STEAM Challange

Kia ora fellow readers welcome back to another blog post.

Today in wananga we were introduced to something called stem or steam. It stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Maths. Today we were given scissors and paper and we had to try and design something that the whole team could fit through only using the equipment given. In my team, there was Hayley, Leo, and me. The first time we attempted at making the design we failed as we made the design too small. The second time we succeeded. 

I believe that if the paper was bigger we would have made the design more successful and if it was smaller we would have struggled even more. I think that if we had cut the paper not as deep as we did we would not have succeeded. We could have cut the paper closer together because they were quite far apart. 

Science

 Kia Ora fellow readers and welcome back to another blog post. Today I will be telling you about Evaporating, condensing, and distillation. 

What is Evaporation? 

Evaporation is when a liquid turns into gas. This happens when liquid is heated.  

What is Condensation?

It's the opposite of evaporation so the gas cools down and becomes a liquid.

What is Distillation?

Seperate a solution using evaporation and condensing. 

Experiment.

Aim: Use distillation to separate out the dissolved sugars in coke, coke zero/diet, from the liquid. 

Hypothesis: I think the sugar will separate from the normal coke and it will hold the most sugar. At the end of the experiment, I don't think any of the cokes will look any different. 

Method:  

Vocabulary

 Here is my Vocabulary work...

Declared ~ it means to announce something. 

Prohibited ~ You cant do it. 

Democracy ~ A system of government. 

I couldn't find any other words that I didn't know the meaning of. 

Physical Fitness

 Physical fitness refers to the capacity of an athlete to meet the varied physical demands of their sport without reducing the athlete to a fatigued state. The components of physical fitness are :

~ Body Composition 

~ Endurance

~ Flexibility

~ Strength

~ Speed

Novel Study work

 Kia Ora fellow readers, here is a summary for this week's chapters. 

Chapter 14

Malala talks about how much damage the radio station has caused upon her home, and how she isn’t meant to go to school, but she still goes anyway. It also talks about how scared people have gotten because of the Taliban.

Chapter 15

She also moves uphill for a while but then comes back to her home because her home is likely to get bombed, Malala’s dad decided to stay at home to protect his school, this caused malala to become very worried for her father. 

Chapter 16

They return back home and see that their home is still in shape and nothing has been touched. Malala is also glad to see that her father is safe.

Chapter 17

In chapter 17 malala and her father go to their school and see that someone has been in their schools and her father goes to his office to see a letter stating that the army used the school as a base. 

Poster.....

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