Hurumanu Solar Powered Oven

Aim: To make a solar powered oven.

Materials: 

1. Card board pizza box  
2. Tin foil
3. Glad rap
4. Cello tape
5. Ruler
6. Straw 
7. Marshmallow
8. Chocolate Biscuit 
9. scissors
10. Black plastic bag
11. Vivid marker  
12. News paper 

Steps:

1. Cut out the flap on the lid of the pizza box so that it is 5 cm around the edge. 
2. sellotape some tinfoil on the inside of the flap.
3. Sellotape some glad-wrap so that the hole that you have cut on the pizza box lid covered over with glad-wrap.
4. Put a peace of black plastic on the bottom of the inside of the pizza box.
5. Make a paper square that fits inside the pizza box.
6. Put a marshmallow on top of a chocolate biscuit, place it on a plastic plate and put it in the solar oven  
7. Then put it in the sun to cook.

Findings:

Time	Temperature
0
15
30
45

Conclusion





Aim: To make a presentation that investigates different renewable energy's.

Section 1: Title Page

Make a title page that incorporates all renewable energy 's Hydro, Solar, Wind and Wave.

Section 2: Definitions

Define and provide a picture of each energy type.

1. Hydro Energy
2. Solar Energy
3. Wind Energy 
4. Wave Energy

Section 3; Investigate each of the 4 Energy types.
( Hydro ,Solar ,Wind ,Wave ) 

1. Type:Hydro Energy 
2. Is it used in NZ ? Yes
3. Other Countries that use it?Brazil, Canada, New Zealand, Norway, Austria. 
4. How is it used to generate electricity? Hydro power plants capture the falling water to generate electricity. 
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand drawn using a ruler and labelled.

1. Type:Solar Energy
2. Is it used in NZ ?No
3. Other Countries that use it?Germany, Spain, Japan, United states, Czechia
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand drawn using a ruler and labelled.

1. Type:
2. Is it used in NZ ?
3. Other Countries that use it?
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand drawn using a ruler and labelled.

1. Type:
2. Is it used in NZ ?
3. Other Countries that use it?
4. How is it used to generate electricity?
5. Draw and label a diagram of the main parts of the electricity generator? This can be done on paper and uploaded or on a drawing program on your device. I do not want any Internet images or pictures. They must be hand drawn using a ruler and labelled.

Section 4: Renewable Energy in the future.

List 10 ways that renewable energy will be used in the future to replace our current activities.

Writing About The Holidays

Today I am going to be writing about a low light in my holidays and a high light.

Low Light

This Monday my 17 year old sister and her boyfriend are going to Auckland to live.  Most of my family are really sad because it is such a big change and we will really miss their company.  When they lived at home they would take me to the movies,to the league field to practice my kick and they would also by yum food for me/spoil me.  But the good thing about it was that my brother Bryce and myself will be able to go and visit them and do fun activities with them.

High Light

My high light of the holidays was spending time with my sister and her boyfriend before they left to go to Auckland.  We were supposed to go to the movies but the movie that we were going to watch was 13+ we couldn't watch the movie because my brother and myself are 12 but instead we went to Time Zone and Margaret Mahy Park.  Three of my sisters and two of my brothers were at Time Zone and Margaret Mahy. At Time Zone I saw my friend Lasa and I went on this virtual reality ride and he was waking me around the head but I thought it was the ride but I released it was him when the ride was over.  We had car races at Time Zone and I came 3rd place. My sister ended up getting 900 tickets on her timezone card.

The cool thing about Margaret Mahy park was that we went at 11 o'clock at night and we had the whole park to ourselves.  My siblings and myself played a big game of hide and go seek tag which was really fun then a couple of my sisters friends turned up so we stopped playing and went and got a ice cream.  The flavour that I got was salted caramel.  Then we started to walk to the cars and went home.

Hurumanu Measuring Weather

Measuring weather.

Definitions

1. Typhoon : 

It is a tropical cyclones in the world. It was said that it can only be formed between 180° and 100°E.  

2. Anemometer :

It is used to measure the wind.  (Or a current)

3. Beaufort wind scale :

Wind and sea measurements

4. Monson :

It is a rainy season that can change

1.  Anemometer:
2. Beaufort wind scale:

MATERIALS 

1. Two sticks
2. One pencil
3. Four cups   
4.   Pin 
5. Cello tape
6. sticky note  

STEPS

1. Tape the cup onto each stick.
2. Cello tape the sticks together to make a cross.
3. Stick the pin into the rubber of the pencil.  
4.   

Group Investigation.

