Inquiry Investigation

This week we have been researching about an area in our inquiry that we found interesting, and to come up with questions that relate to the topic that we have chosen to research about. The topic that I have chosen to research about is the Milky Way, I think that I decided to research about this topic because before we started our researching I didn't know many things about the Milky Way and at first I thought that the Milky Way was a chocolate bar until someone said that we live in the Milky Way. I have learnt a lot about the Milky Way science we have been researching about it like ... 

THE MILKY WAY

• Look in the night sky to see a part of the milky way
• Our solar system is small
• Name came from  hera
• Clear sky
• Only can see a small part of the milky way
• 13.6 billions years ago
• 100,000 thousand meters
• 230 million years to orbit around the centre of the milky way

THE MILKY WAY

The milky way is believed to be about 100,000 meters in diameter, and believed to have been born  about 13.6 billion years ago. The name Milky way came from Greek people because in that era they believed that one of there greek goddess spilt milk across the sky and that's why they called it the road of milk and letter on changes to Milky Way. On clear night if you look up at the night sky you can see a small part of the milky way which is mostly just a couple hundred thousand stars. The milky way began shaping and forming back around 14 billion years ago and it can take up to 100,000 year to cross the tire Milky Way. Our Galaxy was made from clouds of dust and gas called the “ Nebula “ ?? Stars, comets, meteors, asteroids and planets.

Name of the “Milky Way"

The MIlky way got its name from  Greek people who called it “ Galaxias kyklos” witch is translated back to “Milky Circle”. After they had named the Galaxy “ Galaxies Kyklos” or “ MIlky Circle” another race used the same  name and that race of people are known as Romans. Because they thought that it was a good name because at night in the sky it looked like a big milky streak across the sky or in other words a road of milk.  And i think that they named it this because whenever they would look up at the sky they would see splashes of white, purple, blue and pink across the sky and to me I think that I would mistake that for milk as well.

After that me and my friends decided to work on a presentation together about the things that we have learnt like where the name came from and why they decided to call it that name... we also researched about how long it would take a person to cross the entire Milky way which would take around one hundred thousand years to get from one side of the Milky way to the other here is the presentation that we have made.

Inquiry Investigation,

This Term our inquiry topic is about Earth and beyond and with that comes black holes, stars , planets and our galaxy. We got into groups with people that want to learn and research about the same things as you do. there is a group that are researching about aliens, space technology, two groups are researching about the Milky way and two groups are researching about black holes. I am researching with my friends about the MIlky way orin other words our galaxy and other things to with it like stars, planets and black holes. There were alot of things that we wanted to know by the end of our investigation like being in the Milky Way affect the Earth ?? And if so how does it affect us ?? , Where did it get its name?? And why do we call it the Milky Way ?. The questions that I want to know the most is why do we call it the Milky Way ? Because there are hundreds of thousands of different names that we could have named it but we choose to call it the Milky Way.

I have learnt a few things about the Milky way this week like our galaxy ( the Milky Way ) is like a spiral and we are smack down in the middle of all the arms that it has. Or that our galaxy is a cannibal it has devoured other smaller galaxies in the past from what I have read in books and websites.

Gravity

This Week we moved away from learning about the Moon and its phases and moved on to learning about Gravity. From what I know about gravity so far it is a force that comes from things with a great amount of mass and weight that keeps things around it stuck to its surface. Take the Earth as an example the Earth has gravity on it and around it and it is avery strong force that is why everything we see around us doesn't go flying up to space. Gravity comes from the core of the giant object with mass and weight the more gravity that the object with mass has the more that we and every thing that we know stays on the ground. 

Technology Reflection Term 2 Week 7

Today we were making Quiches for technology, there were four steps to making Quiches. Before we started making our Quiches we had to get into peers, Taking our netbooks our techbooks in to a room in the back, put on a apron, wash our hands and get two towels, a sponge and soap for cleaning and drying the equipment that we use.

The first step that we had to do was get a chopping board a sharp knife and pastry, after you got your pastry you had to cut it into twelve equal pieces and put it into a cupcake tray. Then you need to get four to five streaks of ham ( depending on how many Quiches you are making ) the you cut it all into little pieces and put it into the pastry in the middle of it and add some cheese if you want to. After you have done that whisk four eggs in a bowl and add half a cup of Milk into your mixture and whisk away until it is a yellow colour, then pour it into your pastry with your cheese and ham. Then you need to put it in an oven for fifteen minutes on 180 c, after fifteen minutes you need to put it on something to let it cool down.

Here are the steps:
How to make Quiches :

Step 1 : - cut the pastry into 12 pieces. Paste into muffin tray

Step 2 : - Dice ham

Step 3: - Add ham and cheese into the muffin tray

Step 4 : - Whisk 4 eggs, with half cup of milk bake 180 c for 15 minutes

Camp Vocabulary task

Today in class in our morning block before morning tea our class was working on there camp booklets and finishing of some of the tasks that were in the book. One task that everyone was doing in the morning was an alphabet from a to z listing all the words that related to our Camp. Everyone that was doing the task got stuck on at least one of the letters before they had finished, for me I got stuck doing the letters x and y. I think that it was hard to come up with words that started with these letters because we didn't do many things that started with x and y. The two words that I came up with for x and y was yawning and x - peariance. I choose these two words because everyone was yawning when ever we had to do zumba in the mornings to help wake us up and x - periance because the places that we went to so that we could do our activities all had  people with experience. I that this was a very fun and difficult task, because I was struggling to think of words that started with certain letters as we were doing the task, I thought that it was fun because me and my friends were all trying to help one another to think of some answers to write down and also that we had something to present when we were finished.

