All About Attributing Images

Hi Everybody lately in Te Ngahere we have been learning about attributing images.  Some images on Google are not licensed so if you use them you could be charged a lot of money for copywriting there images.  Something I learned  in this task is how you attribute images on Google.  This is how you do it.  First you search up what you want and then go onto images.  Next you click on tools.  Then you click on usage rights and then creative commons licences.  All the pictures are licensed after you click on the  creative commons licence.  I could use this learning in the future to help me with finding images that licenced are for my work.  

What I found hard about this challenge was finding the license for each of the images.  I had to search each page very hard before I found the licence.  The easy thing about this challenge was searching the images because there are many things you can search about.

Did you know how to attribute images?   

 

The Wackiest Wednesday In The World

 Hi everybody, on Wednesday the 17th of November we had a Wacky Wednesday.  Our challenge was to dress up in the wackiest possible way. I instantly decided I wanted to dress up as a lady.  I had the perfect plan.  I would borrow one of Mum’s dresses her floppy sun hat and a pair of sunglasses.  When the day came that is exactly what I did.  I like this day because everybody is so creative and imaginative and nobody can tease them.  The person that I think is best dressed is Hudson.  He is wearing a dress that has Rapunzel on it except he replaced the  Rapunzel with Rehudzel.  He looks hilarious.

Have you ever had a wacky Wednesday? 

PAL Fun Day Extravaganza

 Hi, It is term 4 the last term and the best one for learning.  On the last day of school last term we had a PAL fun day.  A PAL day is a day that is lead by students.  PAL stands for Physical Activity Leader.  Certain students sign up to do activities.  After that they lead groups in their activity, telling them how to do it and helping them get through them.  What I enjoyed most about PAL day is that we had a range of different activities to do.  All of them which I had a lot of fun in.  My favorite activity was one where you have an inflatable dart board and you throw a beanbag at it to get points.  A challenge I experienced was when I had to throw a ball in a bucket from a big distance.  I overcame this challenge by keeping on trying until I could get it in every time.  If we did it again I would want to have longer periods for the activities.

Have you ever had a big fun school event at your school? 

Rubik’s Cube, A Simple Guide

 Hi everybody, in lockdown we had to do a passion project.  For this we had to find out something we are passionate about.  We had a clear out of my room and I found my Rubik’s cube.  Earlier  in my life I had tried to solve it but failed.  I was bored in lockdown so I decided to give it another go.  We found an algorithm for it on the internet and tried to follow the instructions.  After fiddling around with it for 2 days we gave up on the algorithm.  We searched some more and found a video on Youtube.  This video showed me a step by step guide on how to solve a Rubik’s cube.  It was a very descriptive video.  After another day I had solved it.  I watched the video again and wrote down some instructions.  I printed out the instructions and I used them over and over again.  After awhile I managed to memorise the whole thing.  Now that I could solve the Rubik’s cube  without instructions I managed to get my time down to 1 minute 11 seconds.   I’m happy about my success.

The hard thing about solving the Rubik’s cube is the patience that goes into solving it the first time.  My favorite thing about it is the feeling when you solve it.

Have you ever come close or solved a Rubik’s cube before?  

The Hardest Thing Ever

Hi everybody, for the past few weeks we have been working on our Science Fair Projects.  It was really hard but we had a great learning experience.  Some of the things I learnt is to make my project happen were; The type of variables we used (independent variables, dependant variables and controlled variables), the hypothesis, the results of our science project (the winner was the paper towel Handee Ultra) and using the scientific method.  There were also a lot of things that were really hard as well.  Some of these things were; that other members of our group were away, that our plan changed a lot so we didn’t really know what we were doing, that we were learning things at such an alarming rate that our brains were swarmed with information and that we had a deadline that put us under a lot of pressure.  Even though we had a few trip up’s we eventually got our Science Fair board up and ready to present. 

 If we could do this again I would change the member of my group because he distracted me a lot and when we were testing we could of used a bigger variety of paper towel brands.  In this project I had to use my hoe of Kaha (being strong) and Tu Maia (resilience) to help me not give up on what I was doing.  For this project I found everything a bit confusing and not very easy.

Have you ever done a Science Fair Project?

 

The Greatest Marble Challenge Ever

 Hi, for the past few weeks we have been doing something called the great marble challenge.  We had to build a structure that would make a marble go 1.1m.  I was in a group with George and Mark.  We were quite unsure about what to do so we decided to brainstorm for a long time.  Eventually we came up with what to do.  We decided to use my chromebook and then stack a tube on top of it.  Finally we decided to get some cardboard and attach it underneath the tube.  We were doing this to learn how to follow the scientific method and to help us prepare for science fair that is coming up soon.

When we had finished building we moved onto testing.  We rolled the marble down for the first time and it was very off our goal.  We modified it and added Mark’s chromebook underneath as well.  From there on we tested and modified.  Most of them were changing the angle up and down.  When we finally thought we had got it right we wrote down our instructions.  The next day was competition day and we were happy with what we had done until it got to our turn.  Someone else from another group had to read our instructions and then test our marble run.  When he read out our instructions we realized something was terribly wrong.  Only half of our instructions were on the paper.  We were dumbfounded because we only got nine points out of 50.  The hardest part about this project was coming up with the design and building it because we needed to measure how long we wanted our supplies.  The easiest bit was writing the instructions because we had already tested how to do it so many times.

Have you ever made your own marble run?

Check Out What Happened When We Went To The Science Roadshow

Hi,  Te Ngahere went on a bus to Bay Of Islands College for the Science Roadshow.  There was a show that taught us about gases.  From this show I learnt that if you fill a balloon with hydrogen and then give it oxygen the ballon exploded.  After that we went off and could interact with the science projects.  One of my favorite exhibits was on a solar powered car.  You had to turn on light and spin the board. When you did the car moved away from the light.  This would be great in future because as long as the sun is shining your car will zoom forward non stop and not as much energy will be wasted.  In the other show we learnt that you only change one variable at a time otherwise you do not know what made it better.  This information will hopefully help me in my science project that we are going to do soon because I may change to much at once and not know what is helping and what isn’t.

Have you done a science project before?