Bruce Springsteen Biography

Name: Bruce Springsteen

Decade: 1970’s

Birth Date: 23 September 1949

Genre: Rock

Famous Songs: Born To Run and Badlands

Challenge: His father didn’t acknowledge him (his guitar) and his love for music, he quoted "When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house," the singer later recalled. "One was me, and the other was my guitar."

Music Biography's

Today in music we did music biography's on a band and a solo artist from New Zealand. I chose Sons Of Zion for my band and Marley Sola for my solo artist. First we had to do it on paper then we made it into a DLO ( digital learning story ) Here are my finished biography's.

Instrumental Industries

Today WH and AL started a new hurumanu called music but as we call it instrumental industries. Today we looked at different genres, what music we like to listen to, where we can find/listen to music and what we want to learn in this hurumanu.

We watched different types of videos of different genres, I really enjoyed this because we got to sing along to the songs we knew and it was interesting to hear other types of music I don't usually listen to.

We then looked at the ukulele, after we had learnt a bit about it we had to name the parts of the ukulele on our glossary for instrumental industries. Here is my labelling of a ukulele.

I'm excited to see what we will do for hurumanu this term.

My 10 changes to climate change.

My Investigation

Aim: To look at how I can prevent climate change in the future.

1. Complete the activity 'Ecological Handprint'.

2. Complete the activity 'Carbon Footprint'.

3. Write down your 10 changes to climate change below. Using ideas from the Ecological Hand print and Carbon Footprint list 10 changes that you can make to stop Climate change?

1.  Unplug anything i'm not using.
2.  Turn off the tap water while brushing my teeth.
3.  Take shorter showers.  
4.  Turn off the light when I leave the room.
5.  Eat less meat based products.
6.  Use recycled things.
7.  Use my electric blanket less.
8.  Compost and recycle things.
9.  Conserve water. 
10.  Conserve electricity. 
11.  Walk more places.

Emotions and Feelings

Naming your feeling: Look at the list of feelings, is there an emotion that you feel right now or that you have yesterday. 

How do you feel now/your feeling face: 

I feel anxious but happy.

Taking responsible action for your feelings: 

Respond to your feelings in a way that is kind to yourself and others. These a ways you can respond kindly to how you feel.

- If you feel happy you help share your happiness with others.

- If you feel tired and angry it's better to not take it out on anyone.

- If your feeling anxious you can talk to someone about it that will make you feel relieved and make the other person happy for helping you.

When your going through puberty not all changes are physical your emotions are going to change. It's good to keep control of your feelings and make sure your responding to them in a kind way. 

I looked at all of the plays and I really enjoyed this one because I had a clear idea of what they were talking and learning about. 

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Here is the link if the video doesn't work: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lVNDyFgCmC10cY_nojxCc1j9Ipw0QEeH

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

 

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.  Coal
2.  Oil 
3.  Natural Gasses

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1. Digging
2. Scraping
3. Exposing buried resources
4. Drilling

Where are they mined?

1. America
2. Russia
3. China 
4. Australia 
5. India

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1.  Cookie
2.  Plate
3.  Tooth Pick  
4.  Paper 

Steps:

1.  Get your paper 
2.  Get a cookie 
3.  Use the toothpick to pick out the chocolate chips in the cookie. 
4.  Draw any type of habitat before and after mining.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: I found out that we actually caused a lot of damage and the cookie ended up breaking.

Conclusion: In the end I realised that the cookie in the end is how the habitat will look after people mine and rummage through it. The similarity between how a damaged habitat and the cookie was scary, this means people need to stop damaging other species habitats and killing our species.

Hurumanu - Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1. Cups (4x) 
2. Water 
3. Tin Foil
4. Two sheets of white paper
5. One sheet of black paper
6. Thermometer
7. One large cup
8. Heat lamp

Steps

1. Fill 3 of the cups up with water.  
2. Lay down each of the surfaces.
3. Place the cups of water onto the papers and tinfoil. For one of the white paper place a the bigger cup on the top of the smaller one.
4. Plug in the heat lamp and wait for each time stamp.  
5. After waiting for each time stamp check the temperature and right down the results.  

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil
0	12	12	12	12
40 minutes	15	14	20	20
15 minutes	15	13	19	19
30 minutes	17	19	22	22

Findings: During this experiment I found that when we didn't have the heat lamp on the temperatures still went up which I didn't expect to happen, we were in front of natural light so that could have somehow triggered the temperature to rise with out the heat lamp. Also the black paper and tin foil had the same results which but the two white paper didn't 

Conclusion: I thought this experiment was very interesting, it was cool to see how different objects/things can effect the temperature of something. In the end I was really surprised how two cups of waters temperature rise without the heat lamp. Overall I enjoyed this experiment and would love to do something similar to this one again.

Drama, Puberty, Slam Poetry.

In drama this week we did a couple of things. We started off with learning a bit about puberty and the changes we have to go through. We learnt about the scientific names of each part of the body and the menstruation cycle. Also we learnt our hormones and emotions will affect us.

Then we did slam poetry, slam poetry is where 1 or more people perform a poem the poem doesn't have to rhyme and it can be about numerous things. We watched a 2 video's of slam poetry, one was about being islander and the other one was about being 12. I really enjoyed it. 

Lastly we performed our own poem, May and I's was about human rights, discrimination and racism and about how we wanted it to stop. During the poem we said one line in unison and the rest one by one.