Kia Ora

Today for cybersmart we took a look at how we can tell fake from fact. First thing to look at when differentiating fact from a fake is take a look and see if it’s edited or photoshopped because sometimes our own eyes are the most reliable thing we have. The second thing we should do is ask an adult, adults don’t know everything but it’s worth a try. the final thing you should do is search online, see for yourself if it’s real or fake. Do you agree?

Kia Ora

Hello this week we took a look at how social media affects us to further improve our abilities to write an explanation writing. I first took a look at websites people created to tell us about how social media affects us to gain some vision of what I am trying to write about. I then separated my writing into the title, introduction , main body, evidence and conclusion to make sure it is structured.

So this is what we did to train our writing skills this week, I hope you gained some insight into what explanation writing is.

Kia Ora

This week for our explanation writing we had to research about how tides work and then writing an explanation writing about it.  I first researched how tides worked so I found out about how the Moon is actually the one affecting the Earth’s tides isn’t that shocking!

When I start an explanation writing I usually come up with a title then an introduction of the main body the evidence and then the conclusion to make it structured and easy to understand. I hope that i explained it well for you guys to understand thank you for reading! 🙂

Kia Ora

Hello this week’s writing we focused on the topic of explanation writing. Explanation writing is a topic of writing that focuses on explaining how or why things happen like how phones work or why we need water.  Explanation writing consists of 3 main parts the introduction the main body and conclusion.

Explanation writing often uses present tense and formal language with technical terminology to guide the reader through the information. Explanation writing also uses visuals like diagrams and pictures to make the reader visualize the topic better.

In conclusion explanation writing is an effective form of writing to explain to the reader what they need to know. Do you agree?

Kia Ora

This week all of our work on the topic of civil engineering has finally paid off, because this week we finally got to present our project to parents, teachers and even real engineers! I really enjoyed the variety of everything we did in our engineering program like building bridges and even learning about electrical circuits. I enjoyed the fact that they actually wanted us to learn about the marvels of engineering.

I learnt what civil engineering really is, civil engineering is a type of engineering which focuses on the construction and maintenance of man made objects like bridges, dams and buildings. I learnt that civil engineers get paid up to 90,000-130,000$ per year if they’re experienced. I learnt that the requirements to become a civil engineer is to get a bachelors degree in engineering with honors to be a civil engineer so becoming one is undoubtedly extremely hard. I learnt that civil engineering is one of the oldest types of engineering there is dating all the way back to ancient Egypt and the Mayan kingdom.

What I think I could’ve done better was to be a little bit more creative and think to think outside the box so I can have a unique project noone built.

Kia Ora

Today we made engineering projects and we chose from different types of engineering, electrical, civil, and environmental. For us we chose civil engineering because it is the type of engineering we know most about due to its association with bridges. First we needed to draw a book cover for our group which took us 2 hours to finish for some reason. Making the book cover was really fun and also a great way of differentiating it from other books.

We then had to make a brainstorm or in simpler words a plan on what we were gonna do. Me and my group chose to make a bridge due to its simplicity and ease. Though we had fewer people in our group compared to the others we pushed through it and can now say we did a great job.

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This week for maths we took a dive into learning things about finance and how to manage money. We took a look at what budgeting is and how to correctly spend it on needs instead of wants. We also went to Google sheets and set up a spreadsheet to help manage a character’s monthly budget, we helped calculate her income, expenditure and the amount of money she had left. We were also given an amount of imaginary money and we had to find a good way to spend it in the mornings, like spending it on eggs, toast and my personal favourite avocado. What would you spend it on.

Kia Ora

This week we took a look at the hour of code. The hour of code is a learning program where people can learn how to understand basic code. We built our own flappy bird in the way we liked it and built a cookie clicker. The hour of code also has other activities like Minecraft and Music Lab.What activity would you choose?

Kia Ora

Today we made a project based on the details of Environmental Engineering like what they do or what they earn. We learnt about the details of Environmental Engineering on careers.nz. We are also recapping what we did in engineering in the past couple of weeks like structural engineering and electrical engineering. whats your favourite division of Engineering?

 Kia Ora

This week we had another chance to do engineering but this time our topic was electrical engineering.  We were given led’s copper wire and a button cell (battery). We were given a Matariki themed card and marking inside to show where to put the led’s and copper wire. But we needed to be careful and to make sure the positive and negative sides of the led were in the right position or else it wasn’t gonna light up

One of our highlights is that we followed all the correct steps and made our one light up a little. But one mistake we made was losing one of the led’s and battery. I enjoyed this activity very much would you?