As you may know the last week of the year is upon us. It is a frantic rush for us to complete everything. Next year Room 5 is becoming Room 14 so we are moving out of Room 5 while Room 14 is moving in. With Spec extensions, prize giving, leavers dinner, the picnic and everything else that seems to be happening this week there isn't much time to do anything besides that. But with the last week comes a lot of fun and not much work lately we have been getting into the christmas season by creating decorations for our amazing tree, listening to christmas songs and doing christmas activities and crosswords etc.
It is also the last time here at Tawa Intermediate for all of the Year 8's inclueding me and as much as i have loved my time at T.I.S i am also very excited for college.
By Jenna
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Speeches
As you may know the people from Room 5 that advanced to the syndicates were -
- Nasan
- Hannah
- Jenna
- David
- Bernice
- Roshani
They competed alongside the rest of Huia and their speeches. From there the people that advanced were -
- Nasan
- Zach
- Jenna
- Jake
- Bernice
They had advanced to the semi-finals in front of Mr Rickard and Mr Cameron. I'm sure they were all very nervous about their presentations. From there only six year 7's and six year 8's could advance to the finals. Two people advanced from the semi's and they were (drum roll please) - Zach and Jake!!!!!
It was great to see them presenting their speeches incredibly well but there could only be one Year 7 winner and one Year 8. And the winners were -
Jake Keats (from Huia) for the Year 7's
And Rhys Jennings (from Poukai) for the Year 8's
Congrats to Zach who did amazing as well, and to all the other people that had the guts to go up and present their speeches!!
By Jenna
- Nasan
- Hannah
- Jenna
- David
- Bernice
- Roshani
They competed alongside the rest of Huia and their speeches. From there the people that advanced were -
- Nasan
- Zach
- Jenna
- Jake
- Bernice
They had advanced to the semi-finals in front of Mr Rickard and Mr Cameron. I'm sure they were all very nervous about their presentations. From there only six year 7's and six year 8's could advance to the finals. Two people advanced from the semi's and they were (drum roll please) - Zach and Jake!!!!!
It was great to see them presenting their speeches incredibly well but there could only be one Year 7 winner and one Year 8. And the winners were -
Jake Keats (from Huia) for the Year 7's
And Rhys Jennings (from Poukai) for the Year 8's
Congrats to Zach who did amazing as well, and to all the other people that had the guts to go up and present their speeches!!
By Jenna
Thursday, December 6, 2012
Solar Oven Science Experiment
Question - Will a solar oven cook food???
Equipment -
- Pizza box
- Tinfoil
- Insulation/pink bats
- Pencil
- Black paper
- Glad wrap
- Sellotape
- food to cook on the oven (e.g chocolate, egg or pizza with no meat)
Hypothesis - I think that the oven will work and it will melt the chocolate, the egg will work as well but it will take a long time.
Method (for making the ovens as well) -
- Clean the pizza box.
- Cut a flap in the lid of the pizza box.
- Put the insulation/pink bats in the sides of the box.
- Put black paper in the bottom of the box.
- Wrap tinfoil around the inside of the flap you have cut.
- Use the pencil to hold the flap open.
- Put food on the black paper and cover it in glad wrap (make sure it is sunny when you put your food out).
- Watch your oven to see when it is cooked.
- When the food is cooked eat it up!!!
Results -
The chocolate work really well melting very fast. The egg was another story it didn't work at all, after an hour and a half of cooking it in the sun it was still liquid. the container it was in did start the heat up but not anywhere near hot enough.
Conclusion - The solar ovens where a great experience, even though the egg didn't work. the chocolate was delicious especially when there was marshmallows and strawberries to go along with it.
Here are some photos of the solar ovens -
Equipment -
- Pizza box
- Tinfoil
- Insulation/pink bats
- Pencil
- Black paper
- Glad wrap
- Sellotape
- food to cook on the oven (e.g chocolate, egg or pizza with no meat)
Hypothesis - I think that the oven will work and it will melt the chocolate, the egg will work as well but it will take a long time.
Method (for making the ovens as well) -
- Clean the pizza box.
- Cut a flap in the lid of the pizza box.
- Put the insulation/pink bats in the sides of the box.
- Put black paper in the bottom of the box.
- Wrap tinfoil around the inside of the flap you have cut.
- Use the pencil to hold the flap open.
- Put food on the black paper and cover it in glad wrap (make sure it is sunny when you put your food out).
- Watch your oven to see when it is cooked.
- When the food is cooked eat it up!!!
Results -
The chocolate work really well melting very fast. The egg was another story it didn't work at all, after an hour and a half of cooking it in the sun it was still liquid. the container it was in did start the heat up but not anywhere near hot enough.
Conclusion - The solar ovens where a great experience, even though the egg didn't work. the chocolate was delicious especially when there was marshmallows and strawberries to go along with it.
