Eggonardo Da Vinci Lives Up To His Family Name

Today at Enrich the Physics group made their own custom parachutes. Mine was a Leonardo Da Vinci type parachute that consisted of a big parachute with a little parachutes attached to it. Both parachutes had a small hole in the middle for stability. When we tested them, though, my plan for a great flight was       destroyed when my parachute made a world record breaking 0.87 second drop from about three metres.  Later on we did more on our environment project and I worked on the fliers to hand out and worked on my proposal to the ICC to send out the fliers around the Thomson's Bush area.

Egg-a-chutes

Today at Enrich we chose new High Interest Stations and I chose Physics. The other choices were Maths (Fibonacci Numbers/Sequence) and Art (3D Drawing).
In Physics we made parachutes out of different materials and we are testing the parachutes with eggs.
We worked in pairs and I worked with Je Eun and we made a parachute out of blue tartan material.
All the parachutes were a circle of the same diameter and had the same design except for the material.
At the beginning of lunch we tested the parachutes and Je Eun and I did pretty well.
Our egg, Scotty, came out at the end with only a little graze on his side.
Overall, no one got a broken egg while testing.

Looking forward to next week when we make custom parachutes.

Bye,

Declan

Soldier Cartoon

Today at Enrich at the cartooning group we could choose something to draw from a cartoon book and then upload it to Kid Pix and colour it in.

I chose this soldier cartoon:
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                                               Which I then changed to this:

         
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Later on I worked on my Environment Project and started working on the brochures about Thomson's Bush to hand out.

Cartooning

Today at Enrich we split up into new High Interest groups and I chose Cartooning with Katie.
Since I had already been in the Science group I couldn't join this time.
The other group up for choice was Biology, which I wasn't too worried about.

In Cartooning we drew some cartoon characters as demonstrated by Stu Duval on his website,
www.studuval.co.nz.

Earlier in the day, we did our Environment Projects. My Environment Project is handing out Thomson's Bush Predator and Pollution awareness fliers around the Thomson's Bush area. I am working with Kyle and Jackson which is good because we can split up the workload between the three of us, eg. I type up info, Kyle researches and Jackson surveys on Google Earth.

Next week we are probably going to start making the fliers.

Type To You Later,

Declan

Teacher comment

It was great to see how well you and your group worked on the technology challenge today Declan.
I was also impressed with the amount thinking and effort you are putting into getting an environment project that you are passionate about and that will make a real difference. I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with Declan - Keep up the good work
Darryn

Mural Designs

Today at Enrich we did some mural designs in groups of four. These designs were for our Invercargill/Environment Project. We had to use some photos of Southland/New Zealand Icons and we had a sheet of paper on which we had to fill up as much of the space as possible with either the pictures or drawings.

Later on we had a lady called Anastazia from Environment Southland come in to talk about the Waihopai River and how it is filled with sediment(Mud). She told us about how we can help and why the sediment is bad. The sediment blocks up dams and is very harmful to animals/wildlife living in the river.

Elephant Toothpaste!!!

First day of Term 3 at Enrich already!

Today at Enrich we chose a personal interest group in which we would do either Science, Maths or Art.

In Science we are doing different chemistry experiments.

In Maths we are doing tessellations.

And in art we  are doing painting.

I chose Science and I had some trouble getting in.

There was a limit of 11 people per group.

There were four of us competing in a game of Paper, Scissors, Rock for the last space.

I managed to beat all four and won the title of 11th Science group member.

The  chemistry experiment we did today was making 'Elephant Toothpaste'.

Elephant Toothpaste isn't really toothpaste but more toxic foam.

Here is a website to look at if you are interested:

http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/elephants-toothpaste

I am looking forward to next week when we do another CRAZY experiment.