Hurumanu 6 - Politics

A couple weeks ago we started hurumanu 6, which is basically New Zealand politics and stuff similar to that. A couple days ago we had to get in a group and make a new political party and share it with our whole block. 

Our political name is United Voices, and out logo is Your Vote, Your Voice. Our political group is about equality which falls under a lot of things. The main things were doing is education, housing, equality in work pays, education and health. The people in my group are Sierra, Daisy, Paea, Bryce and I. Sierra is the leader but were really working together with everything.

Our logo:

Football

 At school we were supposed to play actual games of football this term but since not enough people wanted to play outdoor this season we ended up not being able to make a team. But we did work around that and we were just doing games at lunch on Tuesdays. It started off only being only girls but by the end some guys were allowed to join and I personally like mixed gender team / games anyways. 

Next term we will be able to play indoor against other schools and hopefully have enough for a full team like the start of the year.

Energy transformation experiment

Different types of energy's:

1. Kinetic 

2. Electric

3. Sound

4. Light 

5. Chemical 

6. Potential

7. Gravitational

8. Nuclear

Chemical + Electrical = Phone, chargers, computers, battery

Light + Chemical = Torch

Kinetic + light = Anything moving with light.

Aim: 

To make a marshmallow shooter that transforms energy.

Equipment: 

Marshmallows, scissors, cups and a balloon.

Method

1. Cut the bottom of the cup.

2. Cut the bottom of the balloon.

3. Stretched the balloon onto the part of the cut where there hole is.

4. Put the marshmallow in the centre of the balloon.

5. Pull the balloon back and fire it.

\Conclusion:

The energy change goes from elastic potential to kinetic energy after the marshmallow was fired. Over all I think the activity was pretty fun and a good idea to do with your friends.

NZ government

We had to make a presentation about NZ government this is what I made.

 

Energy

Definition: Stored in different objects and the ability to move something.

Different kinds of energy: 

1. Light energy (which gives light like in microwaves and x-rays)
2. Heat energy (this is found in all hot objects)
3. Sound energy ( energy used for vibrating objects/hearing different stuff)
4. Chemical potential energy ( this is stored in particles mostly in food)
5. Electric energy (the energy found in wires, generators and lighting)
6. Gravitational potential (energy stored in objects which will make a noise or dent in the ground)
7. Kinetic energy (energy moving different when something moves like when cars move or you do something active)
8. Elastic potential energy (energy stored in stretched rubber bands/strings)

No more plastic bags

In textiles we are researching why plastic bags are bad and trying to think of ideas instead of plastic bags. Here is what I found.

Why are there no more plastic bags? In NZ plastic bags were banned in July 2019 because there was so much waste not just in NZ all around the world. Most of it kept coming in the ocean and killing the animals after a while.

Plastic bags are made from polyethylene, the reason polyethylene is pretty bad is because it takes away a lot of natural gas to make it into a plastic bag.

Alternatives to plastic bags. Paper bags, cotton / reusable bags, reusable plastic bags.

Science introduction

The topics we will be studying in science are:

1. Energy types.

2. Energy transformation

3. Waves

4. Sound

5. Light

6. The eye

7. Reflection and retraction of light

8. Electricity

9. Circtus

10. Magnitisom

All experiments will use the scientific method. The heading used for this will be:

1. Aim

2. Hypothesis

3. Equipment

4. Method

5. Findings 

6. Conclusion