Spiritual Wellbeing

Hi guys, I will explain how in 5 ways to be healthy in nature.

Nature Guide

• Planting vegetable's 
• Eating Fruits & Vege to grow faster and healthier
• Plant trees so you get the opportunity to help & save Earth
• Stay hydrated and drink water every day and every time you're exhausted
• Exercise everyday daily to stay in a fit shape

If I had a goal and turned it into a game what will it be?

• It would be to run the fastest and I would turn it into football and hopefully always be successful in football

Put a picture of a favourite outdoor place with a caption explaining why it is important to you and your whanau [Famiy]

My family don't have a favourite outdoor place, we normally like to stay close to home because everyone is normally busy and we rarely go on a trip. I think for me it's Denton park, kyle park tracks or I normally hang out with friends.

How I think the earth was formed

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. Volcanic outgassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen.

My Investigation on Climate Change

Acidification Investigation

ACIDIFICATION

Definition: Acid has been created from carbon dioxide when the ocean or sea absorbs carbon dioxide. It turns the water acid which is called acidification. It causes it from the atmosphere where there's lot's of carbon dioxide due to human activities which are producing more acid than ocean absorbs into itself causing it to be more acidic.

What is happening to the oceans?

• More carbon dioxide is created due to human activity
• Sealife is having difficulties living in there environment because it has a lot of acid in it
• More acidic in oceans will harm sea life

What does this do to Shellfish?

• The Acidification is making shellfish's environment difficult for it to live and increases their death rate including extinction.

How Does Climate Change Contribute To The Acidification Of Our Oceans?

How the carbon dioxide is sucked into the ocean is by doing the water cycle, the carbon is let out into the atmosphere and evaporations happen at the same time mixing the water vapour and the carbon dioxide, turning it into a cloud called condensation. This makes the cloud acidic and then it rains into the ocean enabling it for the ocean to suck all the carbon or acid into itself making it acidic called Acidification.

DEFORESTATION

DEFINITION: Deforestation is making a clearance, room or clearing for other uses like agriculture, horticulture, ranches & etc. most deforestation is happening in tropical forest's to clear land to make more buildings. 

What are trees used for?

• Furniture
• Houses
• Buildings
• Pencils
• Book
• Paper
• Basic School stationary

HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT THE CLIMATE?

The carbon we breathe out is absorbed by the trees so they can turn it into fresh oxygen, but without them, we will be breathing the same carbon over and over again, it releases greenhouse gas including carbon dioxide. Forest has an ability to take carbon, absorb sunlight, process water and also to block the wind. Without the trees, water won't be absorbed by them and it makes a little stream called a runoff. 

ICE CAP MELT

DEFINITION: ice melting into water, basically polar ice cap melting directly into the oceans increasing the volume of water.

If all the ice melted what would happen?

The sea levels would rise causing citys and towns being flooded or be taken over by the ocean. Also, the salt in the water will mix with the freshwater making all the creatures suffer from the environment and causing extinction for all sea life in the world.

HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

As the water rises it will affect countries around the globe causing them to move to another country, some may lose homes, family members. Melting ice uncovers land or ocean beneath causing it to absorb more sunlight which means more heating.

New Kahui

This week we moved into our amazing new learning spaces, on Monday we had finally moved into our new classrooms and the buildings were not completely finished yet because its a work in progress. In the morning we went to the auditorium to have a big meeting and sort out where we are going and who is going on the trip to Orana Park, we went to Orana Park the day after that but that's not what I am going to talk about. After the meeting in the auditorium, we walked to our new classrooms to have a good look at it.

My class which is Ts was shocked and surprised on how big it was and the spaces we had, but we weren't the only class in the new Kahui, with us was another class Sh which we had to share the space with & work with. It will be hard for us to work with but we can improve it slowly and work together like one big class. There were three buildings/Kahui, each building has there own name, the first one is Mohua, Riroriro & Tieke.

The block we were in was Tieke and each name represents a bird, when I walked into our new buildings I saw big spaces to work in, new furniture like TVs and etc. In our building are different classes, there are Japanese rooms and other subject classes. We were all shown the different classes and we liked it because of how much rooms there were. I thought that the new buildings will be great, but it was even better than I expected it to look like.

