Scientific Method

 Kia ora, lately In Te Ngahere we have been learning about the Scientific Method. The purpose of why we did this was so that it could help us with our science fair.  

 I learnt that the scientific method is a method that uses a hypothesis, questions and gathering information. We also made a infographic that showed the steps of the scientific method. 

I will definitely use this in the future. I think it would help me with my science fair. 

What I used to make my infographic is Easily. Easily is a site on Google that is used for a lot of different  things.

 What I think I did well was making the infographic because I put the steps in order and it was easy.. What I think I could do better in the future is trying to put the infographic steps into my own words. 

 Have you made an infographic before?

The Best Marble Ramp

 Kia Ora, bloggers In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to make a marble ramp. The purpose of why we did this was to make the marble roll down our ramp and try roll to 1100mm.

We started by finding a group of three or two. My group was Breeze, Gail and I. Next we started to make a plan for our marble ramp.

The materials we used to make our marble ramp was cardboard, a tube and a hot glue gun.

 How we made it:

We started by making a box out of our cardboard, next we used hot glue to stick our tupe to  the top of our box. If you wanted to know our tube was 60mm. 

After we finished making our marble ramp we had to test it. We tested it using a measuring tape, after each roll we had to write what it rolled by on our planning. 

Making  our planning specific for the teachers to understand was difficult  for me. What I found easy was collaborating with my group to find out how we were going to make our marble ramp.

Have you ever had to make a marble ramp?

A Fun Ride To Kawakawa

  Kia Ora, lately in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the scientific method and how to create our own science projects. We went to Bay Of Islands College in Kawakawa to a science roadshow. We went there because we have a science show coming up and we needed to learn more about it.  We had three activities. Once we got there we had to sit down in the Bay Of Islands hall that a lot of experiments, well we were sitting down in the hall we had to listen to the first show. What I learnt in the first show was about different gases, for example, I learnt gases like Nitrogen Dioxide. I also learnt that carbon dioxide is heavy. The next thing we did was walk around and look at all the exhibits. The experiment that I really enjoyed was a tube that had air flowing through to the top we had three different materials to use to make them float straight up into the middle. The materials were a badminton ball, rubbery yellow tennis ball and a lot of pipe cleaners. We didn’t end up making it float in the middle but it was fun. The last activity was to listen to one more show. What I learnt in that show was that you can do science on anything. How I can use what I have learnt in my science project is by changing one variable at a time so I know what variable I changed to made it work.

Have you ever been to a science roadshow before? 

The Most Fabulous Mosaic Art

 Kia Ora, lately in Te Ngahere we have been doing Mahi Toi for our Mahi Toi we have been doing Mosaic art. We have been learning to create shapes to make it look like the image that we have chosen. The purpose of why we were doing this was so we can create a QR code to match our ngahere notes. If you don’t know what nghare notes is scroll down and you can see it in my post. 

What we had to do first was chose a photo that matches our ngahere notes. I decided to do a photo of a Nikau Palm. Next we had to use polyline to create shapes on our image. Polyline is a tool on Google Drawing that you can use to make your own shapes and lines.  Once we finished filling in our image with shapes we had to delete our image and choose a background for the back of our art. 

Matching my shapes to my Nikau Palm was hard for me. What I could do better is to stop rushing through my art.

Do you know what Mosaic art is ?

Cyber Smart

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning to use tools and shapes to create sea creatures. We started to do this to learn about the tools on Google drawings.

rive tools. I think I could use this in the future for one of my maths DLO or one of my reading DLO. I started by using shapes to create a fish and a shark. I used shapes like squares, triangles, diamonds, half frames, circles, and lightning bolts. I also created a rock using curve line. 

What I think I did well was using different shapes to make different sea creatures. I think I could get better at learning to use polyline properly.

Would you like to ask any questions?

Naghere Notes

 In Te Ngahere we have been learning how to research different animals, insects and plants that live in our forest. First we chose either a plant, animal or insect. Then we researched about whatever we chose and using that information we made a video or a presentation. We had to research things like what the physical description of your plant or animal is. I chose to write about the Nikau Palms because our school has nikau palms and it is really nice to see.

This report was easy to write because our instructions were written clearly and I could understand it easily. Something I found simple was writing about the nikau diet because it was easy to figure out.

Have you ever been interested in any kind of Nikau Palm?