The day that I don’t like at all in the week are the Mondays. The day when you feel the most tired,weary and well the day when you just don’t want to come back to school. But one thing that really makes me want to come to school on Mondays, is knowing that we have tech at Tamaki. The fact that we can learn about different things about technology every week is pretty cool right!
Sadly this was the last week that my group would be doing science for the year! Throughout the term we have participated in the coolest experiments ever. But the final experiment was also counted as an examination. This task was one of the easier experiments of the term. All we had to do was measure and record the temperature of the water every minute which is placed in a measuring cup, while being heated up by a Bunsen burner.
Though this sounds pretty easy we still enjoyed measuring and watching the temperature change over time. We still learnt a lot from it and were still into the activity. When we had to leave we were pretty sad that it was the last time we would be in science for the year. The teacher told us about how much he enjoyed teaching and talking to us about how cool science. I AM SERIOUS ABOUT TAKING SCIENCE AS A STUDY WHEN I GO TO COLLEGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Monday, July 4, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
A Scientific Experience!
Yesterday was a great oppurtunity, an oppurtunity to learn lot's of cool and awesome things about SCIENCE!!! Being able to watch people create fire right in front of you is surely fantastic for anyone to experience!!!
On this day Tamaki College were holding a spectacular Science Roadshow. Schools from around the community were able to watch,experience and certainly enjoy! My class were one of the last classes to visit the roadshow. We were seated in the schools auditorium and began to watch. In this session we are talking about temprature. A woman talked to us about how it can change and transform throughout time. Showing us cool experiments such as burning holes through thick pieces of steel and using the oxygen around us to create massive amounts of fire was certainly one of my highlights!
After giving us a cool presentation we were able to check out some cool exhibits and inventions. One of my favourite exhibits that I had a go with was an instrument called the therimin. When playing this instrument you have to use one hand to control the volume and the other hand to control the pitch of the sound. It was fascinatinating to play on and listen to such a wonderful instrument. Another one of the exhibit that I tried out was the metal detector. In this exhibit you were able to put a few metal spoons into a big sand pit and you were able to search for them with your metal detector. I had lots of fun while doing that activity as was enjoyable enough to be on the "Highlight List"!!!
After looking around and exploring some cool exhibits the presenters called us back in for another explanation.They told us about how amazing our body is. They told us about us humans sense of smell, our eye vision and how our ears work. One amazing fact that from the 2nd presentation was that our eyes actually pick the the images that we see up side down and our brain flips it back the right way up!
Being part of that experience was that experience made it one of the coolest experience made it one of the coolest experiences that I have had. will certainly consider taking science when I get to college!!!
On this day Tamaki College were holding a spectacular Science Roadshow. Schools from around the community were able to watch,experience and certainly enjoy! My class were one of the last classes to visit the roadshow. We were seated in the schools auditorium and began to watch. In this session we are talking about temprature. A woman talked to us about how it can change and transform throughout time. Showing us cool experiments such as burning holes through thick pieces of steel and using the oxygen around us to create massive amounts of fire was certainly one of my highlights!
After giving us a cool presentation we were able to check out some cool exhibits and inventions. One of my favourite exhibits that I had a go with was an instrument called the therimin. When playing this instrument you have to use one hand to control the volume and the other hand to control the pitch of the sound. It was fascinatinating to play on and listen to such a wonderful instrument. Another one of the exhibit that I tried out was the metal detector. In this exhibit you were able to put a few metal spoons into a big sand pit and you were able to search for them with your metal detector. I had lots of fun while doing that activity as was enjoyable enough to be on the "Highlight List"!!!
After looking around and exploring some cool exhibits the presenters called us back in for another explanation.They told us about how amazing our body is. They told us about us humans sense of smell, our eye vision and how our ears work. One amazing fact that from the 2nd presentation was that our eyes actually pick the the images that we see up side down and our brain flips it back the right way up!
Being part of that experience was that experience made it one of the coolest experience made it one of the coolest experiences that I have had. will certainly consider taking science when I get to college!!!
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tech Has Started
On the second week of school (just yesterday) we went to our very first tech lesson for the year. As some of you may know we walk down to Tamaki College for our Tech lessons and come back to school at interval. When the first week of school was almost done I learnt that I was taken Electronics as my first tech subject!!! I was excited yet wondering what electronics would be like............
The next week I was ready and eager to learn new things, we walked down to Tamaki and met the teachers, my teachers name was........HE DIDN'T TELL US HIS NAME!!!!!!! Most of the time he told us about what exciting things that we could create throughout the term, sound sensor lights,automatic window closers,fan hats, lazer alarms and way more awesome things.
Next week we are going to start our actual projects and I am looking to really get into it next week. TAMAKI TECH IS AWESOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!a
On the second week of school (just yesterday) we went to our very first tech lesson for the year. As some of you may know we walk down to Tamaki College for our Tech lessons and come back to school just in time for morning tea. Electronics is one awesome option for Tech at Tamaki. Looking forward to our next lesson. Maybe I'll get to make a transformer!
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