Around the world task

 Kiyomizu-Dera:

The original temple hall was constructed by the Japanese general Sakanoue no Tamuramuro, shortly after Kiyomizu-Dera was founded. The general had come to this mountainside to hunt deer as an offering to the gods for his sick wife when he encountered Enchin who lectured him on the sanctity of life.

Enchin:

So Enchin is actually a person if you didn't know, Enchin was a Japanese Buddhist monk who founded of the Jimon school of Tendai Buddhism and Chief Abbot of Mii-dera at the foot of Mount Hiei. After succeeding to the post of Tendai zasu, in 873, a strong rivalry developed between his followers and those of Ennin's at Enryaku-Ji. 

Thank you for reading my blog post I hope you learnt something new. I am sure i did but did you?

AVAILLL

Suprise subtitles

See you in there ✅

Then you get the whole day off✅

It's a deal✅

I believe I just did✅

(gunshots)✅

(Thunder rumbling)✅

Mr. Sir gasping✅ 

But no biggy✅

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 Next word hunt  "My"

• My Head 
• My Life 
• My Grandpa 
• My destiny
• My Father
• My Stanley 
• My table
• My family  
• My eyes
• My name 
• My name
• My name 
• My son 
• My blossom 
• My pig 
• My hole 
• My god 
• my head 
• My onions 
• My no 

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 Suprise Subtitles 

1. That's a game ✅
2. Yeah junk bond ✅
3. Lost, Lost, Lost ✅
4. Come on, Jack out ✅
5. It was a beautiful speech ✅

White Island Eruption

 Predictions: 

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know about this is that it all started with people seeing smoke coming towards them from a distance.

What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

I think I will find out some things that will help me during a class or something like that?

1. What is the name of the cruise ship that guests visit Whakaari/White island?

The cruise ship was called " Ovation of the seas "

2. Why does Whakaari/White Island have two names?

Captain Cook named it White island, while the local iwi called her Te Puia o Whakaari, their angry ancestor, so the official name is Whakaari/White Island.

3. What time on December 9th did the volcano erupt?

It happened at 2:11 PM

4. How many people lost their lives in the eruption?

22 people died from the eruption

5. Why was a rahui placed on the island?

A rahui was placed on the island and sea, as it was considered to be a grave.

6. What is an example of heroism from this passage?

Pilots flew three helicopters to the still-erupting island. They were able to airlift critically injured survivors directly to Whakatane Hospital.

Sadly my journey with these disasters has ended here. but thank you for reading my blog post I really appreciate it.

The Christchurch Earthquake

 Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know is that there was a big earthquake in Christchurch and it destroyed a lot of stuff.

What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

Interesting facts.

1. Why do you think there was no loss of life in the September earthquake?

People got into a safe place before the earthquake

2. How many people were injured in the February Earthquake 

at least 46 people were reported injured. 

3. Explain liquefaction in your own words

Something that is progressing a thing, especially a gas or liquid

4. How many people died when the CTV building collapsed

 115 people died when the CTV building collapsed.

5. List three words that are synonyms of the word 'huge'

Colossal, Enormous, Monstrous.

Here are two videos.

Video one 

Video two 

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The Pike River Mine

 Predictions-

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know is that there was a big explosion.

What do I think I will know about this disaster? 

I think I'll just find some awesome facts! that will come in handy for the future.

1. Where is the pike River mine?

Pike River is near a place called Moonlight Tops hut. But pike river mine is located in the Paparoa Range on the West coast of the South Island. 

2. When did mining at the Pike River mine begin?

At 3:44 PM on November 19th, 2010.

3. How many men were inside the mine when the explosion occurred?

31 miners were deep underground when there was a massive methane explosion.

4. How many men escaped?

Only two named Daniel Rockhouse and Russell Smith survived, stumbling up from two kilometers underground.

5. Why were robots sent into the mine?

So for the robots to look for more survivors but they couldn't get far.

6. What decision did Jacinda Ardern make and announce in 2019?

Jacinda Ardern ( Prime Minister ) promised to unseal and re-enter the mine, and send in a team to see what they could find.

Here are two videos!!

Video one 

Video two 

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Health and Safety For science

 AIM:  

I want to find out the basics of health and safety for when you are in a science laboratory.

Research:

The most important Lab safety Rule

Follow the instructions! Whether it's listening to your instructor or lab supervisor or following a procedure in a book, it's critical to listen, pay attention, and be familiar with all the steps.

Know the location of the safety equipment and equipment:

In the event something goes wrong, it's important to know the location of the safety equipment and how to use it. As for the equipment, it's always a good thing to know where the equipment is.

