We are a BYOD class, these two YouTube clips give an idea of where I would like to be heading.... who is with me? How are we going to get there?
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Update on our Oyster Island stuff:
well done those girls.... 2016 Science Fair category winners
The project notes, etc for their board ... here
well done those girls.... 2016 Science Fair category winners
The project notes, etc for their board ... here
SNAPPY SNAP !!!!!!!
Well look at this.... Our traps finally got a STOAT (public enemy no. one)
By the look of it some time early Jan 2016
FYI my (old) class, I have checked the traps about every 2 weeks or so since we put them out, this is our first kill. Well done us... I wonder how many birds we have saved !!!
Here we are Skyping the world... well Utah & Arkansas at least
#skypeathon
Oyster Island work
Job list for the next week....
Must do:
Flipbooks: Eden Nikita Tahlia Joseph Lily Brearna Mia
Maybe do:
Make an electronic flipbook… to do this you will need to save your Doc as a PDF and then go to http://www.snacktools.com/en/ you might need to make an account (not sure) . Once on the Snacktools site scroll down below the widgets bit to the Flipsnack link… have a go, once you have made a Flipbook send me the URL
An example of some Flipbooks: http://bloomscool.weebly.com/-course-e-books.html
Yr 9 BYOD End-of-year assessment
Your end-of-year grade will be made up from TWO parts:
Part 1 Digital Portfolio (4 lessons to prepare)
You task is to present a “best of” portfolio covering Four topics of your choice, selected from the list of 8 below. This will be used to make up 50% of your end-of-year grade. The other 50% will come from a written test.
Topics we have done this year (choose FOUR)
Part 2 Written test (1 period)
Your test will include questions on:
Must do:
- Set up Google Doc
- Share it with me and give me editing rights
- Choose your FOUR “best-of” topics (see below)
- Set up headings for each of these in the document
- Gather up the material / information for each topic and make it look splendid (credit others)
- Make a front cover / title page for your Document
- Let me know when it is finished... remember it makes up 50% of your grade
Flipbooks: Eden Nikita Tahlia Joseph Lily Brearna Mia
Maybe do:
Make an electronic flipbook… to do this you will need to save your Doc as a PDF and then go to http://www.snacktools.com/en/ you might need to make an account (not sure) . Once on the Snacktools site scroll down below the widgets bit to the Flipsnack link… have a go, once you have made a Flipbook send me the URL
An example of some Flipbooks: http://bloomscool.weebly.com/-course-e-books.html
Yr 9 BYOD End-of-year assessment
Your end-of-year grade will be made up from TWO parts:
Part 1 Digital Portfolio (4 lessons to prepare)
You task is to present a “best of” portfolio covering Four topics of your choice, selected from the list of 8 below. This will be used to make up 50% of your end-of-year grade. The other 50% will come from a written test.
Topics we have done this year (choose FOUR)
- MRS C GREN, plant vs animal, photosynthesis
- Human body; digestion and circulation
- Chemistry, states of matter, reactions
- Physics , energy (solar, food, etc)
- Biodiversity, humans in NZ, Marsden
- Oyster Island
- Salmon
- Practical investigations - you would need to cover at least 3 that we have done those below (there may be others I forgot)
- Microwave water
- Bunsen flames
- Little green balls
- Starch/saliva
- Smurf snot and paint
- States of matter
- Solar energy
- Peanut energy
- Pollen
- Mice tracking
Part 2 Written test (1 period)
Your test will include questions on:
- Biology: Mrs gren, photosynthesis, plant & animal cells, digestion & circulation systems, food chains/webs
- Chemistry: states of matter, solids/liquids/gas,
- Physics: solar energy, food energy
- Living on Earth: human impacts on our environment, salmon good?
WOW.... just WOW.. holograms! GET YOUR PHONES OUT!!!
3D stuff lightning Jellyfish The sun Presences Glowfish Blooming flowers girl candle
3D stuff lightning Jellyfish The sun Presences Glowfish Blooming flowers girl candle
This should be on your website.. (terms 2, 3 & 4)
- Photo of salt and ice (and Jordan) and explanation of frost on the outside
- YouTube (or your own) vid of can imploding... and an explanation (about pressure)
- Photo of subliming solid expt and link to worksheet on states of matter
- Something about CERN, incl a pic
- Notes and pictures from our yellow paint and smurf snot expts
- Solar tube photos and explanation
- Photo, data and notes from our sun / magnifying glass expt
- Notes on rust, what is it, what is needed, how can we stop it?
