I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 9 and in 2021 I will be a year 10. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today I decided to write about article about the Milky Way Photo of the Year.
Text Title: Kiwi's Milky Way photo named one of the world's best
Text Type: News Article
Text Creator: Allan Granville - Stuff
Text Purpose: To Inform and show.
What does the author of the text want us to know?
The author wants us to know about the amazing feats that someone in our country had achieved on a global scale. The author describes the many entrees that had went and took on the challenge of capturing the best photo of the milky way. They also informed us of the many obstacles the photographers went through to get this amazing photo of our home galaxy.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, this week for English we are doing work on Figurative Language. This is the first task we had to complete for the whole slide.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. This week I decided to do a critical literacy post on the rare blood supermoon that appeared on Wednesday.
Text Title: Full coverage: After 40 years, rare blood supermoon lights up night sky
Text Type: News Article
Text Creator: Stuff
Text Purpose: To inform and show.
What views of the world is this text presenting?
This text is showing us a rare phenomenon where the moon appears to be a dark red rusty colour. This has caused excitement for many astronomy lovers and scientists around the world. The text is also informing us about something that hasn't happened in many years. Both a supermoon and blood moon happening at the same time.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we learned about sustainable fishing, what it is, the impacts of overfishing/commercial fishing, and what overfishing/commercial fishing is doing to the ocean's food chain. We then had to answer a question about it.
How is commercial fishing a threat to dolphins and birdlife [by-catch]?
Over the years commercial fishing has become a very large industry. It is has provided countries around the world with delicious seafood and profits. But, commercial fishing has also been a huge threat to the ocean, sea animals and food chains around the ocean. Problems such as overfishing and bycatch, which harm the ocean's animal populations and damage many ecosystems within the ocean.
Overfishing is the act of fishing at a relatively quick rate where a species do not have time to develop more, which affects the population of that certain species, creating an underpopulated area. Bycatch is the act of catching a marine species unintentionally while catching other animals such as crabs or tuna.
In a segment of Seaspiracy, it mentioned how dolphins are being bycaught by fisheries who are aiming to catch tuna. Most of the time the dolphin that was caught is thrown back to the ocean, they might even dead by the time they are thrown in.
Birdlife is also decreasing due to the amount of fish being taken out by the ocean, this is because ocean birds feed on the fish that is being chased to the surface by other large predators. So when we overfish areas where birds feed, they won't have any food, they will then starve, after that, they will then die.
Given these points, commercial fishing is a huge threat to many marine sea life and ecosystems around the oceans. This is because of the dangerous fishing techniques done by many fisheries that are either legal or illegal, which can be a threat to the marine life population.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we watched a bit of the Netflix Documentary 'Seaspiracy'. In that little bit of the show, we learned about Shark Finning and why it is a problem. After watching and discussing it we needed to answer some questions about it.
Shark finning is the act of cutting off the shark's fins and using it for a traditional Chinese dish called 'Shark fin soup', which is a very popular dish in China. This is a very horrible practice. After cutting off the fins of the shark they would throw the shark back to the sea. This is bad because they wouldn't be able to swim properly and they would still be bleeding.
Why is it a delicacy?
Shark fin soup is a symbol of social standing and aristocracy, so when someone eats shark fin soup it is a symbolism that they have money and that they are rich. The fins of the shark take on a consistency similar to noodles.
Sharks are a very important key to the balance of the ocean's food chain and the many eco-systems. If sharks aren't around it will affect other animals in the food chains.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today in science we have been given the task to create a post about one of the experiments that we have done for our current topic in science. I chose to do one about making Metal Oxide.
Aim: To make a metal oxide the observe the reactions of the products.
Method: 1. Light your Bunsen Burner 2. Hold the piece of Magnesium onto the scissors, make sure to hold the piece of Magnesium at the very tip. 3. Place the other end of the Magnesium onto the flame (top of blue flame).
!CAUTION! : Do not look directly at the burning piece of Magnesium as it can damage your eyes.
Results/Conclusion: ⤿ After the Magnesium was lit on fire, it burned for a bit showcasing a bright white light. After that, the light ceased and the Magnesium was burnt it left behind a white powdery substance, which is Magnesium Oxide.
When Magnesium is heated and released into air/oxygen, it reacts with oxygen to create Magnesium Oxide. When burning it releases a tremendous amount of heat, an exothermic reaction. As a result of this reaction, magnesium gives up two electrons to oxygen.
Observations: When the metal was burning, why is it so dangerous to look at the light? ⤿ When the Magnesium was burning it is dangerous to look at the light. This is because the light can create damage to your eyes which can create complications for your sight.
Observation: Why does Magnesium still burn underwater?
As said above, when Magnesium burns it releases a tremendous amount of heat. When water is added to this tremendous amount of heat the water will then evaporate into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen vapours will once again react to the magnesium and ignite it. Now the cool thing about this is that the water will only accelerate the fire and will not put the fire out.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for English we learned about what factual and satirical mean by looking at news sites and finding evidence on whether it is either factual or satirical. We looked at different sites from 4 different countries, the US (America), Australia, New Zealand, UK. After sorting the websites out we had to choose 2 websites from a country and compare them.