DON'T EAT OR DRINK IN THE LABORATORY!!!:

Save your snacking for after your science period, not the lab. Don't eat or drink in the science laboratory.

Don't taste or sniff the chemicals:

Not only should you not bring in food or drinks, but you shouldn't taste or smell chemicals either it's just for your own health and safety.

That's all for my health and safety hope you enjoyed reading my health and safety for science don't forget to comment.

Coke And Mentos

Aim - I want to find out what will happen when you drop Mentos into a bottle of coke

Method

Equipment

- Mentos

- A bottle of coke

- Flat surface

Instructions 

1. Get your equipment

2. Take the lid of the coke

3. Put your bottle of coke on a flat surface

4. Put the mentos into the coke and sees what happenes

Result

Here is a video of someone doing a coke and mentos experiment. LINK 

Conclusion
I can conclude that if you add mentos into a bottle of coke It will make the coke erupt and shoot out of the bottle. 
Discussion

As the Mentos candy sinks in the bottle, the candy causes the production of more and more carbon dioxide bubbles, and the rising bubbles react with carbon dioxide that is still dissolved in the soda to cause more carbon dioxide to be freed and create even more bubbles, resulting it to erupt. 

What is a base?

 Acid has Hydrogen in it.

The strength of Acid is measured on the pH scale.

It goes from 0 to 14 

0-1 red

2-3 orange

4-6 Yellow

7 Green

8-10 Blue 

11-12 Indigo

13-14 Violet 

A base is an opposite chemical to an acid 

A base contains hydroxide (OH)

An acid and a base NEUTRALISE each other and make water 

Here is a photo of what it's like.

The Erebus Plane Crash

 Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know is that there were zero survivors.

What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

I think I will find out something that will be helpful for e in the future!

NOTES

1. Where was the Flight 901 heading, and where was it planning to land?

Air New Zealand Flight 901 left auckland for a trip to Antractica. They were to fly over several islands, see McMurdo Station and Scott Base, and land in Christchurch after covering over 8,600 kilometres and flying for 11 hours.

2. What were the names of the pilot and co-pilot of flight 901?

Caption Jim Collins and co-pilot First officer Greg Cassin.

3. Why did the pilot ask to descend to 450 metres?

At 12:45 PM, the caption gained permission to descend to 450 metres, so his passengers could have a better view of the surroundings.

4. What reasons are given in the passage for why the crash occurred?

After an hour of radio silence, search planes were sent out but the wreckage wasn't spotted until after midnight. 

5. What time did the crash occurr?  

It happened at 12:49 PM.

VIDEO ONE 

VIDEO TWO 

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What is an Acid

 Name of Acid:

• Hydrochloric Acid
• Sulfuric Acid
• Nitric Acid
• Citric Acid 
• Formic Acid 
• Tartaric Acid 
• Phosphoric Acid 
• Acetic Acid 
• Formic Acid 

Formula Acid:

HCL

H2SO4

HNO3

H3PO4

CH3COOH

Where do you find acids? 

• Plaque Acid n your teeth.
• Stomach acid is Hydrochloric Acid.
• Battery acid is sulfuric Acid.
• Lemons and Oranges Have citric Acid.
• Vinegar contains Acetic Acid.
• Bee stings have formic Acid.
• coca-cola has carbonie Acid.

Thank you for reading my blog post I actually didn't know any of this stuff either and also my teacher said that we were learning year 11/12 work! which I felt very proud but it was mostly my teacher and his awesome way of teaching.🙌 His name is Mr. Stock so to all the teachers reading this umm.. sorry but... 😓

Red Cabbage Indicator

 Aim:

I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid.

Method:

Equipment:

• Beaker
• Cabbage 
• Hot water
• Test tubes
• Acid + Hydroxide
• Dropper

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment ready
2. Rip up your red cabbage 
3. Put your ripped up cabbage in the Beaker 
4. pour hot water into the Beaker 
5. Then you put the Hydroxide in the right test tube
6. Then put the Acid in the left acid 
7. Then get your dropper to suck up the cabbage water
8. Then drop the tinted water in the right tube 
9. Then drop the tinted water in the left tube  

Results:

The left tube turned pink and the right tube turned greenish yellowish 

Making Sherbet

 Aim.

I want to find out how to make sherbert.

Research.

 Video 1

Method.

Equipment 

• Cup
• Baking powder 
• Citric acid 
• Sugar (Raro)
• stirring rod (Popsicle stick) 
• Teaspoon 

Instructions 

1. Get you equipment 
2. Add a teaspoon of raro into a cup.
3. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder into the cup.
4. Add half a teaspoon of citrus acid into your cup
5. Mix the powder with your popsicle stick.
6. Taste the sherbet and adjust the flavor if necessary.