- Alchemy !!! our "Gold" coins
- Energy notes, can heating expt and Bitesize (link & result)
- Peanut stuff (energy and cup of tea)
- Our energy balance
- Pollen observations and notes... including the ants
- Biodiversity page... lots there
- Salmon story
Science Capabilities:
The 5 Science Capabilities & worksheet to go with the pics.... observations, inferences, know
The "pukeko" article here
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Salmon
Our salmon 2015....
your work:
salmon life cycle, our salmon story from eggs to release, salmon in NZ.....a good thing?
- at the start of June ... see their wee eyes... and yolk
- June 19... note alvins, what are feeding on ?
- July 21.... they have got this big on no food !!! ???
- Sept 1... they grow up... before you know it they will leave home!
- Oct 15.... they are HUGE (had 2 escapees: one sucked up, one accident with water change- both put back)
- Nov 17.....swim free little ones:released to the ponds at Appleby...& we caught some that were released 3 years ago! (actually it was a rainbow trout!) Thanks to Nathan and the Fish & Game guy, Lawson,...& Eden for catching the fish
your work:
salmon life cycle, our salmon story from eggs to release, salmon in NZ.....a good thing?
Here is a picture of a native fish called a grayling by the Europeans & upokororo by Maori.
Click on the fish to read an article.... published in 1949 !!
Use that article to help complete this worksheet
Click on the fish to read an article.... published in 1949 !!
Use that article to help complete this worksheet
Biodiversity
Your website or blog or Google doc or whatever should have something about:
- Our hillside
- The 6 horrid things
- The Environment Aotearoa report
- Marsden Valley: at least 3 problems and 3 fixes, & how we know it’s working (bird numbers, forest)
- Oyster Island: the pine problem and 3 things done to fix, & how we know it’s working
- Maybe find out some more about Maori and argillite
- Rat tracking tunnels
How much of our hillside is covered in native plants..... oh very little (less than 10%)
Sort the 6 pics below from least horrid to most horrid ... in terms of their environmental impact on biodiversity
Explain / justify the ranking
Explain / justify the ranking
Rena disaster versus cute & cuddly stoats One killed 2 000 birds One kills 2 000 birds every hour Ref. link here |
State of the Environment Report... Reading 1 & Reading 2 (Oct 2015)
Extra for eggspirts ChCh Press look at the article and comments, what are people thinking?
For my reference mostly: The whole report: Environment Aotearoa 2015
Have a look at the TWO readings about the Environment Report
- Who wrote the Environment Aotearoa Report?
- Forest and Bird advocacy manager Kevin Hackwell described the report as sobering reading......What does "sobering reading" mean?
- What is the biggest issue with our environment?
- List 5 other issues highlighted ?
- What are the things we are now doing better?
- What is your feeling about the overall state of our natural environment?
Biodiversity Research
The following is a list of some of the things being done to fix the problems of the past. Your team will choose one (or your own idea) to research and present your findings to the class.
Possible topics:
Researching involves:
What this looks like in yr13 …. Kara’s Astronomy
The following is a list of some of the things being done to fix the problems of the past. Your team will choose one (or your own idea) to research and present your findings to the class.
Possible topics:
- Top of the south cod fishery
- Other fisheries
- Abel Tasman - Project Janzoon
- Brooke sanctuary
- Maui dolphins
- Rotoiti mainland Island
- Marine reserve - Glenduan
- Marine reserve - Tonga Island
- 1080 in the forests
- Cable Bay Mataitai reserve
- Any other idea from ScienceLearn... check with me
Researching involves:
- Choosing a topic
- Deciding on a few focussing questions (maybe adding some later)
- Gathering information (keeping a track of where it’s from)
- Process info / sorting out what helps (not cut & paste)
- Use the processed info to write up your findings
- Presenting your findings
What this looks like in yr13 …. Kara’s Astronomy
Our NEST group would be proud of us... we know the 3 R's
Explain this statement (the pics below will help)
Explain this statement (the pics below will help)
Our second trip to Oyster Island:
to set up the tracking tunnels and the kill traps (thanks Jeff Bryant for your expertise)
Key to identifying pest tracks left on the cards ... link here
Map of the island with the sites... here
to set up the tracking tunnels and the kill traps (thanks Jeff Bryant for your expertise)
Key to identifying pest tracks left on the cards ... link here
Map of the island with the sites... here
Tracking tunnel results:
All prints were from mice (both days) NB Few = 5 or less sets of prints
Kill traps: all three empty after 4 days
What does the tracking and trap data tell us about the pests on the island?
