passion project

For the past 4 weeks we've been doing digital worlds for our passion project, in our group we have 9 people and only 4 people did work and that wasn't helpful for our production of our sandbox. This lead to our sandbox being incomplete. Week 1 we got into groups and groups inside our groups the groups were Admin, digital and building. Then we started to plan. In the second week we keep planning adding dimensions and getting together a material list for the teachers. in the third week we started to make the sandbox, code the projector and collect the sand.

10 DA paragraph writing

We've been learning how to write a paragraph.

Social science: Paragraph writing

In the last few past days, Mr Langley taught us how to write a paragraph. I've been writing this paragraph for 1 period.

This is my paragraph:

Matariki is the Maori name for a group of stars which is known as the seven stars. Traditionally, Matariki rises on the last few days of May. Most of the people thought that the Matariki was Important because it was a great time to harvest and plant new crops. They celebrate Matariki by gathering with whanau and reflecting on the pasts.

Social studies

What went well today? We finished the cultural and natural impacts on the environment
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? nothing
How will you improve on that next lesson? finish the responses

Earthquake proof house

Was it successful? Why/why not? Yea we won the tallest one but we lost the most earthquake-proof because MR broke our cork so we lost
What do architects do to make super tall building safe? 
They plan a strong foundation

Social studies

What went well today? writing about natural and cultural impacts on the environment
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? nothing
How will you improve on that next lesson? finish the research

Earthquake proof house

Earthquake proof house

Earthquake-resistant structures are structures designed to protect buildings from earthquakes. While no structure can be entirely immune to damage from earthquakes, the goal of earthquake-resistant construction is to erect structures that fare better during seismic activity than their conventional counterparts.

social studies

What went well today? researching about the process of earthquake
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? listening to teacher
How will you improve on that next lesson? listen more

Social studies

What went well today? learning how to write a sentence
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? nothing
How will you improve on that next lesson? listen more

Rock cycle

Rock cycle

social studies

What went well today? Finishing my diagram
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? nothing
How will you improve on that next lesson? doing it faster

Social studies

What went well today? Drawing diagram
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? nothing
How will you improve on that next lesson? Add more writings

social studies

What went well today? collaborating
Is there anything you need help with? nah
What didn't go well? doing work
How will you improve on that next lesson? by doing more work

Persuasive writting

What did I learn? 
I learnt that I have to be more responsible if I want to go to B.K or tell someone to deliver food and we do that through our cards.
Why did we do it as a class?
So everyone can share their ideas.
What will I do better next time? 
I will try to give more ideas
What questions do I still have?
Nothing

Growing NZ Innovation challenge

INTRODUCTION
In the past 5 weeks,  Me, Zach, Sophie, and Jayden, we've been learning about the Growing NZ innovation challenge. The Growing NZ challenge is for year 9 and 10 students to come up with solutions to real-world problems found within the dairy industry. We researched about keeping cows cool because we thought it was easier.

DLO
Growing NZ
Our Presentation



REFLECTION
I've learnt that we can make lots of robots or systems to do the thing for us, like moving the cows into the shade. We've used Tinkercad to design our work, I was the leader of the group, Sophie was the co-leader and Zach and Jayden were the members, we've worked well together. I think Sophie did the most and Zach and I were helping Sophie, and Jayden were doing some. I think we worked well as a group.

sources
Tinkercad
GrowingNZ

Question
What do you think about our work?

Wind racer

wind racers

Aim: To make it the farthest using the wind.

Equipment: Trolley, Cardboard, Tape, Paper, String and Scissors.

Research: We used our minds.

Migration

Migration

https://videos.mysimpleshow.com/NTtM39wWFo

Modal verb practice

• This term I have to train hard so we can win the football tournament.
• I need to study more so I can pass the tests for this term.
• This term I should focus on my work rather than football.
• This term I could go out with my friends for my birthday.
• I might ask my mum if I can go to movies with my friends.

I wonder why the sky is blue.

I wonder why the sky is blue.

A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light. When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colours because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

Investigating Rusting

Investigating Rusting

Aim: To investigate the factors that cause rusting in iron.

Method:
1. Lable six test tubes A-F and place in a test tube rack.
2. Test tube contents:
A= Iron nail and tap water
B= Iron nail and Saltwater
C= Iron nail and water +oil
D= Iron nail and Mg ribbon wrapped around it
E= Iron nail and water calcium chloride bung
F= Iron nail and nail polish

3. Leave the test tubes undisturbed for at least three days.

Stars

Stars

I wonder how many stars are on the Earth.On the Earth, there are about 10 million galaxies and in each galaxy is 10 billion stars so that means there 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 that 1billion trillion stars in the observable universe.


