is...

Summer learning journey

Hello my name is Shanarnia and I am a year 8  student at Hornby High School.  I am looking forward to the holidays even though I'm probably not going to be doing the Summer Learning Journey. The reason for this is that I'm probably not going to be home a lot because i am having family that are come Australia.  

 This blog post is made for Emma from the Summer Learning Journey. But If you are not her you are still welcome to read my post :)
I'm doing this blog post to introduce myself because my class have been sign up for the summer learning journey. 

Blog post

Today in gym sports we have been playing crash pad cricket and tennis. We had to get into three teams and one of the teams had to play tennis then the two other teams play crash pad cricket. We had to run to the first pad and when someone hits the ball the other run have to run to the second pad. 

What I enjoy during gym sports was playing crash pad cricket and talking to new people.

Fantastic Mr the fox

Hi guys today BLOG POST  Is  about  FANTASTIC MR FOX BY ROALD DAHL. In 7/8 TZ we Have BEEN READING IN GROUPS WITH DIFFERENT BOOKS. like a GROUP that WILL HAVE 1 BOOK to read and then the OTHER GROUPs WILL HAVE A DIFFERENT BOOK .So there are 4 group .THE MAIN CHARACTERS ARE MR FOX, MRS FOX, THE SMALL FOXES, BADGER, BOGGIS, BEAN AND BUNCE.

 In the story Mr fox goes and steals a chicken from the farms. Farmers boggies. Bunce and bean grow wild with rage. Mr fox went to get food for his kid but the farms come and shot his tail when he was in the hole. His kids were about to throw up. I hope you like this blog post. What do you think is going to happen? 

Art

During this term in our art hurumanu every group had to make a story using clay or drawing their story on whiteboards. My group members are Daniel, loloam, Jesse.We have been doing our piranha art project. We first had to make a plan on what our story was gonna be about. All the groups had to make stories relating to manakitanga, so Jesse and I decided to make a story about piranha being good. We first had to draw what our characters looked like and draw what was happening in our story. For two weeks our group had to think of ideas, our characters, and also draw our story step by step. Our story is about a piranha being nice and a wolf who go to the woods and sleep but he was so scared that something is going to pop up. There was people that were going for a swim in the sea. The volcanoes erupting so everyone was running for there life. The link is down here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-MeerhRdMGi4XbmOPcGhGCWzKr_Yks5S/view?ts=5d4b7719

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

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?
Create an unnatural greenhouse gasses.

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?

Bags

Chairs

Cellphone

Cars

Toothbrush

Bottle

Boxes

What are 4 easy things to help our planet?

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

What do we need to recycle?

1. Repairing broken products
2. Sharing products

What does recycling do to our planet?

Reduce Co2 emissions.

How much of our rubbish is made up of food scraps?
50% of compostable materials.

What does methane gas do to our planet?
It just traps a lot of sunlights 84x.

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?
Reduce and compost rubbish.

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?

3 and a half

What is your personal Earth overshoot day?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   
2.   
3.   

MY INVESTIGATION.

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

Name: 

1. How long does this resource take to decompose?
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?
3. How does making this object contribute to climate change?
4. How is this resource recycled?

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 doen to our planet?


What is Zero Waste?
Definition:

What stuff has a carbon footprint?

What are 4 easy things to help our planet?

1.   
2.   
3.  
4.  

What do we need to recycle?

1. 
   
2. 
   
3. 
   
4. 
   

What does recycling do to our planet?

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


What does methane gas do to our planet?

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?


What do using zero waste practices do to our planet?

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?

3 and a half

What is your personal Earth overshoot day?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   
2.   
3.   

MY INVESTIGATION.

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

Name: 

1. How long does this resource take to decompose?
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?
3. How does making this object contribute to climate change?
4. How is this resource recycled?

Weather and climate change

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 the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The 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 lose 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.

MATERIALS

1. 4 STRAWS 

 2.  4 CUPS

3. PIN

4. PENCIL

5. TAPE

STEPS  

1.  Step one is to get your cups and poke a hole on the top side of your cup and make it go through on each cup. 
2.  Then get your four straws to take two and connect it together then tape it after doing that do that with the other two.
3. After taping each straw together and make a plus. 
4. Then get you to pin and pin it in the middle of the plus.
5. Then stick the straws where you poke the hole on the cups.
6. The last step is to tape the pencil to the middle of the plus/cross.  It will hopefully look like this.

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

Group size: 5

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

• Timekeeper - Shalizeh 
• Counter- Shanarnia
• Recorder- Jayden  
• Anemometer Manager -  Nathan
• Wind generator- Heat pump, Human breathe slowly, outside, Human breathe fast

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the timekeeper 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.	10s	Heat pump-5
2.	10s	Human breathe slowly-3
3.	10s	Human breathe fast-7
4.	10s	Outside -2

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

CONCLUSION:

The fast breath was very fast

and outside was very slow because there was no wind 

it was the human breathe

Hurumanu

I know this post is not complete but this is how I was asked to publish it. That is the reason this is not finished.

Hurumanu: The Water Cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition: the water cycle speeds up and it rains more which then causes floods.

Acidification

Deforestation 

Water vapour

ice melt

Definition

Acidification is the construction of acidic, this affects climate change as it starts killing marine life and makes the sea hotter and hotter. Green house gases are released into the air 25% of this goes into the ocean each year that turns into acidification.

Deforestation is the act of cutting down trees, this releases more green house gases into the air which destroys the atmosphere. These green house gases do a lot of damage and after that the wood is sometimes burned which creates more green house gases.

Water vapour the evaporation of water it affects the climate as by increasing humidity in the air which makes the atmosphere warmer. The water vapour rises into the air creating rain which makes floods.

ice melt, heat causing ice to melt into water, this affects climate change as it causes a lot more rain which causes floods. It also makes the sea level rise which would cover lands in water causing tragedy and land loss.

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1.  Water/soda water
2.  PH papaer/ Litmus paper
3.  Food colouring
4.  Bag
5. Permanent marker
6. Sand

Steps:

1.  We wrote the cycle on the bag
2.  put 1 cup of water or soda water in a bag with 2 drops of food colouring
3.  hung the water cycles up
4. We left the water cycles for 2 weeks 
5. wrote about our findings

Findings:

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	3	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small drips

3 = large drips

Other comments:

Bag 1: cycled water

Bag 2: add a small amount of water

Bag 3: the acidity in bag 3 is low

1-3 bags had low water levels
All 3 bags allowed the water cycle to work
Bag 1 had no acidity
Bag 2 had high acidity
Bag 3 had no acidity

Conclusion:

Bag 1 had little amount of water, the water cycle worked and had no acidity.

Bag 2 also had a small amount of water, the water cycle worked in that to and had a lot
acidity.

Bag 3 had some water in it, the water cycle worked in it and had no acidity.

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Acid rain
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Deforestation
8. Water vapour
9. Transpiration
10. Flooding

SOLO Hexagons Activity

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?