Month: October 2024

Nikaia and Mienke Bouncability

Last term we were learning about science. Our first topic was bounce-ability.

What you do is you drop the ball from the roller then measure how high it goes. Then the next day you will do the same and see if there’s a different. 

Our question:

How does the type of ball affect how high it bounces?

What do you want to find out? 

I would like to find out what is on the outside of the balls that make the balls bounce high?

Why does the ball have a shell that can make it bounce?

I want to find out if there’s a certain size to make the ball bounce?

What are the weight of the balls

 

Draw a labelled diagram. 

Basketball Tennis Ball What happened
Tuesday 100cm 31cm It was windy, and we did not have enough rollers.
Wednesday 91cm 88cm It was sunny and the basketball was flat.
Monday 74cm 36cm It was cold and there were not enough rulers and balls and the basketball was not pumped up.  

 

What are you going to do? 

We will bounce a basketball outside 

Surfaces is concrete, playground, / basketball, tennis ball, soccer ball, netball, small ball and hockey ball / ground surface that will change

 

What do you think will happen? 

We think that the smaller the ball the higher it goes. 

We think that the bigger its is the less it bounces.

Everyone thinks that different sizes of the ball can count how high or how low goes.

 

What things will you keep the same? 

We always used the same surfaces.

The way we dropped it was always the same.

 

What did you find out?

That the basketball bounces higher than the tennis ball.

The Wiki o Te Reo Maori

Last term we celebrated Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori. You could choose if you wanted to do a poem or a diorama and I did one a diorama with Mienke and we did a forest.

We had to display the names with Maori names.  I learnt all the Maori name’s for are forest like the tree is

(Rakau)and river(Awa)

 

 

I also did the Maori names of money.

 

Nikaia Sea turtles

How does a sea turtle become an adult?

A sea turtle is an animal that lives in the sea with a big thick shell on its back to protect them from sharks and others living in the sea. In the summer, when the water is up to 50-77 degrees Celsius. They mate.  A life cycle is the different stages of a turtle life which has 8 stages to move through. There are some different types of sea turtles and many live for 50 years. Sea turtles help in many ways they protect the coral reefs. In the old days they used to kill the turtles and take their shells and make bracelets. Female sea turtles usually lay their eggs in summer. The temperature of the sand will affect whether or not it is a female or a male hatching. Once the baby turtles are hatched they usually wait 5-3 days to come out then they pull themselves out of the hole into the ocean only some survive because of the seagulls and other birds. The female turtle crawls up to shore to lay her eggs, turtles usually have around 180 eggs. They lay between 1 and 9 clutches of eggs per season. 

Once they lay their eggs they return to their home and once the baby turtles hatch they pull themselves to the ocean. Baby turtles crawl to the ocean for food and hide from all the predators that try to catch them. Once they do it all turns into a catastrophe of them scrambling to the ocean. 

Turtles swim to flotsam ( sea debris) so they hide from all the predators. They can hold their breath for 2 hours and then come up for some air.  Turtles are most likely to be found in the tropical and subtropical waters.

Sometimes In the summer or fall-spring, the water is up to 50-77 degrees when they mate. They do it in that weather because the water is warm

Nikaia