How many stars can we see?
There are only about 5,000 stars visible to the naked, average, human eye, MinutePhysics points out.

Is the sun a star?
The sun is classified as a G-type main-sequence star or G dwarf star, or more imprecisely, the sun — like other G-type stars — is white but appears yellow through Earth's atmosphere. Stars generally get bigger as they grow older.

What is the smallest star in the universe? How small?
The smallest stars around are the tiny red dwarfs. the red dwarf has 7.5% the mass of the Sun. What is the biggest star? How big?
The biggest star in the universe is called VY Canis Majoris and it's 987.9 million km. It is one of the largest stars discovered so far and is also one of the most luminous of its type.

Making Hokey Pokey

Making Hokey Pokey

Ingredients:

100g sugar

1 Table of water

2 tablespoons of golden syrup

1 teaspoon of bicarbonate of soda

Method:

1. Put the ingredients except for the bicarbonate of soda into a saucepan and place on low heat.

2. Stir until all the sugar has dissolved. Raise the heat slightly so that it bubbles, and stir occasionally until you cannot feel any sugar at the bottom of the pan

3. Take off the heat.

4. Add bicarbonate of soda and stir!

5. Watch what happens-it should all forth up with bubbles in the pan

6. Pour out into your tinfoil sheet

7. Allow cooling.

Observation:
Here is what happened.

Testing for carbon dioxide gas and lime water

Testing for carbon dioxide gas

Experiment 1

Aim: To show that carbon dioxide gas produced when a metal carbonate reacts with acid.

Method:

1. Light your bunsen burner.
2. Add a 'Pea-sized' amount of the metal carbonate into one of the boilings tubes.
3. Place this boiling tube into a test tube rack. Ensure you have the bung and delivery tube ready.
4. Add 5mL of acid to the boiling tube and quickly inserts the bung and delivery tube into the mouth of the boiling tube.
5. Holding the other boiling tube with your tongs, capture the gas produced as shown in the diagram.
6. When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint.
7. Carefully remove the boiling tube from under the delivery tube, taking care to keep in facing upright.
8. Insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Observation: It took out the flame

Experiment 2

Method:

1. Light your bunsen burner
2. Add a 'Pea-sized' amount of the metal carbonate into one of the boilings tubes.
3. Place this boiling tube into a test tube rack. Ensure you have the bung and delivery tube ready.
4. Buuble gas into limewater

Observation: It becomes cloudy

Public art is a waste of time and money

Testing for the presence of oxygen

Testing for the presence of oxygen

Aim: To carry out a test for the presence of oxygen gas.

Method: 

1. Light your bunsen burner.
2. Add the magnesium oxide to the boiling tube and place it in your test tube rack.
3. Add 2mL of hydrogen peroxide.
4. Light a splint and let it burn for a while.
5. Blow the splint out and insert the glowing embers into the mouth of the boiling tube.

Observation: It relighted the splint make another flame

Making a metal Oxide

    Making a metal Oxide

Aim: To make a metal oxide and observe the difference in properties of the product compared to the reactant.

Method:
1. Light your bunsen burner.
2. Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of the magnesium.
3. Place the other end of the magnesium into the Bunsen flame ( at the top of the blue flame). 
4. When the magnesium begins to burn, do not directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently damage your eyes.

Observation: Before magnesium reacted with oxygen it was a shiny metal lustre during the reaction it was a bright white light.

Metals and Acids

Metals for Hydrogen Gas

Aim: To show that hydrogen gas is produced when a metal reacts with acid.

Method: 

1. Light your bunsen burner.
2. Add your sample of metal to your test tube. Add 2 mL of acid.
3. Carefully invert the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid (as shown in the diagram below).
4. Hold the test tubes together for a few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas.
5. When you think the tube is full, Your lab partner should light a wooden splint.
6. Carefully, but quickly, tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Observation:  It will make a loud popping sound.

Plastic bags

2018 Technology Metal

Technology

Our first project in Technology Metal was F shapes and drill gages.
From the start of the year until now these two projects are our first project, Half of the class have done the drill gage first and then they how done the Fshapes and some people have done the F shape first and the drill gage because we're too many people. This year I have learnt how to use Vernier, Micrometer, Ruler, oil dipping, using the drills, marking out, scriber and etc.
I'm happy because finally we have finished this work and I'm excited because we're gonna start a new project.