Are there any rats or stoats on the island? (careful about this)
Next step?
All prints were from mice (both days) NB Few = 5 or less sets of prints
Kill traps: all three empty after 4 days
What does the tracking and trap data tell us about the pests on the island?
Are there any rats or stoats on the island? (careful about this)
Next step?
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Our first trip to Oyster Island:
to investigate ecology, geology, archaeology, hydrology (well a swim) (Nov 2, 2015
to investigate ecology, geology, archaeology, hydrology (well a swim) (Nov 2, 2015
More Oyster Island images (from L2 EMS )...link here
Photo credit : Eden
Our trip up the Marsden Valley: to investigate biodiversity and how we have altered it.... and how we are now trying to fix things (Oct 19, 2015)
Bird count data (1 min counts)
1st count in non-native bush / recently milled pine area = 1 bird
2nd count in newly regenerating native bush = 4 birds
3rd count in older regenerating native bush = 4 birds
So.......
1st count in non-native bush / recently milled pine area = 1 bird
2nd count in newly regenerating native bush = 4 birds
3rd count in older regenerating native bush = 4 birds
So.......
The guy doing lots of work up there.... Don Sullivan
This flutterby thing looks worth a crack.... (click the image)
Work from terms 3 & 2 below...
Kiwis Rob Hamill and Phil Stubbs won the Trans Atlantic rowing race in 1997 in a time of 41 days (over a week ahead of the second place pair). They were both in their mid 30's at the time and lets assume both were about 80kg
Lets also assume a rowing time of 16 hour per day (and sleep 8 hrs). This event has been described at the toughest endurance event in history..... you figure their level of exercise
Your team has been asked to provide an energy budget for the rowers...
Using what you have been doing lately work out how much food and (what that could be) they needed to take on the trip to last the 41 days (would they need a bit extra?). They could make water using a solar powered desalinater
To help:
energy output calculation... use the calculator below (the one you used to work out your daily energy)
dehydrated food info here as a start, what else might they have taken table here to help
Write up a bit of a report about the race and the energy budget... any way you want
Lets also assume a rowing time of 16 hour per day (and sleep 8 hrs). This event has been described at the toughest endurance event in history..... you figure their level of exercise
Your team has been asked to provide an energy budget for the rowers...
Using what you have been doing lately work out how much food and (what that could be) they needed to take on the trip to last the 41 days (would they need a bit extra?). They could make water using a solar powered desalinater
To help:
energy output calculation... use the calculator below (the one you used to work out your daily energy)
dehydrated food info here as a start, what else might they have taken table here to help
Write up a bit of a report about the race and the energy budget... any way you want
The yellow stuff in the puddles looks like this under the microscope... is it pollen or sulfur?
Your observations:
Your inference:
Further evidence to be pretty sure:
Your observations:
Your inference:
Further evidence to be pretty sure:
Now this is rather interesting.....
Trying to grow pollen tubes in sugar solution with pine (left) and Lilly (right) pollen
Trying to grow pollen tubes in sugar solution with pine (left) and Lilly (right) pollen
- Is Lilly pollen an ant repellent... seems so
- Does it work on other insects?
- Does other pollen do the same... or better?
- Can we market this stuff and get rich?
- Has someone beaten us to this?
- What other scientific discoveries have been found by accident?
Three pine pollen growing pollen tubes... what is the purpose of these tubes?
Click on the Energy Calculator to calculate your daily energy expenditure (ie the energy you use)
Record your result in your website
Where do you get that energy from?
Q How many peanuts would it take to run you for a day?
(at 8190 J each)
Find out the other side of your energy budget...
You will need to find a suitable site that uses the correct units ie Joules
Try this link to work out your food energy input
(set up a Google sheet to do the calculating)
BBC Bitesize Energy
Here is how we can calculate the energy content of a peanut
Remeber: it takes 4.2 J of heat energy to raise 1 mL water by 1 C
steps:
How do we calculate the energy again?
E = 4.2 x volume x temp change
...our results: 8190 J on average per peanut
How does it compare to using the sun?
