Wednesday 29 March 2017

Agenda Book

29th March, 2017
Tomorrow is day 5
Homework:
Notices
Reminders
Signed.

30th March, 2017
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
-Refer to Mondays
-Summative task pieces of writing

Notices:
-Dishwashing liquid
-Rag
-old toothbrush

Reminders:
Engineering Day

Signed:

How Light Bulbs Work!







Energy Transformation


Monday 27 March 2017

Summative Task: WIND

Agenda

27th March, 2017
Tomorrow is day 3
Homework:
Creative writing
Ted Ed

Notices:

Dear Parent/Caregivers,

Please make some time this week for your child to share their How We Organise Ourselves page on their e-portfolio with you. We would encourage you to please leave a comment on this page giving feedback on the work that your child has done. Below are some suggested question prompts:

1. Can you give an example of a discussion you have had at home in relation to this unit of inquiry?
2. Have you noticed your child making connections between their learning and their world outside of school?
3. Have you noticed any actions at home during this unit?

Nga mihi,

Te Aroha Team



Reminders: Camp Adair forms are due ASAP

Signed:



28th March, 2017
Tomorrow is day 4
Homework:
Creative writing
Ted Ed

Notices:
Tomorrow is year 9 science day

Reminders: Camp Adair forms are due ASAP

Signed:

Data Squares

1. Are you a boy or a girl?
2. What is your reaction score for catching a ruler? In cm
3. 
4. 




Sunday 26 March 2017

The Wind Debate

1. Identify all the different Perspectives about harnessing wind to produce electricity.

Summarise the main ideas for each Perspective! (How do we summarise)

2. Form your own opinion about using wind power

I believe............

The Power of Rubbish

UOI2 - How The World Works - The Power of Rubbish


Questions:
1. Where is methane gas being recovered from?
2. How is methane gas produced?
3. What are two words used to describe methane gas in paragraph 3?
4. What is meant by the term "greenhouse gases"?
5. What is "flaring"?
6. What process is carried out to collect the methane gas?
7. Where is gas being used to generate electricity?
8. How long does a landfill gas field last?
9. Why do you think this is a positive/negative idea?

Thursday 23 March 2017

Forms of Energy LOI 1

Choose a form of Energy below: 
-Read for meaning requires monitoring and questioning
-Use a different example from the one mentioned to explain this FORM of energy?



Here are the different basic forms:

Kinetic Energy:
Consider a baseball flying through the air. The ball is said to have "kinetic energy" by virtue of the fact that its in motion relative to the ground. You can see that it is has energy because it can do "work" on an object on the ground if it collides with it (either by pushing on it and/or damaging it during the collision). 
The formula for Kinetic energy, and for some of the other forms of energy described in this section will, is given in a later section of this primer.

Potential Energy:
 Consider a book sitting on a table. The book is said to have "potential energy" because if it is nudged off, gravity will accelerate the book, giving the book kinetic energy. Because the Earth's gravity is necessary to create this kinetic energy, and because this gravity depends on the Earth being present, we say that the "Earth-book system" is what really possesses this potential energy, and that this energy is converted into kinetic energy as the book falls. 

Thermal, or heat energy:
Consider a hot cup of coffee. The coffee is said to possess "thermal energy", or "heat energy" which is really the collective, microscopic, kinetic and potential energy of the molecules in the coffee (the molecules have kinetic energy because they are moving and vibrating, and they have potential energy due their mutual attraction for one another - much the same way that the book and the Earth have potential energy because they attract each other). Temperature is really a measure of how much thermal energy something has. The higher the temperature, the faster the molecules are moving around and/or vibrating, i.e. the more kinetic and potential energy the molecules have. 

Chemical Energy:
Consider the ability of your body to do work. The glucose (blood sugar) in your body is said to have "chemical energy" because the glucose releases energy when chemically reacted (combusted) with oxygen. Your muscles use this energy to generate mechanical force and also heat. Chemical energy is really a form of microscopic potential energy, which exists because of the electric and magnetic forces of attraction exerted between the different parts of each molecule - the same attractive forces involved in thermal vibrations. These parts get rearranged in chemical reactions, releasing or adding to this potential energy.

