Science Huramanu

 Science Badges:

  

'Conservation'  

Climate Science

Global Warming

Recycling

Renewable Energy

Fossil Fuels

Ecology

Our Planet

Water

Plants

15 Points are needed to get a badge

A high standard of work.

All experiments are written up ( Aim, Materials, Steps, Conclusion)

Two photos of your experiment

6 sentences at least for a conclusion

Science will be twice per week.

Lesson 1: This will be an Experiment that involves blogging. You will be expected to open a new post, copy Mr Palmer's blog and paste it on your new post.

Lesson 2: This will be an Investigation that relates to the topic from Lesson 1. It will be own choice and displayed in a way that you prefer. For example - PowerPoint, Doc, etc

Expectations:

1 blog must be completed per Hurumanu lesson.

A completed blog must have the four headings ( Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusion), correct writing and punctuation under each heading and be published. No post, no points.

2 images of the experiment / investigation on the blog.

Using the Scientific method of investigation:

Aim: What the experiment / investigation is about.

Method: Instructions on how the experiment / investigation is carried out. This includes the equipment.

Findings: What have we learnt or found out from our experiment / investigation. This is called Data, Information or Facts. It is displayed in a chart, table or picture.

Conclusion:  Two Huramanu science goals:

To always add photos to my posts

To make sure that I'm in my readers shoes and make sure they understand what I have wrote

to make sure that I have great punctuation

to try and get a science badge

THE BIG PICTURE

What animals keep our jackets warm?

What animal makes our boots waterproof?

Where does the water in our rivers come from?

Why do we need healthy rivers?

What are some of the good things about mosquitoes?

Why are bees dying?

What do bugs do to our leaves

How much dung would we be in if there were no dung de- composers?

Who runs this planet?

GROUP ACTIVITY; 

Groups of 3 or 4 students.

Need A3 copy paper.

THE ICECAPS HAVE MELTED. MOST OF THE LAND IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN FLOODED AND YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE ON A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF KNOW WHERE. YOUR BOAT IS SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A STORM AND YOU BECOME SHIPWRECKED ON A SMALL ISLAND. YOU ARE ONLY ALOUD TO SELECT 20 ITEMS FOR YOUR GROUP. A SECOND BOAT IS TRAVELLING NEAR YOU BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU FOR 1 MONTH SO YOU NEED TO GATHER ENOUGH SUPPLIES TO LAST FOR A MONTH.

In your group you need to:

1. Make a list of the 10 things you are going to collect.

2. Draw a map of the island.

4. Draw and label the activities you will be involved with.

Renewable energy sites ( wind, solar, hydro, )

Living / shelter

Growing food

Write 3 sentences about how your group is going to live for the next month.

When you are drawing your map you need to list 4 places you can have renewable energy sites.

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

Definition of Fossil Fuels:
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 fossilised 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.   Gas
2.   Oil
3. Coal

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined?
How are they mined?

1. Coal
2. Oil
3. Natural Gas
4. Methane 

Activity

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog.

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

Drama

For drama we made puppets and we had to make a video for it.My puppet was a dog and the meaning of it is to help people eat healthy. One of my main struggles as i was making my puppet was that i had to make it look like a dog and much as I could.

For Drama we made some puppets and it was so fun.

We all got to make our own puppet show apart from some people because they were away.

We all got to pear up with people and make a plan on what we were going to do.

For my puppet show I did something about not eating to much chocolate.

What I liked about the puppet show was that I was able to watch other peoples puppet shows and they were awesome.

What do you think of my blog post and what do you think of my puppet show I really hope you enjoyed my post.

if you don't know what to put in a comment then here is some help.

Thoughtful- give a compliment about the post

Helpful-  Tell me something i could work on 

Positive- say hi and say what you liked the most

Rubbish Bins

Aim: To learn practical ways of recycling so that we can make our world a better place.

The Zero Waste Climate Solution movie

How can we prevent climate change though recycling these products?

Plastics: the more you burn plastic the more gases go into the air and contaminate the air witch makes the world more hot.
Cycling or walking:when you are in a car driving somewhere you are releasing CO2 into the air witch contaminates the air.
Paper: the more you waste paper the more wood and trees leave the ground and soon we won't have any trees witch means we won't have any oxygen to breath witch will make humans go extinct.
Steel: as we burn steal and all hard wear we use for cars we release carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide into the air.

What is Zero Waste?
one of the quickest cheapest ways of community can immediately reduce climate impact.
What can we do on the planet?

What do we need to recycle?

paper

plastic

What does recycling do?

reuse something like a milk bottle you can reuse it and make something else with it. 

How much of our rubbish is food scraps?

What does soil do to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?

it keeps the CO2 in the ground witch means less carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide in the air.

What do we need to do?

What is a carbon footprint?

How can you make your Carbon Footprint smaller?

ENERGY SAVING TIPS FILM

Name 4 of the tips.

1.   don't use to much electricity by turning off my light when I leave a room.
2.   don't use my microwave all day
3.  don't always charge my phone and Chromebook and to stop that from happening is by not always going on my technology. 
4. 
   

AT WHAT RATES DO DIFFERENT ITEMS DECOMPOSE?

MY INVESTIGATION.

Name: Glass

1. How long do they take to decompose? 500 - 1 million years
2. What resource / fossil fuel are they made from?the energy consumed in glass manufacturing industry comes from natural gas used to heat furnaces to melt raw materials to form glass.
3. How is this resource recycled?Glass is taken from the bin and taken to a glass treatment plant. The glass is sorted by colour and washed to remove any impurities.
4. How does this object contribute to climate change?That's because the glass walls of the greenhouse trap the Sun's heat.

