Term 4 Reflection Blog

B&E  Reflection Blog

What was your product?
Mine and my friends B&E product was rock designs, and selling painted rocks.

How was the process of creating the product?
The process was hard at the start, being that we at first didn't know what to do, nor know what out business name should be, and then it was kinda hard to work together, having to agree on designs and what to do.

What was your highlight?
My highlight was the painting, so you I could just paint what I wanted, with my friends, and joke around.

What was one thing you didn't enjoy?
I didn't enjoy being mainly the one to stay and look after the stand, as it was quite boring and i couldn't really do much.

How was your market day?
I didn't enjoy the market day as much, because it was busy, crowded, and i was stuck to my groups stand practically.

Christchurch Earthquakes

 Christchurch Earthquakes

I know that it was earthquakes that happened on the 22nd of February 2011, lots of buildings collapsed and a handful of people died,

I think i will find out how many people died, if anyone survived the broken buildings, and how many buildings broke.

1. Because it happened during the early hours of the morning, and most people were home, asleep.

2. 6659 people got injured in the earthquake

3. Liquefaction is Sand, water, and Mud all mixed together, and breaks up through the ground and brakes many things in it's road, including Roads, and underground pipes that also looks like just ripples of water in a flood once on the ground.

4. 115 people died inside of the CTV building when it collapsed

 5. Big, Large, Massive.

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Video

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Notes

- For years scientists expected the earthquake, they just didn't know when it would happen

- The breaking of rocks is what causes earthquakes.

- The huge earthquake was a 6.3

- No one knew there was a fault in the port hills

- The port hills fault lifted the ground up 4cm

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Poster

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Reflection;

I am learning about the Christchurch Earthquakes.

This work shows my learning because it's about the Christchurch Earthquakes.

I am wondering if any bodies, dead or alive, flew out of the buildings when they were falling.

I got all of my predictions correct, it is about the Earthquakes in Christchurch on the 22nd of February 2010

Term goals

 

Pike River Mine Explosion

 Pike River Mine Explosion,  Nov, 19th 2010.

I think it's gonna be about a mine cavern that exploded in New Zealand on November the 19th 2010.

I think i will find out if anyone died / how many people died, and how/why it happened.

1. The Pike River Mine is located the West Coast of South Island of New Zealand

2. The building of the mine started in 2005 but the actual mining started in November, 2008

3. 31 Men were inside the mine at the time of the explosion.

4. Two Men escaped the mine explosion, the the 29 died inside the mine

5. Because it was far too dangerous to send human searchers into the mine to find the bodies, so instead they sent in robots.

6. Jacinda Adern made a promise to unseal and re-enter the mine, also going to send in a searching team to see what or who they could find, but it failed, they couldn't.

Videos;

Video #1

-One of the survives tells people that he ducked behind the door of the loader to avoid falling rocks.
-Russel was left for dead by an electrician who saw him lying on the ground
-Another survivor, Daniel rescued Russel and helped him escape
-They turned on taps to help clear the smoke
-Daniel and Russel are the only two who got out, 
-Daniels younger brother of 21 years, didn't make it out of the mine
-They still don't know why the mine exploded

Video #2 

-The mine was extremely gassy but no one thought it wouldn't explode that's why they entered
-Russel felt more peaceful before he passed out
-In the mines the miners were trained that mine rescuers would save you so you should wait to be rescued
-The people blamed the corporation for the explosion and the 29 deaths.
-People were mad at the manager at the time (Ben and Daniels father, Ben died)
-Daniel has a wife (Tammy)

Poster

(Resources; the videos and notes above)

Reflection

I am learning about the Pike River Mine Explosion

This work shoes my learning because it is about the Pike River Mine Explosion

I am wondering if anyone did survive, even thought i know that is impossible to find out

I got all my predictions correct about what happened and when it happened.