I felt like I was working in a university or something similar, it felt like a fresh new start because it was a modern building like any other schools. I am so far enjoying it.

Hurumanu- Science Laboratory introduction

Aim: To learn about the expected behaviour in a science laboratory.


Our R9 Class Treaty

1.   Quiet voices
2.   Sitting with appropriate people
3.   Not fidgetting
4.   Not disturbing
5.   Respecting equipment
6.   Making good choices

Safety in a laboratory.

teacher   shoes   practical  teacher laboratory   ask  sniff teacher  breakages 

1.   Follow the instructions given to you by the ____Teacher______ .
2.   You must not enter the laboratory without your ____Teacher____.
3.   Report all _____breakages_______ to your teacher.
4.   You must never eat or drink in a ______laboratory______ .
5.   ___Shoes____ must be worn at all times.
6.   If you spill something you should tell your ____Teacher_____ immediately.
7.  You should wash your hands after every __practical_____ activity.
8. You should know what you are doing. If in doubt __ask____ your teacher.
9. Never taste or __sniff____ chemicals.

In your group discuss how the following scenarios could be dangerous.

1. Not putting your bag under your desk.
2. Running around in the laboratory.
3. Not wearing shoes in a laboratory.
4. Shaking a test tube with your thumb over its mouth?

How do we work in this laboratory?

1. Beginning and End of class: Lining up, Entry, Seating, 
2. Equipment tray: equipment list and details.

• Test Tube - Used for most experiments using some form of liquid. They have a bung that goes on the top to seal it.
• Conical Flask - Used for experiments with liquid up to 150 mL. The Flask has a rubber bung for the top and the glass is heatproof.
• Glass Stirring rod - A 20cm rod used for stirring and mixing any type of chemicals or liquid.
• Test tube tongs - Used for holding hot Test Tubes after an experiment.
• Spatula - For holding very small amounts of chemical powders.
• Funnel - Used for adding chemicals and liquid into a beaker or etc so it doesn't spill everywhere.
• Measuring Cylinder - Used to measure liquids for experiments. The liquid will be poured into the beaker or etc to measure the right amount so you can put it into a beaker later on.

Equipment Tray

250mL

100mL beaker

250mL Conical Flask

Spatula

Test Tube rack with Test Tubes

Test Tube Tongs

Funnel

Stirring Rod

100mL Measuring Cylinder

10mL Measuring Cylinder

Wednesday FunDay

Wednesday morning on the 18th, a visitor came to our school to talk to us about the changes in puberty and what will happen in life while going through this...

The year 7's and 8's went to the auditorium in the morning and some people were not comfortable about this talk with the man but the man made it humorous and made us feel more confident about puberty talk. Everyone learnt something when leaving the auditorium and hopefully it teaches them a lot.

He taught us about how to look after the different parts of the body while going through puberty, for me I learnt a lot and I know how to care about my body while going through changes that will happen to me in the future. Here are the few examples he told us about the changes: Deeper Voice, Growing  Taller, Growing Hair & etc. For the girls it was: Hips get wider, Grow Hair, Grow Taller & get larger breasts, he told us to talk to someone that takes care for you at home as your parents or guardians.

Mega Air

After the lesson of puberty, we went back to class and got sorted into groups for going to mega air, we went in classes, some classes will go to mega air & some will stay at school and do sports events like Ki-O-Rahi, CTF(Capture The Flag) & Tug of War. The first group was my class and we went to Mega Air first. We walked to Mega Air because it was close by so we made our way to Mega Air safely, once we reached Mega Air we got little safety rules and then we started wasting our energy by bouncing around. IT WAS EPIC!!!

Forgot that the classes that went to Mega Air were Ts & Sh, once we reached the driveway there was a factory, there was a stench and little did we know that chickens were being killed there and another building beside the factory smells like chicken nuggets when the stench was gone because of the breeze.

I loved the moment in Mega Air, I had so much fun playing Dodge Ball, Airbag, basketball, Ninja kind stuff and many more. I had a really good time and I hope to go there again another time, everyone had a blast at Mega Air.