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Water Cycle

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE WATER CYCLE AND HOW CLIMATE CHANGE IS AFFECTING IT.

Definition:

Scientific words:

• Evaporation. When water is heated by radiant energy it turns into water vapour.
• Transpiration. Evaporation from plants.
• Condensation. When water vapour cools, molecules join together and form clouds.
• Precipitation. When clouds get heavy the waters falls as rain, sleet, hail, or snow.
• Acidification: the action or process of making or becoming acidic.

We will be conducting an experiment that looks at the different ways that climate change is affecting the water cycle.

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid	Desert Water Cycle Bag 3
Does it cycle?	Yes It Does Cycle	Yes It Does Cycle	Yes It Does Cycle
Amount of Water	2 Small Drips	2 Small Drips	2 Small Drips
Acidity	No Acidity	Yes Acidity	No Acidity

Other comments:

1. Water cycle bag 1 did cycle not as planed but good enough.

2. Water cycle bag 2 did cycle just like bag 1 didn't go as planed but was good enough.

3. Water cycle bag 3 did cycle again not as planed but good enough.

4. Water cycle bag 1 had small drips of water just about 2 drips.

5. Water cycle bag 2 had small drips of water just about 2 drips.

6.Water cycle bag 3 had small drips of water just about 2 drips.

7. Water cycle bag 1 had no Acidity.

8. Water cycle bag 2 had some Acidity.

9. Water cycle bag 3 had no Acidity.

Conclusion:

1. Water cycle bag 1 , 2 and 3 all cycled well not the best but good enough.

2. Water cycle bag 1 , 2 and 3 all had just around 2 drips of water in each bag.

3. Water cycle bag 1 and 3 had no acidity but water cycle bag 2 had Acidity.

For Science we had 10 hexagons and had to put them together with what ever we think link up to each other just like this picture. here are some examples.

condensation links up to: storms , flooding , hurricanes

evaporation links up to: water vapour , Oceans , carbon Dioxide , fresh water

this is a photo of what my group and I made with the hexagons. 

here is a link of what you can do with the hexagons activity: SOLO Hexagons Activity

Draw a labelled diagram of the Water Cycle

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation is rain but in a scientific wording
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation is where liquid turns into gas
5. Carbon Dioxide is gas that comes from cars and factory's
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

Water cycle words:

1. Precipitation
2. Hurricanes
3. Storms
4. Evaporation
5. Carbon Dioxide
6. Water
7. Oceans
8. Water vapour
9. Freshwater
10. Flooding

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Ocean Acidification refers to reduce levels of pH in the ocean which makes the sea more acidic. Roughly 30% of human made CO2 is absorbed by the oceans waters.

Picture:

Diagram of how Acidification affects the water cycle

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

With forests The water cycle can work a lot better because the trees soak up all the water that the clouds produce and then when the sun is making everything hot and the water vapour is evaporating the water from the trees and send the water to the clouds because the clouds need the moisture and than the clouds make it rain because of an overload of water.

Picture:

Diagram of how deforestation affects the water cycle

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

When it comes to ice melting in your drink that doesn't really matter but when it comes to ice melting in Antarctica and the Arctic it's a way bigger problem some people may think "oh its just ice and plus it's cold over there it can reform" well your wrong if the ice melts then the sea levels rise and soon if we don't look after our world soon it will just be water that's all because the sea levels have risen.

Picture:

Diagram of how ice cap melting affects the water cycle

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

The reason why Water vapour is helping the water cycle is because without the water vapour the plants and trees won't get any water because with the water vapour it helps the clouds make it rain witch gives plants and trees water.

Picture:

Diagram of how the water vapour affects the water cycle

Solo Taxonomy

1. Prestructural , 

- no Organisation 

- un Connected Ideas

2. Unistructural

one idea

- shows connected ideas

3. Multi Structural

- 2 or 3 ideas

- some connentedness 

4. Relational

- make links to other concepts

5. abstract

- bringing your ideas into other concepts

Charles-worth Reserve day

On Wednesday Al , Wh and Ts went to a place called Charles worth Reserve it was so muddy that some people slipped on the mud.

The reason why we did this was because we need more trees in the world because they provide oxygen for us to breath it also gets rid of carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide.

How we got there was by one bus and two vans.

What I liked about yesterday was that I was also able to spend some time with friends and we had so much fun.We went there on the 3rd of July witch was not too hot but not too cold.

Our aim for yesterday was to plant the first batch of plants but we planted a lot more we planted just around 170 plants in the time we had.

They were going to put a high school for all the rich people that lived on the hills but instead they put ponds and made it into a wetland for plants and also they planted a whole head of plants that are now just around 600 years old with is a long time. In wet lands when there is salt water in the ponds and there are weeds that are killing the plants the salt water reacts like a weed killer and kills the weeds and lets the plants grow strong and healthy.  

Here are some photos of what it was like. 

These two photos are ones the teachers took when we got there.

Us getting our shovels and gloves.

This is my partner Nici and I Nici was the one in black.

Here's a photo of me planting my plant.

All done planting looks good.

These were some photos of Andrew the leader teaching us how to get the plant out of the bin it was in and also teaching us how to plant it.

I had so much fun that day and I wish I could repeat it. It was the best.

If you do't know what to put in a comment here is some help.