Ball Dropping

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

This frame is a useful graphic organiser to remind you of the steps to be completed when carrying out an experiment.

Writing In Science: The Scientific Method
Step One: Title What is your experiment called?	Ball Dropping
Step Two: Problem What is the question you would like to answer? Write the problem as a question.	What will happen if you put a tennis ball on a basketball or a soccer ball and drop them at the same time?
Step Three: Hypothesis Before you carry out your experiment what do you THINK will happen? Your hypothesis is written as an ‘if, then’ statement.	I think that when the basketball hits the ground it will bounce off the ground and the tennis ball will bounce up off the basketball.
Step Four: Experiment Explain how you are going to set up your experiment. What you will actually be doing. This must be written in procedures that can be repeated by others. Will there be Independent Variables?  What is the Dependent Variable?	First we are going to get a tennis ball, a basketball or a soccer ball. Then we are going to place one hand on the top of the tennis ball and place the other hand on the bottom of the basketball or the soccer ball. Then raise the ball up a meter then drop both of them. There will be an independent variable if the wind blows the tennis ball and changes the place where it's supposed to land.                               A Dependent variable is when you can choose to make something happen. One is when we could drop the ball because we can             control where the ball gets dropped. We are also going to drop the ball from 0.5m 1m 1.5m and 2m high.
Step Five: Materials The things you need to complete the experiment.	A basketball/soccer ball and a tennis ball. a 1 meter ruler. a piece of paper to show how many attempts in meters
Step Six: Procedure The steps you actually take to do the experiment.	First we put a tennis ball on a soccer ball or a basketball and hold it 1m high. Then place hand on top and bottom and drop them.
Step Seven: Recording the Data. Showing what happened during the experiment using tables or charts.
#Step Eight: Analysis Reviewing the graphed data or by using a graphic organiser like a Venn diagram.	This data that we recorded we didn’t know what was going to happen. First we did a drop from 0.5m above the ground and it went really high. So when we finished doing the 4 tests we recorded this data in the tally chart at the bottom of this document.
Step Nine: Conclusion What do you now know having done the experiment.This must be written as a paragraph, with a topic sentence and supporting sentences. Did your results support your hypothesis or not? What would be the next question for investigation?	The tennis ball went a lot higher on the 2m drop than the 0.5m drop. There was a 4 - 5m difference from the 0.5 drop to the 2m drop What I thought was going to happen was exactly what happened At the start of this experiment I had no idea what would 100% happen but this is what I hypothesised. Now I know that different heights leave different results. Also I know that different types of air pressure in the basketball makes the tennis ball go higher. An interesting question is what would happen if we drop the basketball on the tennis ball instead of the way around we did it for this test.

	Observation	Why
0.5m	The tennis ball went south west of the basketball	It happened because of the way we dropped it
1m	The tennis ball went south and about 1 - 2.5m high	It went south because of the placement of the tennis ball on the basketball
1.5m	The tennis ball went about 2.5 - 3.5m high and went in between north and north west	It went about 2.5m - 3.5m because of the force of the basketball when it bounced
2m	The tennis ball went north and went about 5 - 6 m high	It went 5 - 6m high because of the height we dropped it from

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

The Circumference Of A Ball

The circumference of tennis ball is 21cm  

The tennis ball took 0.29 seconds to drop and the netball took 0.22 seconds to drop.

A basketball falls faster than a tennis ball because it has more air and it is bigger and the tennis has less air and it’s lighter so it takes longer to fall.

What I thought was going to happen was the netball was going to drop faster and the tennis ball will take longer to drop and I was right.

Anaerobic And Aerobic Exercises

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

Aerobic= with oxygen. This enables your heart to deliver oxygen to your muscles and your breathing rate speeds up eg: running, spinning, swimming, , hiking, walking.

Anaerobic= no oxygen. This type of exercising is when you lose oxygen fast like when you are sprinting and weightlifting. Eg: weight lifting, sprinting, biking and jumping.

Pulse Rates

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

For this science badge task me and Ryan had to exercise for 50 minutes and it was broken up into 5, 10, 15 and 20 minute sessions and we exercised for that long. Then we checked our resting then did all the sessions and put the data onto this graph.

This data is saying on that on the left is our pulse rate and on the bottom is how long we exercised for. The blue is Jack the red is Ryan and Yellow is the how much our pulse rates are different.

Bike Tyres

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

Why Do road bikes have thin tyres when mountain bikes thicker tyres?

Road bikes have thin tires because they make you go faster and they cut through the air.                                         

Mountain bike tyres are bigger than road bike tyres because because they give you more grip when riding in mud and up mountains.  

Sports Comparison 2

WALT appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world.

WALT build an prior knowledge to carry out experiments and simple investigations.

Geometry Artwork

This week Room One started a geometry task on translation, rotation, reflection and enlargement. For this unit WALT explain and use the invariant properties of figures and objects under transformation (whakaata, hurihanga, nekehanga, ngakengake and whakarahi ).

First we made a strip and cut out eight triangles out of one square then we glued them on and we chose to do rotation, reflection and translation. Then we made another two and one of each included rotation, reflection and translation.

After that we had to do 3 challenges on enlarging and each challenge got harder. Scale factor is when you enlarge something by the scale factor of a number. Enlarging by a scale factor is when you just times the whole shape by a number. That’s what enlargement is drawing something something bigger. So for this bird down here you can see that is been enlarged by the scale factor of 2 so that means I had to times the bird by 2 and draw it.  