Results 

 

When I put it in my mouth it instantly foamed up because of the saliva in my mouth.

Discussion.

Citric Acid + Sodium = Carboin Dioxide 

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Gold Mining In NZ

 Hello everybody today I am going to be telling you about our reading activities for this week.

So we practically have to do the same thing as last week but a different subject. The subject that we are reading about Is gold mining I don't know much about mining soooo. yeah, but I didn't know that they did mining in NZ.

We have to read a journal and look at other resources as well and then I have to take a screencastify of me reading the journal and the thing we have to focus on while reading is that we have to try correcting ourselves while reading out loud. Here is a screencastify of me reading our journal.    

  

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Lake Taupo

 Hello everybody Today I am going to be telling you about our reading activity for week five. 

So as you guys all know in new Zealand we recently went to alert level 4 for covid so we have been doing work at home and stuff and hope all of you are safe. Anyway moving on so for our reading group we have to do reading activities about Lake Taupo.

We had to make a screencastify about us reading this journal and I made one as well I mean I am supposed to. Anyway here is my one and the photo of the journal as well hope you like it 

I hope you like my blog post. Also, has anybody seen a kiwi in person before.?? don't forget to comment. 

The Tangiwai Rail Disaster

Prediction:

1. What do I think about the disaster 

This is also another horrible disaster from the '90s.

2. What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

I think I will find out where this disaster took place and how many people died. 

Reading comprehension-

1. How many people died.

151 people died during this disaster. 

2. where did the lahar begin. 

It happened at the top of Mt Ruapehu.

3. When did the tangiwai Rail Disaster take place. 

It happened in 1953 in December.

4.How did the driver know that he needed to use his emergency breaks.

Because he saw a man that was waving his torch warning him to stop.

5. Why did the queen give out medals.

She gave medals to 4 people to show their bravery.  

6. what was installed after the Tangiwai Rail Disaster.

They installed a warning system on the Whangaehu.

My notes- 

Video One 

Video two 

Video three

One of the survivor's story 

I hope you liked my blog post feel free to comment. I have a question for you as well if you are from a different school then have you ever had to learn about The Tangiwai Rail Disaster aswell. Byeee :) 

Word Art - Rugby

 Hello everybody today I am going to be telling you about one of the reading activities in our reading groups. 

This activity is called word art. the thing that we are reading about is is our teacher that plays rugby she plays for Black ferns. And it is so cool that we have a teacher for the Black ferns.

The thing that we need to include in our word art is like stuff about rugby so even if it was just like rugby ball and stuff like that. But I have finished my one so I hope you like it I didn't include a lot of words so I am sorry but I still finished it so here it is.:)

Here are also three things that I have learned and the third one is really dumb but yeah 

Here is my key vocabulary 

I hope you liked my blog post. Oh and I have a question for you guys do you play rugby or not. Feel free to comment BYEEEE:)

Ginger beer

 Ginger Beer

Aim 

This week we are trying to make ginger beer 

Research: 

How to make Ginger Beer 

Funny clip

How yeast ferments beer

Method :

Equipment:

Lemon, Sugar, Ginger, Yeast, Water 

Teaspoon, cup, wooded stick, Tablespoon 

Instruction: 

Put some activated yeast in a cup ( no specific measurements )

Add 1 teaspoon of sugar 

Add 150 ml of lukewarm water 

Let sit for 5 minutes 

Then add a splash of pre-squeezed lemon juice 

Then add half of the amount of ginger you have 

Then taste it and if you want more add some more 

Then we let our teacher taste it and they will add some more sugar, Ginger or lemon 

Then you have to wait for the next day 

Enjoy your Ginger beer

Results:

In the end, when I tasted it it was fizzy which made me really surprised.

Question:

I really hope someone can answer this question so, I really want to know what made it fizzy.

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The Ballantynes Fire

What do I think I know about this disaster?

I know that it was a fire and it happed on November 18th, 1974. and I know it in Christchurch because my parents have been there.

What do I think I will learn about this disaster?

I think that I will find out some really interesting facts about the history of Christchurch.

Task 2

1. people were served by waitress in aprons and caps, expensive clothes were sold and ladies wore hats and gloves. It was a designer store.

2. Christchurch 

3. November 18th, 1947 at 3.46pm.

4. They had no smoke alarms and no evacuation plans. The downstairs workers thought it was just a small little fire so they didn't tell the people upstairs 

5. 41 workers died in the fire two people jumped out of a window they were left unconscious they were hospitalized and they still survived.

6.

