Hurumanu - Music

This week in music we did research on some bands and artist so like when the band formed together or when the singers birth date and when they got famous here is my slide show of the singers and band I researched about this week.

Music - Instrumental Industries

This week we started a new Hurumanu which is music we named it instrumental industries. Our teachers in this Hurumanu are Mrs Hastie and  Mrs Allen Fletcher.

When we first went into our hurumanu we did some work around what type of music we like and what we would liked to accomplish or learn in this hurumanu.

We also looked at three different videos one of them was Poi E they were all different type of music another one of them was christian music which was joyful which you may know it off sister act.

On our first week in this Hurumanu were learning about the ukulele. The ukulele first was made in Hawaii. We also looked at three different types of ukulele they were called  Baratene, Tener and a standard concert ukulele.

Creative writing - They have vanished

They have vanished 

I woke up and it was completely silent. I was confused, so I looked around the house and everywhere was completely empty.No one was around, I was confused and worried. I thought, “Where would they have gone?” “How could they forget about me?” “What did I do to deserve this?”

Then I started to think, “Ohh maybe there hiding somewhere around the Island?” I searched and searched around, they were nowhere to be found.

Then I realised that this is the day when we were meant to go find a new whenua for just us. “But why would they forget about me just why and how could they?”

A few days went past and they never returned to come and get me so I stayed on the land with other people and they took me into their family. I was really grateful that those people found me.

Fossil fuels

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
It is a natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms.


Scientific Terms for Students
Coal a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1 Coal 

2 oil 

3 Natural gases  
 




Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1.Scrapping 

2. digging

3. drilling 

4. Exposing buried resources

Where are they mined?

1. Australia

2. Russia 

3. Austria
4. Brazil
5. China

Activity;


Material:

1. Pencil
2. Sheet/work
   

Steps:
  1. Draw what your earth looks like before it gets destroyed or mined or how you would want it to look

2. Then draw your island after it has got destroyed.

3. After that show your teacher.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?
That it is not as easy as people make it sound. 

Conclusion: 

Because you have to be very careful and take your time doing it.

Climate change - fossil fuels

Aim: To look at the causes of climate change and how to prevent it.

What is our greatest threat in thousands of years ?

The world ending and not having an earth to live on.Due to climate change flooding storms plastic and carbon dioxide such as the temperature.

How do we see climate change affecting the globe?
  

Here are four ways I see climate change affecting the globe:

1 Storms
2 Flooding 

3 Higher sea levels

4 Pollution 

What is needed to change history?

The temperature because that causes the sea levels to be higher due to the ice melting.But we also need to stop carbon dioxide because it makes our air not very good and makes a warm blanket around our world causes it to get warmer and hotter over the years. Which we could shut down fossil fuel factories.We also need to stop using plastic because that also causes water levels rising because it goes down to the bottom of the sea and that water rises up.

Is climate change a man made disaster?

I think climate change is definitely  a man made disaster because we opened up the fossil fuel factories which created the warm blanket around earth with carbon dioxide. But we also invented plastic which caused pollution on our earth.

Dramatic action must be made in the next 10 or so years to change it?

Why is our climate changing?

Pollution such as plastic and rubber.But also because of carbon dioxide because of the warm blanket.

What is causing the warming trend of the climate?

The carbon dioxide which is because of fossil fuels such as coal and oil which is petrol gas.Its killing our earth our animals and us as humans.

What is the main problem?

To me it is fossil fuel coal petrol oil gas and carbon dioxide. Because it's changing the temperature causing the water levels to rise.But it is also plastic because it's killing our sea life and animals.

What are examples of these ?

Heat waves, Drafts and Flooding.But that's my opinion.

Burning fossil fuels releases what gas?
Coal petrol oil and carbon dioxide.

How much hotter now is our world?

It is currently 1 degree hotter then what it was 100 years ago.

What do we call this global warming?

Climate change 

How is this affecting creatures / animals like bats?

Causing them two overheat and they are not used to this heat and weather changing causing them to become extinct or not many of them will be able to live anymore.

What percentage of species are near extinction?

Eight percent of the species are near extinct.

How could this affect the world ecosystems?

It could make the earth collapse and break.

What global change was seen and recording breaking last year?

The massive record breaking fires over in California destroying so many things that it costs  24 million dollars to replace.Some people even got stuck because it was so unexpected.

How is climate change affecting our weather systems?
1. there's more moisture in the air that will cause more rain.

2. Extreme massive storms in the near future if we don't stop.

3. Flooding and higher sea levels because Antarctic and the Arctic have lots 4 trillion of ice because of the temperature.

What is another effect of climate change?

Another effect of climate change is building or building higher.

What will happen if the ice melts in Antarctica and the Arctic?

There will be no Antarctica and no Arctic because it would have all melted away. Our land will disappear due to flooding and water levels rising.

How does this affect people?

This affects us because we will have no land to live on it would have gone disappeared underneath our oceans due to the flooding and water levels rising.

What other things affect oceans change?

Plastic and oil spills it kills our animals and us but also our heat.