Phases of the Moon

Throughout the term we have been learning about the Moon, Its orbit and its phases. We have been learning a lot about the Moon and its phases and the different phases it goes through like the New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First quarter, Waxing gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous , Last Quarter, Waning Crescent and New Moon again. Each of  these phases happens when the Moon is on certain angle in its orbit and the light from the Sun hits and reflects of it causing us to see more and more of it every twenty nine and a half days. 

I think that it was very fun learning all the Moon phases throughout the term and teaching others about them to. At morning tea and lunch every one would be talking and discussing the Moon and its different phases and about after a week of learning about the Moon and its phases everybody in the Kia Manawanui Syndicate Knew what the phases of the moon are and how they work.

Well Being

Every Wednesday the boys and the girls break of into separate groups so that the girls can go and do their well being class - ( Tai Chi ) and the boys go do a wellbeing class with our male teacher aid Sam. I think that we do this class with same and not the teachers because he has a guys view of things and he gets how boys feel and what boys do and he know what boys can sometimes be going through. And because Sam gets what some of the boys in our class are going through like some boys don"t have there dad at home and he knows that it can affect them - but that's just why I think we do well being with him. 

But in wellbeing he gives us a task to fo and that is to go through a google document that he has made and answer all of the questions that he has put there. Sometimes the questions can have something to do with home and our family's and other times it can be out us our friends and how we feel. I really like doing this with Sam on Wednesdays because I get to write down how I am feeling and whats going onat home and things that are happening in my life. And because Sam gives me tips on things that I can  do and hes not like a teacher he's like a friend that we like to talk to and he helps us with other things to inside and outside of class.

Technology reflection

Yesterday we had Technology and every term in week four each group changes and goe to learn another thing, there is hard materials, graphic and cooking. The first thing that me and my group were learning washard materials, we learnt how to make pewter castings and pendants last term. Yesterday was the day that we changed our group went to cooking and the first thing that we did was learn all the objects in the kitchen and what they are used for. And then we got to the fun part of technology COOKING ! we started to make hot cakes - ( Pancakes ) and we were all in peers and we all had our own kitchen and table to use for cooking and writing down the instructions.

It took each of the groups around twenty minutes to finish their pancakes and after that time each group had around eight to ten pancakes. After you had made the pancakes you would have to half them with your partner and depending on how many pancakes you had made you would be having a very nice brunch - ( late breakfast - early lunch ). And to finish it of Mrs Tuipulotu would come to each table and put whip cream and chocolate sauce on your pancakes to give it extra flavour.

Thank you Sam

This week we had a shared lunch to celebrate all the goals that we had achieved while we were at camp and all the achievements that we had made inside of the class. At our shared lunch we invited all of the adult helpers that came to camp to help look after us and come to do all the fun things that we did during camp. While everyone in our class was at music learning all of the student leaders stayed behind to make cards for each of the adult helpers that came to look after us, each of the student leaders got a separate adult to write a letter to.

The adult that I got was Sam, Sam is the teacher aid in our class he helps Mrs Aireen and Ms Komor with making plans to help to teach us throughout the week. Even though at camp not many of the kids  spent much time with Sam we could all tell that he was still happy. Everywhere that he went he was happy and with Kayaking he couldn't join in because of his shoulder but when ever you looked back at him he was smiling because he could see that everyone else was having fun and that everyone else was enjoying the kayaking. And at night he had to go through all the boys dorms and tell the boys to go sleep until he got to me and my friends dorm, every night he had to walk to our dorm four to five times until we actually went to sleep.

So on the behalf of all the Kia Manawanui Syndicate thank you for all your help during camp and for all your help during school.

Camp Reflection

Last week the year seven and eights of Tamaki Primary school went away on a camp in Ragland, There was a lot of exciting things that happened throughout the camp like Abseiling, Kayaking, Orienteering and lots of fun things to do on the campsite. Out of all the new things that we got to do throughout the week I think that I enjoyed doing Orienteering the most because I got to learn a little bit about how to use a compass and a map. I also enjoyed this because I got the chance to work with some of the people that I wouldn't usually work with throughout our normal week and people that I don't really hang out with and spend time with. 

Even though that was all fun and running up hills and finding checkpoint on a map I did run into some challenges and some that weren't to do with Orienteering I  found Abseiling really difficult. I Think that I found Abseiling Difficult Because we had to go down a small waterfall and it was very slippery and you couldn't really get a good grip of any of the things around you so  that you would be steady. And the main challenge that I ran  into during camp was Kayaking because even though it was very fun paddling with you friend behind or in front of you and looking at all of your surroundings, it was hard to get back to where we started because you would get tired and you would try to catch up with one of your friends. 

One thing that I learnt while we were away at camp was how to work in a team, and this is the main thing that I wanted to learn while we were away because when ever I worked in a group I would usually let my team do most of the work.But after a week of working with my friends and peers I came back wanting to work in a team all the time because it was listening to everyone's ideas and helping everyone else that I was with.