Science - Respiratory System

Breathing and Respiration

Activity:

Use the slideshow to help you answer the Questions below: Respiratory System Slideshow

1. Do 15 min of Quizlet

2. Which two gases are the respiratory system trying to move:

INTO THE BODY:	Oxygen (O2)
OUT OF THE BODY:	Carbon Dioxide (CO2)

Why do we need oxygen in our body?

We breathe because oxygen is needed to burn the fuel [sugars and fatty acids] in our cells to produce energy. Oxygen is brought into the lungs via breathing, where it is transported by red blood cells to the entire body to be used to produce energy.

4. Click on the picture below… then Edit the drawing to complete the 3 tasks.

5. What do each of these features do to help us breathe:

Feature:	Breathing In:	Breathing Out:
Diaphragm	Diaphram contract and move forward.	Diaphram muscle relaxed
Intercostal muscles/ Rib cage	rib cage both upward and outward when you inhale.	Rib cage muscle relaxed
Lungs	lungs expand	Lungs deflate
Chest	Chest enlarged	Chest falls

Lightning & Colour | Wonder Film Study | Writing

Atmosphere - how you feel in a situation. (Mood)

1. Scene - Auggies first day at school - when Auggie walks into class everyone is staring at him. When he asks to sit down Amos says the sit is saved. 

•  Angle/Shot - long shot/eye level of class, closeups of Auggie to see his emotional reaction.
• Lightning & Colours - Warm - makes the classroom feel safe & welcoming.
• Bright Colours -  gives the room energy and life 
• Natural light coming from the window

Lightning and Colour - colours used in the scene, e.g nature palette had colours from nature - brown eyes.

• Warm/Cold - warm makes feel safe/comfortable. The cold makes feel clean/sterile
• Bright - vibrant, jump out 
• Dull - faded, muted, blends in
• Natural - sun/moon light 
• Artificial - man-made light, e.g lightbulbs 
• Bright Colours -  gives the room energy and life 

Effect on the Viewer - happy, chilled, exciting educational, inspiring. 

Director - want to credit a happy and safe atmosphere in Mr Brownd classroom. Even though it feels this way, Julien & Amos's behaviour is unkind. 

In the scene of Auggies first day at school, lighting & colour are used to create a safe and welcoming classroom environment. For instance, bright warm colours are used on the warm walls and natural light comes through the windows to make the space look lively. This makes the audience feel excited, inspired and that space is educational and supportive for learning. This was done to show Mr Brown had created a classroom space that would be welcoming to new students like Auggie. 

Coinciding with this is the use of body language is positive.  The children and the room are sitting up and smiling and paying lots of attention they are learning ready. This reminds the viewer of the theme kindness because the lightning and colours make the room welcoming for all students. 

Rat Dissection | Science

Kamusta readers! Welcome to another blog of mine!

Last Wednesday we did a really cool and exciting experiment.  It is a Rat Dissection experiment, we gonna need to open the rat's body and find where they're organs/digestive system is located because that's what we are learning about in class. Some of us are really gross out of the bad odour of the rat. 

The tools that we used to dissect the mouse are:

• Scalpel 
• Scissors
• Tweezers 
• Pin

As far as I know, the rat's digestive system is very similar to our digestive system. 

I really love the experiment because I've got a chance to look at a rats digestive system and I've tried something really cool that's out of my comfort zone.

After the experiment, I learned a lot on the digestive system and organs of the mouse. 

Work Shop 2: Wonder | Essay

A - Fight - Jack fighting Julien because Jullien called August Pulman (Auggie) a freak 

• Teacher pulling Jack off.  - Mr Brown 
• Dutch Tilt used - shows something is not right. 
• Low Angle 
• Makes look one person smaller than the other.
• Jullien looks weak and vulnerable.

Viewer feels - Shocked - didn't expect Jacks reaction, surprised, concerned, uneasy. 

Director - Surprised, sad, worried for Jack. 

Other techniques - Music - creates atmosphere, minor, slow-motion - make more intense. 