Sport Events

Once we came back from Mega Air, we switched and the other classes are going there now while we play sports. First, we had to get into 6 teams and we named our team's name after a country and we were the Aussies, the first sport was CTF(Capture The Flag). It was intense and madness because we were supposed to find the flag and bring it to the half-line to win. We won all rounds thanks to the teamwork. We managed to win by 2 points...

Next sport we played was Ki-O-Rahi and we had a draw, nothing much happened but all I can ay that it was intense and fun.

The last sport we did was Tug of War, apparently, we won that whole game with my team by 5 points with five rounds. Some got bruises in the other team while one got hurt in our team, nothing too serious.

Points for Sports Events:

• Capture The Flag-2-0
• Ki-O-Rahi-1-1
• Tug Of War-5-0

After finishing all the events, we went straight into the gym and the yr 13's put up on the tv screen a kahoot about some maths questions and about how we felt today about the FunDay. They really wanted to know about our opinions about this day if it was good for us or bad. The results were good and especially want to say...

Thanks to the yr 13's for arranging for the sport's, we really appreciate it and I hope you guys are having a great day. Hopefully, everyone else had a wonderful day and enjoyed it. 

2019-2040

Today in the auditorium we watched a documentary called 2040, Damon talked about about the planet and how to make it a better place to live in for the future. He travelled around many countries and met new people and children, he asked a few questions to the children to see what they want to see in 2040 for their future.

What surprised me: I was surprised about how Bangladesh uses solar panels and make a grid that they share with each other and it is cheap for them to use in the village. They are independent and don't depend on things on the government to give them power. By doing this it will make a big difference and makes the grid bigger.

What worried me: I was worried that the world will become more electrical and the number of plants of being planted will decrease not giving us enough oxygen and the water resource will dry out because of global warming, Related to global warming the icebergs will melt increasing the water level to rise and flood cities and villagers.

What excited me: I was excited to know about how to make it a better place so we can live in that environment better around the world, he also explained useful facts about the planet and how to reduce the waste and saving the marine life from our human activity.

What would I like to see in 2040: I would like to see more nature around us and less machinery, I would like to see less carbon dioxide and factories that don't provide more gas.

What are 2 things I learnt: The ways of connecting with others wihout wasting energy
                                           If you have a healthy impact in the past you will make the future a better place to live in.

Trailer for the movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rTQ443akE

Hururmanu - Decomposition

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

Hypothesis:

-Bananas
-White styrophone
-Paper
-Bread
-Water

Materials:

1.   Test tubes(x4)
2.   Banana(x1)
3.   Bread(x1)
4.   Styrophone(x1)
5.   Paper(x1)
6.   Test tube rack(x1)
7. Bung(x4)
8. Water

Steps:

1.   Get 4 test tubes and place them in the test tube rack.
2.   Get the Banana, Bread, Styrophone and Paper and place them in each test tube.
3. Place a bung on each test tube so it is closed.
4.   Make sure the test tube is big enough for each strip of materials to fit in.
5.   That is done and see if they change over the weeks and the colour they change into.
6.   Record them on the table you made for each week.
7. Plus: Add half a test tube of water to the bread.

Findings:

It made a MASSIVE difference in week 3, we had 2 weeks of holidays so we could not record by then, it was in the science lab so we could come back and record it then. We started the experiment before the holidays so we had time, we finished it by then and we were ready to record. After the holidays when we came back, it was incredible how much of a change it did in 3 weeks. The banana was a creamy colour until from now it turned black and brown with fungi all over it.

The paper stayed the same because paper takes a long time to decompose so it stayed the same & the same results was with the Styrophone cup which was still white and had no changes at all. But when I and my group looked at the bread, it made a huge difference when water was added. So when we looked at the bread, it was not a piece of bread anymore. It was all liquified and white coloured like milk, it had a few little chunks of the bread but the rest was just liquid. We looked at it for a moment and the movements of the liquid which used to be bread & water, it was slowly making its way as we turned the test tube.

