Poem - Drama

This week for drama we created poems about us or about things we liked. I created two poems one about me and then one in a group with May.

My poem about me:

Who hated racism and people who would discriminate against others for their cultures, beliefs and who they were as a person.

Who loved equality and human rights towards both men and women.

Who feared that racism was never going to end, that people wouldn’t accept who she was, that generations in the future would take after this one and the hatred and discrimination will continue towards people.

Who wants to help make a difference and change the way people think because we are all equal, we are all human. 

Who wanted to see the society around us become a happier and safer place for everyone.

My poem with May:

We are who we are

We shouldn't pretend to be anyone else

We won't change for you

So just let it be

I won't waste my time

Trying to change me

I'm not a fake

And I'm unwilling to break

Accept what you see

And just let me be

Here's a video of all the poems that 7/8WH and 7/8AL:

Here is the link aswell if the video doesn't work - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1tsoYczj7mTAmAMDwVwl_npH4wiPWwYaj

Science - Recycling

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

How can we prevent climate change though recycling these products?

Plastics: It prevents us from burning coal and oil and helps us use less energy. 
Cycling or walking: Instead of taking a car or a bus which releases carbon monoxide which evaporates into the air and rises the earths atmosphere. Walking to different places means you're not releasing carbon monoxide 
Paper: If we stop using as much paper and wasting paper it means less tree's are being cut down 
Steel: Less coal is burnt and that means less gasses which rise our earths temperature are released. 

Video questions:

What is Zero Waste?

One of the quickest and cheapest ways a community can immediately reduce climate impact. 
What can we do on the planet?

1.   Resign
2.   Recycle
3.   Stop feeding animal products
4.   Start feeding soils

What do we need to recycle?

All plastics, paper, glass bottles, jars, milk and juice cartons and everything else that can be recycled! Share things.

What does recycling do?

It stops the use of fossil fuels which means less carbon dioxide would be released into the air. 

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

42%

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

CH4 Methane 

What do we need to do?

1. Have Zero Waste.

What is a carbon footprint?

the amount of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere as a result of the activities of a person or a community.

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

To stop the use of fossil fuel products, lower the rate of energy in your household, walk and not using cars or motorcycles. Sharing your resources. 

My Goals

1. Turning off the lights in the house that i'm not using.
2. Walk more places instead of getting my parents to take me.
3. Use recyclable products/don't use fossil fuel products.

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Choose 5 items from the list and investigate them. 

You need to answer three questions.

Name: Aluminium Can

1. How long do they take to decompose? 200-400 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Metal
3. How is this resource recycled? The aluminium is taken to a treatment plant and it goes through a re-melt process and turns into molten. Then it's made into a large block called ingot then they are made into cans or aluminium products again.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? When aluminium is made they use a lot of electricity and releasing CO2 which is obviously bad for our planet. 

Name: Milk Carton

1. How long do they take to decompose? 5 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Polyethylene
3. How is this resource recycled? Milk cartons have a similar process to aluminium but in the end of the process some processed milk cartons are sent over seas and can be used for a roof.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? When milk cartons are made they use up a lot of electricity and releasing CO2 which is obviously bad for our planet. Same as aluminium.

Name: Glass Bottle

1. How long do they take to decompose? 500 years-forever
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? A liquid sand.
3. How is this resource recycled? Glass is taken from the bin and taken to a glass treatment plant then the glass is washed and sorted by colour. The glass is then crushed and melted then moulded into new products like jars and bottles.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? CO2 is released when glass is made.

Name: Plastic Bag

1. How long do they take to decompose? 10-20 years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Polythene 
3. How is this resource recycled? They have similar process to other fossil fuel products, broken down and then made into the same or similar product.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? CO2 is released when the plastic bags are being made.

Name: Plastic Bottle

1. How long do they take to decompose? 400-500 years.
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from? Polythene terephthalate
3. How is this resource recycled? Every plastic bottle is separated from metal, glass and other things that we put into recycle bins, the plastic bottles are also sorted by the different type of plastics they are made from. Then the bottles are washed. Then the same process as milk cartons, plastic bags and more.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change? The use of electricity and CO2 being released into the air. 

