Scotland and England Act of Union - Social Sudies

 

Making Volcanoes - Science

AIM: To create the simulation of a volcano eruption.

Method:

Get a flat piece of cardboard. (Or flatten a box).

Get a 700ml bottle and place it in the middle of the cardboard.

Make glue (a little salt, water, flour).

Get a lot of newspaper and scrunch it up into balls.

Use your glue to stick the scrunched up paper onto the bottle. (Repeat this until you have a pyramid volcano shape)

Rip strips of newspaper and place them onto the scrunched newspaper with glue to smooth out the volcano's surface.

Paint your volcano and try to get a reference volcano to paint to.

Put 50ml of H2O2, a drop of food colouring, and a squirt of soap into the bottle of your volcano.

In a beaker put 30ml of water, 2 spat of potassium iodide, and dissolve it by mixing it together. 

Get outside and then put the beaker mixture into the volcano. WATCH IT ERUPT.

Results:

Discussion:

How do volcanoes form?
On land, volcanoes form when one tectonic plate shifts itself under another tectonic plate. Usually, when this happened it is a thin, heavy, oceanic plate descends below a thicker continental plate. The oceanic plates water gets trapped with it under the continental plate which causes the water to slip out and make some rocks melt into magma. The melted rock, magma, is lighter than the rock surrounding it which makes the magma rise up to the magma chamber. 

The magma stays in the magma chamber for a while as the gas and the steam builds up. When it releases the pent up gas it causes the volcano to erupt the magma turning it into lava. The lava streams down the volcano as the smoke surrounds the area and pollutes the air. That is how volcanoes work.

What is the difference between magma and lava?
Magma is melted rock that is found under the Earth's surface. Lava is molten rock that has reached Earth's surface through the volcanoes vents.

Conclusion:

The experiment was super fun to set up and during the waiting process with the paint and glue, we worked on learning a bit more about volcanoes and what makes them work the way they do. It was educational and our volcano was the best eruption of the day. We had a smaller bottle hole so our one came out in a line whereas other peoples volcanos came out more like a blob. If I were to do it again I would make the volcano more sturdy by compacting the newspaper more and them using more glue to stick it down. 

NZ Population 1836-1991

 

This graph shows us the population of Europeans and Maori people that were in New Zealand. You can see in this graph that the Maori people innew Zealand started to drop and I think it was because they were trading people for items and some people went to work on the boats. The number of Europeans changed because as more trades happened more people went over to New Zealand to live and trade causing more and more to leave their homes and move to New Zealand.

Eclipse - Science

 The Solar Eclipse

During the day, the moon blocks the sunlight and makes the sun disappears. The light would go as would the sun for a couple of minutes. The Solar Eclipse would happen in the middle of the day. The last one was 1965 and the next one will be in 2028 which will cover the south island.

                      

The Lunar Eclipse

During the night, the earth blocks the moon from the sun. This causes the light that reflects the moon to disappear and as the light goes so does the moon. We would not see the moon during this night. The last Lunar Elipse The next Lunar Eclipse is on the 8-9th of November 2022.       

Passion Project - Music

 

Tāne Māhuta - Social Studies

In social studies, we are learning about the different gods from Greek, Roman, Hindu, and Maori mythology. After we did research about a few of them we got to choose which one we were going to be looking at deeper and I chose to write about Tāne Māhuta. Since we were learning about a few different places mythology, I connected the diety of the gods and made a short description in this poster.

Music Reflection

What did you enjoy last term in Music?
I liked being able to learn to play the piano at my own speed. It s easy to understand and I could ask for help when I needed it.

What skills did you learn?
I learned how to play a couple of parts of songs on the piano. I found out how to somewhat read the music note for the piano.

Did you Perform?
Yes, I performed a mix of One Kiss, No Tears Left To Cry, and Perfect. I was reading them and noticed that when one of the songs ended it landed on the same note that the next song started on. 

Are you taking music next year? If so what instrument do you wish to focus on?
Yes, I signed up for music next year and if I am to get in I will be working on playing the drums. I do lessons and wish to continue working on them during class next year.