Technicraft Term 1

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Underwater Viewer Experiment

On May 10th, Room 8 went out on their very first scientific expedition to find out what sat at the bottom of the sea. Underwater viewers were designed and constructed to help with Room 8’s discovery. The purpose of the underwater viewers were to see things clearly beneath the water.

Our location was set at the Tamaki River. The seabed was muddy and surrounded with mangroves and mudflats. Some of the areas were easy to walk on while other surfaces were more difficult since there weren’t a lot of shells which meant it wasn’t as firm.

A lot of creatures were found on the mud including shrimp, crabs, sea slugs and sea snails which were mainly found underneath rocks. Some sea creatures left behind shells which were scattered along the areas we were examining in. Non-living items including tyres, pipes from drains, broken glass and rusty chains from the boats were also found.

The difficulty of this expedition was reaching the waters edge because at the time we experimented the tide was low. The closer we came to it, the mud became softer to a point where we got stuck. Our underwater viewers weren’t used during the expedition. If the tide wasn’t low that day, the area where we found things would have been under the water. Without the help of our device we still discovered what sat at the bottom of the sea.

♥ My Mum ♥

The first time I felt a special connection between my mum and I was when she first held me after I was born. When she held me in her arms she knew I was her daughter and I knew she was my mum.

I remember the evening of my first day of school she came home and straight away took a photo of me dead tired on the floor since my mum loves to capture moments on camera. Every now and then we have arguments but after every banter and every day I’ll always love her. She listens to me, understands my problems and trusts me. My mum means everything to me. I can talk to her like she’s my best friend and even though her job is something about ICT, she always says her first priority job is to be a mother to myself and my two older brothers.

I admire how strong and brave she is and how she can easily relate to me. She’s my inspiration, my role model and of course, my mum.

Mini Movie

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Easter Eggs

Chocolate Easter eggs are special treats often received during Easter Sunday. Some people buy these eggs while others make them themselves. Here is a way to make your own Easter eggs.

The only ingredient you’ll need is melted chocolate. You could have white chocolate, milk or dark depending on what you fancy. To melt this ingredient you’ll need to break the block of chocolate into different pieces and place it in a bowl in steaming water. The heat from the water will warm up the bowl which will melt the chocolate.

Secondly you’ll need a mould to shape the melted chocolate. This mould could be any shape including, an egg or rabbit. To make a hollow egg you would need to shift and tilt the melted chocolate of your choice around the sides of the mould to make a scoop sort of shape.

Once both sides are set, carefully take them out of the mould and use melted chocolate to secure them together. Making a hard egg filled with chocolate is the same as creating a hollow egg except you would have to fill the mould with chocolate up to the brim of the mould so the inside isn’t empty and hollow.

After the eggs have are attached together you can wrap them up in coloured foil and decorate them to give to your loved ones this Easter.

Technicraft Week 3

The Year 8’s at St Patrick’s School went to Mr Clark’s technicraft room for our third week at Pakuranga Intermediate. When we put our bags down we pushed all four tables to the four corners and grabbed our chairs towards the centre.

We all sat in a circle and started our class activity with a warm up.  This is a practise that Mr Clark, uses at the beginning of each class.  This particular warm up involved playing ‘Fruit Salad’ and ‘Whiz;. In Fruit Salad we were all given a name of a fruit. I was orange and when the person in the middle shouts a fruit name all the people who were given that fruit name in the circle have to run to a different free seat. They can call two fruits as well and call out Fruit Salad. When they call out Fruit Salad this is when the game starts to get hectic. Every fruit runs around and tries to find another seat that wasn’t theirs in the previous round. After this game we played Whiz and it was a game about listening. I wasn’t very good since I was the first one out during the real game.

Afterwards we learnt about positives and negatives and how they work. When Mr Clark finished talking we grabbed our projects that we started the week before. The project we worked on was an LED frog. When a fly touches the memory wire the LED lights light up. We had to solder on wires onto copper tape at the back of our frog. I had to solder on my wires and attach memory wire into another type of wire for the battery. As I soldered on my wires I accidently burnt a bit of my hand and had to rush to the tap to run cold water over the burn. Once the battery connected and the two wires were attracted to each other my LED frog eyes lit up red. We took turns putting batteries into each others frogs and watched the lights light up. Some lights were red, green, orange and yellow. About the whole class finished their frogs by the end of the lesson.

At the end of the lesson my pink frog with hearts and red LED eyes was complete. I think in the next lesson we’ll be starting another exciting electrical project for our fourth week of technicraft.