Hurumanu-Renewable Energy

Aim: To make a presentation that investigates different renewable energy's.

1. Hydro Energy - The Energy is generated through hydropower depends on the water cycle which is operated by the sun, this makes it a renewable power source making it a more reliable source other than fossil fuels that are quickly being wasted.


2. Solar Energy - Solar Energy is luminous light and heat from the sun that is harnessed using a reach of technologies such as solar heating & Solar Panels. It is a renewable resource, 

it is obtained from the sun's rays. Solar energy is transformed immediately to electricity through a solar photovoltaic panel. Solar rays are collected off reflective surfaces and heats an object to process it that creates solar thermal energy.

3. Wind Energy - Wind Power or Wind Energy is operated by the wind to provide it to function and make power through wind turbines to turn electric generators, it can do other work like milling or pumping. Wind power is sustainable and renewable energy and has a much smaller impact on the environment compared to burning fossil fuels.

4. Wave Energy - Wave power is generated by the up and down motion of floating devices placed on the surface of the ocean, Let's say that wind produces waves and waves produce energy, it is also renewable energy. As the waves travel across the ocean, very high-tech devices capture the physical movements of the ocean currents and the flow to generate power. 

This energy can be used to run turbines and there are plenty of places where the winds are strong enough to produce continuous wave movements or motions.

1. Type: Hydro
2. Is it used in NZ ? Hydropower is used in New Zealand
3. Other Countries that use it?
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand-drawn using a ruler and labelled.

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

List 10 ways that renewable energy will be used in the future to replace our current activities.

My Bio Poem

Kaedun

I am Sporty,Funny,Clever and Strong

I am a big brother of Jaedun and the son of Allicia and Allan

I love my dogs called Rosie and Charlie 

The three emotions I feel most commonly are, Happiness,Excitement and ?___?

The things i fear the most are, Losing people i love and ?___?

My achievements are getting better at football and running 

I want to be an Actor and get my own german shepard

Hurumanu-Wind power

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions:

1. Anemometer: An instrument for measuring the speed of the wind.
2. Beaufort wind scale: The Beaufort scale is to measure relating to the wind to see the conditions in the sea or/and on land.

MATERIALS  

1. Pencil w/rubber on top  
2.   x1 Pin
3.   x2 Long sticks
4. x4 Cups
5. Sellotape
6. Scissor

STEPS

1. Put the stick on top of each other in an X shape and tape it in the middle.
2. Get a pencil and put the X shape on top of the rubber of the pencil and pin it together through the tape of the X.
3. Tape all the cup at the end of each end of the X so that can catch the wind.
4. Take it outside and it should start catching wind... if there is any and depending on how strong it is. 

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper ( watch)

• Counter

• Recorder ( chromebook or refill )

• Anemometer Manager ( Anemometer)

• Wind Manager

Instructions:

• Go to the measuring place and set up your wind gauge.
• Make sure everyone in your group is ready to start their roles.
• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.
• Count the number of spins in 15 seconds.
• Record it on your chart.

FINDINGS

We found that on the Field it was an open space but there was no wind at all and we got "0" spins in 15 secs, the old J block site was removed but has an open space and enough wind to go past, but unfortunately there was no wind and there were "0" spins in 15 secs, we were not sure what was happening. Whether the Anemometer was the problem or there was just no wind, we weren't sure but we did our best to make it at least go in the whole spin. We went to the new artificial grass hill area to see if we can get wind there, but the same results were coming over and over again. Once we moved to the Tennis Court gate there was a difference, we got a little breeze and it had much more wind power to make it spin all the way and we got "1" spin-in 15 secs.

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field	0
2.	Old J Block site	0
3.	Grass hill in quad	0
4.	Tennis Court gate	1

CONCLUSION:

The wind was calm and did not produce that much wind to make the Anemometer spin all the way around to call it a full spin, the Anemometer was unstabled between the rubber of the pencil and the pin connected to the rubber. We were given a comment from a gym teacher we should have added a small straw between them to make it more stable and catch more wind.

Spiritual Wellbeing

 This is a nature guide 

Explain the 5 ways to being healthy in nature:

Swimming- By swimming in any type of water and Cooling off

Making shelter- To protect yourself from Poison ivy and keeping yourself safe from a cold or illness

Eating healthy- To keep your body in shape and to Keep yourself strong

Staying hydrated- If you drink water it fills your tank full and water is the best source of drink for you

Plant plants- To make more trees and plants for nature so you can live in a green healthy environment also feeding them with water

If I had a goal and turned it into a game what will it be?

-It would be to run the fastest and i would turn it into football and hopefully always be successful in football

Put a picture of your favorite outdoor place with a caption explaining why this is important to you and your Family

My family and my favorite place is Kyle park because we have midnight walks there and i have always loved the bmx track racing family there.

How I think the earth was formed

Earth formed around 4.54 billion years ago, approximately one-third the age of the universe, by accretion from the solar nebula. Volcanic out gassing probably created the primordial atmosphere and then the ocean, but the early atmosphere contained almost no oxygen.