In the film wonder, low angle shots were used effectively. This is demonstrated in the scene where Jack attacks Jullien because he called Auggie him a freak. In this scene, a low angle dutch tilt shot is used to make Jack look stronger and Jullien weak and vulnerable. This makes the audience feel shocked, surprised, and concerned because we didn't expect a violent reaction from Jack who has not be aggressive before this point. The purpose of this was to show the theme of kindness as Jack finally stands up for Auggie.  Combined with this is the use of quiet, minor music and slow motion to create an atmosphere and make it more intense. This can be contrasted to Nature Reserve fight scene where Auggie now shows kindness by standing up for Jack 

B - Fight Scene - Nature Reserve - Auggie makes friends, high 5 no plagues, Jack, Amos and others. They beat up and ran away from 7th graders. 

• Wide-angle, Long shot -  makes us feel like we are a bystander watching an important moment, the emotions are the characters, not ours. 
• Audience - joyful, proud, cheerful, ecstatic, relieved - Auggie finally is included - has friends.
• Director - shows Auggie is finally fitting in, shows the theme 'importance of friendship or kindness' 
• Other techniques - Lightning - use of shadow - silhouette on the lining the boys, feels like they are all in it together
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RESPECT | CARR Value

Hello everyone, last Wednesday our teacher gave us a task. Our task is to make a poster about carr value (Commitment, Achievement, Resilience and Respect) in Canva. Here's a simple poster that I made.

My poster is about respect. This is my first time working in canva, so this will not be the best as you expected.

Food Hygiene | HEC

Hello everyone today in Cooking (Home Economics), we didn't really do anything. The teacher gave us a worksheet with 2 tasks to finish. The tasks that are on the worksheet are base about hygiene on the kitchen or when cooking. 

I finished my worksheets so now my tasks are to blog about kitchen hygiene/safety.

     When on the kitchen keep your eyes to safety, don't just focus on your cooking, divide your attention to cooking and your/kitchens hygiene. When you see something that's not where it supposed to be, you might think of putting it back where it belongs.

     Keep everything clean (very clean), every time you finished cooking, wash the dishes, put everything back where it should be.

Here's a poster I made myself.

Testing Food Nutrients

Testing Food Nutrients

Aim: What nutrients are present in different foods

Hypothesis: I think bread will be complex sugar, I think the egg will protein, I think the glucose (sugar, lolly) will be simple sugar, I think the apple will be complex sugar, I think the milk will be protein and I think the potato will be a complex sugar.

Method for Complex Sugar:
First, put the sample onto the test tube 
Second, put 2 drops of iodine 

Result 1: The potato, bread and apply turned black when we put 2 drops of iodine, so it means they're complex sugar.   

 The glucose, egg, and milk didn't turn black. The milk stays white,  the egg slightly turned brown-ish, and the glucose also slightly 
turned brown so it means these three foods are not complex sugar, they're simple sugar.

Method for Simple Sugar: 
1st: Place about 2ml of the sample into the test tube and then add 5 drops of Benedict's Solution.
2nd: Heat with a Bunsen until it changes colour.

Result 2: Some of the foods became orange and some of them stay lblue. The glucose turned orange after the boiling, the apple turned orange after the boiling, the bread stayed blue at white-ish, the milk stayed white and nothing happens, and lastly the egg, it's now a bit cooked because of the boiling but it's blue.

This means that on this test the only foods that are simple sugar are 
apple and glucose 


Testing for Protein - the Biuret Test
1st: Place about 2 ml of the sample into a test tube and add 5 drops of sodium hydroxide.
2nd: Add 5 drops of copper sulfate.
3rd: Shake the test tube gently from side to side.

Result 3: Two of the foods are positive to protein this is the milk and the egg. The bread stays it's colour, the sugar remains blue, the Apple remains blue and the potato stays white

Conclusion: Hypothesis ✅
Discussion: I found out that my Hypothesis is right.
The experiment was really well done and I'd learned something new. We had tested 6/6 samples of food. From my hypothesis that I had written earlier, I got 90% percent of my Hypothesis right, I said that the apple will be a complex sugar. I'm right at that one, when we're doing the experiment, it turns that the apple is both complex and simple sugar. I learned a lot from this experiment. It was a cool and calm experiment. 

