The Great Marble Challenge Take 2

 Welcome back to my blogging, today I am going to be talking about The Great Marble Challenge Take 2. On the last day of school we redid the marble challenge to give everyone another chance to beat their last score. We were allowed to modify our last ramp or we could build a whole new ramp for the challenge. 

My group decided not to build a new ramp but instead we modified our old ramp to give it another chance. We changed what we were holding the ramp with and we changed it to a small box. It was hard to try and modify it in a small amount of time but in the end we were still able to complete modifying the ramp in time for the marble challenge take 2. When it was challenge day I was really worried because we thought we lost are marble but luckily it was still in my chromebook case. When it was are turn to have are marble ramp tested I wasn’t even able to watch because I felt like I had butterflies in my stomach. My team and I got 39 point last time we only got 11 points so to me it was a really good improvement. 

Have you ever been in a marble challenge before?

Mosaic QR Code Art

 In Te Ngahere we have been making QR codes to put on our classroom window for people to look at and find out more about our Ngahere. We did this to show and teach other people about our Ngahere and how to protect our Ngahere.  We are also putting our mosaic art on the black front wall in our class.

It has been hard for me to do this mosaic art but I am still trying to finish my Gold Striped Gecko because I have a lot of faith in myself. I found making the video for my QR code easy because I was not making little shapes into mosaic art when I made my video. My favorite part about making this is being able to teach others about our Ngahere.  

Have you ever seen a QR code before?

The Great Mystery Of The Marble Challenge!

 For the last few weeks we have been learning to construct  marble ramps. We had to  invent ramps with the materials you could find.  We were aloud to choose groups of 2-3.  We are trying  to get the marble 110cm or 1.1cm away from the end of the ramp. The reason we did this is because we are having a science fair project coming up soon so we used the challenge to prepare for it.

When it was competition day we were not allowed to touch our ramps in fact we weren't allowed to use are own ramp we had to use other peoples ramps. We also had to create clear instructions for the people who is using your ramp.  One of our variables we changed to our ramp way the height of the ramp so it didn’t go to fast or too slow.  It was hard to make the ramp because we thought of too many designs and couldn’t choose which one to pick. one The easy part was thinking of designs because we had already thought of a lot.

Have you ever done a marble challenge ? 

Bay Of Islands Science Roadshow.

 On the 21st of June Te Ngahere  went to Bay of Islands College to go to the science roadshow. Once we got there they put on a quick show to explain some of the things we would see there. I learnt that gases cover more area that fluids do and I thought that liquid covered more area but I was wrong.

My favourite exhibit would have to be the honey tasting one because they got you to see which honey it was, so I had to use my taste buds to figure it out. The thing that I learnt from the science roadshow  that will help me with my science fair project is that I will only choose one variable to change at a time so I know if it helped or didn't help. I really enjoyed experimenting all the different exhibits because they were all so unique and very different.

Have you ever been to a science roadshow? If you have what was your favorite exhibit?

Facts About The Scientific Methods

 For the last few weeks we have been learning about the scientific method. 

We did this  to understand a new process and apply this new learning to other contexts.

The scientific method is when you follow scientific steps which are 1 ask a question,  2  gather your information, 3 make a hypothesis, 4 experiment your hypothesis, 5 analyze your test results, 6 modify your answer, 7 come up with a conclusion and  8 retest your results. 

This will help me in the future when we do a science fair because  it will be easier because I know the scientific method. I think That I made the infographic really well because I added matching images.

I think that I could try make my infographic a little bit more detailed. 

Have you heard of the scientific method? 

Mosaic Art That Will Blow Your Mind

 Kia ora this week in Te Ngahere we learnt how to make mosaic art. 

To make mosaic art you need to find a image then insert the image to a google drawing. The next step is to fill the image with little shapes the last thing you need to do is color that shapes. 

We did this because when we have our QR codes for the classroom we wanted to have matching mosaic art to be next to it. 

The thing I did well was creating little and some big sized shapes in my mosaic art using the polyline tool. The thing I could do better is to not make as big shapes as I did because I made very big shapes and you are suppose to use medium or small shapes. 

  The hard thing was deciding what I should do for my mosaic art because I kept changing my mosaic art . The easy thing was to make the shapes. Have you ever made mosaic art before?

I haven't finished but this is what I have done so far

The Most Interesting Animation I have Ever Seen

 for the past few weeks in Te Ngahere we have been learning to enhance our writing to create a powerful image  and emotional response for our audience.

We watched a short animation called Wings then we had to write a scene from the story. I used thesaurus to make my word and phrases more powerful and emotional so that people would get images in their minds  and feel emotional when they read my writing. 

I found it hard to make a story because I didn’t know how to start the story but in the end I still did it. The easy thing was to make my story better when I got the feedback because they told me how I could Improve my writing. 

These are the language features I added in my writing verbs, concrete nouns, abstract nouns and vivid adjectives.

Have you watched the animation wing? 

Here Is the link to the video we watched.