Groups size: 5 
Roles:

• Timekeeper
• Counter
• Recorder
• Anemometer Manager
• Wind Manager

1. Mount the anemometer in a place that has full access to the wind from all directions.
2. When the time keeper says "Go", the counter in each group will count how many times the marked cup passes them in one minute and write it down.
3. Repeat the above step four (4) times and record the number of spins on the chart.

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins and record it in the table below.

• You will need to time them and count the number of spins.

	Place name on school grounds	Number of Spins in 15 seconds
1.	Field.	20
2.	old j block site.	15
3.	Grass hill in quad.	10
4.	Tennis court gate.	3

CONCLUSION: 

For the field there was 80 spins per minute the wind was 13-20 kph and the Beaufort scale was 3.

For the old j block there was 60 spins per minute,there was 6-12 kph and the Beaufort scale was 2.

For the grass hill there was 40 spins per minute,6-12 kph and 2 for the Beaufort scale.

For the tennis court gate there was 12 spins per minute 2-kph  and 1 for the Beaufort scale.

Wind

Beaufort Wind Scale

Beaufort Force	Wind Speed (KPH)	Spins	Indicators	Terms Used in NWS Forecasts
0	0-2	0	Calm; smoke rises vertically.	Calm
1	2-5	10	Shown by direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	Wind felt on face, leaves rustle; ordinary vanes moved by wind.	Light
3	13-20	80	Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag.	Gentle
4	21-29	130	Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved.	Moderate
5	30-39	190	Small trees in leaf begin to sway; crested wavelets form on inland waters.	Fresh
6	40-50	250	Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telephone wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.	Strong
7	51-61	320	Whole trees in motion; inconvenience felt walking against the wind.	Strong
8	62-74	390	Breaks twigs off trees; generally impedes progress.	Gale
9	75-87	470	Slight structural damage.	Gale
10	88-101	550	Seldom experienced inland; trees uprooted; considerable structural damage occurs.	Whole gale
11	102-116	640	Very rarely experienced inland; accompanied by widespread damage.	Whole gale
12	117 or more	730+	Very rarely experienced; accompanied by widespread damage.	Hurricane

Based on your findings what was the Wind Speed and the Beaufort Wind Force for each area.

	Spins per minute	Wind speed ( kph)	Beaufort Scale
Field	80	13-20kph	3
Old J Block site	60	6-12kph	2
Grass hill	40	6-12kph	2
Tennis Court Gate	12	2-5kph	1

Safety/equipment science.

Today I am going to be talking about some safety rules and some equipment used in a science lab.

Safety Rules:

1. No running in the science lab.
2. No food or drink in the science lab.
3. No tasting any of the food used for an experiment.
4. Put your bags underneath a table or in a safe place so no one trips over them.
5. If you break something make sure to tell a teacher and clean it up.  

Equipment:

1. Beaker, is use to carry liquids and also to measure mL
2. Funnel, is used to Channel liquids.
3. beaker tongs, are used for caring hot beakers and lids.
4. Test tube, is also used to hold liquids like the beaker. 
5. Bunsen, is used to heat liquids.

Hurumanu Science 2040

Today in science we watched a documentary called 2040. The documentary was about the good things about global warming and climate change.

What are two thing you learnt?
I learnt about a box called a solar share it is a solar powered box that you can buy and connect it to your neighbours solar panel or to anyone's solar panel instead of you having to get a solar panel.

I also learnt about how much meat we are eating and how much meat we should be eating.  We should be eating lease meat and more vegetables.

What surprised me?
How many different ways people are trying to prevent  global warming and climate change.

What I would like to see in 2040?
I would like to see self driven cars/electric cars,plants growing on the top of buildings and our environment being looked after.

Hurumanu Art

Today in Art hurumanu we have been making some clay characters for our stop motion that we are 

going to be making.

The characters are a whale,shark,2 fish a water snake and a octopus.

I made the shark because the shark is going to be the bully and the fish is the one getting bullied.

Then the whale Is going to come along and tell the Shark to stop bullying and all the other sea creatures are just going to be swimming around/past.

One of the challenges is making the sea creatures because it's hard getting the creatures into the right shape.

Here is a photo of what Paea and myself have made.

Stationery fundraiser

Stationery fundraiser 

How are we going to spread the message to the community?  We have made DLOs to get the message around the school.

Who do you think will get involved?  I think the teachers and the people that have empty stationery to put in the boxes.

What should we do with the donation money that we received from Terra Cycle?

I think we should use the money to get more stationery for the school or do some stuff with the money to help the community.

How many kgs do you predict we will collect? 

I think we will collect up to 10-15 kgs of empty stationery.