EOTC activity tasks

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be talking about what we will be doing next week for EOTC week which meant that I had to pick one task from each slide from each activity such as going to jellie park, adrenalin forest, and also going into the Christchurch city center. I have made a slideshow about the tasks that I had done.

Living on mars

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post for this year. Today I will be talking about what I have been doing in the writing part of science. I finished this last week but didn't really get a chance to blog about it. It has a couple of questions about a story that I had read about a woman named Haritina Mogosanu and what it would be like to be able to live on Mars. 

What happens at the Mars desert research center?/Summarise

People who were there had to wear spacesuits and helmets when they went outside. Also,

six-person crews stay at the station to learn about what it would be like to live and also to work

on the planet Mars. They spent their time studying geology, biology, and astronomy and also

learning about the challenges of living in a small cramped space with a bunch of other people.

What did Haritina find difficult about being at the research center? Why?

It was difficult because you were there 24/7 and it's a completely different environment.

Also because sometimes it felt scary being in such an unfamiliar place. 

Why do you think it is important for astronauts to practice in an environment like this

before heading to space?

Because then they can get used to an environment that they are not used to yet like being in

spacesuits and floating in the spacecraft and also when they would land on mars they can get

used to the different environments that are there.

Christchurch 2011 earthquakes

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog. Today I will be talking about the earthquake that happened here in Christchurch in the year 2011. I have made a slideshow about it and would like to show it to you. The slideshow that I am going to provide for you includes some information about what happened on that day and how people coped with it.

The information that was in this slideshow came from many different articles and websites that I had read to collect my information. 

Science

Communication in space

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog. Today I will be talking about communication in space. So in hurumanu 3, we have been learning how to communicate in space and the way we did it was one person went down to the end of the field and another person would stay at the other end. There were a couple ways of communicating with each other and one of those was by using flags or pieces of paper called flag signals to form them into the shape of one of the letters like here.

These were the signals that we had to create for the flag signals by using pieces of paper. This is what I and my partner used to communicate with each other but the outcome wasn't how we expected it to be.

Navigation in space

We also did a challenge where you put a blindfold over your eyes and put back on your head. You would then have to use your senses without using your eyes/sight. We went over the Kyle Park to do this because our field was being occupied and we had to try and navigate ourselves to a particular tree that the teacher had chosen.

Magnet

A magnet is simply rock or a piece of metal that can pull certain types of metal toward itself. The force of magnets is called magnetism which is a basic force of nature just like electricity and gravity. Magnetism works over a distance so this means that a magnet does not have to be touching an object to pull it towards itself. 

Protests

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog. Today I will be talking about protests that have happened around New Zealand and how/what changed when these protests happened. I have made a slide about Protests and about what protest I choose to look into. The protest that I choose to look more into was women's suffrage and if you don't know what that means. Women's suffrage means the right for women to be able to vote in elections. 

On 19 September 1893, the election act 1893 was passed giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote in elections, and as a result of this landmark, New Zealand became the first self-governing country in the world in which all women had the right to vote in parliamentary elections.

Here is the sideshow about protests... it does also has a glossary about words that I'm not quite sure of yet.

So there was also a whole heap of other protests but I choose to support the women's suffrage protest. The book that we read was called ' Stand up,  history of protest in New Zealand' By Dylan Owen. 

Day light savings

 Hi guys and welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be talking about day light savings in a document. 

Research and answer the following questions about Daylight Saving NZ in a blog post

1. When does Daylight Saving happen each year in New Zealand?

Sunday 27 September - Sunday 4 April

2. What year did it start in NZ?

1927

3. Why was Daylight Saving started? Write at least 2 sentences to answer this question.

The main reason is to make better use of daylight during the spring and summer months, so there is an extra hour of sunlight in the evening instead of the morning. 

5. Read the following article and write a paragraph (3-8 sentences) on whether or not you think that Daylight Saving should continue in New Zealand.

By allowing more people to come home during daylight hours, permanent daylight savings could decrease the risk of car accidents which means saving more than 360 lives each year. What's more, making year-round daylight savings and having fewer hours of darkness could help reduce crime

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/107348361/times-up-should-we-end-daylight-saving-in-new-zealand

6. Do all the states in Australia have Daylight Saving? Who does and who doesn’t?

New south wales, victoria, South Australia, Tasmania, the queen capital territory, and Norfolks island.

7. Write 3 tips to help others adjust to Daylight Saving.

Stick to your schedule. Be consistent with eating, social, bed, and exercise times during the transition to Daylight Saving Time.

Don't take long naps

Avoid coffee and alcohol.

8. Show your completed work to the teacher and post it on your blog.