a full investigation - fulling it all together.

last week we had  to record the relationship between the height a ball is dropped form, and the height of the ball's first bounce.

equipment: metre ruler - tennis ball (or another appropriate ball) - retort stand - boss head and clamp.

we had to get into twos or threes, I was with sharlisa. our science teacher gave us a 1 meter ruler and a small tennis ball 

we taped the ruler to a door so it doesn't move when we drop the tennis ball. my job was to drop the ball and sharlisa's job was to see how height it bounce 

we start to drop it from 1 meter then went down to 80cm, 60cm, 40cm and then 20cm . we did it to see if the lower we go down the higher the ball bounce or the lower it bounces.

factual or Satirical

lets start....

the onions

the onions. do you think it's real or fake? for me it looks really fake, why? is because the photos they used looks very Photoshop, also the headlines doesn't look real or sound like it's real news. so for me it is a satirical (FAKE)

the new York time 

The new York time. Again do you think its fake or real? 

you might of heard of it or maybe you haven't. for me this is actually the first time i visit this website, so that means  i had to go through the website and read some of it, and did some research about this website, if you might ask what do i think about this website after all the research and the reading i did? first the photos looks real, second the headlines doesn't look silly or fake, and i also found out that this website was found at 1851, so far i think it's website is factual (REAL)

The civilian 

The civilian. do you think is website is fake or real?

in all this is actually the first time i ever visit this website, so that means i had to do all reading and research stuff, at first i thought it was real i mean the photos looks real, the name of the website looks convincing. but den i started to look through and did some reading. but it didn't really help me with anything so i thought this website was real but then i looks over where the photo was and seen this..

it says. what a stupid animal... i mean who would say that. i think this is a satirical (FAKE) 

dinosaur blog

how to make it....

mixed plaster of pairs with water in the cups

added a toy in the case we used the dinosaur. 

 we waited for 2 days 

after 2 days it gotten  hard nearly like a storn 

 we had to break it open with pestle and nails to get the toy dinosaur out  (but for me it was to hard so i just throw it hard in the ground) 

but my dinosaur was broken in a half 

our passion project is called move to improve. our inquiry question was: how can i change my lifestyle to improve my overall well- being


we learned how to design our own circuits for circuit training. we figured out 30%, 50% and 75% of our az effort


we did number of fitness tests like the 12 minute run, the sit-and-reach test, and an agility test. we repeated these test to check our progress.


we heard a talk from guest speaker josh Scott, a professional tract cyclist from Christchurch who is only 19 and competes internationally

we participated in ZUU fitness sessions with MR rees and Lawrence Clark, an ex head boy


we learned about nutrition and did an activity where we measured our how many teaspoons of sugar were in common lunchbox items

we learned about different apps you can used monitor nutrition

we learn  how to check our hearts rate, and about our maximum heart rate


we jogged to wycola park and looked at the fitness trail equipment

we designed our own fitness trails and presented these designs

we learned how to do interval training with running to improve recovery time

EOTC Week experience

last week all the year 8s had an out door activities, we went to 4 places, as like the the rehua marea, omaka challenges day at lake roto rohatu, and went Adrenalin forest. my favourite place i went was omaka scout camp as I learned many new skills. I found the adrenaline forest the hardest because I dont like hieghts . I learnt how to slack line and how to make a fire. I learnt about myself that I am very bad at making damper

move to improve (improvement)

Stand still jump

Sofia 1.92 Improve

Sharlisa 1.63 Improve

Hand jump

Sofia from 2.0 to 2 4 Improve

Sharlisa from 2.1 to 2.4.3 Improve

Balance test

Sofia 1.12 Improve

Sharlisa 36 Improve

Hand reach thing

Sharlisa 4.00 First time

Sofia 3.8 First time

60 meter sprint              30 meters sprint

Sofia 8.46 Improve         Sofia 5 seconds Improve

Sharlisa 10.21 Not          Sharlisa 4 seconds Improve

Zig zag run

Sofia 18 First time

Sharlisa 19 First timeim