We had to look at artwork from other cultures and write a simple little report on the lines of symmetry on that artwork and write and explain about it. Also I realised something, this picture doesn’t have 2 lines of symmetry because the red and the black don’t go together.

Then we had to start designing our art work. When we finished our artwork Ms Kemp photocopied out artwork 4 times and then we cut them out. Next we had to draw out a border in vivid on a big piece of paper. Then we had to choose where had how the positioning of the 4 pieces went on the paper and once we had done that we glued them on we had to write a piece of writing. My piece of writing is what you are reading now

The mataoroko has been nekehanga 3 times to the katau. Within these hikuaua you can also see hurihanga, whakaata, ngakengake and nekehanga. Also in my pattern I have rotation in my enlargement and rotation in all of the squares. The Js are reflected and translated and on the squares from the small one to the big one it has added 7 squares. There is a total of 39 squares and 16 Js.

Overall to wrap this topic up doing this was very fun and I enjoyed doing this artwork and everything else we did. Overall at the end I was happy with my results and and I had no idea it was going to look like this in the end.

Ted Talk

WALT show an increasing understanding of how to shape texts for different purposes and audiences.

WALT write to express ideas. We were allowed to respond to the ski trip how we wanted.

Skiing On Monday

On Monday the 15th of August 2016 me and Room 1 went skiing at Porters Pass ski field.

We had to be at school by 6:45 am. The worst thing was that I woke up at 4:45. After my parents I had breakfast and then got ready and packed. Then Summer picked me up then we went to school. After everyone left it took Gage a while to get to school and then finally he came.

After we got on the road again we set off for two hours in the car. With lots of views to see and lots of things to look at. Most of the chatting and looking out the window took away a lot of time and we all knew we were close then finally we saw the porters sign.

Down the dirty road up and down we go and we knew were close because we could see the ski field, the T bars and the chair lift then the scariest part there was a very high and long zig zag road up to the car park and up we go.

When we were up the road we parked and lined up and ski / boot hire. After a while of waiting we went in. I was the first person. Then I walked up to the boot person and asked them for a size 5 boot. Good enough it fitted perfectly. Then since the boot fitted I walked up to the ski person and gave him the other boot and he took it and got some cool skis. Then he asked for my weight and he did them up and I was the first out.

After that I went over to the beginners slope and there was Ms Kemp. Then Mitchell's dad have us a little push and I was skiing for the first time then I went on the magic carpet which I fell off but I was fine. After we had ski lessons and we were showed some tips and tricks. Once that was done I had trouble turning so I asked for help then I knew how to turn and I got the intermediate password. Once I was there I was nervous so I went up and down with Guy’s dad from half way. Then I built some confidence up and went higher and higher each time. At one part I faced my fear and up to the very top. There was a little drop at the top of the intermediate and I fell off all three times I went down It on the third and final time is was the saddest part. I had to go back to the boot and ski hire and go back to my car.

Yet another two hours back down the zig zag road. On the way back I was half asleep. I knew the way back so it went faster. The other best thing was that I got dropped off at my house at the end.

By Jack                  

This is my hiku me and my class did today Here is the English and Japanese language 

I am learning to:

- use a range of writing strategies and styles to suit the purpose of my writing.

- write within the structure of a recount.

- edit my writing so that it meets the purpose of my task more precisely.

Callaghan’s Ridge Walk

Last week we walked Callaghan’s Ridge for the William Pike Challenge. We all had to be here prepared before 8:40 am. Then at 8:50 we left in the cars to go to Callaghan’s Ridge. We got there at around about 9:10. At 9:30 we started walking the track. That was when the four hours started.

When we started the track my mum wanted to know if it was good for biking. So I took some photos to prove that it wasn’t good for biking but it is good for walking. During the track I took some photos and two or three videos. Some of the photos that I took are going to go on the class blog. The photos I took were birds, rocks, hills creeks and rivers.

We walked for a bit longer then we came across something. On the side of the track there were MASSIVE mushrooms on a tree. I didn’t notice them and they scared me. There was a step that you had to go down and when I saw the massive mushrooms I jumped off and I took a photo. Then we headed off again.

Before the mushrooms we stopped and had a snack then a while after the big mushrooms we had lunch. First we had to make our shelters. When my group made ours we all learnt how to do a trucker’s knot. Then Ms Kemp came around and checked our shelter. She said it was good so we could get our bags and eat lunch.

After all the eating we did a number check; the first person called and it carried on 1 2 3 4 5… 34. After we knew we had everyone we set off again. At one point we had to climb really high for so long and my ankles hurt so much.

At the end there were two ways and I didn't know what way to go.  Aleece came and looked up the left side and there was a building, then Allie and everyone else came. Allie said to go straight but they both led back because when we were back from the walk there was a building to the left and it was the same building that Aleece had seen. We went back to school after the walk and went home one minute early.

             
                                     Callaghan's Ridge - Cave River Giant Mushrooms

         
                                             Callaghan's Ridge - view

                                     Callaghans Ridge -  Tomtit / Nirungiru

Introducing My Blog And Me

         How I found this activity was pretty fun and a tiny bit hard to do but in the end I was impressed with              the work and effort that I put in to this comic strip. Making my first post was fun and I liked it.

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