Electrical Energy
All matter is made up of atoms, and atoms are made up of smaller particles, called protons (which have positive charge), neutrons (which have neutral charge), and electrons (which are negatively charged). Electrons orbit around the center, or nucleus, of atoms, just like the moon orbits the earth. The nucleus is made up of neutrons and protons.
Some material, particularly metals, have certain electrons that are only loosely attached to their atoms. They can easily be made to move from one atom to another if an electric field is applied to them. When those electrons move among the atoms of matter, a current of electricity is created.
This is what happens in a piece of wire when an electric field, or voltage, is applied. The electrons pass from atom to atom, pushed by the electric field and by each other (they repel each other because like charges repel), thus creating the electrical current. The measure of how well something conducts electricity is called its conductivity, and the reciprocal of conductivity is called the resistance.  Copper is used for many wires because it has a lower resistance than many other metals and is easy to use and obtain. Most of the wires in your house are made of copper. Some older homes still use aluminum wiring.
The energy is really transferred by the chain of repulsive interactions between the electrons down the wire - not by the transfer of electrons per se. This is just like the way that water molecules can push on each other and transmit pressure (or force) through a pipe carrying water. At points where a strong resistance is encountered, its harder for the electrons to flow - this creates a "back pressure" in a sense back to the source. This back pressure is what really transmits the energy from whatever is pushing the electrons through the wire. Of course, this applied "pressure" is the "voltage". 
As the electrons move through a "resistor" in the circuit, they interact with the atoms in the resistor very strongly, causing the resistor to heat up - hence delivering energy in the form of heat. Or, if the electrons are moving instead through the wound coils of a motor, they instead create a magnetic field, which interacts with other magnets in the motor, and hence turns the motor. In this case the "back pressure" on the electrons, which is necessary for there to be a transfer of energy from the applied voltage to the motor's shaft, is created by the magnetic fields of the other magnets (back) acting on the electrons - a perfect push-pull arrangement!

Electrochemical Energy:
Consider the energy stored in a battery. Like the example above involving blood sugar, the battery also stores energy in a chemical way. But electricity is also involved, so we say that the battery stores energy "electro-chemically".  Another electron chemical device is a "fuel-cell". 

Electromagnetic Energy (light):
Consider the energy transmitted to the Earth from the Sun by light (or by any source of light). Light, which is also called "electro-magnetic radiation"Why the fancy term? Because light really can be thought of as oscillating, coupled electric and magnetic fields that travel freely through space (without there having to be charged particles of some kind around).  
It turns out that light may also be thought of as little packets of energy called photons (that is, as particles, instead of waves). The word "photon" derives from the word "photo", which means "light".  Photons are created when electrons jump to lower energy levels in atoms, and absorbed when electrons jump to higher levels. Photons are also created when a charged particle, such as an electron or proton, is accelerated, as for example happens in a radio transmitter antenna. 
But because light can also be described as waves, in addition to being a packet of energy, each photon also has a specific frequency and wavelength associated with it, which depends on how much energy the photon has (because of this weird duality - waves and particles at the same time - people sometimes call particles like photons "wavicles"). The lower the energy, the longer the wavelength and lower the frequency, and vice versa. The reason that sunlight can hurt your skin or your eyes is because it contains "ultraviolet light", which consists of high energy photons. These photons have short wavelength and high frequency, and pack enough  energy in each photon to cause physical damage to your skin if they get past the outer layer of skin or the lens in your eye. Radio waves, and the radiant heat you feel at a distance from a campfire, for example, are also forms of electro-magnetic radiation, or light, except that they consist of low energy photons (long wavelength and high frequencies - in the infrared band and lower) that your eyes can't perceive. This was a great discovery of the nineteenth century - that radio waves, x-rays, and gamma-rays, are just forms of light, and that light is electro-magnetic waves 

Sound Energy:
 Sound waves are compression waves associated with the potential and kinetic energy of air molecules. When an object moves quickly, for example the head of drum, it compresses the air nearby, giving that air potential energy. That air then expands, transforming the potential energy into kinetic energy (moving air). The moving air then pushes on and compresses other air, and so on down the chain. A nice way to think of sound waves is as "shimmering air".

