Decorating the Tree

 LI: To decorate the office Christmas tree.

The purpose of our Design Technology challenge was to create a set of Christmas/Holiday decorations that represented our school and the people in it. We were given a design brief from Mr Johnston and a delivery date. To celebrate the end of this challenge LS2 delivered their completed decorations to Mr Johnston, then hung them on the tree in our school office.

Who I will vote for

L.I:To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice 

To decide which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision. If I was 18 I would vote for Labour because they are willing to upgrade hospitals so it could help people in Aotearoa with the virus. This means if Labour Won the election in my electorate Jenny Salesa would be our member of parliament and Jacinda ardern would become the Prime Minister.

Vincent Van Gough Timeline

L.I: To create a timeline to show the life of Vincent Van Gough.

There are so many people who are famous because of there painting. The famous person that we were researching was about Vincent Van Gough and the paintings he did. Vincent Van Gough used to be an artist where he used to sell his paintings and selling on a few. But then one day 1 year before his death he created one of the best paintings which sold for a lot of money. The thing that I like about was how I got to collaborate with my friends and get to know a lot about Vincent Van Dough. 

Disaster Story's

L.I: Is to find out how to keep safe in a natural disaster.

As for level 3 coming to New Zealand and distance learning. We started to learn the disasters that might occur in your local area. The natural disaster that I did that could happened is an earthquake. When finding information I found some interesting facts about the earthquake in Christchurch. I had to answer what causes an earthquake and what it looks like. The thing that I liked about this task was how I got to use my smart researching skills to find these piece of information. 

Career pathway

L.I: To find out the qualities I need to become a Building and Construction Manager.

As people grow up they start to get older until they get a job, which we were talking about. This week  we were choosing our jobs by asking a lot of question and it will calculate the results and fit in all the jobs you could get in. The job that I chose was a Building and Construction Manager as you can see from my DLO. I had to look for the skills required to join and the things I need to learn. The thing that I liked about this task was how we got to look through the results of jobs we got.

Life Education

L.I: To Learn new things in Life Ed

This week we had a special guest which was life ed. We talked all about how the brain works and the four walls of hauora. When learning new things in the life ed we were given a video to watch so we could give some advice that the main character could use when he is in a difficult situation. We also made a structure, so for every question that was good about Kapi we would put a block on top of the structure depending on which wall one of the 4 walls the question could fit in. We also talked about the brain and the amount of brain cells we produce. The thing that I liked about this was that we all got to meet Harold and that it was a fun last experiment meeting Nichole.

Hauora Poster

L.I: Is to understand what Hauora means.

This week for Inquiry we started on challenge 4 for our hauora task. This was a task to make a poster about the 4 walls of hauora and explain what they are and how you can show them. The thing that we used to make these posters is canva where you can create poster, videos, logos and more. The thing that I liked about this task is how we got to use our creativity to make this which was really fun.

Making connections to problem solving.

L.I: To explore problem solving.

As our internet stopped we decided to create our own tangrams. This is a puzzle that was created centuries ago, these puzzles were usually used for people that were on a ship to have something to entertain them self's. When playing with this puzzle you can make different kind of things into an animals or a shape. We started of with a piece of A4 paper and a pair of scissors. We had to follow and listen to simple instructions to create our own tangram, when finishing of the tangrams we were given a challenge to create a square out of the pieces of paper. The thing that I liked about this task was that it was a challenge to me and we got to use problem solving to fit in the pieces of paper to create your thing.

Experimenting with UV Light

L.I: To find the most effective UV filter.

LS2 has been trialling the electronic sensor for the kiwrious project. We are working with Suranga, Sonia, Evan, Dawn and Yvonne From the AHL at Auckland university. I found that using the sensors to find out the most effective way on how much Natural light and UV light it would get from going through different objects to keep the Zally safe. To find out what kind of data I collected My DLO will show you the different kinds of objects I used.

How does a periscope works?

L.I: Is to explain how a periscope works.

Mr Johnston came and taught us what periscopes are, and how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angel of incidents = angel of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at a 45 degrees it reflects the light back at 45 degrees. I found this fun because I got to learn so much fun things about what a periscope does and I actually got to work one.

Facts about Light

L.I: To share 5 facts about light that we found interesting.

Light is so fascinating, light can be absorbed it can bounce and all sorts of thing we could imagian. With this DLO me and my partner Rj talked about 5 interesting facts that you might of not known. This DLO was one real quick because of all the knowledge that we were given since we were learning the different kind of things light can do. The thing that I liked about doing this task is that I got to work with a person that I never work with and actually get to know him.

Adventurers and Explorers

           
This week for inquiry we had to make a vein diagram showing the different that has of variety of people that were put in the wrong side and we had to put them in the right place. This was a very hard challenge because of how some people there i didn't know.

Places named by early explorers.

                                   
This week for inquiry our topic for this task was all about Captain Cook, Kupe and Abel Tasman. This task was about the places around the world that was name by Kupe, Captain Cook and Abel Tasman. This was a very interesting challenge because of how there are a lot of places named after them that i didn't know. The reason places are named because it could be for friends, important people and physical appearance. Did you know that taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu is the longest place in New Zealand not just that it is also the long est word in the owrld.

Need and Want

                      
For term 4 week 3's inquiry we had to compare the difference between need and want. This was very interesting because, to explain the difference we kept saying need or want in what they mean. we were not supposed to do that because you use the word that your trying to explain into your explaining. We worked into a group which got us more confident  about what we were going to say since we have more heads.

Water Filter

In the world there are around 2.4 billion people that have to get water from a mini pond and walk back about 2 miles which is really sad because some of us have running taps well they have to drink dirty water just from a pond.

Early Maori Enterprise

Maori Enterprise started in N.Z. Europeans came to N.Z to trade. They ripped off the Maori and stole their land. Maori  over the Europeans. Maori claimed their land and lived peacefully.

For Inquiry for week 1 term 4, our task for this was all about learning how enterprise came to New Zealand. It all started many years ago which interested me. I had a lot of fun working with my friends and just having little laugh too as we tried to turn our 5 sentence summary into 5 sentences that have exactly 10 syllables in each sentence..

MOTAT

                       

LS2 went on an amazing trip to MOTAT. I made slide show about what we did to show the fun we had. This was a good trip because we  I learnt a lot about the olden days and what they did. they also told us about things that i have never learnt about. This was trip was building up out knowledge about steam.

7 Contients

Did you know that south America is the 4th largest continent. With our partners We learnt about the 7 continents in the world and the placing of each continent of how large each is. learning about different continents surprised us because of these fact that we did not know, but as we didn't know about different facts we still knew about our own facts that we know about the 7 continents.

DARE Impact Message

There are alot of people drinking and driving and people should stop. I made this DLO to show what happens and how to stop drinking. I want the world to be a better place so that it doesn't affect other people's life or the drinking and drivers life.

Venn Diagram

Today Sandra, Aungnaing, Matthew, Jonathan and I made a
Venn Diagram about the qualities of a role model we know.
The role models we listed are Robert K. Merton, Tom Holland,
Ryan Terry, Marzia Bisognin and Felix Kjellberg. We all think that
these people have the qualities because they have amazing flaws.