Science Badges!

Science Badges:

  

'Conservation'  

• Climate Science
• Global Warming
• Recycling
• Renewable Energy
• Fossil Fuels
• Ecology
• Our Planet
• Water
• Plants

1. 15 Points are needed to get a badge
2. A high standard of work.

• All experiments are written up ( Aim, Materials, Steps, Conclusion)
• Two photos of your experiment
• 6 sentences at least for a conclusion

Science will be twice per week.

• Lesson 1: This will be an Experiment that involves blogging. You will be expected to open a new post, copy Mr. Palmer's blog and paste it on your new post.
• Lesson 2: This will be an Investigation that relates to the topic of Lesson 1. It will be own choice and displayed in a way that you prefer. For example - PowerPoint, Doc, etc

BLOGGING.

All the blogs and science lessons will be displayed on Mr. Palmer's blog: 

http://mrpalmersscience.blogspot.com/

Bookmark it!

Expectations:

• 1 blog must be completed per Hurumanu lesson.
• A completed blog must have the four headings ( Aim, Method, Findings, Conclusion), correct writing and punctuation under each heading and be published. No post, no points.
• 2 images of the experiment/investigation on the blog.

Using the Scientific method of investigation:

Aim: What the experiment/investigation is about.

Method: Instructions on how the experiment/investigation is carried out. This includes the equipment.

Findings: What have we learned or found out from our experiment/investigation. This is called Data, Information or Facts. It is displayed in a chart, table or picture.

Conclusion:  3 Hurumanu goals

1. I will be focusing on getting as many posts posted with detail to achieve a badge.

2. I want to add photos and being able to finish the posts on time and if I don't have enough time to finish it I can use my own time and do it as a homework.

3. Always listen to the instruction properly or listen to the teacher so I can successfully achieve the experiment and other things.

WATCH THIS VIDEO AND COMPLETE THE INVESTIGATION.

THE BIG PICTURE

• What animals keep our jackets warm? - birds, sheep, silkworms, 
• What animal makes our boots waterproof? - It was inspiration from ducks since their feathers and bodies can be dry and be waterproof.
• Where does the water in our rivers come from? - Snow and rainwater, also the groundwater.
• Why do we need healthy rivers? - Because from the river some of the water goes to our tap and then the rest goes to the sea if our water turns bad we could be sick and have a stomach ache because of having bad water since we drink water from the tap.
• What are some of the good things about mosquitoes? - Their larvae clean all the bacteria from our river like all the slimy stuff. Also, they are excellent pollinators for our flower which is good for our environment. Without them the fish will be hungry birds and we would drink dirty water. 
• Why are bees dying? - 30 to 40% of them die every year but some people think it's because of cellphone towers, pesticides, exotic mites, and predators on the bee's body. 
• What do bugs do to our leaves - They reduce Reuse and recycle.
• R - Reduce
• R - Re-use
• R - Recycle
• How much dung would we be in if there were no dung decomposers? - 7 feet of dung.
• Who runs this planet? - All of Nature and all of the living things on this planet are the only people/animal who runs this planet because without living things we couldn't live properly.

GROUP ACTIVITY; 

1. Groups of 3 or 4 students.
2. Need A3 copy paper.

THE ICECAPS HAVE MELTED. MOST OF THE LAND IN THE WORLD HAS BEEN FLOODED AND YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS ARE ON A BOAT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. YOUR BOAT IS SUDDENLY STRUCK BY A STORM AND YOU BECOME SHIPWRECKED ON A SMALL ISLAND. YOU ARE ONLY ALLOWED TO SELECT 20 ITEMS FOR YOUR GROUP. A SECOND BOAT IS TRAVELLING NEAR YOU BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO REACH YOU FOR 1 MONTH SO YOU NEED TO GATHER ENOUGH SUPPLIES TO LAST FOR A MONTH.

In your group you need to:

1. Make a list of the 10 things you are going to collect.
2. Draw a map of the island.
4. Draw and label the activities you will be involved with.

• Renewable energy sites ( wind, solar, hydro, )
• Living/shelter
• Growing food
• Write 3 sentences about how your group is going to live for the next month.

When you are drawing your map you need to list 4 places you can have renewable energy sites.

Hurumanu-Fossils Fuels

Hurumanu - Fossil Fuels.

 

Aim: To look at how fossil fuels are contributing to climate change and how we can prevent this.

Definition of Fossil Fuels:

Fossil fuels is a very natural fuel such as the coal,crude oil or gas,formed in the geological past form the remains of living organisms like plants or animal in the earth.

Scientific Terms for Students

• coal: a dark-brown to black solid substance formed naturally from the compaction and hardening of fossilized plants and used as a fuel primarily for electricity generation
• natural gas: a mixture of hydrocarbon gases that occurs naturally beneath the earth’s surface and is used as a fuel primarily for cooking and heating homes
• renewable resource: a resource that is never used up (e.g., solar energy)
• non-renewable resource: a resource that is not replaceable after its use (e.g., coal, gas)

Examples of Fossil Fuels:

1.   Coal 
2.   Oil
3.  Natural gas

Activity: 

In groups of 3 you will learn about different fossil fuels and the way they are mined?
Each group will be given a fossil fuel. The recorder will read it to the group. The recorder will write down some of the important points.
Person 1: Recorder: to write down 5 points of interest from the text. 

1. 5 Points:
2. Positives and negatives of your type of mining.

Person 2: Reporter: to read back to the class their 5 points of interest.
Person 3: Collector: Gathers the required stationary from the teacher.

Mining Fossil Fuels

What Fossil Fuels are mined? Coal, Oil, Natural Gas
How are they mined?

1. For oil, they drill them very well into an underground reservoir, because when oil has been tapped and mud logger. 
2. For coal, they used a giant machine to remove coal form the ground, they used two methods because some mines are 1,000 feet deep.
3. For Natural Gas, they also used giant machine like the oil, there a large piece of drilling equipment and used to drill the dirt and through the soil and rocks to the natural gas.


Where are they mined?

1. The United States
2. Australia
3. Russia
4. China
5. South Africa

Activity;

On the sheet provided you need to make two drawings of your cookie. 
1. looking down at it. 
2. side on -  of the imaginary habitat that will live on the top of the cookie. ( trees, buses, flax, sea, etc)

Material:

1. Cookie
2.   Paper
3.   Pen
4.  toothpick  

Steps:

1. First you need to draw the cookie don't break because you need to compare the cookie after you remove the chocolate chip.
2. After that you need to draw a habitat it can a forest or something you want. 
3.   There are some question below that you need to answer about to your habitat you need to answer these questions.
4.   After that you need to remove the chocolate chips from the cookie using the toothpick and draw the cookie again.
5.   You need to draw your habitat and imagine that some people do a mining on your habitat.
6.   After your done drawing you need to answer the question about how it change and what happen on the life of the living things that living on your habitat.

Once you have drawn your cookies you must take 2 pictures and upload them to your blog:

 

Findings: What did you find out as a result of your mining?

Conclusion: 
 I really like doing this activity because I learn a lot of things  like when we are mining the cookie I felt bad that if the cookie broke my whole world spilt and I felt sad about that because if that happen the animals and the trees that lived in my forest will die because it will became dry and the animals will lost their habitat and they have anything left.I learn that mining things was really bad to our world.