Nuclear Energy:
The Sun, nuclear reactors, and the interior of the Earth, all  have "nuclear reactions" as the source of their energy, that is, reactions that involve changes in the structure of the nuclei of atoms. In the Sun, hydrogen nuclei fuse (combine) together to make helium nuclei, in a process called fusion, which releases energy. In a nuclear reactor, or in the interior of the Earth, Uranium nuclei (and certain other heavy elements in the Earth's interior) split apart, in a process called fission. If this didn't happen, the Earth's interior would have long gone cold! The energy released by fission and fusion is not just a product of the potential energy released by rearranging the nuclei. In fact, in both cases, fusion or fission, some of the matter making up the nuclei is actually converted into energy. How can this be? The answer is that matter itself is a form of energy! This concept involves one of the most famous formula's in physics, the formula,
      E=mc2.
This formula was discovered by Einstein as part of his "Theory of Special Relativity". In simple words, this formula means:
The energy intrinsically stored in a piece of matter at rest equals its mass times the speed of light squared. 
When we plug numbers in this equation, we find that there is actually an incredibly huge amount of energy stored in even little pieces of matter (the speed of light squared is a very very large number!). For example, it would cost more than a million dollars to buy the energy stored intrinsically stored in a single penny at our current (relatively cheap!) electricity rates. To get some feeling for how much energy is really there, consider that nuclear weapons only release a small fraction of the "intrinsic" energy of their components. 

LOI 1/2 Energy Transformations

ELECTRICITY



Where does electricity come from?

What are the energy transformations in a turbine? (Potential,  kinetic, Mechanical, Kinetic,)

How does a wind turbine work? Can you draw and label a diagram showing the energy transformations)

Literacy:
Writing to explain the energy transformations using the MODEL below


Sun heats

Water rises

Clouds form

Temperature changes

Rain falls

Puddles form

Lakes fill

Oceans grow

Sun shines

Evaporation begins

The water cycle starts all over again








Wednesday 22 March 2017

23rd March
Tomorrow is day 1
Homework: refer to Mondays
Notices:
Reminders:
Signed:
Extension:

Choose "Something" that exemplifies different energy transformation

-Show and Explain this Energy Transformations

-Presentation "FORM" your choice

See Justin's Example

Monday 20 March 2017

21st March
Tomorrow is day 5
Homework:
refer to Mondays

Notices: Thursday field trip

Reminders: Payments for New Horizons

Signed:

Foul Shot

Foul Shot by Edwin A. Hoey
With two 60s stuck on the scoreboard The solemn boy in the center of eyes,
Squeezed by silence,
Seeks out the line with his feet,
Soothes his hands along his uniform,
Gently drums the ball against the floor,
Then measures the waiting net,
Raises the ball on his right hand,
Balances it with his left,
Calms it with fingertips,
Breathes,
Crouches,
Waits,
And then through a stretching of stillness,
Nudges it upwards.
The ball
Slides up and out,
Lands,
Leans,
Wobbles,
Wavers,
Hesitates,
Plays it coy
Until every face begs with unsounding screams--
And then
                    And then
                                            And then,
Right before ROAR-UP,
Drives down and through.
And two seconds hanging on the clock, 

LOI 1 /2

TASK

What is Energy?

Define Energy

What are the sources of Energy?





Harnessing Wind


1. What causes air to move?

2. Can you explain convection?






Essential agreement
Room 7



  1. Say Yes
  2. Include everyone
  3. Challenge yourself
  4. Be kind
  5. Give credit where credit is due
  6. Be polite
  7. Be loyal
  8. Stay positive
  9. Listen and Contribute
  10. Be yourself
  11. Be open to other perspectives

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 8

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 8

How poachers became caretakers - John Kasaona

In his home of Namibia, John Kasaona is working on an innovative way to protect endangered animal species: giving nearby villagers (including former poachers) responsibility for caring for the animals. And it's working.


1.What would the speaker John Kasaona call himself? A Himba, A conservationist, or a Namibian? Why?

2. According to Kasaona, what has Integrated Rural Development and Nature Consevation (IRDNC) accomplished?

3. What contributed to building a foundation for conservation in Namibia, according to Kasaona?

4. What does Kasaona mean when he refers to the word 'conservancies'?

5. What is the reason Kasaona gives that makes conservation so successful in Namibia?

6. Explain how improving the lives of local communities around the world can alleviate the problems of poaching and lead to conservation efforts of wildlife.

7. Explain how a new economy based on the respect of natural resources in the world can lead to improvements in education and infrastructure.

Saturday 18 March 2017

Block 1

TECH ARTS

Block 2

Informer
Agenda!

