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

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  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.