Wonder project

This term in Te Ngahere our teachers have organised two engineers to come to our school and teach us about rockets and jobs that you can have to make/test rockets, over the next 8 weeks. This week they introduced themselves to us and told us about what their jobs are.  Troy is a civil engineer, Civil engineers design major transportation projects and supervise them. At the moment he is working on ways to transport stormwater so the towns don’t flood.  Gustavo is a Pomologists,  a Pomologist is someone that works with fruit. Right now he is creating more varieties of kiwifruit. Gustavo and his fellow Pomologists created the red kiwi fruit. When Gustavo told us how different Kinds kiwifruit where made it  was really interesting and very complicated. I had no idea how 

complicated  making different kinds of kiwifruit was.

Did you know that there is such a thing as a red kiwi fruit?

Paper Tower

In Te Ngahere on the first day back at School we did a Steam challenge.
STEAM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and 
Mathematics. We were learning to collaborate and work well with our

learning peers. We were also learning how to problem solve and use
limited material to build A tower.  We had to made a tower made out of
only, 2 sheets of newspaper and 30 cm of tape and we could not use
scissors to cut the tape and newspaper. We also only got twenty minutes
to plan and make the tower. When we got in to our groups we made a
plan. Our plan was to make our tower so it looked like a space telescope. 
We built our tower like this because we thought that it would make it as tall
as possible and it would make it very steady. Making a plan for the tower
was hard but building the tower was easy. After we built our tower we had
to bring it to the front of the class and balance it and then the teacher
measured our them. If the  tower fell over it did not count. Our tower was
1 m and 8cm tall !! Next time we make a tower out of newspaper we will
put things on the side of the tower to help keep it up.

I found that  having a big base on our tower worked well and  what did not
work well was having nothing to help hold up the tower. I worked well with
my group. I also worked well and hard on the tower.

I got my tower image from  the teachers when they took photos of us with
our towers. Have you ever had a Steam challenge ?

Science

A few weeks ago four people came to our school, to teach the school about science.

There names are Taiyo, kaitlyn, Nina and Juan. They come from the university of Auckland.
They made the colors of a rainbow out of different chemicals, Nina also made a fire out of two chemicals
mixed together. Kaitlyn poured dry ice into a box and but a balloon in it and when she took it out it was
deflated and when it touched the air it blow up again!!

The thing that I learnt was that there is something colder than the south pole (dry ice.).