Manaiakalani Film Festival 2013

For our second year being part of the Manaiakalani Film Festival we wanted our movie to be bigger and better. We also wanted it to be different so we based our film entry on changes of matter. Our plot inspiration came from this article about a group of scientists making meat patties from cow cells. They named their meat patties 'Frankenburger' and we used this as the title of our movie.

The film crew consisted of Aaron, Williefred, Naanise and myself. Before we started filming we had to plan and create a storyboard which took a couple of weeks since we were still deciding on the ending of the film. As part of the film crew we were in charge of making the movie for our class. We wanted this movie to be bigger and better than any other movie at The Manaiakalani Film Festival.

When we created this movie we asked the question... if cow cells could be turned into patties, what would be the outcome if the cells from other animals were used to make food instead of what we normally eat today? If you were to think about eating food created from cow cells, would you? This type of question, as our teacher would say, is 'food for the brain'! What would be the consequences from eating chicken burger made from cells of a chicken? Would you still eat it?

Special thanks to Ms Bullôt for providing the resources and equipment needed to create this movie and we also thank her for her support and encouragement across the journey of this movie. 

Gravity Experiment - What Goes Up Must Come Down

Yesterday I carried out an investigation on gravity, what goes up must come down. I tested out seven different materials and dropped them at the same height. On my database sheet I predicted which would hit the floor first from the same height.

Once I wrote down my hypothesis I tested it out. I first dropped a small marble and a ping pong ball. I guessed that the marble would hit the ground first but the ping pong ball was actually first. The materials I used were a small marble, a ping pong ball, a rubber, pencil, paper clip, a flat piece of paper, a feather and a crumpled piece of paper from the flat piece of paper.

If you drop two different objects at different heights it changes the affect of the outcome. But it wouldn’t change an affect if they were dropped from the same height because usually the heavier object would land to the ground faster.

The table below shows my results

Object Dropped		Which hit the ground first? (guess)	Which actually hit the ground first?
Marble	Ping pong ball	Marble	Ping pong ball
Rubber	Paper Clip	Rubber	Rubber
Marble	Pencil	Marble	Pencil
Flat Paper	Feather	Flat Paper	Feather
Crumbled Paper	Feather	Crumbled Paper	Crumbled Paper
Feather	Paper Clip	Paper Clip	Paper Clip
			3/6 correct