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Cream	Nothing	We waited for 3 weeks
Paper	White	Nothing	We waited for 3 weeks
Styrophone cup	White	Nothing	We waited for 3 weeks
Bread	White	Nothing	We waited for 3 weeks

• 
  

  Week 3	Colour	Change	Observations
  Banana	Black & Brown	Fungi & rotten	Has rotten & has fungi on the Banana and turned black and brown
  Paper	White	Same	Same...
  Styrophone cup	White	Same	Same...
  Bread	White	White liquid with a chunk of little pieces	Turned into liquid and a little chunk of bread was left and looked like milk, water was added so it made a big difference.

Stationery Recycling

How are we going to send the Message-Find more information on the Hornby High School Facebook page, the poster's around the school & on TVs in the Learning Commons.
Who do you think would get involved- Teacher's & students are getting included because we will give the TerraCycle our used up Pens/Markers so we get a little bit of money out of it.
How many Kg's do you predict we will collect-I think we will be able to collect about 34 kilos depending on how many weeks this will go for.

What should we do with the donation money-We should donate it to the homeless or use it to buy native plants so we can plant trees and fruits on the backfield.

Hurumanu-Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To learn about how Solar Energy is used.

Hypothesis:

These are the colours: Which attracts most heat?

-White
-Black
-Silver

I think that black will attract more energy because on hot day's it absorbs the sunlight and spreads on that colour. Once you place your hand near the colour, you might get a little electric shock but once you place your hand on it, it burns.

Materials:

1. White Paper
2. Polystyrene Cup(x2)
3. Heat Lamp
4. Clear Cup(x1)
5. Tin Foil
6. Black Plastic

Steps:

1. Wrap the tin foil around the Polystyrene cup.

2. Plugin the heat lamp to a powerpoint

3. Wrap the black plastic around the other cup 

4. Pour water inside all 3 of the cups and use white paper underneath the white cup and put the tin foil cup on tin foil and put the black cup on black plastic

5. Face the heat lamp towards the Cups

6. Wait 15 minutes and check how hot it gets with the thermometer

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16	16	16
15	21	24	21
30	21	23	21
45	22	23	22

Conclusion

Activity:

In pairs rate the livability of coal vs solar energy.

Today we have been continuing learning about solar energy and the changes it does to humanity & Earth. We made diagrams & written key words about Solar, here is the keywords I wrote and we were also given a little activity. Here is the work...

UNABLE TO POST IT...

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

Factor	Solar	Coal
Livability	8	4
Sustainability	10	1
Accessibility	7	7
Cost	4	1
Your choice...

Ella West's Visit

Hi guys, today we had a special visitor who came into our school, 7/8Al has been reading a book called Night Vision over the past weeks. They have been also blogging about their thoughts about the book, the special visitor was an author called Ella West. She is an Australian author who won the LIANZA Young Adult Award in 2015 with her book called Night Vision which is the book 7/8Al read. Ella West was born in Invercargill when she read through some of the children's book's she used her brother's book's and she began reading the Adult section's.

While she was studying at Victoria University, she got a holiday job at Southland Times where she was taught how to write and eventually it led her to the West Coast where she was married to a shearer. Together they went dairy farming on the banks of Buller River, it was between getting the cows milked, teaching drama and raised two sons. That's when she wrote her first young adult novel called (Theives, 2006). They now live near Dunedin and have a sheep and beef farm. She especially came to see that class about how hard they worked writing their own thoughts about the book.

7/8Al are happy to see her and they are probably right now asking her questions and showing her their blogpost's.It has made an impact in our community because it shows we have been sharing our learning with other people around the world and it turns into a special thing like reading a book about a specific author and then doing your thoughts about it. Then suddenly you realize that that author comes to see you at school. I think it made an impact.

Making Cookies-Technology

Yesterday in Technology for Cooking, we have been making cookies. Yesterday we started making the dough of the cookie, we added a few ingredients to make the dough. Unfortunately, I don't have the recipe to show you how you can make it at home so sorry. Anyways I was paired up with a girl called Emily, we cooperated to make a successful dough which I was happy about and so was Emily.

After everyone finished making the dough, we were given a paper wrapper to wrap the dough in so the Cooking Teacher can put it in the freezer overnight.

NEXT DAY

Today we started to get straight into work and make the cookie base and bake it. First, the Teacher took out our dough of the cookie and we put it on our table. We opened the wrapper and placed the dough on a chopping board, we then had cut the dough into twelve pieces so I and my buddy can have six each of the cookies. We had to cut them equally but it was pretty hard to get the right weight, but as long as it was close to the same weight we were ok. 

