Marble Challenge

In Te Ngahere last term, we did the marble challenge. We are doing to this to help us to prepare for the science fair this term. My group decided not to build a new ramp but instead we modified our old ramp to give it another chance.What my group change is how steep our ramp is so the marble doesn't go as fast as last time. The reason why we changed how steep the ramp was is because the marble went to fast. I think improved on my ramp because my ramp got more points than the first time Te Ngahere did the marble challenge. What I enjoy the most is making the ramp because I like to build and make stuff.

Have you ever made a marble ramp?

Dot Plot Graph

Latey in Te Ngahere my class has been learning about “dot plots”. What I learnt is how to make a dot plot graph. I also learnt how to do was analyze and also create a dot plot. Something that was tricky for me to do in this activity was explain what I saw or found in the two classes. The thing that what I got stuck was when Room 1 throwed between 14 and 19 but the thing that I got stuck on was I thought that all the balls were landing between 10 and 20. We had to describe how the data from room 1’s dot plot was gathered. 

Have you ever done a dot plot graph before?

This link is the DLO me and Calais made

Science Fair

Latey in Te Ngahere our class has been doing science experiments. My groups topic is “Can you keep a flower alive longer by putting different liquid to feed the flower. I learned what a conclusion and a discussion means I also learned what controlled variables, independent variable means. What I found difficult is writing out the method and writing out the evaluation.What I would do different is picking an easy topic because the first time my group did the experiment we had to restart because the flowers stem was to long so we had to get new flowers and get more liquids. Which hoe I was using is Manaakitanga because I needed to help me and my group.

Have you ever made a science experiment?

Science Roadshow

Te Ngahere  went on this amazing trip to the Bay of Islands College for a Science Roadshow. I learnt that in science it’s not just about experimenting it’s about having a hypothesis and what  hypothesis mean is  to guess something. My most favourite exhibit at the Science Roadshow was the different types of honey tasting because one it was delicious and the learning part was figuring out what makes some of the honeys taste different. When I went to the Science Roadshow it gave me some ideas for what I should do with my project, the ideas it gave me was that I should maybe have something like the honey tasting but instead of honey maybe I could do something else. I think the reason why we went to the Science Roadshow was to learn more about science, and obviously to give us some ideas for what to do with our project. Have you been to a Science Roadshow before?

Great Marble Challenge

Last week in Te Ngahere we did the marble challenge. We had to create a marble ramp using whatever materials we could find in the classroom or from home. We got to choose groups of 2 or 3. The objective was for the marble to stop exactly 110cm and it starts  from the end of your ramp. The main reason we are doing this is because we have a Science fair  coming up soon so we are using this challenge to prepare for that. On the last day we are not allowed to touch our ramps and someone else will. We also had to create specific instructions on how to operate our ramp. Have you done the marble challenge before?

    

      

                                                                 

Learning About The Scientific Method:

Latey in Te Ngahere we have been learning about the Scientific Method. The reason why we have been learning about the Scientific Method was because we were going to make a infographic about the Scientific Method. I really enjoyed this because I might use the Scientific Method in the future because I might want to do science in high school. What I think I did well was getting pictures that matched the steps in the Scientific Method. What I could do better is write more to add more detail about the pictures. Do you know what the the Scientific Method is? 

      

      

Mosaic art

 Kia ora in Te Ngahere we have been doing art. The class has been doing mosaic art, we had to get a Google drawing or Google slides and put any picture of anything on it. Then we used the polyline tool on the toolbar at the top to make shapes between each gaps and try create your own picture. We were learning this because we have made videos to put around the school explaining what animals and trees and plants and insects are good in our Ngahere. We made these for qr codes, so then we can just put the video on the picture. What I did was a Nissan skyline gtr r34. What I think that I did well was making the brake lights. What I could do better is making the wheels look better.

Have you made Mosaic art before?