20th March, 2017
Tomorrow is day 4
Homework:
-Spelling Words for the week! (catch up on last weeks)
-20m reading
-FINISH and Upload Engineering-Welding portfolio Entry and "Favourite Food inspired by "Into the Spluttering Fat MODEL"

Extra for Experts:
Ted Ed
Creative Writing

Notices:
Reminders: Hand in Camp Adair Forms

Signed:



Maths
Whole Class Otago Maths Warm up!

Taryn to locate Green Otago Maths book on Teacher Desk? and write up 2 problems. (Only choose from Questions 1 and 2)

Our Names:
1. Mental Maths 6 for 20m (Students have this in their maths book)
2. 
Multiplication (tidy numbers) 


The Challenger
1. Mental Maths 6 for 20m (Students have this in their maths book)

2. Dividing with remainders
Activity 6 p 59-60 - NZCM Connecting All Strands 4B (YELLOW BOOK) - Using multiplicative strategies with whole numbers



R.I.P
1. Mental Maths 7 for 20m (Students have this in their maths book)

2. Dividing with remainders
Activity 6 p 59-60 - NZCM Connecting All Strands 4B (YELLOW BOOK) - Using multiplicative strategies with whole numbers


The Outsiders
1. Mental Maths 7 for 20m (Students have this in their maths book)
2. 
Pythagorus Theorem

Block 3

Literacy
-After Break 20m silent reading with students adding words/ Phrases into their Writers Palette
-Students to finish writing about their Favourite Meal inspired by the MODEL - Into the Spluttering Fat.

-Students Finish / once they have shown the teacher - publish on Computer / Add to site /

-Go on with the creative writing for the week (located on the blog)  if you manage to finish this.



Block 4
UOI


1. Intro to Energy Transformation

Watch this clip!

Energy Transformation clip
http://thekidshouldseethis.com/post/power-of-optics-a-light-powered-rube-goldberg-machine

discuss the energy transformations you can see here!

WALT - Understand and Describe Energy Transformations:

2. TASK:  In Pairs or Individually

Create a google drive doc and name it “Name Energy Transformation”

  1. -U-tube search Wile E Coyote energy (remember these are key words)

-Watch a few of the clips about energy transformation

-As you watch, pause the clip in important sections that show the energy transfer (i.e. potential, kinetic, to mechanical, etc.)

-Once paused, take a screen-shot of the image

-Drag these images into a google doc named Energy Transformation

-Write a little explanation about the Energy Transformation.

Thursday 16 March 2017

Energy - HTWW

 

Provocation!


-Inquiry
What is Food?


-Research / Discussion / Research /  


Success Criteria: Students form an opinion about what Food is?



Energy Transformation

Energy can be made AND transformed.  Watch the video and complete the review questions.


Answer the following questions in your UOI book.
Key Questions:
1. What are the TWO main types of energy?
2. Why DOESN'T the bowling ball hit Bill?
3. How is energy TRANSFORMED when we make electricity in a coal plant?
4. What is moved by the steam that generates this electricity?

In groups of three use a laptop to inquire further into this topic:
Energy Innovation! Bill Gates is chairman of the computer software giant, Microsoft Corporation.  Click here to watch his interview where he gives his opinion on the future of energy generation.


Extension: 
Inquiry about Thermodynamics
What new questions do you have about Energy after watching this clip?



Wednesday 15 March 2017

Agenda

16th March
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework: Refer to Mondays

Extra: Finish slideshow

Notices:
Camp Adair

Reminders:

Signed:

Block 3



Engineering eportfolio Entry

To Do

1.  Finish Slide show Presentation

Page 1 -Title

Page 2 - My Design was influenced by

Page 3 - I made the following design choices

Page 4 - The strengths of my design are -

Page 5- Aspects I could develop further are -

Page 6 - Insert pictures


Show the student teachers your finished work:

NEXT

Go on with
Vocab.com
Coding (The assigned Activities)





Monday 13 March 2017

Block 1
-Informer
-Maths (Otago maths Warm ip)
-Number Knowledge worksheet
Our names and The Challenger do mental maths 6
R.I.P and The Outsiders do Mental Maths 7

-Spelling words - Students to get 10 words out of their writing books (or a dictionary) and learn these words. (f finished go on to VOCAB . com)



Block 2:
-Set up Unit of Inquiry Books
How the World Works

Contents page, 2 sheets

-Then unpack the related concept "Energy" through the Key Concepts

What FORMS of Energy are there? Light, fossil fuels, wind????
How are our energy uses CHANGING",,

students try to answer these as well







Sunday 12 March 2017

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 7

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 7

Planning for the end of oil - Richard Sears

As the world's attention focuses on the perils of oil exploration, we present Richard Sears' talk from early February 2010. Sears, an expert in developing new energy resources, talks about our inevitable and necessary move away from oil. Toward ... what? 


