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Wednesday, 16 October 2013

Gravity - Which Hit The Ground First?

 

(The link to the photo above: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_(toy))

Yesterday my partner and I conducted an investigation about gravity using certain objects like:
  • Marble
  • Rubber
  • Flat Paper
  • Crumpled Paper
  • Feather
  • Paper Clip
  • Pencil
  • Ping Pong Ball
We used these objects (names above) to see which hit the ground first. But before we went straight into it we had to predict which of the objects we think will hit the ground first. So we grabbed two objects, leveled them to see if its on an equal height then dropped them both at the same time to see what results we’ll get.

The table below shows my results:
Object Dropped

Which hit the ground first?
Which actually hit the ground first?
Marble
Ping pong ball
Marble
Marble
Rubber
Paper Clip
Rubber
Rubber
Marble
Pencil
Marble
Same time
Flat Paper
Feather
Flat Paper
Paper
Crumbled Paper
Feather
Crumpled Paper
Crumpled Paper
Feather
Paper Clip
Paper Clip
Paper Clip







Monday, 7 October 2013

A Night of Many Cultures

It was Thursday night, and the students in the Maori group were getting ready for Cultural Festival by wearing the traditional Maori clothes, the girls wore black skirts and black tops with a piupiu around their waist and the boys wore black shorts and no shirt but they did wear the piupiu.



The Cultural Festival started off with me doing the Karanga for the National Anthem and the rest of the school singing the Pasifica song to welcome and thank the people for attending this special occasion. After the Maori group finish doing the haka, the poi and the haere mai etc, the chinese group started. The girls in the Chinese group wore a red dress and the boys wore black shorts and tops with a vest.


The Chinese group ended and it was time for the Samoan group, the Samoan group had alot of supporters in the audience. The girls in the Samoan group wore pule tasi’s and the boys wore a lavalava with banana leaves around their neck. After the Samoan group it was halftime.


During halftime I was putting my costume on because right after it was the Tongan group. Halftime was up and I was on my way to the stage with Frankie and the rest of the Tongan group, we got up on stage and already had people screaming and supporting us, my brothers were supporting me by making funny faces at me and trying to copy the Tau'olunga (dance) I was doing.  While Frankie and I were doing our Tau’olunga (dance) alot of people came up on stage to put money on us. After us it was the Tongan boys’ turn. They did a dance to the song ‘Toli Lou Siale’  and the girls did a dance to the song ‘Tamaiki ‘O Loto Neiafu’. The boys of the Tongan group wore a skirt (kinda like a grass skirt) called manafao with a white singlet and a kahoa (necklace). The girls in the Tongan group wore the tapa.

After the Tongan group was the Filipino group. The girls wore a flowery skirt.  After the Filipino group ended it was the Hip Hop group the boys and the girls in the Hip Hop group all wore the same clothes but different coloured suspenders. After all the Cultural groups finished, Miss Bullot  announced the winner of the hamper and that was Mrs Oldham.