Video link 

Video 2

Notes- 

- Worst fire in NZ history 

- 46 people were missing including the people that died

- Army and airforce helped the firemen keep control of the crowd 

- the trapped workers were waving down to the people in the street asking for help before they engulfed them and killed 

-they had 25mins before the first flames were seen 

-This resource wasn't useful because it was too long and it was unclear to hear. but some of the bits were helpful

Eating hot chillies

Aim:

I want to find out if milk will help reduce the burn of the hot sauce

Research of videos 

The funny link 

The science link 

The experiment link 

Method 

Equipment 

1. Hot sauce 

2. toothpick

3. Stopwatch 

4. Water, coke, milk 

Instructions 

1. Get all of your equipment 
2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce 
3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick 
4. Start timing 
5. stop timing when it stops burning 

Results 

The time it took to stop the burning 

Just Chili: 50 secs Water: 12 secs Coke: 11 secs Milk: 7 secs this time is my friend's time.

Conclusion :

My friend told me that milk is the best thing to drink to stop the burning sensation 

Discussion :

Why does chili burn your mouth and why does milk stop it? 

when you eat a chili, the capsaicin is released into your saliva When this happens, it triggers these receptors, which send a signal to your brain, fooling it into thinking that your mouth is literally burning.

My vocabulary about the Napier Disaster

 Hello everybody today I am going to be telling you about my vocab about the Napier Disaster. First, let me explain what we had to do. Our teacher wrote some words down that we had to turn into sentences but the words that she wrote down were related to the Napier Disaster. For example, Debris because there were so many broken buildings so there was a lot of debris. Anyway here is my work hope you like it :)

Hope you liked it. Now I have a question for you do you know what Lahar is? Byeeee!!:)

 

The Napier Earthquake

 Napier and Hastings, Hawke's Bay. At least 256 people died in the magnitude 7.8 earthquake

I think I will find out something interesting  

1. at 10.47 on Feb 3rd, 1931 

2. the official day toll was 256.161 in Napier,93 in hastings, and 2 Wairoa

3. In the botanical gardens and the racecourse in Napier

4. They were able to rebuild the houses In art Deco style, making it a tourist attrition 

5. 2 and a half minutes 

6. children were sent around NZ because there were no schools for them to go to and no houses for them to live in. Also, it wasn't safe with all the aftershocks. 

    - The veronica bell rings for 2 and a half minutes, the length of the quake 

-99yr Nola Manly was 9 when the quake struck- one boy got hit with a brick from a chimney 

- House chimneys fell down people had to live in tents 

- Eric Baggit was 2- he doesn't remember the quake but has seen the city be rebuilt

- The HMS Veronica helped the people in the city   

-Napier is on the east coast above wellington 

-there was a quake followed by fire 

-only 12 buildings didn't need to be demolished 

-cruises from Aukland had doctors on board to help 

-A temporary hospital was made

-HMS Veronica was able to help

-fire started in 2 pharmacies 

-1% of the population died  

-6% of the population was taken out of the city, mostly women and children were sent south 

- people lived in tents because they didn't feel safe in houses 

-the water stopped an hour later after the quake 

-took weeks for the sewage to be going again 

-the highway was built on a mudflat and so the road was destroyed 

-the railways to wellington were going two days after 

-the navy helped clean up after 

-demolished building , supplied food and water 

- the nurse home collapsed and many night nurses were killed 

Goal setting for term 3

 My Goal Setting.

Hello everyone, Today I am going to be telling you about my Goal settings for term,3 We have been doing our goal setting for the last two days First I will start by explaining what this Goal setting I am talking about.

Just near the beginning of the term all the year 7/8/9 had to write down our goals for our new term. So like at the start of term,3 I am pretty sure we are going to be doing this again so we can set new goals. Because we get new subjects every new term 

so that is what our goal settings are about. So here is a photo of my goal setting.

Year 7/8 Wānanga Goal Setting

Name: sophia		Class:  TZR	Term: 3	Year:2021
Greatest achievement from the last term:
Subjects taken this term:  WdT,SmT,Sci
Hurumanu: Idk yet
1	Miss Tozer Nga Tangata
2	Miss Handley
3	Mrs. Cairns
Technology: WdT sewing
Language: SMT
Other: sci
Academic Goals
Short term (this term):
1	MATHS
2	Art
Non-academic goal (can be out of school):
Drawing, get better at ice-skating
What are my learning strengths (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)		What are my learning work ons (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)
I try my best at all of my subjects I listen to other peoples ideas  I help others if they are stuck		MATHS  the reading activities  and I need to work on my screencast
How will I achieve this?
just keep trying
End of term reflection