Brainbox Circuit Maker!

Another Wednesday, another science lesson! Today we learnt about circuit's with Brainbox. Brainbox is a fun way to learn about circuits. You can make quite a lot of things. Like a flying fan with an annoying noise machine and a light smiley-face that can walk! (Not actually walk. But that would be pretty sick...) My group made a Fan machine... It would of been way cooler using the noise machine, and make it look really complex, and with a smiley face, but that's ok. We can try again next week. Anyway, I learnt a lot about circuits and technology. Some groups got their fans to fly, but all we could do is make it into a beyblade. Let it rip! We found that our fan didn't beep, and we couldn't find out why. It just didn't. But It did work and we were happy about it. We may be leaning into more stuff about technology than science, so look out for that. 

My Football Team

For reading the last few weeks, we have been doing work on an olympic sport. My team did Football (Soccer) I don't want to spoil the work, but we had a Captain, Coach, Nutrition and Trainer. I was the team Captain. And I was in charge of researching about the history of the sport. I found out a WHOLE bunch of information about the game. Like in the christmas of WW2, the British soldiers and the German soldiers, both dropped their guns, refilled all of the trenches, and had a game of football. While everybody was still fighting. Crazy eh? They could just stop fighting for a day, then the next they began again. Anyway I found it really fun and I learnt alot too. I found it easy to put it into a format so that it easy to read, and to figure out what goes first. I found it a bit challenging to get a lot of information about the sport and the history behind the sport, but I did find some interesting information. 

By Toby, Isobel, Archie C And Vinny.

Tokyo 2020 Acrostic Poem.

This term we have been learning about the olympics. Our task today was to make an acrostic poem about the olympics. We had to use words about the olympics from our learning. Like our olympic values and what it takes to be an olympian. I really liked how I coloured the words the same colors as the olympic rings. I found it easy to think of words for this poem because of all the learning we have been doing about the olympics. I found it challenging to do some of the harder letters like Y or K. And don't get me started on the three O's. But once I got those done I was whizzing through. Next time I think I should of added more words, like two or three words a letter. That would make it pop and more words would be a challenge.

Olympic Values Animation!

In team toroa we have been learning about the Tokyo 2020 Olympic values. Like last time we had a slideshow to work through for over two weeks. This couple if weeks our slide was about the values it takes to be an Olympian. Respect, Exelents, and Friendship. I made this animation with my friends Rhodes and Ceejay. In the animation we are playing basketball. I pass it to Ceejay who threw it at the hoop. Then it bounced back at Rhodes and he jumps to dunk it in, but it missed and he hit his head. We went to see if he was okay. He jumped up and was fine. I thought that making this animation was really fun and the last part was funny. It took us around two hours to make it. Our task was to create an animation about one of the values. We did friendship, and I guess being kind as well. 

The hardest part was making the characters in time. I challenge myself to do 110% of my effort in to my work, so when my friends were ready I was still mucking about with the littlest details that in my mind, needed to be fixed.  My goal for my next animation is to do more animating and less decoration, and to put more movement into the characters. What other values should they put in the olympics? Tell me your ideas in the comments down below!

The Coin Drop Experiment.

 Well I'm a bit late. I was supposed to do this last week. Woops! But anyway a wile ago we did an experiment a bit similar to the egg drop. But this time it was with coins. With the coin drop you will need some coins (10c, 20c, 50c, $1, $2, you get it.) a plastic cup, and some paper. We used two different types of paper. One kinda thick and one thin. Im my group was Ceejay Alex and I, and we faced a couple of problems. First you had to flick the piece of paper in a certain way for it to work. In the video you can see that I don't flick the paper properly. but that is okay, everybody makes mistakes. The idea of this experiment is you get a plastic cup and put the paper on top. Then you put a coin or too directly in the middle of the card, right on top of the cup. Then you flick the piece of paper and if you have done it properly the coins will drop into the cup! 

The Egg Drop Experiment.

Newtons first law of motion explains that an object will stay still until acted on by another force. This is called inertia. This also applies to a moving object. A force will stay in motion unless acted on by another force. This was the topic for today's science lesson. We got an egg, a toilet roll, a plastic plate, and two plastic cups. One big and one small, both filled halfway with water. We put the water filled cup on a flat surface, and put the plate on top. We then put the used toilet roll and put the egg on top. Now we spring our hands towards the plate knocking it away. If the experiment is done properly, then the egg should fall into the water. This experiment was fun. I liked experimenting with different ways to hit the plate and the different sizes of cup. Eventually, Me and my friend Rautaki's egg cracked and its yolk (Brains) came out. We had another try with a new egg that we named Eggy. Eggy had a little face and lasted longer than our last egg. He had a few bumps and scratches but eventually smashed. R.I.P Eggy. You will live forever in our hearts. But ye. I really enjoyed this experiment and it was one of my favourites so far.

P.S Pictures coming soon!

M&M Stacking!

Last science lesson we were learning about the art of stone stacking. It looks very hard to stack stones and we even tried to do it on our own. We used some flat stones and it was very easy. But once we used M&M's it got very hard. If you have ever eaten M&M's before (doubt that you haven't) you have probably noticed that they are round not flat. Our elective best was 3 M&M's but not many people got to that. If you watch 7 Sharp you might have seen that the Guiness world record of stacking M&M's is 5. Yes. 5. The Maori All Blacks had a try at it but couldn't break the record and get a 6, but they did tie and get a 5. My best was two. It was very stressful to get the M&M's to stack, but the best part was eating the M&M's At the end.