...we would need to leave the can in the sun for about 25 min to give the same energy as 1 peanut
Remeber: it takes 4.2 J of heat energy to raise 1 mL water by 1 C
steps:
- weigh a peanut ____________
- add 100 mL water to can
- record temp ______________
- light peanut and use it to heat water
- record temp after heating ______________
- record time it burnt for _____________
- reweigh burnt peanut ________________
How do we calculate the energy again?
E = 4.2 x volume x temp change
...our results: 8190 J on average per peanut
How does it compare to using the sun?
...we would need to leave the can in the sun for about 25 min to give the same energy as 1 peanut
Both of these beakers were at the same temp to start with,
but after a minute heating over a bunsen one had gone up 20 degrees whereas the other had gone up only 10 degrees ???
Explain that:
Heat ENERGY v temp
ie They both gained the same amount of......
but after a minute heating over a bunsen one had gone up 20 degrees whereas the other had gone up only 10 degrees ???
Explain that:
Heat ENERGY v temp
ie They both gained the same amount of......
We used the suns _______ to change the ________ of the water
We got 2940 J of heat energy in 10 minutes
Alchemy
Copper coined turned into a gold coin using some 'magic' fairy powder and some chants
What actually happened?
Copper coined turned into a gold coin using some 'magic' fairy powder and some chants
What actually happened?
Yr 8 testing
The Google sheet for the data should be here
We tested 100 students:
Conclusion:
colourblindness affects ........ more than .........
We tested 100 students:
- of those 100, 19 failed to see all 4 correctly
- of those 19 13 were males and 6 were females
- of those 19 , 3 failed to see all 4 , all those 3 were males
Conclusion:
colourblindness affects ........ more than .........
Back to some more Chemistry
- The VW, sitting around a few years
- The old car in the desert, sitting around for decades
- The Titanic sinking around since... (when was it)
Questions....
What is needed for rusting to happen?
What is the equation?
Can we reverse it?
How can we stop iron rusting?
Some Physics stuff
A nice day to try out our solar tube...
Words to use in your explanation:
Lets investigate this colour, absorbing energy idea
- solar energy
- black
- absorbing
- air particles
- density
Lets investigate this colour, absorbing energy idea
We found that we can use the suns energy to set fire to paper!
Explain the effect of colour. Something like this...
"The black coloured paper caught fire very quickly because it absorbed a lot of solar energy which made the paper heat up and burn, whereas...."
Explain the effect of colour. Something like this...
"The black coloured paper caught fire very quickly because it absorbed a lot of solar energy which made the paper heat up and burn, whereas...."
How much of the suns energy reaches the surface of the earth?
Explain what happens to the "missing" energy
http://agron-www.agron.iastate.edu/courses/Agron541/classes/541/lesson03b/3b.3.html
What is albedo?
Using the results of our expt explain the difference in albedo of snow and a grass field
Why do skiers often get quick sun burnt?
Extra for eggspirts:
- Global warming is likely to cause melting of the polar ice as well as mountain glaciers. This is likely to accelerate global warming. Use our expt and the stuff above to explain why.
- What other interesting stuff can you find to tell me about?
3. It is much warmer in Hawaii than the North Pole, explain why
4. Why is it really cold in Antarctica right now.
4. Why is it really cold in Antarctica right now.
Chemistry Work
Common pollutants
Choose from: Heavy metals, oil, plastic, methane, CO2
Inquiry questions (just a start, you add your own)
Choose from: Heavy metals, oil, plastic, methane, CO2
Inquiry questions (just a start, you add your own)
- where from / sources
- why is it made
- where ends up
- impact on humans
- impact on other things
- how big is the problem in NZ
- the soluion
Here we are using the products of our reactions to do some painting...
The blue was from the.... Cu ions
The yellow was from the ... Pb ions
What the.... some of the blue ones turned brown????
The blue was from the.... Cu ions
The yellow was from the ... Pb ions
What the.... some of the blue ones turned brown????
This is what happened when we added:
Lead Nitrate to Potassium iodide
what happened?
what is the yellow stuff?
why is it no good any more (for paint)?
Lead Nitrate to Potassium iodide
what happened?
what is the yellow stuff?
why is it no good any more (for paint)?
Centrifuge to spin out the Copper Hydroxide (smurf snot) made by mixing.....
Click on image to read about solubility
Ice and salt... how the heck did we get frost on the OUTSIDE?
We IMPLODED a can !!!
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What, where, why, how much $ did it cost, when will it go again ?
Topic 1: Solids, Liquids and that other stuff
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