Our new Kahui

                                     Our new Kahui


This week we moved into our amazing new classroom and our class is called Tieke and we moved in with sh, Our class is at the end closest to the auditorium and there are two other classes the class in the middle is called Riroriro and the one closest to the gym at the other end is called Mohua.

We waited in the auditorium learning the rules to the new buildings just to keep it looking good and making sure we look after the environment around it and inside it. We had a tour of the classroom straight after that my class and sh walked to our classroom and we had a tour inside it,There were alot of things going on inside of the building there were other classes in their like Japanese and so on.

We got showed all of the classrooms and what our new timetable will look like. The names of the classrooms are bird names and inside each class has a color from on the bird.



When I walked into our new buildings i saw... Some teared seating taking up quarter of the classroom and i saw amazing tv's with cool lighting around the outside. I saw a large space and really fancy fans I saw two senior classes right by our class outside there was fake grass with a hill and it looks good.

When I walked into our new building's i thought...That everything changed like a boring small classroom upgrading to a new fancy classroom i thought why couldn't they upgrade the phones as well as the class.I thought that the grass looked cool but it must hurt if you fall over on it.

When I walked into our new building's i felt...I felt that everything was gonna change because there would be more people inside of the class and lots of things would be going on.

My Favorite part of the classroom...

My favourite part of the classroom was the three tv's with the speakers i like them because they look cool and its clear and there is actually some lighting around the tv's what ever color is on the tv's the outline will have that color too.

My investigation on climate change-Hurumanu

Aim: To make a solar-powered oven.

Materials: 

1. Pizza box - Box
2. Scissors  
3. Tape
4. Tin foil
5. Black plastic
6. Ruler  
7. Pencil

Steps:

1. Make a little square hole on top of the box  
2. Surround the square cut out in tin foil  
3. Tape the hole with plastic
4. cover the inside with black paper  
5. Put the pizza inside and see if it gets hot/warm 
6. Enjoy your warm/hot pizza or something else you want to put in

Findings:

Time	Temperature
0
15
30
45

Conclusion





Aim: To make a presentation that investigates different renewable energy's.

Section 1: Title Page

Make a title page that incorporates all renewable energy 's Hydro, Solar, Wind and Wave.

Section 2: Definitions

Define and provide a picture of each energy type.

1. Hydro Energy
2. Solar Energy
3. Wind Energy 
4. Wave Energy

Section 3; Investigate each of the 4 Energy types.
( Hydro ,Solar ,Wind ,Wave ) 

1. Type:
2. Is it used in NZ ?
3. Other Countries that use it?
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand drawn using a ruler and labelled.

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

List 10 ways that renewable energy will be used in the future to replace our current activities.

Science laboratory - Introduction-Hurumanu

Aim: To learn about the expected behaviour in a science laboratory.


Our R9 Class Treaty

1.   Quiet voices
2.   Sitting with appropriate people
3.   Not fidgetting
4.   Not disturbing
5.   Respecting equipment
6.   Making good choices

Safety in a laboratory.

teacher   shoes   practical  teacher laboratory   ask  sniff teacher  breakages 

1.   Follow the instructions given to you by the ____Teacher______ .
2.   You must not enter the laboratory without your ____Teacher____.
3.   Report all _____breakages_______ to your teacher.
4.   You must never eat or drink in a ______laboratory______ .
5.   ___Shoes____ must be worn at all times.
6.   If you spill something you should tell your ____Teacher_____ immediately.
7.  You should wash your hands after every __practical_____ activity.
8. You should know what you are doing. If in doubt __ask____ your teacher.
9. Never taste or __sniff____ chemicals.

In your group discuss how the following scenarios could be dangerous.

1. Not putting your bag under your desk.
2. Running around in the laboratory.
3. Not wearing shoes in a laboratory.
4. Shaking a test tube with your thumb over its mouth?

How do we work in this laboratory?

1. Beginning and End of class: Lining up, Entry, Seating, 
2. Equipment tray: equipment list and details.

• Test tube-Used for most experiments that contain liquids and they have a rubber bung that goes at the top of it
• Conical Flask-Used for experiments with liquid up to 150ml . The flask has a rubber bung for the top and the glass is heat proof
• Glass Stirring rod-A 20cm glass rod used to stir and mix any liquids together
• Test tube tongs-These are used to hold hot test tubes after an experiment
• Spatula-For holding very small amounts of chemical powders 
• Funnel-
• Measuring Cylinder-this is used to measure liquids for experiments. The liquids will be poured into a beaker or test tube once measured out. 

Equipment Tray

250mL beaker

100mL beaker

250mL Conical Flask

Spatula

Test Tube rack with Test Tubes

Test Tube Tongs

Funnel

Stirring Rod

100mL Measuring Cylinder

10mL Measuring Cylinder

Our Fun Wednesday

Puberty lesson

On Wednesday the 18 of September a man came to our school to talk to us about what are the changes in puberty and what happens in life...