Kiwi Baker

Hello everyone, last week on Home Economics Cooking we baked a bunch of scones. 

We have two choices what kind of scone we're gonna make. My groupmate and I agreed on what scone we're gonna make and it was the easy one.


Ingredients:

1. cheese
2. flour
3. salt
4. milk
5. baking powder
6. butter

Equipment:

1. Liquid measuring cup
2. Cutting Boards
3. Knife
4. Measuring cup 
5. Shredder 
6. plate
7. Butter knife 
8. bowl 

Our scone taste like nothing because we put a small amount of salt and butter and we put a lot of flour.

New Zealand Native Animal | Archey's Frog

Hello everyone, welcome to my new post. Last week on Friday we have a task. The tasks is you need to make a DLO about one native New Zealand animal, but on Friday my friend and I didn't finish the task. So today we have time to finished and here it is. 

Ms. Birtch wants us to work with a partner so we will use work with someone we don't usually work with, so we can practice communicating about the work, listening to each other's ideas. 

Learning Reflection - Health

Learning Reflection

A conclusion on what the "Whare tapa wha" is and how it illustrates Hauora? 

- Whare tapa wha is about is the 4 walls on a house/you, you need the whare tapa wha to be stabled because if one of the walls is not good, it will affect the 3 more walls and it will take you down.

How did you participate during this lesson? 

- I participated okay in the lesson because I know I understand most of the topic and I can raise my hands up when the teacher is asking questions to the class.

What is the current state of your Hauora?

-My Hauora is okay.

- I know that I need to work on Taha whanau because sometimes I find talking to/ having a conversation to adults is hard.

Wonder - Film Notes | Writing

Wonder

Intro - Close up, spaceman jumps into the shot, slow motion shot to give us the feeling we are in space.

• intro symbol of the astronaut helmet covers his face, represents the barrier August puts between himself and the world

•  music - starts quite slow but the tempo and dynamics increase to build energy in the scene. We hear a radio of ground control talking to an astronaut. 

•  next is a tracking shot as we move away from the figure. It is now a boy in a helmet jumping on the bed.

• Close-up shows us August 'reality' or view of the world but as we pull back we see the real world.

• August talking narratively and talks about his life while showing some footage. 

• 1st narrator
• Auggie
• 2nd narrator
• Via
• 3rd narrator
• Jack
• 4th narrator
• Miranda
• Last narrator
• Auggie 

• Quote = Dad/Nate: " It's like leading a lamb to the slaughter"

• 2 mins - the building suspense as we still haven't seen the boys face. We don't know what's wrong but hints it's bad - hospital scene, helmet, tags, school convo, Auggies dialogue in the voice cover.

Star Wars - a symbol of Auggie wanting people to treat him normally - a safe place in the Star Wars people so no one stares at them.

• Seen - Auggie introduces self, padawan braid,
• Star Wars character Darth Sideuous used by Jullien to make fun of Auggie.

Quote = Summer: "When being given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind."

Halloween Scene - 42:56

• Body language - change, now has head hed high, walking with a contidient stride, interacting with other
• Music - Happy/Upbeat - monster mash, fast tempo, lots of energy.
• When he hears jack saying "if I looked like him I'd kill myself" - music tempo gets slow, quiet dynamics to make us focus, use of diegetic sound - kids laughter.
• Symbols - Halloween mask - physical/barrier between others and Auggie 

Significant - We see Auggie lose faith in the idea of friendship - If Jack can be that mean behind his bach how can he trust others.

Links to the Theme - Popularity and acceptance we see this through Jack as he says what he knows Jullien wants to hear so he doesn't become the target/get picked on 

Jacks Fight Scene - 1:06:00 - 1:08:00 

• Start an eye-level - mid/medium shot, makes us feel a part of the convo.
• Sounds are diegetic 
• Low angle shot as the boys hit the ground, this makes the fight seems more dangerous. Moves to a close up the struggle. 
• Dutch tilt and low angle make Jack look more aggressive and violent. 
• Music - minor (sad), quiet dynamic - creates focus and intense, slow temp.
• Shot in slow-mo so we see the event more clearly.

