During Robotics we have been working on apps- creating them from instructions, and inventing our own. Below is an example of an app I created from instructions called the ‘Chillout App’ which plays different soothing noises depending on what button you click. We had to create the physical part of the app- the bit you would see when published- and then write the code which would bring our creation to life. I have taken screen shots to illustrate the different components of this app, which can be seen bellow:

This is the work place where you create the app. You have multiple functions to choose from that help bring your app to life. The image on the far left illustrates what the app looks like on your phone. 

When you go to run your program you have to chose to connect chromebook which brings up this screen:

You select MIT AI2 Companion and click OPEN.

Finally you should see a progress bar appear and then you can open your MIT companion to run your program.

Please bare in mind that it will not work unless you have downloaded the MIT AI2 Companion onto your chromebook. 

Third icon to the right.

 I just watched a video about the Ruperts drop – A very interesting piece of shaped glass, thats shaped like a tadpole, that is nearly indestructble on the head end. However, if you so much as chip the tail end, it will explode in to millions of pieces. 

I found out how this works however, the way it holds itself together is that when it’s made, is that it gets taken out of the furnace on the stick, then the glass maker lets some of it drop in the water. As it falls, it still lets a small string of it stick to the remaining blob of glass. It hits the water. The string (Still molten) disconnects to the blob of glass on the stick. The string falls into the water. The whole thing cools. 

Now, when we take it out, it looks like this. 

The reason it dosn’t shatter when hit with a hammer on the large end, is because the outside cools first when it hits the water. The inside is still hot. As the inside cools, the outside has already put itself into place. 

Now, when something heats, it expands. Likewise, when it cools, it contracts. The inside contracts as it cools. This means that it puts pressure on the outside, as to fill the space made by the contracting glass, it also has to contract. It doesn’t break. It compresses. Now we have a very strong piece of glass. 

And I mean VERY strong.

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However, the string is obviously very fragile, since it’s long, thin, and made of a fragile material. It’s still part of the framework holding together the ruperts drop, however. It’s all stable, until the string breaks. 

Once it breaks, that part is unstable, as all the potential energy used to hold together the drop is now gonna be released. That part now starts losing the connections between the glass particles. Imagine it’s like dominos falling. 

As one bit breaks, the bit just up it also starts “exploding”. This keeps going until it reaches the major part of the droplet. Since all of it has to be pulling in, now that the end of it has broken, it can’t hold itself together.

It is now a pile of shattered glass.

Rather interesting, isn’t it?

Before the beginning of Jump Start my class, 10R, were tasked with creating a short clip on the topic of one of the areas of our Genetic subject that we had learned about. I chose the topic of Chromosomes. This is my video below.

My Recording 

 Reflections

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1.  What role did you take on

We all shared the roles equally and all took part in every part of the cooking tasks and i would like to work with this group again 

2.  What new skill/s did you learn?

           Together as a team of three we learnt teamwork and we also     taught Maria how to bake for one of her first times. 

3.  Was the recipe easy to follow?

Yes we did add some of our own things like food colouring and marbling it on the top and it turned out the way we wanted we also we put icing sugar on the top 

4.  Did the finished product look and taste the way you expected it to? Yes it was really nice and wasn’t too heavy to eat by the end we cutted it into equal pieces it was lite and fluffy and would gladly make it again 

5.  Improvements 

What can you do next time to improve your end result? Next time we could get some normal cream so it could have formed properly and we wouldnt of had to whip it more then one time  

Comments – Did your group work together well?  

Yes our group worked very well to

Hygiene 

1.  Three steps you took to make sure you kept your cooking hygienic?   **Or should have taken. 

2. Washed hands 

3. Keep chromebooks and bags away from the station.

4. Washed dishes.

Kia ora, Today I took the role of participating in cooking class. I would give myself a 10/10 for participation, effort and teamwork. Today I learned that we should plan all of our recipes the day before cooking simply to stay organized and because of that very reason today we didn’t have most ingredients but a few for an amount of two recipes done. Our challenge was to find 3 cake recipes, 2 sponge recipes and 2 scone recipes. On top of that we had to find the method and equipment used for each recipe. I worked on my teamwork and communication in the process of cooking. I’m the type of person that prefers to work alone and still get the job done but this time it required  two or more people in a group. I tried picking easy recipes to follow because I wanted to go straight to cooking but if I did that it would count as not listening and I’ve surpassed that stage in life. The recipes that we picked were basic and simple recipes we could even make at home. The finish product in my opinion was really nice. All the flavours mixed in perfectly with the icing but I know I could have spiced up the way I presented it. Me and Khiara made sure to keep our station tidy in order too whoever wasn’t doing anything between the two of us would go do the dishes and who was busy was to wipe down everything once they finished and dry the dishes. It was a pretty smart way in helping eachother out and a good way to make our teamwork a more dependable one. Next time I would like to be more organized hopefully and try spice up the way I present each dish. So now one of the recipes I would like to show you is the chocolate cake in a bowl with ingredients and the before and after results of the mixture.

Ingridents

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup granulated sugar

1/4 cup unsweetened cocoa powder

1 teaspoon baking soda

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 teaspoon salt

1 large egg

1/2 cup vegetable oil

1/2 cup buttermilk see note

1/2 cup hot water.

 

Economy 

Economy, Economy is the state of a region or country offering goods and services of good value for money. Economy is an area of the production and trade, as well as consumption and distribution of goods and services.