Methos for F shapes

• Two pieces of ferrous steel are supplied
• Clean both pieces with emery paper and add engineering marking fluid
• Mark out one piece exactly to the given measurements with a scriber
• Use the correct procedure for cutting out 
• Now place this over the B.M.S. and mark out and cut 
• File to fit
• Finishing techniques

The most thing I liked about this project was oil digging and drilling

The most thing I hated was cutting and cleaning it.

This is what I did from the start of the year until now.

Gaming

Technology is good and bad

Making salts

Making salts

Aim: To produce sodium chloride salt by carrying out a neutralisation reacting.

Method:

1. Using the measuring cylinder measure 10 mL of HCl and pour it into your 50mL beaker. Add dilute NaOH a few drops at a time while stirring with the glass rod.
2. Every 10-15 drops stop adding the NaOH and use the glass stirring rod to transfer a drop of the solution to a spotting tile. Test its pH using Universal indicator.
3. Keep adding NaOH and testing the solution by repeating step 2. As you get closer to neutral you may need to test the solution after every drop.
4. Pour the neutral into an evaporating basin and evaporate the water out of the solution using the equipment set up shown above.

Neutralisation

Neutralisation

Aim: To observe a neutralisation reaction.

Equipment: A test tube, test tube rack, 1mol per liter sodium carbonate, 1mol per liter hydrochloric acid, dropper or dropper bottle, Universal indicator solution.

method: 

1. Add approximately 1-2 mL of sodium carbonate and place the test tube into the test tube rack. Add 3-5 drops of Universal indicator solution

2. Using a dropper bottle, add hydrochloric acid drop by drop. be careful because adding even a small amount of extra acid can mean you'll miss the neutralisation point.

Observations
The only change that does produce something different during the neutralisation is the reaction between hydrogen ions and hydroxide ions, which produces water molecules. This is the ionic equation that represents the neutralisation reaction between any acid and any alkali.
The pH of 1-3 is red and it's strong Acid, from 4-5 is orange and it's weak and 6 is yellow and its very very slightly acidic and 7-8 is green and it's neutral and 9-11 is blue and it's slightly basic and from 12-14 is purple and it's strongly acidic.

School uniform should be mandatory.

School uniform should be mandatory.

I like wearing school uniform because

•  it represents your school
•  everyone knows what school do you go to.
• everyone is the same like you cant see who is poor or rich

I don't like wearing school uniform because

• you can wear whatever you like 
• you look like other students
• you can be different to others
• it looks ugly
• it's not comfortable

Testing pH

Testing pH

Aim: To test the pH of a range of household chemicals.

Equipment: A variety of household chemicals, spotting tile, red litmus paper, blue litmus paper, universal indicator solution, safety glasses.

Method: 

1. Add a few drops of each chemical to a spot on your spotting tile. If a substance is solid or powdered you will need to mix it with a few drops of water before testing it.
2.  Test the chemicals with litmus papers.
3.  Test each chemical with a few drops of universal indicator.

Results:

Chemical being tested	Colour in blue litmus	Colour in blue litmus	Colour in Universal indicator
Harpic	red	red	yellow
Easy off BAM	blue	blue	black
Dettol	red	red	yellow
Pledge	blue	red	yellow
Pledge clean and dust	red	red	orange

Reflection

This term we learnt about Human Rights, slave trade triangle, Harriet Tubman and we read a book about Iqbal. 

We start reading a book called Iqbal which it was about a boy who was locked in the carpet factory for 5 or 6 years and he lost his human rights to education, play, trial and privacy.

We researched about Harriet Tubman who was born into slavery, Tubman escaped and subsequently made some thirteen missions to rescue almost seventy enslaved people using the under ground rail road.

We researched about slave trade triangle. Slave trade triangle was a trade between America, Africa and Europe which Africans were sold in exchange for food and weapons. They were then transported to America  to work on cotton plantations  and the cotton was then transported back to Europe.

Our role is changed now, We don't slave anymore but in some countries there is still slave it like Pakistan, Afghanistan, India and etc. 

Designing a game

Our new game

Introduction
Hi my name is Hussain
After we finished writing about cyber bulling, Online safety and digital citizenship we start researching and designing a game. First we moved to groups, I was with Josiah and Anton. We had 2 weeks to research about the game and get the ideas from it and we all came out with an Arcade game.

