Plants

AIM: TO LEARN ABOUT THE NATURE OF PLANTS

Plants fall into two categories:

1. Evergreen

2. Deciduous

Deciduous

Evergreen

Evergreen: 

1.  Western Redcedar

2. Tsuga Sieboldii

3. Mountain Hemlock

Deciduous:

1.  Red Maple

2. Claret Ash 

3. Sweetgum    

LEAVES

Simple                                 Compound   

MY LEAF COLLECTION

1.

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound
Leaf colour: Green/Yellow

Photo of leaf:

2. 

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Leaf colour: Green

Photo of leaf:

3.  

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Leaf colour: Green

Photo of leaf:

4. 

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Leaf colour: Green

Photo of leaf:

5.  

Plant type: Deciduous / Evergreen

Leaf type: Simple / Compound

Leaf colour: Green

Photo of leaf:

RESEARCH 4 TYPES OF PLANTS

Carnivorous plants
Pine trees
Fruit trees
NZ Natives

Title: Carnivorous plants
Examples:
1. Venus Flytrap

2. Drosera Capensis

3. Nepenthes Rajah

4. Pinguicula Randiflora


Habitat: Where do they live? In hot place and overseas. 

Country: North America, southeastern Asia, Australia and typical places.

Climate: Hot dry.

Title: Pines trees
Examples:
1. Stone Pine 

2. Monterey Pine

3. Sugar Pine

4. Pitch Pine


Habitat: Where do they live? Sub topical. 

Country: New Zealand and Northern Hemisphere.

Climate: Sub Topical.

Title: Fruit Trees
Examples:
1. Sugar Apples 

2. Coconut 

3. Papaya

4. Lychee

Habitat: Where do they live? Sub typical.  

Country: New Zealand and typical places.  

Climate: Cold place and typical places.

Title: NZ native trees
Examples:
1. Kauri

2. Ti kouka

3. Kōwhai

4. Pohutukawa


Habitat: Where do they live? Forests. 

Country: New Zealand.

Climate: Mild winters, moderately warm summers, and well-distributed rainfall.

Stop Motion - Art

Through these past weeks 7/8Al & 7/8Wh have been doing art. For art we are doing stop motion and for our stop motion we are using Clay/Plaster. Art for us has been going good until today, today we found out that someone in the school has taken our iPad which we were using for stop motion in art. Otherwise we have finished our play script, finished taking photo for our stop motion and now we just have to do a voice over of our play script. 

Photo: 

Crystal Types - Science

AIM: TO LOOK AT THE 7 DIFFERENT TYPES OF CRYSTALS

Salt Crystals

Sugar Crystals

Borax Crystals

7 different crystal shapes

Type:	Number of sides:	2 examples:	Image:
Triclinic Definition:	14 sides
Monoclinic Definition:	15 sides
Orthombic Definition:	12 sides
Trigonal Definition:	16 sides
Hexagonal Definition:	19 sides
Cubic Definition:	12 sides
Tetragonal Definition:	12 sides

Crazy Crystals

Aim: To learn about a saturated solution and how to make crystals.

Definition of solution: 

A liquid mixture, when something is dissolved into a liquid.

(Eg; Sugar, salt and borax and water.)

Definition of saturated: 

Having or holding as much as can be absorbed of something.

(when no more sugar, salt and borax can be dissolved into the water)

Borax's Crystals  

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 3 pipe cleaners

4: 1 Peg

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 4 table spoons of borax

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 3 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and borax. We also got a plastic spoon to mix's the ingredients together.

Step 2: My teammate twisted the 3 pipe cleaners into a star, then put a peg on one color. 

Step 3: Then we all had a turn mixing the borax's into the warm water, and making shaw it was saturated.

Step 4: After mixing the ingredients together I got a piece of paper and write our names and the types of crystals. 

Step 5: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Sugar Crystals

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 1 pipe cleaner

4: 1 peg 

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 7 tablespoons of sugar

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 1 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and sugar. We also got a plastic spoon to mixed the ingredients together.

Step 2: Then we all had a turn mixing the sugar into the warm water, and making shaw it was saturated.

