Variable Changes

Science Investigation

Fair Testing

Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	Do plants need light to grow?
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	The plant in the sun will grow with good health and the plant in the cupboard will grow but not with full pieces
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	Both
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The variable I will measure is the height of the plant
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The same type of seeds, the same amount of water and the same type of soil

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.

Aim - what are you trying to find out?	What colour of bird feeders with the bird prefer?
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?	From all the feeders, the birds will mostly prefer eating from the red feeder
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?	The colour of the food
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?	The number of birds that visit the feeder
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?	The colour that the bird mostly prefer, The amount of the food that the bird normally get feeder

Scientific Method

WALT:What are they? Why are they important?
What is a variable? ... Let's find out!
This term we are learning about Science! For our experiment we are experiencing how long does a burger take to mole or age, The step are:First the steps are - Question about the experiment that you are going to do, Second Step - Is the Hypothesis, A Hypothesis is where you think what is gonna happen, Third step - The equipment is everything that you need for the experiment, Fourth step - The method is explain how you did it or how you are going to do it. As you can see I have done a presentation following the steps. Now I have to watch if the burgers will rot.

Algebra variables

WALT: understand and work out variables in algebra

Today I have been learning about variable I have learned how to figure out an variable and also the meaning of the variable is that variable means that a number equation changes.

Geometry Area and Perimeter

WALT:find the area and perimeter of 2D straight-sided

This week I have been learning about Area and Perimeter. I have learnt that in area you have L x W and for Perimeter you have L + W + L + W.

Reflection about Term 3

Introduction -

Becoming a year 8 is going to be harder than I thought because the teacher are all going to be depending on us to be good role models for next year. What I liked about this year was how Mrs Tele’a would always put us on Re - think for coming late to school, not bring your P.E tops and being bad in class.

Highlights / Memories  -

My favorite highlights for this term would be about learning Te Reo, playing sports  

And learning in class. Some memories that I remembered about this term would be how we had cross country which I came 4th in, fitness everyday and the rotations when the year 8 go to tech.                    

Funny moments -  

My funny moments for term 3 would be about how Mrs Tele’a would always tell us jokes in class. Also when cameo tried to kick the soccer ball but instead she did the splits   

Goals for next term -  

My goals for next term would be to write more better stories and use different words, solve my work out using my knowledge and to also read more books at home. My goal for next term would also be finish it off properly.    

Hiwi the kiwi

Mark the founder of Hiwi the Kiwi, came to Pt england school with his lovely wife Chrissy. They were explaining about how we need to keep our birds safe and we need to be water safety. Hiwi the kiwi announced that they would be teaching us why we need to keep our areas clean.

Hiwi the Kiwi was entertaining and inspiring us about wearing life jacket around water. He also sang us a song about saving our fish and feeding our families.Mark and Chrissy have been married for 40 years and have a great relationship.They sing a lot of songs when they visit school around New Zealand.

Mark told us to keep our birds safe by not littering and pick up rubbish even if it’s not your’s. A can or a plastic bag can end up killing five hundred birds and fish every year. Sea birds don’t really care about what’s in the sea they just fly down and think it’s fish. When you go fishing you always need to take like a water gun to scare the birds away.When the birds dive down when you are fishing they want to try and take the fish away but they don’t know that the hook is in the fish.

When mark told us about some of the stories like about how two men tried to think they were all that but actually were scared, I was really hooked into this one he said ‘’ to always wear life jacket when you are in the water or fishing’’.   

I really enjoyed this show because it has taught me heaps of things that I don’t know and maybe I can go fishing in the future with my family.

Half A bit of Butterflies

This week i have been reading a book called Half a bit of butterflies. The task was to make a presentation of what cerebral Palsy means and how it can effect kids.