All year 7's and 8's went to the auditorium feeling uncomfortable about this subject but the man made it feel funny because he told some jokes and i think that every single person from that room has learnt something that day..

He taught us about how to look after your body and different parts of the body. In my opinion it helped me because now i know the changes that will happen to me, for example he told us boys can: Grow Taller, Grow hairs, Have a deeper voice and much more and girls can: Grow taller, Grow wider, Grow some hairs and get larger breasts. He told us that the best people to talk to if this happens to you is your parents...

Mega air

Straight after the lesson of puberty we had to line up in classes and we were waiting to walk to mega air everyone was excited but we got told we only had an hour there...

As soon as the teachers released classes ts and sh walked to mega air first when we were walking down the driveway it smelt bad because apparently chickens get killed there but it also smells like chicken nuggets when the dead smells gone.

We were excited to bounce but first we needed to wait for the other classes to arrive... as soon as they arrived we all watched a little clip and on that clip it said the rules to mega air...

As soon as we could bounce we ran to all different types of things like dodge ball,the half pipe, the air bag and many more... I had a really good time there and hope to go there again sometime i think everyone enjoyed there time there.

Sport...Well kinda 

The reason why i named this sport...well kinda is because we did -Tug of war,Ki-O-Rahi, Capture the flag and i don't know if all of them are sport...

First the people who did sport first go to mega air and the people who did mega air first [witch is us] we do sport. So we are like switching events.

First we had to get into 6 teams and we named our teams after a country we were the Aussies

The First sport we did was Capture the flag and it was intense but we managed to win by two points 

Next sport was Ki-O-Rahi and we had a draw on that one it was fun

Lastly we did tug of war and we dominated that one our team won by 5 points

Points for the sports:

Capture the flag: 2-0
Ki-O-Rahi: 1-1
Tug of war: 5-0

Straight after all of that the yr 13's put up a kahoot for us to do on how we liked the sport event because they wanted to know our opinion on the idea and also because they came up and were the leaders in the sports so thank's to the yr 13's for setting the sport's up i really enjoyed it and i think everyone else did to.

Link to mega air:

Mega air: https://megaair.co.nz/


Thanks for setting up Wednesday's fun day

Our world 2019-2040

Today in the auditorium we watched this documentary film called 2040 and Damon talked about how to make the planet a better place to live in for the future. He went around in many places asking children what they want to see in the future 2040.

What surprised me: I was surprised about how Bangladesh uses solar panels and make a grid that they share with their village and it turns out to be cheaper that way.

What worried me: I was worried about what people do to turn out successful in the future or be unsuccessful and if you have a bad impact in the environment in the past you would make it a bad and gross future.

What Excited me: I was excited to see what to do to make the world a better place and all of the steps he went through explaining helpful facts for the earth around us and to make city's more greener.

What would i like to see in 2040: I would like to see more green/nature in the city's with a machine in the water monitoring what goes in and outside of the water.To make not only land but water a better place.

What are 2 things i learned:

 -If you have a healthy impact in the past you will make the future better. 

-The ways of connecting energy to the world and giving the world more energy by using solar powers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-rTQ443akE

Decomposition-Science

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose.

Hypothesis:

-Bananas
-White styrophone
-Paper
-Bread
-Water

Materials:

1.   Test tubes(x4)
2.   Banana(x1)
3.   Bread(x1)
4.   Styrophone(x1)
5.   Paper(x1)
6.   Test tube rack(x1)
7. Bung(x4)
8. Water

Steps:

1.   Get 4 test tubes and place them in the test tube rack.
2.   Get the Banana, Bread, Styrophone and Paper and place them in each test tube.
3. Place a bung on each test tube so it is closed.
4.   Make sure the test tube is big enough for each strip of materials to fit in.
5.   That is done and see if they change over the weeks and the colour they change into.
6.   Record them on the table you made for each week.
7. Plus: Add half a test tube of water to the bread.

Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Cream
Paper	White
Styrophone cup	White
Bread	White

Hurumanu: The water cycle

The Water Cycle experiment

Purpose: To duplicate the water cycle process under controlled conditions.

   

Materials:

1. A4 zip lock bag x2

2. Soda water

3. Vivid

4. Blue food colouring x2 drops

5. Litmus paper

6. Baking soda

7. Double-sided tape 20cm

8. 200 ml water

Procedure:

1. Draw the water cycle on zip lock bag with the vivid.

2. Put a little bit of baking soda inside the bag.

3. Pour 200ml of water inside of the bag as well.

4. Put 2x drops of blue food colouring.

5. Mix the food colouring with the water.

6. Grab the double-sided tape which is 20cm and put the litmus paper with the tape and hang the double-sided tape with the litmus paper at the top of the bag inside of the bag.

Conclusion: I learned that you need to follow the instructions carefully or you might muck up your work.

	The Water Cycle	Acid Water Cycle
Does it cycle?
Amount of Water
Acidity

Key: Water and acidity amount: 0 = none 

1 = small 

2 = large