Step 3: After mixing the ingredients together, we wrote sugar crystals on the plastic cup.

Step 4: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Salt Crystals

Materials

1: Plastic cup

2: Plastic spoon

3: 1 pipe cleaner

4: 1 Peg  

5: 1/2 cup of warm water

6: 4 tablespoons of salt

Process

Step 1: As a group we went up to the teachers are got 1 pipe cleaner, a peg, a cup with warm water and salt. We also got a plastic spoon to mixed the ingredients together.

Step 2: Then we all had a turn mixing the salt into the warm water, and making sure it was saturated.

Step 3: After mixing the ingredients together, we wrote salt crystals on the plastic cup.

Step 4: Then we put the plastic cup with the ingredients on the paper, and we then put it on a red tray.

Findings

Crystal Type	Shape (Describe the shape)	Size (of individual crystals)	Hardness (Crumbly to Rock Hard)
Borax	Our Borax crystal covered the bottom half of the pipe cleaner star. - Cube	No sizing	Hard
Sugar	Our sugar crystal didn't form into a shape	No sizing	Soft
Salt	Our salt crystal didn't form into a shape	No sizing	Soft

Sugar crystal results - 2 photo's

Borax crystal results - 2 Photo's  

Salt crystal results - 2 photo's  

What crystals worked out best and why?
The borax's crystals were the best, because the pipe cleaner star formed more crystals on the bottom half than what the salt or sugar one did.

Tāne Māhuta

Today 7/8Al, 7/8Mt, 7/8Ts & 7/8Wh were working around the garden and compost bins. All of us started picking plums and picking up rubbish, sticks and garden waste in the compost bins. 

Where?

Firstly we went to the garden, we picked plums to eat and make so yummy food out of. After having a hand full of plums, we put them into a black clean rubbish bag. Once we through we had enough, we left with about 4 bags half full of plums. Secondly we went to the compost bin near the garden, we were picking rubbish, sticks and garden waste up. Once all the rubbish we could see was gone, everybody started picking up the sticks and garden waste.

Something I want to make with our plums:

Recipe:

1. Sift the flour, cinnamon, salt and baking powder.
2. Cream the butter and sugar until light. ...
3. Add the lemon juice and rind, then stir in the flour mixture a little at a time.
4. Put the batter into a greased, flat cake tin or tart dish. ...
5. Press the stoned, halved plums into the batter, cut side up and close together.

Waitangi Day

Waitangi Day

Kia Ora Koutou,

This past week my class and I have been working around this subject called Waitangi. Here's what I've wrote down by hand in my texted book.

1. When was the Treaty of Waitangi signed? The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on February 6th 1840.

2. What 2 groups signed the treaty of Waitangi? The Māori chiefs and the British leaders signed the treaty of Waitangi.

3. True of false 

a. The treaty was signed in the bay of Plenty? False

b. There were 2 different versions of the treaty of Waitangi? True

c. The treaty of Waitangi is one of the most important documents in Australia history? False 

d. Waitangi Day has been officially celebrated since 1974? True

e. The treaty misunderstanding lead to conflict? True

4. Summarizing the texted:

The treaty of Waitangi had a misunderstanding between the 2 tribes.

5. Mix and Match

a. Taonga/Treasure

b. Sovereignty/Power

c. Commemoration/Remembrance, Typically, Expressed in a ceremony  

d. Conflict/A serious disagreement or argument 

e. Leader/Someone or something that leads or is able to lead

f. Iwi/Tribe

6. Letter to a friend

To: Addyson 

From: Shontelle

Subject: Waitangi Day

The Treaty of Waitangi was signed on February 6th 1840. The māori tribe and the British tribe celebrated Waitangi day apart.

Bye Bye Addyson

7. 

8. When I read the article, it reminded me of:

It reminds me of a way to celebrate the Māori culture.

9. Agree and disagree statements

Agree statement: 

Yes I agree New Zealanders understand the treaty of Waitangi. Aslo heaps of New Zealanders go the celebrate Waitangi.

Disagree statement:

I disagree because my family don't celebrate like others family's do.