What does too much heat do to the coral?

It kills the sea life because the coral can't handle the heat down there. 

Why did some industries not want to stop burning fossil fuels?

Because they want the money and there trying to get the oil for cars that use petrol and not Solar and electricity.

Investigation

You can decide on how you would like to do this investigation. Your presentation could be on the blog, slides, or Powerpoint.

Write a definition, upload an image and list where these fossil fuels are mined.

Coal is a hard rock which can be burned as a solid fossil fuel. It is mostly carbon but also contains hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. It is a sedimentary rock by the pressure of rocks laid down later on top.(A sedimentary rocks are types of rock that are formed by the deposition of small particles)

Oil - An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a dangerous liquid at very high  temperatures and is hydrophobic.Which is also very bad for our planet/earth.

Natural Gas - Natural gas has methane in it  and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen and  helium. But all of them are just as bad as each other.

Solar - it is used for power in your home and other places so just for power and also like photo mechanical

Wind -     you can also use wind for mechanical power  it can also be used for pumping grinding or grain  it can be used in specific reasons like business school's homes and others so it is also like power 

Waves -  Waves is about the temperature in the water so the level  so if it is a wave it would be bodily which is a wave and no wave would be piling up the water if you don't know what bodily mean it is when you take it at your own risk and take a body to body so one by one if you don't know what piling is it is heavy stakes or posts 

Hydro - hydro is like the oldest energy we have had in our world/planet but it is generating power when flowing water spins a wheel or turbine it is more used by farmers as way back for grain and hay.


Write a 5 sentence reflection about how climate change is going to change our world. 

I think that climate change is going to change our earth because it is going to affect our earth and completely kill it. But if that happens we will not have an earth to live on and soon nothing to drink because it will kill us. We need to make a change soon before we can’t stop this as in investing to get an electric car or even walking more places. Just anything that you think will benefit or help our earth become better.

Solar energy

Aim - is to see how Solar Energy works.


Materials:

1. Cups (x4) 

2. Water 

3. 1 large cup

4. 2 sheets white paper

5. 1 large black piece 

6. Thermometer 

7. Tinfoil 

8. Lamp

Steps
1. Fill the cups with water 

2. Then you place each cup on separate pieces of sheets and put the large cup on on of the cups that are on a white piece of paper.
 

3.  Then plug your lamp in and make sure that it is covering all cups.Then you leave it for the amount of time it requires.

4. When that's done then grab the thermometer and see how hot it is.

5. Then you put it done on your blog. 

Which surface conducts / attracts the most heat?

The tinfoil and black paper had the most heat in 40 minutes which was both 20 degrees

Time +

temperature
Cup 1
- 0 minutes 12 degrees 40 minutes 15 degrees 

White paper

Cup 2
White paper+ plastic.
- 0 minutes 12 degrees 40 minutes 14 degrees 

Cup 3
Black paper
- 0 minutes 12 degrees 40 minutes 20 degrees 

Cup 4
Tinfoil
- 0 minutes 12 degrees 40 minutes 20 degrees

Findings:

That the tinfoil and black paper were the hottest ones at 20 degrees in 40 minutes which kind of warm. But the least warmest was actually the plastic and white paper one which only reached 12 degrees in 40 minutes which only went up 2 degrees since we started it.

Conclusion: 

I think that they are the hottest because black attracts the sun to it and we used black paper.But I think that tinfoil was high because it is like a mirror which reflects the sun which would’ve reflected it into the water in the  cup.

Wind - Measuring weather

Weather and Climate Change 

Extreme weather

Measuring weather.

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 the direction of wind smoke drift, but not by wind vanes.	Light
2	6-12	40	The 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 lose 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

Wind speed - Making an anemometer.

MATERIALS

1. x4 cups 
2. x4 straws  
3. tape  
4. pin  
5. pencil  

STEPS

1.  Get your materials
2.  Put one whole in each side of all your cups. 
3. After that put the straws threw the holes that you made.
4. And then put the pins threw the straws and also make a cross then put the pin in threw the straws into the pencil.
5. And finally your done and now you can record you times and see how much km per hour you get.

Group size: 3

You will need:

Anemometer (above) 

Roles:

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

FINDINGS

• Record how many times it spins using the table below.

You will need to create the wind yourself by blowing. Get 4 different wind speeds by blowing.

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

	Time Interval	Number of Spins
1.	10 seconds	All 10
2.	10	S 29
3.	10	M 19
4.	10	C 41

• Can you make a statement connecting the number of spins of your anemometer and the speed of the wind? 
• The one done under the heat pump got 29 spins which is 6-7 km per hour which isn't very fast but can blow dust around. But then when it was really windy and stormy it had 41 spins which is 12 km per hour which is faster then under the heat pump.

CONCLUSION:

That when it is windy it is stronger wind then usual because the wind is much stronger then standing under the heat pump. But the weakest was when we blew it and it only did 10 spins in ten seconds because my breath was running out when I blew it with my mouth and I was also getting a bit light headed.