The Water Cycle

How The Water Cycle Works.

When it rains, snows or hails it has a complicated cycle to make it rain or snow. It is called the water cycle, It contains three different elements to make it rain. The three elements are evaporation, condensation and precipitation.

Evaporation

Evaporation starts with the sun, when water is visible to water it slowly burns the water into water vapor, water vapor is a gas that is basically just water. When you cook something there is steam that rises up, thats water vapor.

Condensation

Condensation comes and takes the water up to the clouds. It takes the vapour to the clouds and cools it down. It stores the now cooled water until precipitation comes. As the water is cooling it can turn into hail and snow as it is cooling because the air near the clouds in below 0℃ .

Precipitation

Precipitation takes over condensation and is slowly turning the water into rain, snow, sleet or hail. The water then gets bigger until it turns into a reasonable size to fall down and hit the ground. The oceans, lakes and rivers all collect the water so then the water cycle repeats.

That is how the water cycle is formed. The cycle is much more complicated with many more theories on how it is actually formed but this is what scientists have come up with. There are many more possibilities that that is only a tiny part of the cycle but we might never know the real reason on the water cycle.

• Something that I did well: Finishing it on time
• Something I can improve for next time: Writing Scientifically
• Something that I need more help with: Putting the scientific words in the right places

Reading - SoFi the Robotic Fish

This week for reading we were learning about a robotic fish named SoFi, our task was to write three things we learned about SoFi. I never knew that a robotic fish was alive so it was all kind of new to me. 

-First of all I learned that there was a robotic fish named SoFi that was made by scientists who wanted to learn about wildlife. 

-SoFi is partly 3D printed and weighs only 3.5 kilo, that's about the size of a small fish 

- SoFi has to be controlled in water near Sofi so then the signals can tell SoFi to move.

Earthquakes

 For the past five weeks Miss Birtch was teaching us about natural disasters and weather. Our task was to record a video explaining how a disaster works. I chose to do my presentation about Earthquakes. This is my powtoon about earthquakes

Science Term 2 - Chicken bones

What is bone made of?

Aim  To investigate the effect of acid on bone.

Method

1. Get four chicken bones

2. Cleaned all the pieces of leftover food off the piece of bone

3. Weighed all the pieces of bone

4. Put the bones in different containers

5. Put Water in one of them

6. Put acid in another

7. Put coke in another

8. Close the containers

9. Wait two weeks.

10. Check after two weeks and see what happened

Results

	Bone in Water	Bone in Acid	Bone in Coca Cola #1	Bone in Coca Cola #2
Observation	Smells really bad	Really bendy	Discoloured but not bendy	Discoloured but not bendy
Mass (g) Before	8g	9g	8g	8g
Mass (g) After	12g	8.8g	8.8g	9.8g
Difference in Mass	.4g	-.2g	.8g	1.8g

Conclusion

The bones have different weights and they all smell different. The water bone
and both bones in coke went up and weight, the acid went down in weight.
The coke bones had went a disgusting blackish brown colour. Coke didn't
properly work so had to try again.

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Reading - The great Barrier Reef

This week for reading we were reading about the Great Barrier Reef. Our task was to write three things we learned about the reef that we didn't know about. I haven't really done anything about the great barrier reef so it was all kind of new to me. 

#1. I learnt that the great barrier reef is approximately 500,000 years old

#2 The great barrier reef has about 1,500 different and living species in it.

#3 I learnt that climate change could be a huge part of the reef slowly destroying.

Fo Guang Shan Temple Recount

This week on Tuesday the year 7s and 8s went to the Fo Guang Shan buddhist
temple to be apart of the Fo Guang Shan 3G4G event. We left at nine o’clock
after being sorted into two different groups, I was in group two with Ruby,
Genica and Kayla. We then were put into two busses and had been sent to go to
the temple.

When we arrived there were a team of monks and some leaders who were going
to take us throughout the temple. They had greeted us and had taken us inside to
a art gallery to learn what 3G4G meant. 3G means 3 good deeds, the three good
deeds were say good things, think good thoughts and do good deeds. The 4G’s
were give others confidence, give others hope, give others joy and give others
convenience. We had also learned a chant which was “3G4G in action!” in our
two groups we were separated and we were moved to different stations.

Our first station was bathing a buddha and making lotus’. The instructor was
telling us the backstory about the buddha and how when he was born one of his
hands were pointing at the sky and the other was pointing to the earth. We then
made cardstock lotus’ and put them on our hands. We then walked to the art
gallery and went upstairs to the hall of time and the library.

