Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels

Today in science, we learned what contributes to climate change, here they are:

Transport: most cars need gas or diesel to work gas is made from oil which is a fossil fuel.

Cows: create a gas called methane and it is 25x stronger than carbon dioxide.

Food: we need food to survive and is transported by trains planes trucks and ships and adds carbon dioxide.

Factories: make clothes cars electronics and processed foods that create a lot of pollution.

Electricity: can come from renewable sources out of water wind and sun fossil fuels release co2 into the atmosphere.

Waste: our landfills are growing and use good land and there are gases that contribute to climate change.

Climate change at Orana park.

On Tuesday we went to Orana Park and we saw a lot of animals. I'm going to talk about what I saw, what happened and what I learned. We had a guide who was there to show us the animals and teach us about climate change and how it affects these animals.

Our guide was Richard, and he showed us around the park. First, we went past the meerkats and then we went to a lunch area to have our morning tea. We saw a tiger, five lions, a few rhinos, and a few giraffes. We couldn't see any kiwis in the kiwi habitat, but we did see a couple of keas which were really smart and very adorable.

Three things that I enjoyed about the trip were:

• Seeing the Lions,
• Learning about how climate change affects the animals we saw,
• Seeing the Keas.

Four facts I learnt were:

• Poachers kill rhinos for their horn because they think it's had benefits in medicine,
• When male lions get desexed, their manes disappear because of their hormones,
• There are 12 white Bengal tigers left in the world,
• The West African black rhino is extinct. 

Four climate change facts I learnt were:

• The Orangutans' natural home is being destroyed for palm oil
• The Gorillas' home is being destroyed for tiny metal chips that are used to make cellphones.
• Giraffes contribute to helping replanting trees because they eat leaves which have seeds on them which they poop back out into the ground and the poop helps the seed grow back.
• Animals in the arctic are losing their homes because the polar caps are melting.

Hurumanu - Solar energy

Solar Energy

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

Hypothesis: I think White and/or silver will attract the suns heat.

Materials:

1.  White cup x2
2.  Sheet of Paper
3.  Sheet of Tinfoil x2
4.  Plastic bag sheet x2
5.  Clear cup
6. Heat lamp

Steps

1. Write your hypothesis
2. Get your materials
3.  Set up your materials like this
4.  Turn on the lamp and position it so that each colour cup gets an even amount of heat.
5.  At three 15 minute intervals, for one minute (in total) put the thermometer in each cup and record the data.
6.   Turn the Lamp back on after you have done recording the info (not after you've done the whole lot).
7. Look back at your hypothesis to see if you were right.>>>>

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16'c	16'c	16'c
15	18'c	20'c	19'c
30	18'c	24'c	21'c
45	19'c	27'c	23'c

Conclusion

My theory wasn't correct, but I can learn from this information for next time.

Art Hurumanu - Story

In Art, we have written a story which we have made into stop motion. The site we are using to make it is down, so I am making this blog post. Here it is:

The story of Manaakitanga between Shrek and Danny Devito.

One day in Shrek’s swamp, 1673, Shrek was about to have a shower with his trash, when he saw his trash is gone. Shrek thought “Danny Devito must be behind this! He was the last person to be here!”.

3 Hours later, Danny Devito, who was there because he just finished his wrestling match, was in the middle of a drink in Paddy’s Pub as his online persona “the trash man” and then Shrek burst the door and informed Danny “I would like my trash back, and I am not taking no for an answer.” Danny Devito realized his mistake and Perry the Platypus told him he would help him learn about being kind as long as he gave Shrek’s trash back.

While Perry was teaching Danny how to be kind, Shrek was at the hospital, caring for Donkey because he had fleas. Shrek told Donkey about Danny and what Danny did. Donkey told Shrek to forgive Danny because he didn’t want to see Shrek angry. Back with Perry and Danny, Danny learned to ask someone nicely for something, instead of taking it from them.

Danny offered to buy Shrek a beer back at Paddy’s Pub. Shrek was really sad about Donkey and forgave Danny. Danny apologized and offered to pay for Donkey's medical fees as sorry.

The manaakitanga in this story is that Danny regrets his decision and Perry helps him learn how to be nice. Shrek also learns from donkey to forgive Danny anyway because it’s not nice to fight.

Tane Mahuta Update

Today we were doing some weeding at the back of the field, and I found coal! I was so surprised but I'm proud of myself. I don't know what I'm gonna do with it, but I know that I could probably sell it for like $2.

Hurumanu - Wind Power

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1.  Anemometer: An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind, or of any current of gas.
2. Beaufort wind scale: This scale is used to relate wind in the sky to wind on land or in the sea. 
3. Typhoon: A tropical storm in the region of the Indian or western Pacific oceans.
4. Monsoon: The rainy season accompanying the wet monsoon.
5. What is it when the weather is really nice and turns to hail: Climate Variability.

MATERIALS:

1. Stick x2 
2. Pencil
3. Cup x4
4. Sellotape
5. Pin
6. Sticky note

Steps:

1. Tape the cups on the ends of the sticks
2. Tape the sticks together in the middle
3. Stick the pin in the rubber end of the pencil
4. Tape the pin to the middle of the sticks.

Group Investigation.

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 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. 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 site	15
3.	Grass hill in quad	10
4.	Tennis Court gate	3ty

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

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	80	13-20	3
Old J Block site	60	6-12	2.5
Grass hill	40	6-12	2
Tennis Court Gate	12	2-5	1

CONCLUSION: 

The Field doesn't have any buildings around it, so the wind is more powerful there. The Tennis Court Gate is the least powerful because it's near a lot of trees and a fence. My conclusion is, wind power depends on what surrounds it, and what isn't surrounding it. For example, because the Field was open with a lot of space around it, the wind power was stronger around the Field.

My Highlights and low lights from the holidays

In the holidays are plenty of examples of lowlights and Highlights, But I'm sharing two of each. 

My Highlights are:

I've planned a special birthday lunch for me and my family for my birthday. It is going to be a day before my birthday since my birthday is on a Sunday. Also, I had to make it somewhere where dogs are allowed because of my Grandparents dog Misty (who I consider as a part of our family). We are having it at the old Tannery and we will be using the normal menu so people can order what they want when they want it. My Auntie and her fiance' on my mum's side of the family is going to make it, my Grandparents are going to make it, and My dad is going to make it. I'm not sure who else might be coming to my birthday lunch.

My mum and I went to the Lyttleton bakery while my sister was away at camp and we had the Pork Belly pies which tasted amazing (My Mum and I couldn't stop talking about how good they were). We were so excited when we stepped foot in the door and we went up to the counter and ordered the pies. After we finished the pies, we felt like we needed to try something else. We ordered A croquette (for me) and a chocolate cheesecake doughnut (for my mum), I hadn't had a croquette before and my mum wanted the doughnut because it sounded amazing. 

Now for my Low lights:

My nana broke her hip and had to get a hip replacement, She fell over, got up and didn't tell anyone. The next night she told her husband that her hip hurts and she feels like she needs to go to the hospital. She did and thats when the hospital diagnosed her.

When She got out of hospital she didn't like the chair the hospital put her in, so she went into a chair that had no armrests. She fell asleep and fell on the floor and broke a vertebra in her neck and she had to go to the hospital again. Luckily she isn't paralyzed, she is expected to come out of the hospital on the 23rd of October, 3 days before my birthday lunch. I hope she can make it, if she can't then I'll go and visit her.