Kia ora

This week we had the wonderful opportunity to do civil engineering again. The activity we did was to find a way to transfer water efficiently from one place to another with 2 buckets, with one bucket having a hole in it. Our strategy was to cover the hole with our hands then use the other bucket with no hole in it to cover the bottom to ensure we wont lose one drop.

Our next activity was to find a way to prevent islands from sinking due to rising waters. My team’s idea was to make a “floating island” which was supposed to be powered by 2 buttons but I thought to myself wouldn’t building a dam be easier and cost effective? Because powering a propeller about 26 kilometres tall would drain up energy and potentially corrode under water. Everyone has their own ideas and I respect that what would you do?

Kia Ora!!

In this week’s engineering, the first thing we did was environmental engineering. The first task in environmental engineering was to carry water across the court in a bucket with a hole. The few rules were that everyone needed to have a turn doing it.

Our group’s strategy was to cover the hole with our thumbs. We also thought about going slow so the water wouldn’t fall, because the faster we go, gravity makes it gather on one side and makes it fall. I think that our group was pretty good at this, but some people had some amazing ideas.

The second thing we did was civil engineering. In civil engineering we had to make ideas on how to make our land safe from drowning and the water rising over, and the only things we could use were clay, tape, sticks, straws, and scissors.

As you can see in the image below, we used blue popsicle sticks to make a border from the water coming in. We also made two bridges by using popsicle sticks and clay to make the bridges. To add more details, we added some drawings of boats, fish, and people.

And then we ended our day with some talking about engineering and watching videos about engineering. Then we left the hall, and that was all we did for this Wednesday’s engineering. If you had to do the bucket challenge, what strategy would you use?

Thank you for spending time to read my blog.

Kia Ora, this week in engineering we have been learning about how to protect our villages from sea level rising. In our groups we got the opportunity to build our own villages and their own wall to protect it from flooding. 

Firstly, we used paper, scissors,clay,popsicle sticks, tape and straws. Then we cut a big piece of coloured paper into a rectangle shape. Then we put the clay and shaped it into a square then put the popsicle sticks around the house to protect it and also used some of the straw to support the popsicle sticks. After that we took some of the leftover papers and started building the house.

Secondly, we came up with  the idea to use the little cutted paper to decorate our house a little  More. When we say decorate we mean drawing windows on to the houses to make it look realistic and drawing grass in the front of the house.

Also before all of this we played a little game with water we put watewr into buckets and had to run around cones with out losing any water possible.

Do you think you could handle it?

This  last two weeks we have been working on our speeches about mhenua.

some of the important things in preparation for speaking was OREO – state our opinion,give  a reason and eivdence a few  time theno our coclusion (opinion). This was also important  for a sheeches presentation.

others in our school did  spoken word and use rhyme and had ryhm in  their presentation. no did spoken word  and Ues rhyme and had rhythm in their presentation. No raps and no one diding flash talk. and what I found tricky was they was keep on move but it was cool and all so talking clearly.