1. What primary elements make up oil?

2. Approximately how much oil still exists to be refined and used?

3. When did oil peak in its share of primary energy usage?

4. Which source of energy peaked previous to oil?

5. What energy source is currently the second most used in the world?

6. What forms of energy are almost completely unused in modern times?

7. How has oil affected global affairs?

Agenda

13th March
Tomorrow is day 5
Homework:
-Finish eportfolio Summative task entry
-Spelling words (10 plus)
-Maths goal (due Friday)

Extra for Experts
-Ted Ed
-Creative Writing

Notices:

Reminders
-ixl
-Vocab

Signed:

Thursday 9 March 2017

Agenda Book

10th March
Monday is day 4
Homework:
Portfolio

Notices

Reminders
Present your shirt design to Mr Leith on Wednesday

Signed:


Tuesday 7 March 2017

Agenda

8th March
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework:
-Summative Task due

Notices: NH are overdue

Reminders

Signed:

Tynker

Class Code: 8132887 

Sunday 5 March 2017

Waiata

Waiata - Haere mai te manuhiri e



Haere mai te manuwhiri e
Haere mai te manuwhiri e
Ki te manuwhiri, ko te aroha
Haere mai te manuwhiri e

Haere mai te manuwhiri e
Haere mai te manuwhiri e
Ki te manuwhiri, ko te aroha
Haere mai te manuwhiri e

te manuwhiri e

Waiata - Te Aroha



Te Aroha
Te Whakapono
Me te rangimarie
Tātou, tātou e


He Tangata kē koutou
He Tangata kē matou
Engari I tēnei wā
Tātou, tātou e

Waiata - Tōia Mai


Tōia mai te waka nei 
Kūmea mai te waka nei 
Ki te takotoranga i takoto ai 
Tiriti te mana motuhake. 

Te tangi a te manu e 
Pīpī-wha-rau-roa 
Kūi! Kūi! Kūi! 
Whitiwhiti ora! 
Hui e, tāiki e.
To do: Indepenndent

-Science Post - then embed the document into eportfolio (Remember to share/make public to anyone at Berkley)

-Update Learning goals to eportfolio

-Summative Task (start answering questions, update your journal of ACTIONS)

-UOI - Goodsorts blog post

Maths

I think statement

I think......


Reason 1



Reason 2



Reason 3



Agenda:

3rd March
Monday is day 5
Homework
N/A
Notices
Reminders
TECH / block swap
Signed



6th March
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
-Spelling words
-Summative task (Oral Presentation: This Thursday)
-Science Day eportfolio entry

Extra for Experts
-Creative Writing
-Ted Ed

Notices:
Reminders:
Welding so old gumboots/ long sleeve shirts or jumpers

Signed:

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 6

TED-Ed - Term 1 Week 6

The Earth is full - Paul Gilding

Have we used up all our resources? Have we filled up all the livable space on Earth? Paul Gilding suggests we have, and the possibility of devastating consequences, in a talk that's equal parts terrifying and, oddly, hopeful.


1, What is the evidence that the world is reaching its economic growth capacity?

2. What are the countries that you think are most susceptible to the challenges of rampant economic growth?

3. In a world where the global economy is uncertain, what are the implications for your personal safety?

Good sorts


WALT: Identify the purpose behind Positive actions that impact our communities.

Mini Inquiry: Explore the Good Sorts Website
Explore the Good Sorts Website. Choose one Good Sort that you can report back to the rest of the class about.
  • How did they impact their community?
  • What was their purpose?

Can you identify any GOOD SORTS in your community's??

Thursday 2 March 2017

Quick Write

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/89972965/school-turning-off-wifi-internet-during-lunch-breaks-to-encourage-students-to-talk-to-each-other

link

What do you think?

How does relate to our current UOI!

Wednesday 1 March 2017

Agenda Book!

2nd Feb. 2017
Tomorrow is day 4
Homework:
Summative task
Refer to Mondays

Notices:

Reminders:
NH forms

Signed