Katelyn's Energy Inquiry

 

Inquiry - Potential and Kinetic Energy - By Katelyn

 

In class, we have been learning about an energy topic. We got to choose a type of energy. I choose to do Potential and Kinetic energy because I thought that it was going to be fun and because I like learning about Potential and Kinetic energy. We already learned about Potential and Kinetic energy last term/1st term for the year 2021 and I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed making this because I like to make things that can teach others with what I learned. This was difficult because I was stressed, I thought I was not going to finish it. But after an hour or so, I finished it. I made a speech and two microphones as well because one of the things that have potential and kinetic energy is a microphone, when you drop the mic after saying something epic or funny or if you just wanted to do that. 

Hope you enjoyed :)
By Katelyn.M
See you next time! :)

Manawa Solar Panels

 

 hi for the past week we have been learning about solar panel and energy today we finished making a model of our school and add leaves as are solar panels  and where we think it should go so I and my friends  made are  one out of cardboard then we had to make a video of  are model it toke me about 1 week to do this 

Ella- Solar Panels

 

Solar panels for Paroa School

 

Today Milla and I created a small map of Paroa school (Our school), then we added leaves which we used as solar panels. We added solar panels to most buildings in the school. We have been looking at energy for about 4 weeks now but we are doing energy for 10 weeks. For the past 1 week, we have been focusing on solar energy and we had to create what our school would look like with solar panels and why we need them. Milla and I learnt that solar panels are really expensive, they cost around 3,000 to 30,000 dollars. We enjoyed making the model, we started off by making it 3D  but then we realised we only had one day left so we made is 2D instead.

Harry- Solar Panels

 

Solar panels

 

Today we made a model of our school and why we would need solar panels. our model shows the school we also learned about solar panels and how much KW they generate in sunny conditions. I enjoyed researching solar panels.

Curtis- Tāwhirimātea

 

Energy.

 How do wind and the sun affect your daily life? The sun affects your daily life by giving you light and some people power. The wind affects your daily life by being able to fly a kite.

What activities do you do that engage the energy of the sun and wind?

I go outside and play with my dog by throwing a bone or a dog toy for her. I also go to the beach and feel the breeze when it is really hot so I don’t faint.

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The ways Tawhirimatua influences us.

He influences me by making me want to try bodyboarding because the waves he makes look cool and fun to bodyboard on.

This week we have been researching more energy stuff. I liked that we had a book to read off of. I didn't like that it was hard to find the stuff I wanted to wright down.

Keil- Solar Panel Model

 

why we should have solar energy at our school

 

today we did T-shaped literacy and we had to make a model of the school and explain how and why we should have solar power at our school. We explain how much money and energy it would take and help us I hope you enjoy it.

Tahlia- Solar Panels

 

Our solar panels work with EC and HM

 

Hi there today I have been working on this with my mates Harlen and Emily this is a thing about how our school How it will use a solar panel to work for our whole school and our little buddies will see who the best-looking one and I think we will win hehe. The best part of doing this was just having fun and burning my finger.  

Jesse- Solar Panels

 

Solar panels

So today we did how many solar panels does it take to have our class have solar panels it was fun making this and we are also making a real-life model to make solar panels so that's what we did this week for today.

And this is what we did for the 3d model

Made by Jesse, harry,Curtis

Lotte- Solar Panels

 

solar panels, why we need them

 

Today still continuing on with solar energy I made this drawing on solar panels. In this drawing you'll find how much solar will cost to a school there safety and much more. The hardest part of this task was making sure everything I was putting down was environment friendly. I hope you enjoy this post!  

Dean- Tokelau energy

 

how does tokelau get its electricity

 

today we finished our t shaped literacy my favorite part was finishing it because if we didn't finish it we would have to do this at home and my least favorite part was reading the pages to get the information to write down because it took a very long time too read the story.  

Eden's Electricity Poster

 

E.M How Electricity is made.

Kia Ora everyone! How are you? I hope you are having a great day today! So for T-shaped Literacy, my class were supposed  to make a model or draw a poster about wind, electricity, or other stuff. I decided to pick how electricity is made. This took me about 1 hour to make and finish. I found this fun and cool cause I enjoy doing writing. I also found this easy and hard cause I didn't really know what to draw then after a bit I got the hang of it. Please go and check out my work down below! Bye thanks, Eden.

Harlen and Tahlia's Hydropower

 Hi, there I'm Tahlia this is a blog about a podcast around how hydropower works and how it gets to your house me and my friend Harlen tried very hard to do this hope you like it.  

Tahlia's Kinetic and Potential Energy Comparison

 

Hi there today I have been watching this video about kninetic and potential energy. My favourtie part of this blog was finding out the info. 

Renewable energy

 For the past two weeks for literacy we have been looking at renewable energy. After we completed all of our learn tasks we were asked to make a model of our school and research what renewable energy would work for our school. We then had to research how much solar panels would cost and if they would actually work for our school. There has been some incredible learning going on and we would love if you could leave us some comments on our blogs.

Harrison's Word Maps

 

T-shaped literacy

 Today in Whenua we had to do the next t-shaped literacy activity above is the three energy word maps I did hope you enjoy. The easiest part for me was getting the picture on the word map because all you had to do was search up something like a negative feedback loop and it will have pictures of a negative feedback loop. The most difficult part for me was getting a lot of facts because most websites had the same information on them. By Harrison

Luke's Pool of Knowledge

 

pool of knowledge.

 

this was fun in the making because we thoght of funny things but we didn't put it in it was also fun to insert the photos. evryone cracked up wene tane put energy drinks give you power.

Lotte's Brainstorm

 

brain storm on solar and wind energy

 

Today we did a brain storm on wind and solar energy we had to answer two questions: how does the wind and sun effect our lives and what activities involve these two types of energy. The hardest part of this task was making enough information. I hope you enjoy post!     

Daisy's Energy Word Map

 

word

 

Lotte's Compare and Contract

 

comparing and contrasting energy

 

Today for my learning I am doing T-shaped literacy, we had to, as you can see read supporting texts A and B and buddy up to compare and contrast the texts, I was buddies up with daisy and did text A. The hardest part of this task was trying to identify what was different about the text but in the but as the text went on the easier this got. I hope you enjoy my post.     

Eden's Energy Reflection

Kia Ora everyone! So today Miss Farr told us to answer the questions down below, so today I'm going to be answering them. This term we are learning about energy and what it is. I think that this blog post is going to be fun and easy. I think this blog post will take me about 10 minutes to finish. Please go and check out my work down below! Bye thanks, from Eden.

Questions about Energy- Task 3.

- How much did you already know about energy?

The things that I knew about energy were that energy came from the sun, wind farms, electronics, Cars, Trains, Computers, Phones, Tablets, Power lines, Electrical Fences, Solar Panels, Tvs, Water Systems. 

- Were there any surprises.

I was a bit surprised when I found out that there was water energy and Many more. I was also a bit surprised that I could memorize all of these things that make energy. 

-What questions do you have about energy?

My questions about energy are how does energy work? I mean it's a bit confusing. Another question is how many things make energy? I mean, there must be thousands.