Tag: Inquiry

Sir Edmund Hillary – The Man Who Conquered Everest and Won Hearts

Kia Ora Reader how is your day going? Join me on an adventure to get to know our namesake, Sir Ed.

Sir Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Hillary wasn’t just the first man to climb the tallest mountain in the world, he was a real New Zealand hero. He was brave but also humble and kind. In 1953, with his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay, he reached the top of Mount Everest. Lots of people thought it couldn’t be done, but he showed it was possible.

But the best thing about him wasn’t just climbing Everest. After that, he used his time to help people in Nepal. He helped build schools, hospitals, and even bridges so their lives could be better. He didn’t care about being famous, he cared about making a difference.

That’s why people remember him as more than a climber. He showed that Kiwis can be tough and determined, but also caring and helpful to others.

Video of life story  Everest’s First SIR EDMUND HILLARY · BIOGRAPHY 

Music Sir Edmund Hillary song

These are the links from my Sir Edmund Hillary DLO.

  • Bella-Rayne – For the original blog: Link

Engineering in Term 3

Kia ora, my name is TJ

Transporting Water

This week we got to learn more about engineering. We learnt about transporting water, and we also had to design and make an island that could survive tsunamis and rising sea levels.

For the first activity, we had two buckets. One had water and the other one didn’t. The empty bucket had a hole in it. The point of the activity was to take water to the cone and back to our team. First we got told what to do in the hall, then we chose our teams and took off our shoes, socks, and jackets. Then we went outside and lined up.

When the game started, me and my team picked up the bucket and ran to the cone and back. When we poured the water into the empty bucket, some of it came out from the hole, so one of us put a finger on the hole. We did that a couple of times, then a teammate told us the instructor said we only had to touch the bucket once and then one person could run. So we changed our plan. Everyone touched the bucket once, then one person ran.

After the round, the instructor checked how much water was left in each bucket. The team with the most water got an advantage for the next rounds. We did a few rounds, and I don’t know who had the most water, but that team won.

Safe Island

The next activity was to make an island that could survive tsunamis and rising sea levels. My team wanted to make a floating island. We used clay, Popsicle sticks, paper straws, and a piece of blue paper for the bottom.

For the island, we put Popsicle sticks on clay and broke some into smaller pieces to make houses and buildings. We made seawalls too, to protect from tsunamis. We used paper straws as chains to stop the island from drifting away. The chains were long enough so the island could rise when sea levels went up, but short enough so it didn’t float away.

We also made different buildings. Small sticks for houses, bigger sticks for taller buildings, and the tallest stick for a laboratory. The lab is for figuring out how to make the island better. There’s a control room for the rulers of the island. In the control room, there’s a security panel and two buttons. Both buttons have to be pressed by two people to release the chains if the sea gets too high.

  • TJ – original post link

Māori Battalion

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This week for reading we’ve been looking at the Maori Battalion. The Maori Battalion was a  group formed in NZ in October 1939 to encourage Maori men to fight for their country, the group did so well it even inspired younger people 15 or under to register since they didn’t have documents and it made it easier for people to lie about their age. They were split into 5 groups: the 4 rifle groups containing 125 men and a headquarters group made out of 200 men. Each of them had a captain or major The headquarter group has 6 smaller platoons, anti aircraft, mortars, gun carriers, pioneers and transport so in total they have about 700-750 men fighting.  People were easily persuaded into joining the Maori Battalion because of the benefits they would get when they arrived back

The Benefits included finally getting out of poverty and getting the respect they deserve whilst finally proving the were equal with the (pakeha). I made a DLO about it (digital learning object).

Would you join the Maori Battalion?

25. Maori Report Writing Noriel

 

 

 

Noriel –  Original Post link

Smart Money

We have been studying Budgeting and Finance. This week, we examined buying online, and these are the tips we learned after watching the videos.

You need to –

  • Make a budget and stick to it
  • Double Check information
  • Don’t use Email links to go to sites
  • Change your passwords regularly
  • Check for the padlock by the https://
  • Research the company selling products
  • Read Reviews
  • Check if refundable

Every Drop Counts School Kit

Our teacher signed us up to do the School Kit – Every Drop Counts
We got a pack with a range of things to help us, we had a ‘chatterbox’ to help us decide what chores we might do at home, a coaster to identify our glass so it didn’t get washed, a sticker for music for the shower time of 5 minutes, and one for by the tap when we brush our teeth and a recording sheet.

The sad part was even though all 28 of the class took home a pack, only 9 returned the completed form. We will discuss how this goes into a ratio next term along with the ratio of water used while monitoring this to the amount saved.

This term we focused on how we can conserve water, we even had a conversation with Watercare at KMPG and looked at the water infrastructure projects people work on so people have fresh water daily.

Check out our calculations on how much water we could save :

And our Posters about Saving Water:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How many Triangles?

Today our Maths investigation was around triangles. Using the dot we had to make right-angle triangles. First, we had to make sure we all knew what that meant. Did you know a square and rectangle have 4 right angle corners? – That means the corners are 90°.

I will tell you how many we found after you tell me how many you find. Remember you can’t count a triangle of the size and shape twice. So be careful how you lay out your triangles, you can use this link to help you with your answer. Good Luck

What is Engineering?

We have an opportunity at the local high school to work with Year 9 and 10 students to complete a range of STEAM projects with a focus on Engineering.

As a class, we checked out Careers NZ with a focus on Engineering we then picked 5 career options and had to investigate them further. My questions were:

What does an engineer do?

How much did they make?

What do I need to know? or do to be an engineer?

Where can I study to be an engineer?

This is the beginning of my project.

What would you like to know about engineering?

School Values

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we have been checking out a range of ways to present information. I love word clouds and was curious to find one where students could add ideas in real-time and the cloud is being made. Our focus was sharing what we thought the school values meant to us. I then took a screenshot of each one and here they are.

 

Then we applied this information and made a mosaic here is an example created by Samsalvation: