Pounawea Camp

Claudia catches an eel. "Yum, smoked eel tastes like trout!"

                       First yabby of the day - caught by Mr Hutton, on a piece of string loaded up with stinky meat.

Jack finds an empty crab shell at the rock pools at Papatowai. We found many awesome creatures including a small yellow foot paua, anenomes and a range of very cool starfish.




 Jacks hollow paddle crab shell has red spots on either side and spikey bits on the front.

The population of bug city in Earthlore is 2,000,000 bugs and growing.

Stevie, Seth and Claudia erostion challendge

                                         Standing still

This is what our house design looked like. We were challenging 4 other groups with heaps of good ideas to keep our houses standing on a sand hill. I decided to make a Tee Pee to help our house stay up. 

This is our house after the first sprinkle of water, it didn't change much it just stayed up.

                            
         Waiting for the big dump of water. Fingers crossed our house keeps standing - OOHHH.

Thanks to Stevie idea to have a stick tee pee around our house.

Overall we were the group that won the challenge as our house stayed in place and was not damaged. It was a tough challenge but we were pleased with how well our house did. If we did the challenge again we would maybe build our house on a giant rock to make our house more stable and instead of using sticks around the outside we would put sticks under our house to anchor it to the hill. We had lots of fun and enjoyed being outside in the sandpit.

By Stevie, Seth and Claudia

Which bulb is best? -Science Experiment

Thursday 22nd of August

During our studies on renewable energy sources we decided we wanted to find out if energy saving light bulbs were worth using. Some of the class had seen an advertisement on television that showed a chocolate teddy bear melting over a light bulb. We had also read during one of our web searches that a lot of the energy that is used to power light bulbs is lost as heat. We decided to test out if energy saving light bulbs or regular bulbs gave off the most heat and light based on the watts needed to run them. We brainstormed how we could test this, the equipment we would need and how we could design a fair test.

We set up the experiment in the classroom and watched to see the results. Our hypothesis was that the more energy needed to power the bulb the faster the chocolate would melt (we used chocolate frogs, not bears for our experiment).

 The class designing the experiment with the equipment.

 Brainstorming what we had to do to make it a fair test.

 We had to make all of the lights the same height from the chocolate frogs,

 Almost ready to melt some froggies!

The energy saving bulb was much brighter, but with less heat.

In the end the frog over the regular bulb was really melted and the one on the torch and flashlight were hardly melted at all. So our hypothesis was correct! Then it was time to eat the chocolate - YUM!

Written by Ms McKergow, Claudia and Jack

Road Safety J Walking

We learnt about road safety at school and made these videos with the I pads. This video is about using footpaths. 

Rippa with Mitch

Claudia reaches down to rip Wiremu's tags. She needs a tag because she has none. 

My artwork

This artwork is like my family tree! We used black background paper.  We cut the korus out and stuck them on.   We used chalk to do the outline then went over with marker pen. We used water paint.  
It was really fun doing this and made me love doing artwork even more.  

Tornados in a bottle

 Rowan and Wiremu constructing their Tornado Bottle.

 Our experiment didn't work the first time because we filled the bottle up too much and didn't spin the water inside to start a tornado spinning. (Holly and Claudia)

 If you look closely you can see the tornado funnel inside the bottle spinning around. (Nathan and Rowan)

 I enjoyed doing the experiment, we coloured our water blue with dye, it took me a couple of goes to get it right and get the tornado going. (Wiremu)

 Why did we do this experiment?  We did this so we could see how air moves during a tornado and learn about wind currents. It was really fun watching the tornado in a bottle. (Nathan)