We did a test cookie which counts as one of the twelve cookies, we weighed the test cookie and got 38gs, so we placed it back to our table and started making circle shapes with the twelve dough's we made. We then got given a plastic foil kind paper which we used to place the cookies on so it will be baked, once we finished with the base we placed a foil kind paper on the metal tray and layed the twelve dough on the tray 2 by 6.

We then set the oven to 180 degrees Fanbake and place the cookies in the oven. I was the one doing that job, but Emily did half of it and I took her place the rest. I waited every 7 minutes so I could rotate them from the bottom shelf of the oven to the top so the cookies can bake faster. After a few tiring moments, we were finished so we placed it on the wooden tray and let the cookies to cool down so we can place them in our lunch box.

After a few minutes, we got our cookies and placed it in our lunchbox. I was exhausted and my back started to hurt because I stood the whole period. I was happy but yet tired, I was happy with the cookies. When I got home, my Mum tried a cookie and she loved the cookies I and my buddy made. My buddy was happy about her cookies too. It was a hard job but we got the work done.

Hope you like the post and leave a comment. Bye 😄👍

Hurumanu-Issues of Climate Change

Aim: To learn about the different activities that contribute to climate change

1. Industry- Making clothes, cars and electronics produce a lot of pollution and when materials like plastic, metal, cement and etc are made, It creates a harmful gas that is then released into the atmosphere and creates Acid rain which is bad for the environment and Plants.

2. Transport- Most of the cars need gas or liquid oil like diesel to make it move and work. This oil is called fossil fuel, Trucks, ships and other vehicles produce Carbon Dioxid which goes into the atmosphere clearing the land for farms and also greenhouse gases.

3. Waste- Landfills are growing and using up more of our healthy land which we need. When the waste breaks down in landfills, the greenhouse gas is created including methane and carbon dioxide.

4. Cows- Cows create a greenhouse gas called methane when they burp or fart. Methane greenhouse gas is 25 times more powerful than Carbon Dioxide, about 1.5 billion cattles around the world means Methane is having a big effect on Climate change.

5. Food- Food source is good for us to survive but alot of pollution is being created when new food source comes out like cereals turned into sugary bars and etc.

6. Electricity- Electricity is a big help for us to communicate with others on mobile and watch television to see what is happening around the world. It is renewable energy and basically, everything in our house uses electricity.

Hurumanu-The Greenhouse Effect experiment

The Greenhouse Effect

Materials:

1. 1 Plastic Bottle

2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid

3. 1 Heat lamp

4. 1 Thermometer

5. 100 ml Water

6. 1 Rubber Bung

Steps:

1. Collect 2 bottles, 2 lamps and 2 thermometres from the teacher.
2. Set up bottles and lamps beside a powerpoint on a flat surface.
3. Pour 100ml water and Baking Soda mixture into one of the bottles.
4. Start to record your findings taken from the bottle thermometers. These must be every 5 minutes.

Findings: 

We only went up to 20 minutes like everyone else, but the changes were not identical when we waited for that long, Bottle number 1 had only water and nothing else, we wait and wait. But the teacher made things speed up by giving us a heat lamp at the very start so we don't have to wait for too long. It started at 21 degrees and like 20 minutes past by, it reached 27 degrees. As for bottle 2 which had CO2 Gas in it, how this worked was that we added Baking Soda in the water and closed it with a bung. The CO2 Gas bottle started at 21 degrees which is identical but as 15 minutes past by, it reached 35 degrees. After 5 more minutes, it reached 41 degrees.

The CO2 Gas bottle started evaporating water and made a gas that was inside it which enabled it that you can't look inside it. CO2 Gas made a big difference and went 14 degrees higher than bottle 1 which was only water. So how it worked was that the CO2 Gas bottle was covered with the bung and so was bottle 1. As the CO2 gas formed inside the bottle, the gas pressure was high so it heated the CO2 gas bottle faster.

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	21	21
5	24	26
10	25	23
15	26	35
20	27	41
25
30
35
40
45
50