Afterwards we had gone downstairs and were given water tattoos. We then had a
snack of cookies and water.

We were given five minutes to have a break then we all went upstairs to the
main buddhist area to meditate. We meditated for two minutes and then were
given a guest surprise from the police. They taught us about their values and let
us try on some police gear. Afterwards we were then given these bells that you
blow to ring. They then thanked us for coming and we went outside to go to the
busses.

On the bus back some boys started singing about sausages and how they were $2
. Everyone had started singing and I had gotten a headache from all the singing.
The song had gotten stuck in my head for a few minutes but had left when we
were going to tech.

Overall I had a really fun time at the temple, I’ve been to many temples before
but this one was really interesting. I would definitely come again with my friends
and family so they could learn what I learned on tuesday.

Art

This week for art Miss Cairns wasn't here so we had Miss Birtch. For art we were told to make a brainstorm about us and put ideas about what we thought was important to us. Here is my brainstorm and all my ideas about me.

Art

This week for art Miss Cairns asked us to make a slideshow of logos and write some information about three or four of them. This is my slide  

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Reading

This week for reading Miss Birch asked us to create a Screencastify about our reading. we were asked to choose a topic from our reading which was about earthquakes. I did mine about the cause of earthquakes because it seemed like a challenge.

Here is my screencastify and my slideshow.

I hope you enjoyed my video

What you need in a survival kit!

Today for kete Miss Birtch asked us to make a piktochart on what I would have in a survival kit. You never know when you need to have a kit ready for a natural disaster. This is what I have made

Drama

What is a Pantomime?
pantomime is when a group of people act out a fairy tail but they add funny actors, they interact with the audience and fall over and "Hurt" themselves for the audience.

How is a pantomime different from play?
A pantomime is supposed to be funny and interactive, A play isn't supposed to be sticking to the play and not getting off track.

What is a Slapstick?
Slapstick is comedy where everyone deliberately becomes clumsy, goes off track and embarrasses themself.

How can we use Slapstick in our play?
some of our actors can start being rebellious and going off track, doing their own dances and falling around the set they are in. 

Here is a pantomime of Beauty And The Beast.

Reading - Astrobiology, Finding Extraterresial Life

Linocut

For the next few weeks we are going to be doing Linocutting. Here is a simple video

Writing

Today Miss Birtch wasn’t here so for writing we were asked to

make a ToonDoo about what she might be doing today. I decided

to make it about Miss Birtch spending the day out in the

countryside just relaxing, I was going to do it about Miss Birtch

going on a jungle adventure but I changed it to her just relaxing.

Here is my ToonDoo about what Miss Birtch was doing since she wasn't in school.

I Hope you enjoyed 

Return of the Moa

This week for reading we were asked to read a article called "Return Of The Moa." The article is about how

scientists are working to bring back moa's in New Zealand by using DNA, genetics and bones to bring it back.

we were told to write a Persuasive response saying if it was good or bad idea to bring the moa back. We were given this quote to talk about the response with.

↓Quote↓

“Although the technology is almost here, bringing back the moa would

be a huge venture. It would take a large team of scientists and cost a

lot of money. There would also be no guarantee of success – and many

embryos and even live chicks would die during the process.”

- Return of the Moa (Berentson)

My Response

I Personally think it is a bad Idea to bring the Moa back from Extinction because it would cost too much

just to bring back an embryo and a female Moa. If we did bring back the Moa what would be the

chances that it would be exactly the same. We would have to get the dna from a close relative of the

moa which means if we did bring back the Moa it wouldn’t be a moa, it would be a hybrid with Moa

DNA. I think it is also bad because we are spending so much just to create a extinct bird which could

fail, What if something goes wrong and they end up creating a mutant animal. It would go down history

but Moa’s have already been in history. Kids these days wouldn’t care that much unless if it was for a

project or they were learning about it. By creating embryos Moa have a 50/50 chance of living, it would

 be quite a while and a lot of chicks that would have to die just so then one of the embryos could live.

Drama

This term for drama we are doing a performance about matariki. We were asked to make a piktochart about matariki facts and what matariki is. This is what I made for this task. I like how you are able to add props like stars because its an easy way without getting an image from the internet.

This is my piktochart that I made, It was a little hard finding the facts because some pages didn't give that much information.

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