DLO

Reflection
We started adding our ideas together by using a site called Padlet, Padlet is a site that you can add your ideas with your groups, The thing I like most about the Padlet was when you write something no one can edit. We had lots of ideas but after a few discussions we came with the idea of making an arcade game which gives off that retro feel. We also used a site called Coggle to write our ideas for our game. Coggle is kinda similar to Padlet but in Coggle you can delete or edit someone's Ideas, The thing I like most about the Coggle is how I could move the lines, and the thing I didn't like about Coggle is how we couldn't add a colour because it says you have to pay. I think our team work was good because we were all researching but Anton was kinda playing around but he worked well at the end and Josiah did the writing on the picture above and I added some pictures. I think next time we should all do the same work. We hope this game will work successfully, if it does we hope to give an old school retro feel to the game. We will keep working to make this game and bring you a good finished project. I think that we will make this game successfully if we can contribute all our ideas in this game.

Source
These are the sites that we used Coggle and Padlet

Questions
Do you like the game that we making? why?
What do you think?
Do you think we can success?
Do you have any Ideas for the name of this game?

Iqbal’s 3 Human rights

Iqbal’s Freedom, Education and Play

Statement = Orange

Explanation = Yellow

Example = Light Blue

Link = Green

Paragraph 1

Iqbal lost his human rights of freedom.
Freedom is a special privilege or right of access, especially that of
full citizenship of a city granted to a public figure as an honour.
He was not allowed to go anywhere, He was locked inside the carpet factory.
That’s how he lost his Human rights.

Paragraph 2

Iqbal needed to be educated, He lost his human rights to education.
The right to education is legally guaranteed for all without any discrimination.
states have the obligation to protect, respect, and fulfil the right to education.
He was locked inside the carpet factory, he worked 12 hours and 6 days a week so he
didn’t get to go to school.
This is how Iqbal lost his human rights to educate.

Paragraph 3

Iqbal didn’t get to play, He lost his human rights of play.
Every person is entitled to certain fundamental rights, simply by the fact of being human.
 He didn’t get to play with his friends because he was locked inside the carpet factory.
That’s how he lost his human rights of play.

"I didn't meant to kill her"

"I didn't mean to kill her".
One day, Me and my friend were walking together, we went to McDonald's to eat something, After we finished we were going home, suddenly she saw a mouse who was dead, She said that this mouse looks like you and she was laughing and laughing.
She made me kinda angry and then I said you look like a donkey and then she got angry and she was trying to think about something else to say but she couldn't think of any think so she start swearing and hitting me and I was swearing too because she start it first I said stop several times but she she was angry and I just pushed her back and she fill over on the dog poo, I was laughing and I was running away.
On the next day she saw me alone walking to my house she ran into me, She was trying to push me back so I can fall on the ground but I start holding her hands back and I pushed her back but suddenly she fall over and her head hits the sharp point of a metal on the side of the road and start blooding all over.
I didn't mean to kill her.

How to extract DNA from a Banana

Extracting DNA from a banana may sound like a difficult task, but it is not very difficult at all. The process involves a few general steps, including mashing, filtration, precipitation, and extraction.


What you need:

• Banana, Salt, Warm water, Liquid soap, Blender, Toothpicks, Strainer, Glass jar, Rubbing alcohol and Knife.
•      Here Now:
•    Using your knife, cut your banana into tiny pieces to expose more of the cells.
•          Place your banana pieces in the blender, add a teaspoon of salt and slightly             cover the mixture with warm water. The salt will help the DNA stay together           during the mashing process.
1. Mix in the blender for 5 to 10 seconds making sure the mixture is not too runny.
2. Pour the mixture into the glass jar through the strainer. You want the jar to be about half full.
3. Add about 2 teaspoons of liquid soap and gently stir the mixture. You should try not to create bubbles when stirring. The soap helps to break down cell membranes to release the DNA.
4. Carefully pour very cold rubbing alcohol down the side of the glass stopping near the top.
5. Wait for 5 minutes to allow the DNA to separate from the solution.
6. Use the toothpicks to extract the DNA that floats to the surface. It will be long and stringy.

7. Tips

   1. When pouring the alcohol, make sure that two separate layers are being formed (The bottom layer being the banana mixture and the top layer being the alcohol).
   2. When extracting the DNA, twist the toothpick slowly. Be sure to only remove the DNA from the top layer.
   3. Try repeating this experiment again using other foods such as an onion or chicken liver.