Affects that Climate Change has on the Water Cycle

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change. 
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Ocean acidification refers to decreasing levels of pH in the ocean, which makes the sea the more acidic. when carbon dioxide is absorbed by the ocean, it dissolves to form carbonic acid. The result, not surprisingly, is that the ocean becomes more acidic, upsetting the delicate pH balance that millions and millions of organisms rely on. 

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How it affects climate change.

A huge amount of animal species are become extinct because the carbon dioxide that's being released into the ocean is ruining their habitats. Also species we haven't even discovered yet are becoming extinct. It's not only their habitats making them become extinct carbon dioxide is decreasing the levels of pH which is what millions of the living organisms in the oceans rely on. 

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Deforestation is in the Amazon rain forest is a major cause to climate change due to the decreasing number of trees available to capture increasing carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Forests still cover about 30 percent of the world’s land area, but they are disappearing at an alarming rate. Between 1990 and 2016, the world lost 502,000 square miles of forest.

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How it affects climate change.

Since tree's play a huge part in everyday life as books, pencils, beds, desks and more we need to cut down tree's to make those things that us humans use in everyday life. The problem is we are cutting down too many of them leaving us with none left, nothing to provide us oxygen. Also burning or cutting down trees reserves the effects of carbon sequestration and releases greenhouse gasses. 

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

The high temperatures are causing the ice caps to melt. But why has the temperature increased? Carbon dioxide is a gas that comes out of fossil fuels factories. Since fossil fuels are being burnt all the time and the gas left from the fossil fuels is released into the air causing the temperature to rise and that is how the ice in Antarctica are melting 

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How is ice cap melt affecting climate change. 
The water levels rise which can cause flooding in different places all over the world. Also the antarctic species are loosing their habitats which is also causes them to slowly become extinct.  

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

Water vapour in the worlds atmosphere is referred to as a feedback process. Since warmer air can hold more moisture when the planet warms air temperatures rise so more evaporation from water sources and land occur releasing the moisture.

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How is water vapour affecting climate change:

Climate change intensifies this cycle because as the airs temperature increases more warm water vapour evaporates into the air which can lead to rainstorms, and causing extreme problems like major flooding in the coastal communities around the world.

Hurumanu: The Water Cycle

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1. Plastic Bag 
2. 1 Cup Of Water
3. 2 Drops of Food Colouring 

Steps:

1.  Get a plastic zip lock bag.
2.  Draw the lay out on the bag.
3.  Write the scientific words onto the bag aswell. 
4.  Pour a cup of water into the bag.
5.  Put 2 drops of food colouring into the bag with the water.

Two Images: 

Conclusion: This experiment was really fun and it makes me anxious and excited to know what will happen and what the progress will look like. 

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes	Yes	Yes
Amount of Water	2	2	2
Acidity	1	2	1

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small drips

3 = large drips

Other comments: 

The water cycles in bag one had no acidity.

The water cycled in bag one.

The water formed in small drops in bag one. 

The water did cycle in bag two.

The water cycle in bag two had small drips of acidity.

The water formed small drops in bag two.

The water did cycle in bag three even though it had a small amount of water in the bag.

The water had no acidity in bag three. 

The water in bag three formed small drops like the other bags. 

Conclusion:

All of the bags did successfully cycle even bag three which only had one tablespoon of water in it. The water formed in small drops in all of the bags and bags one and three both had no acidity in the bag.  

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Acid rain
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Defirestation
8. Water vapour
9. Transpiration
10. Flooding

SOLO Hexagons Activity

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

DEFORESTATION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

PaperBag Puppets - Drama

This week in drama we discussed 'how does eating healthy food help all 4 aspects of Hauora?' 

Taha Tinana - Well firstly for your physical health it's crucial to eat healthy and have a maintained diet if you want to have a good physical well being. Also if you're goal is to try be fit then healthy eating helps your fitness by giving you more energy and protein. 