Extra from the extra reading thingy

Notes

- The explosion happened Friday 19th Nov 2010

- The planning started in 2005

- The mine opened in 2008 and was almost shut down due to the gas

- On the day of the explosion at 3:44 Ben (Daniels brother) was deep into the mine whilst Daniel and Russell were closer to the top.

- The company was ordered to pay $110,000 to each family but could only afford to pay $5,000 to each family due to the fact it had to be shut down because they couldn't sell coal

- The coal in Pike River Mine was discovered in 1946 but the planning for the mine started in 2005

- Jacinda Adern promised to re-open the mine and re-enter to find the bodies.

- The Pike River Mine explosion was the worse mine disaster in New Zealand since 1914.

Questions

there was too much gas and it almost made the mine shut down once it first opened in 2008

That the mine had violated multiple health and safety codes/rules, and that the explosion had been caused by the ignition of a large volume of methan.

Because the two men that did escape, Daniel and Russell, were closer to the opening of the mine, and both had something that helped them, ducking behind something or for Russell he was in the cab of the truck.

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1. The first person to discover coal in the paparoa ranges was Harold Wellman

2. The prime minister promised that she would open and re-enter the mine.

3. The Pike River Mine is located on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand.

4.the explosion happened the 10th of November 2010

5. The reason was that the company was broke because they were unable to sell any more coal.

Two questions i had once reading the article was, 'why didn't they close it in 2008 when the gas almost shut it down the first time' and 'what if there were more people down there that they didn't register'  

Term 3 reflection

 Term 3 Reflection

A highlight for me would be the science experiments, because they help you learn and are also very fun.

I found lock-down enjoyable because i could eat or drink whenever and chose what time i did work or for how long.

My favourite subject have either been Disasters with Mrs Handley, or Science with Mr Stock, I liked Mrs Handley's class because I like learning about disasters,  when they happened, and more facts like that, and i liked Mr Stock's class because the experiments were fun and he was teaching us higher class science to help us learn better and faster.

I created a balloon/paper mashe mask, i slightly enjoyed Arts Kete, but not as much as the steam project, because the steam was funner and gave you more ideas to base off of and more time because lock-down cut through the Arts Kete.

I am looking forward to being able to sleep longer in the holidays.

Clay-stop-motion

This is mine and my groups Clay stop-motion,  

Our characters are

The creepy cat.

 Snow-Maid

The Carrier Cat

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The people in my group are; Susie, Quaid, and myself.

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My storyboard;

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Our plan was to get aliens to both meet and become acquaintances on the alien world looking for food.

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------The way we did it is we got a black paper and drew some planets on it (Susie did) and we flicked white paint onto it for stars and then we tapped it to the leg of the table and set up our computer slowly moving it step by step 

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I think the background worked well for the stop-motion because it set the scene and it was a nice representation of where it was and that they are aliens

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I would maybe add more depth into the characters and maybe plan it a bit better because we just went with the flow and added things in the middle of the stop-motion

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FINAL MOVIE

Hands on fire

Aim:
I want to Safely Light my hands on Fire

Method:

  Equipment

- Detergent  

- A Lighter

- Safety Glasses

- Gas 

- Tray

- Hose

Instructions

1. Collect  your equipment

2. Put some water in the tray

3. Put some detergent into the water

4. Put safety glasses on

5.Tie up any loose hair

6. Take off any accessories on hands and arms

7. Wet hands, wrists, and arms up to your elbows

8. Bubble the gas into the water

9. Scoop the bubbles but don't touch the water

10. Keep your hands with the bubbles straight in front of you away from your face and your arms straight

11. Light the Bubbles on Fire with lighter

12. To get rid of the fire move both your hands facing outwards still straight in front of you

   

Results:

After following the instructions Mr. Stock lighted the kids hands on fire, them all being safe, as a fire light upon their out stretched hands, after a second, out of shock they quickly put their hands in front of them, the fire disappearing, a smile laid on the kids faces, wanting to do it again.