Significant - Shows the theme of popularity/acceptance. Jack has learnt from his mistake and is standing up for his friend.

The Nature Reserve Fight Scene - 1:29:00 - 1:32:00 

• During fight shots used to make Auggie and friends bigger - more powerful and the bullies weak and vulnerable.
• Music has a fast tempo to built intensity.
• Friendship - Auggie finally feels accepted  when the others boys - doesn't have to hide behind a mask anymore

Significant - Auggie has grown as a character, he is now willing to stand up for himself.

Kindness- respecting others, look after each other, speak nicely, include others.

• Example 1 - Summer sits with August. This shows the theme of kindness because Summer left the kids who were saying mean things to go and sit with August who looked lonely. Kindness is important to the story overall because without it Auggie (August) will not build confidence, make friends and feel accepted. 
• Example 2 - Auggie shows kindness when he shares his answers with Jack. This links to the theme because Auggie sees someone in need, Jack isn't even his friend yet, but helps him anyway. This is important because it is the first step to enabling Auggie to make friends, being kind starts this friendship that will be important later in the film.

Importance of Family and Friendship - through this relationship Auggie and others learned the values of trust and self-confidence. They are less alone.

• Example 1 - The scene where Miranda talks about spending Christmas with the Pullmans. 
• Links to theme - Miranda is happy and included by the Pullmans.
• She is ignored/forgotten at home.
• She realises that she misses having friends/family.
• Important because makes Miranda recognise what she's lost/misses and she makes to reconnect with Via and the Pullmans. 
• Example 2 - The boys come to rescue Jack and Auggie.
• Auggie is included, has friends and is feeling trust and self-confidence.
• Ultimate example of acceptance and friendship, his classmates had his back without him asking. First time they treat him as an equal.

Being Kind vs Being Popular - doing the right thing even when your friends don't, others pressure you.

• Example 1 - Julien, picks on Auggie in front of others =, Auggie is an easy target, it makes Julien look popular when the others laugh.
• Links to theme - Julien chooses to be popular at the expense of others, chases to bully Auggie to seem popular. 
• Important because it shows choosing popular has negative outcomes. Julien eventually loses his friends, leave school and is unhappy. However, Jack, who choose kind has lots of friends, is happy and doesn't get kick out for bullying.

 "When being given the choice between being right and being kind, choose kind." - Summer 

Long Jump | Hurumanu PE

Hello everyone today in our PE Hurumanu we practiced long jump, I did real good on the practice. On my first try I got 2.9m and on the second one was 3.5m.

Long Jump

1. Run up is 21 steps.

2. Take off will be from the second marker.

3. Land will be measured from the back foot.

4. Land with both feet together.

5. If you are over the second marker when you jump it is a fowl jump.

Maths Book | Reading

Hello everyone, today I'm gonna talk about the book that I'm reading this past few days. 

This book is called "50 AMAZING THINGS KIDS NEED TO KNOW ABOUT MATHS". I recommend this book to you guys, why? In this book, you can get a lot of information and facts about maths. I really love how the writer puts every single detail and information on every single topic. 

Reading this book will make you love maths  "more" if you already love maths. This book gives me a lot of information about maths that I didn't know. 

If you read this book, you will understand how maths work and how maths is everywhere.

Hurumanu PE | Fosbury Flop

Hello everyone, today in PE Hurumanu, we learned how to do a Fosbury Flop in high jump. 

High Jump

Fosbury Flop

What is Fosbury flop? - The Fosbury Flop is a style used in the athletics event of high jump. It was popularized and perfected by American athlete Dick Fosbury, whose gold medal in the 1968 Summer Olympics brought it to the world's attention. Over the next few years, the flop became the dominant style of the event and remains so today.

It was fun trying a new skill that I learned. Each student in our has needed to try and use the skill. I got 1.45m high. Most of the class got lower than 1.40m, so I'm happy than I'm at above average.

1. Land with your arms and your feet facing up. Land on your back 
2. When you leave the ground you must spin around and use your knee to turn.