Taha Hinengaro - For your Mental and Emotional well being it isn't the exact same. Healthy eating affects your Taha Hinengaro by what you eat when you're feeling different emotions like if your sad sometimes you eat unhealthy foods to make you feel better but if you replace unhealthy foods with the healthy foods it will help you from affecting your physical well being and it can give you more energy and motivation too. 

Taha Whanau - As for your Social well being eating healthy isn't always what you have to do for example, if your gathering with your friends for lunch or breakfast you would usually like to enjoy take out or sugary foods. Of course those foods are delicious but if you eat healthy food whilst hanging out with your friends it can encourage them to healthily. 

Taha Wairua - Eating healthy foods could be apart of your religion or culture. It's good to follow your beliefs about what foods you eat Your spirituality can be significantly affected by the level of your energy. In fact, the lack of energy is one of the reasons for you to abandon good deeds or to engage in any beneficial things. 

We also created puppets for a performance we had to do about healthy eating. 

First we planned on a piece of paper what we wanted our puppet to look like, then we chose our materials and got started. 

My idea was to make a fruit monster called frank, he has different types of fruits on him. He is like the cookie monster but a healthy version. 

Here's a photo of our puppets and me, May and Kyla's performance. 

  

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1l3XLwHygkUT3jAYV0vJDvEl-NP2YkosY

To improve my Hauora through out the holidays i'll try to not be on my devices all day, go for a run each day and spend time with my family and friends. 

Solo Hexagon Task

Our base for this is precipitation which is actually at the bottom but once it rains it connects with the ocean, flooding, storms and lots more. Then the suns energy causes the water from oceans, streams to rise into the air and that causes water vapour which is the mist that you will sometimes appear. That causes the droplets from them to form into clouds. Then condensation makes the water vapour call down and it turns back to liquid. But we all know that the water vapour that's in the clouds comes out as precipitation ( rain, snow ). 

Solo Taxonomy

1 Prestructural 

- no organisation 

- unconnected ideas

2 Unistructual 

- one idea

- show connected thoughts

3 Multi-structural

- two or three ideas

- somewhat connection

4 Relational 

- make links to other concepts 

5 Abstract 

- using information and bringing it into another topic

The Water Cycle - Science

Hurumanu: The Water Cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition:

The water cycle is a never ending process by which water is circulated through the earth and atmosphere through evaporation, condensation, precipitation and Acidification. The suns energy causes water to evaporate from oceans and other bodies of water. 

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapor.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapor cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1. Plastic Bag 
2. 1 Cup Of Water
3. 2 Drops of Food Colouring 

Steps:

1.  Get a plastic zip lock bag.
2.  Draw the lay out on the bag.
3.  Write the scientific words onto the bag aswell. 
4.  Pour a cup of water into the bag.
5.  Put 2 drops of food colouring into the bag with the water.

Two Images: 

Findings: We haven't found anything out yet but here's what I think will happen. I think in a couple days it will fog up like condensation on the window then after another couple of days it will be back at the bottom of the bag again. 

Conclusion: This experiment was really fun and it makes me anxious and excited to know what will happen and what the progress will look like. 

THE WATER CYCLE EXPERIMENT

Bag 1: Normal Water cycle

Bag 2: Water cycle with CO2 added: like Oceans in climate change

Bag 3: Water cycle with ice added: like Antarctica in climate change

Material:

1. Plastic Bag 
2. 1 Cup Of Soda Water
3. 2 Drops of Food Colouring 
4. Sand

Steps:

1.  Get a plastic zip lock bag. 
2. Draw the lay out on the bag.
3.  Write the scientific words onto the bag aswell. 
4.  Pour a cup of soda water into the bag.
5.  Add the sand 
6. Fold a little bit of litmus paper and put 
7. Put 2 drops of food colouring into the bag with the water.

Two Images: 

Findings:

Conclusion: This experiment was really fun and it makes me anxious and excited to know what will happen and what the progress will look like.