Cyber Bulling and Online Safety Game

Cyberbullying, online safety and digital citizenship

Introduction
Hi, my name is Hussain.
Me and my class 10DTE, We start playing Interland since 2 weeks ago and now we finished, We had to play the game and write about it. Interland is about cyberbullying, online safety and digital citizenship. It's got 4 levels which each one of those levels has a meaning in it.



DLO

INTERLAND

Reflection
The first level I played was Mindful mountain it taught us who you need to share your certain information with, I like the movement and the colours and I like how the blue guy was aiming for his friends and family and the next level I played was the tower of treasure. The second level I played was Tower of treasure this level taught us how to make a long password, I didn't like when he hit the rock and losses his words. I hit the rock 2 times because the internet was slow. The third level I played was the kind kingdom which it's like you have to report the bullies or the people who bullying another person. I like how he made the people happy by giving the heart and I like how he reports the bullies by using the speaker and the last level we played was Realty river which it asks you questions about spam or is you gonna share your information with the people. I like how he answers the questions and I didn't like when he gets the wrong answer because when you answer wrong you will fall in the water.

Source
Interland Interactive, designed by Google, https://beinternetawesome.withgoogle.com/en/interland

Questions
What do you like about this game?
What do you think about it?

Harriet Tubman

Harriet Tubman

We start searching about Harriet Tubman and I learnt that she was a slave who helped the people who were slaved.

• Who is Harriett Tubman and what is she famous for?Harriett Tubman is a lady and She became a famous"conductor" on the Underground Railroad, leading hundreds of slaves to freedom.

• What is the Underground Rail Road and how did people get there?Underground railroad is where people who were in slave used it to escape from slave. 

• What are Spirituals and how would this help Slaves?A spiritual is a type of religious folk song that is most closely associated with the enslavement of African people in the American South.

2018 graphics

This term in graphics I've learnt so many thing for example I've learnt how to shade, measure, draw line, draw a tone and etc.

The thing i like the most is drawing construction line.

Construction line is a light line which at the start of your work you have to use it and then draw a final line.

For construction line you need to use HB, 2B, 4B and 6B pencils.

Here is some of my work.

Slave Trade Traingle Map

What is slave trade? Slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there.

What is the first passage? Ships and Guns were purchased and taken to Europe.

What is the second passage? Africans were taken to the Caribbean and sold. They were bartered for a ship-load of tobacco and cotton.

What is the third passage? All the Cotton, Tobacco and other products are put back on ships and sent to Europe. Once the ships get to Europe, they are sold. Then more guns and weapons are purchased.

3 Ways to improve Ergonomic

3 Ways to improve Ergonomics

Introduction

This blog is about  Ergonomics, Last week we have begin searching about different types of ergonomics and I have now learnt what Ergonomics is. You can find my infographic here.

Reflection

I learnt many types of Ergonomics, I learnt how to sit on the chair and I learnt how far do you have to be from your device.What is Ergonomics you ask? Well, Ergonomic is the Relationship between people and their environment. For example having your back upright/slightly inclined, and set fully back on the chair.

In Ergonomic your eyes needs to be 20 to 40 centimetre away from your device if you can't read the texts then you should make the fonts bigger size.

Source

I got the information from this page (N.D) and this page 16 September 2016

Questions

What did you learn about Ergonomic?

Did you enjoy this blog?

If you did which part?

If you didn't why?

10TEM

Classification of metals

From the start the year until now we learnt about Classification, metals, Properties of materials.

Classification 

• Ferrous are metals that contain iron which is therefore magnetic.
• Non Ferrous Metals does not contain Iron which therefore it is not magnetic and do not rust.
• An Alloy is a mixture of metals or a mixture of a metal and other element.

And we learnt that their is many types of metals for example

Iron, Steel, Gold, Bronze, Copper, Brass, Aluminium and etc

We learnt about properties of meterial

Hardness- Ability of a material to resist penetration or scratching.

Ductility- Ability of a material to be drawn into wires.

Brittleness- Ability of material to fracture on receiving shock or blow.

Toughness- Property of a material where it can absorb energy before actual fracture.

Elasticity- A property of a material to bend and to be drawn back to its original shape.

Malleability- A property or ability of a material to be cut or hammered into pieces.

Tenacity- It’s a behavior of metal when it’s broken or deformed.

Density- The degree of compactness of a substance.