Trade 

Trading can be defined in many terms, Trade is an act of selling items in exchange for another. So in other words giving someone something for something of theirs.

Globalisation

Globalisation is everything sold around the world, everything that is bought and sold whether it’s online or in person. Globalisation is the process of markets across the world becoming more integrated thanks to the exchange of goods and services. 

 

We all have been researching different exported products. We all had to find where it was made and where it was exported to. I decided to research alcohol. It is a very popular product worldwide and is sold everywhere. This product first existed in early Egypt and has expanded incredibly from there. 

 Economy 

Is the state of a country or region in the terms of the production and consumption of goods and services and the supply of money.

It is a careful management of available resources and offering good value for money.

Trade 

This is the action of buying and selling goods and services.

Trade is known as exchanging something for something else or to give and receive.

Trading doesn’t only benefit you but it benefits the other person you are trading with.

An example of trade would have to be 

Globalisation

the process by which businesses or other organisation develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

 

Economy – economy is a system of marketing and trading valued goods. Economy  can also be used to help people in need. Economy is why us ( people with jobs ) have to pay taxes. 

Trade – My understanding of trading is making decisions based on what the other person brings to the table. Making a trade will not only benefit you but the other person as well because if they trade something of the same value it will then benefit you and the other person. 

Globalisation – From what i have learnt in social studies globalisation is a product that is known and has been shared around the world. For example pencils , pencils are made from different materials that come from different places in the world. Pencils are also in every single country in the world which is why it is a global product.

What we have been learning is what economy , Trade and globalisation are. They are all related to one topic called globalisation. One of the brands that I did was NZAS. NZAS is also known as the new zealand aluminum smelters make the nz export aluminium. This product was made in 1971 and is located in tiwai in the south island. This company makes aluminum and aluminum is great for storing food and keeping the hot air in if the food is freshly cooked like chicken for example but allumion is 100 percent not edible.

My blog – Being globally minded

1. Write your understanding of the key concepts for this topic:

Economy the state of a country or region in terms of the production and wasting of valuables, services and  money.

Trade The action of buying and selling good things and services.

Globalisation The process by which businesses or when other clubs develop international influence or start operating on an international scale.

2. Add a report on the NZ Export Product you researched this term 

I searched The value of the global meat parts like legs ribs and more the meat company was about to reach the value at eight hundred and thirty 8 point 3 billion U.S. dollars in 2020, and was predicted to increase to about one thousand one hundred and fifty seven point six billion U.S. dollars$$$$$$ by 2025.An English settler and fur trader William Pynchon was the founder of Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1662, he became the New World’s first meatpacker when he began packing large quantities of salted pork into barrels for export to the West Indies.The first meatpacking business began in 1692, when John Pynchon of Springfield, Massachusetts, began buying hogs and shipping the meat to Boston for the growing city population and the provisioning of ships. In the United States and some other countries, the facility where the meat packing is done is called the slaughterhouse, packinghouse or a meat packing plant; in New Zealand, where most of the products are exported, it is called a freezing works. A slaughterhouse is a place where animals are killed for food. The meat industry provides Beef cattle production that is spread throughout NZ, and carried out under lots of conditions. Mutton and lamb production is often undertaken with wool products. While red meat is a top farming export earner, there is growing interest in other meat products such as pork, deer, and goat since it is not too tough and hard to chew.

Some of the highest points I had this year were the holidays because i didn’t need to go to school for two whole weeks 

 Some of the highest points I had this year were when I didn’t blink for an hour straight

Some of the lowest points were when covid hit kaikohe

My  reflection of the year 2021  

 Some of the highlights I had this year was meeting Waereti and Aysha and not having my little brothers at the same school as me. Also meeting new people and all my new teachers and passing all my science tests. 

Some of the lowest points were when Waereti Aysha and I got on report for bunking our class disrespecting our teachers and coming to class late.

My goal for year 10 is to have a good attitude towards all my teachers turn up to all my classes early and having a Chromebook.

 In social studies we started off with learning about the Treaty Of Waitangi then went on to studying About how and why people have/had top migrate. After that going on to term 3 we learnt about different cultures and how they are different from ours and lastly we are being Globally minded and looking into all the ways our world and people are affected by globalization.

I learnt lots of new things relating to all units and had lots of fun especially going on the trip to Waitangi I’m Also looking forward to what next year bring me in 10 Social Studies

 

My friends and I made a slide for a road trip we would like to go on.

 my map

My blog – Being globally minded

 My blog – Being globally minded

1. Write your understanding of the key concepts for this topic:

Economy :The Economy is a large  organisation that helps provide produces around the world.

Trade:Trading is buying and selling goods to each other. 

Globalisation:Globalisation is when businesses or other organizations develop international influence.

2. Add a report on the NZ Export Product you researched this term 

The export product that I researched about was a ps4. The company that made the console was called sony.Sony made over $40 billion just by selling the ps4.While their sales are worth up to $70 billion.Sony’s head headquarters is in tokyo japan and they export their products all around the world.the people who made sony are Akio Morita and Masaru Ibuka which both of them came from japan.It took sony 4 years to release the ps4 after they released the ps3.The PS4 release date was on November 15 2013 in north america.Then in November 29, 2013 the ps4 was released in Europe then South America and Australia and then it was released in   February 22, 2014 for Japan.