I chose to do one about a website from America. The websites are called The Herald and The Civilian. After choosing we then had to look at the articles on the website and compare one from each of the sites.
For The Herald, I chose the article "Rugby: All Blacks schedule confirmed for July with tests against Tonga and Fiji".
For the site, The Civilian I chose the article "Will Steve Hansen’s plan to stack two All Blacks on top of each other in a big coat pay dividends?"
Just by looking at the articles, it is very obvious which one is factual and which one is satirical. The Herald is the real one because multiple articles can be seen about it when searched online, the title also sounds very relevant. While, for the Civilian, the title is very unconvincing and sounds absurd. There are also no other articles about the articles and is the only publishing about this particular topic.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for social studies we read a poem about a starfish, after that we then had to analyse the texts so that we could find out what the main message of the text was. We also then had to give evidence to support our opinion of that.
Evidence: These highlighted parts in the poem show how one can change the world, it takes one person. This is very important because it tells us one person can make a difference and inspires us to make a difference. The highlighted bits also show us that our opinion does matter even though it may be a small one.
This also tells us to help the environment because it is only getting worse and it will affect us and many other living things in the world.
THE STARFISH POEM Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean. As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?" The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean." "I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" "The sun is up and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die." "But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach and starfish all along with it. You can't possibly make a difference!" The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked up another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said- "It made a difference for that one."
Bias - when you unfairly favour one side of an argument. Source - where you got the information from. Credible - factual, truthful, reliable Authority - the author has good/in-depth knowledge of the subject Reliable - can trust that this information is correct. Perspective - point of view, your way of seeing something Agenda - what you are trying to do e.g convince me of a fact Manipulate - mould something into what you want it to be
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, today for Social Studies we learned more about the Great Pacific Garbage patch and the causes and effects it on the environment and living things. To showcase our learning we were tasked to make a newspaper article outlining the problem in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, this features the causes and effects of the problem.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post this week for science we did an experiment on Alkaline Metals. For the experiment, we mixed water with some alkaline metals so that we could observe how the metals reacted to the water.
What is an Alkaline Metal?
An alkaline metal is very reactive and explosive when mixed with water. There are a total of 6 alkali metals and are found on the last left column of the periodic table.
What reaction did we do yesterday?
Yesterday we used Lithium and Sodium to observe how they reacted to the warm water. A chemical reaction that was used for this was Sodium + Water 🠂 Sodium oxide + Hydrogen.
(2Na + H2O 🠂 Na20 + H2)
Observations: Why did the metal react this way?
When the metal (Sodium) was put inside the water the metal lit on fire, the fire wasn't big. The metal lit on fire because of how much the sodium was attracted to the oxygen, seeing that the chemical name for water is H20. When the Sodium was reacting with the oxygen it was leaving behind hydrogen gas that created the explosion.
Why do these metal react this way?
It only has 1 electron which is why it is highly reactive.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, This week for our weekly critical literacy questions, I decided to write about an article that I saw when watching the news. The article was about a deep-sea creature washing up on a beach.
Title: Monstrous creature from the deep with its own light and a huge appetite washes ashore
Text Type: New Article
Text creator: Stuff
Text purpose: To inform viewers
Why are we/you reading this text?
The was very interesting in terms of deep-sea creatures, it really captured readers with the striking photo and title of the article. The whole topic of a deep-sea creature washing up on the beach was really shocking and I wanted to find out more about it.
Is this text fair? - Yes it is, this can happen to anyone so the text is fair.
How are children, teenager or young adults constructed in the text? - In the video young adults are portrayed as people who often go out to parties and drink lots of alcohol.
- They are also portrayed as people prone to accidents and making mistakes.
How does the text present age, gender or cultural groups? - Males are more alcoholic and they stare at women.
- There is a certain ethnicity that is stereotyped as people who always drink and is considered to be unintelligent.
Why is the text written this way? - Don't drive, when you have drunk some alcohol.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, this term we are once again doing critical literacy questions every Friday. For the first week, I decided to do a post about a news article that I have previously read during our wānanga time.
Title: Neanderthal remains unearthed in an Italian cave
Text Type: News Article
Text Creator: BBC
Text purpose: To info viewers
What views of the world is the text representing?
The text represents how the world was before it modernized and shaped into what it is right now. It shows how people lived and the constant dangers they lived in to survive in that kind of environment. This also shows how much they did to be able to live in their environment.
Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, this term for social studies we have started a new topic that is called 'Trashing the World'. In this topic, we are learning about the importance of the oceans, what we are doing to help sustain the oceans and what is happening in the ocean that damages it. Our first task was to create a slideshow, informing readers about the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and what we are doing to help clean up the oceans.
