Compass

Today we used a co/mpass to find North East West and South. It is quite hard to find the directions because you have to turn your hand in awkward directions and it hurts a wee bit as well.

The first compass made was by William Thomson, 1st Baron Kelvin

Directions - NESW - Never Eat Soggy Weet-bix

One thing that affects a compass reading correctly? Wristwatches,

Keys, Tables with metal legs, steels or screws, Mobile telephones.

3 jobs that require a compass

Marines Fisheries

Guide exploration team

Military

3 Sports that require a compass

Hunting

Sailing

Orientation

Early Polynesian Navigation

This week we have been learning about the early Polynesian navigation. They used lots of things to navigate the world. 

Early Polynesian Navigation

Have you ever seen a Polynesian voyager or wayfinder? The Polynesian wayfinders navagated with clouds, water or swells, birds, the sun was their compass, and stars. The voyagers were relying on canoes to guide them to where they wanted to go. When they knew when to go it was when the sun rose in the east and west.

Sunset and Sunrise made it possible to see ocean swells.

The wayfinders look at swells when the suns out. That made it possible to navigate the world.

The wayfinders navigated the pacific ocean using sun + moon, fish, clouds, ocean swells, and birds.

Birds were near land as they had a 190km range of flight pattern and flew back to shore.

Clouds reflected islands or lagoons. Big groups of clouds could tell their direction. They told where there were islands.

The wayfinders used the sun to tell them when to find the ocean swells, they hunt and find swells when the sun comes up in the east, and when it goes down in the west. They know when to not navigate and rest.They also used clouds, birds, ocean swells, and stars. 

Women In War

 

 This week we have been learning about women in war. Our teachers gave us questions and we had to put it on a DLO so this is what I came up with.

WW1 ANZAC face of the war statments

 This is my Anzac face of the war statements. I made it interesting and added some soldiers staring into the night sky to make it look like that they are in war...

Navagtion

 Aim: 

I want to walk in a straight line with no senses.

Hypothesis:

I predict that I will walk in a straight line.

Method:

Equipment: 

• Bucket
• Blindfold 
• Cotton wool

Instructions:

1.  Using a blindfold cover your eyes
2. Put some cotton wool in your ears
3. Put the bucket on your head
4. Spin in a circle 3 times
5.  Get your partner to line you up in the right direction
6. Begin walking in a straight line

Safety:

• Stop when you her the whistle immediately!
• If your partner says stop you must stop!
• Do not walk into objects e.g Bushes, Trees, Buildings, and people

Results:

• Find a satellite image of the field

Satellite image:

Discussion:

Words to do with direction

• Left / right
• Straight/Curve/Zigzag
• Backwards/Forwards
• Diagonal
• Up/Down
• North East or Nor' East
• North North East
• Bogey at 6 o'clock
• 360 Degress

Results:

First time I got really close to the target but time ran out and we had to go back

Second time my partner lead me too the target but then he turned me around and put me in the oppiste direction and at the end I wasent even near the target because I was still at the same spot where we started!

I was nervous that I was going to walk into something because the bucket was over my head, and I was blind folded

Communication Challenge

This week we have been doing a challenge called, the communication challenge. For this we had to use hexadecimal. One of the buddy's had to go down to the end of the field and tell the people 100 meters down at the other end of the field, actions about the code. 

This didn't work well because it was hard to say the actions to make it the right word.

We could make some easier actions next time, so the other people could see it better.


-James

WW1 Memorial

This week we have been learning about WW1 this is my war memorial I've just gathered a bunch of my classmates names and put the in the memorial to make it look like they served. 

We have WW1 memorials to remember who served and died in WW1, and because lots of the men/women that died there they got buried overseas. So this is there grave in New Zealand.

CyberSaftey Comments

Today we have been learning how to right quality blog comments. We had to sort the good and bad comments on different side of the drawing. There weren't many good comments most of the comments were bad comments but I think I found 3 quality blog comments on this drawing.

Value for money shopping

Today we did a Value Shopping task. We had a budget of $50 our things we had to by were

1. Toothpaste
2. Shampoo / conditioner
3.Eggs
4.Bacon
5.Milk

I tried to get my lowest price and the lowest I could find and get down to was $ 13.48.

The hard part about this was finding the lowest prices you could get down to.

And the easy part was using the online shop because you can just type in the food / drink you want and it will come up with the picture and the price of the food and drink.

-James