Here are some photos of the solar ovens -
By Jenna
Wednesday, December 5, 2012
Science!!!
Question - To see which material insulates a hot drink the best.
Equipment -
- 5 different types of material - cardboard, cloth, foam/polystyrene, plastic and tinfoil.
- 5 cups/mugs (the same kind)
- sellotape
- boiling water (the same amount in each cup)
- thermometer
- timer
Hypothesis -
I think that the foam/cardboard will be the best insulator because it is thick and it'll trap the steam in the air like material. I think that the cloth will be the worst insulator because it is quite thin and has lot's of holes in it.
Method -
- Boil the jug.
- Prepare each cup by putting the material around it and on top of it.
- Record the temperature of the water.
- Pour the same amount of water into each cup.
- Put the lids on the cups and set the timer for 10 minutes.
- When the 10 minutes is up take the temperature again of each cup and record which has stayed the hottest.
Results -
All of the water in the mugs started of at 77C
This is the placings and statistic of each mug/cup -
1st - foam/polystyrene at 63C so it dropped 14C.
2nd equal - cloth and cardboard they both ended up at 58C dropping 19C.
3rd - plastic bag at 57C dropping 20C.
and in last place was the tinfoil at 55C dropping 22C.
Conclusion -
We were correct that the foam/polystyrene was the best. but our hypothesis for the worst insulator was way off. The cloth turned out to be very good placing 2nd. It was a big surprise when the tinfoil placed last I think it shows that tinfoil is better at keeping solids hot then liquids.
By Jenna
Equipment -
- 5 different types of material - cardboard, cloth, foam/polystyrene, plastic and tinfoil.
- 5 cups/mugs (the same kind)
- sellotape
- boiling water (the same amount in each cup)
- thermometer
- timer
Hypothesis -
I think that the foam/cardboard will be the best insulator because it is thick and it'll trap the steam in the air like material. I think that the cloth will be the worst insulator because it is quite thin and has lot's of holes in it.
Method -
- Boil the jug.
- Prepare each cup by putting the material around it and on top of it.
- Record the temperature of the water.
- Pour the same amount of water into each cup.
- Put the lids on the cups and set the timer for 10 minutes.
- When the 10 minutes is up take the temperature again of each cup and record which has stayed the hottest.
Results -
All of the water in the mugs started of at 77C
This is the placings and statistic of each mug/cup -
1st - foam/polystyrene at 63C so it dropped 14C.
2nd equal - cloth and cardboard they both ended up at 58C dropping 19C.
3rd - plastic bag at 57C dropping 20C.
and in last place was the tinfoil at 55C dropping 22C.
Conclusion -
We were correct that the foam/polystyrene was the best. but our hypothesis for the worst insulator was way off. The cloth turned out to be very good placing 2nd. It was a big surprise when the tinfoil placed last I think it shows that tinfoil is better at keeping solids hot then liquids.
By Jenna
Class Speeches
As you may know by now Tawa Intermediate is doing speeches and on the 30th of November we did our class final for speeches. 13 people advanced to the final from the groups round. Here are the top 13 and their topics -
- Jenna Gotlieb - Alarm clocks
- Antonia Maunsell - Excuses for homework
- Kate Crowley - Mooloolaba
- Bernice Holford - Niue
- Christian D'Souza - Cristiano Ronaldo
- Scott Breuer - Technology
- Justin Tra - Milo
- Nathan Williams - Fleas
- Hannah Clark - Speeches
- David Phllips - Onions
- Tyreek Fuiava - Greg Inglis
- Nasan Jenkin - Wonders of the world
- Roshani Thuraisingham - Usain Bolt
All of the speeches were very good, but only 7 people could go through to the syndicate speeches. So after hard judging/scoring of each speech we worked out that our top 7 were (drum roll please)
In first place - Nasan
2nd - Hannah
3rd - Jenna
4th - David
5th - Bernice
6th - Roshani
And 7th - Nathan W
These 7 people are going through to the next round and competing against the other syndicate finalists.
By Jenna
- Jenna Gotlieb - Alarm clocks
- Antonia Maunsell - Excuses for homework
- Kate Crowley - Mooloolaba
- Bernice Holford - Niue
- Christian D'Souza - Cristiano Ronaldo
- Scott Breuer - Technology
- Justin Tra - Milo
- Nathan Williams - Fleas
- Hannah Clark - Speeches
- David Phllips - Onions
- Tyreek Fuiava - Greg Inglis
- Nasan Jenkin - Wonders of the world
- Roshani Thuraisingham - Usain Bolt
All of the speeches were very good, but only 7 people could go through to the syndicate speeches. So after hard judging/scoring of each speech we worked out that our top 7 were (drum roll please)
In first place - Nasan
2nd - Hannah
3rd - Jenna
4th - David
5th - Bernice
6th - Roshani
And 7th - Nathan W
These 7 people are going through to the next round and competing against the other syndicate finalists.
By Jenna
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