Projects - getting started

On Monday the 24th of July we all gathered around and talked about the projects we were going to do. We had a range of options you could either learn it, prove it or teach it. In those areas were options of what you could do. For an example if you wanted to do a prove it you could do a science badge or a science fair project. I decided to do a science badge on zoology. A science badge is when you choose your badge that you are going to work on for your project whether it is zoology or marine biology in those badges are activities. Each activity is worth one, two or three stars. Once you have completed a activity you have to get it signed off with your learning adviser. You have to get at least 20 stars to earn you badge. When the science badges arrived with all the activities. I had to choose activities that will earn me 20 stars. Once I knew what activities i was doing I listed them onto a google doc. 

immersion - roller coaster

Projects - fitness

Last term we got into groups for projects. Our main two focuses were in fair trade and fitness  my groups idea was to stop laziness from happening all the time. We brain stormed ideas and created a how might we... Our how might we was how might we develop a plan for HPPS in order to become active and fit. Once we knew what we were doing. we created a google slide and researched about what types of fitness you could be doing. We also made fitness cards for people that want to use it. during projects I learned that it is important to exercise because if you don't exercise it could lead to a sickness. We also recorded our heart rates before and after. I found it hard to test the fitness cards because it was very tiring and hard because some of them were lower than the before time. Our celebrations were that we finished the project in time and we got things done.  

stain removal- immersion

Today for immersion we were trying to use different substance like (lemons, vinegar and different types of detergents.) To remove grass stains, mud stains, and food colouring stains. We got into groups of four and decided on what stain we are going to have. And what things we are going to use to clean it with. We chose to use food colouring for the stain and lemons, detergent and vinegar to remove the stains. Before we tested them out we all wrote a hypothesis, my hypothesis is that vinegar will work the best. Then we tested them out. We cut out three small pieces of fabric. And squeezed four drops of food colouring on the piece of fabric. And smeared the detergent on the fabric and ran it under the tap. and it ended up working. There were only a few small stains that you could hardly see. Then we tested the vinegar and it worked again. There were only a few stains. Then we tested out the lemon and it was the same but a few more stains. Still appeared on the piece of fabric. My hypothesis was wrong turns out detergent works the best and vinegar was the second best.

energy

ENERGY

Documentation

Documentation

The end of term 2 we have been working on music, technology, and art we got to choose what we were interested in i choose art/ sketching because art is one of my passions once we got a group of people that enjoy art in my group there is ( Jacky, Chanel, LJ, Jesse, Natalia, Patience, Callan, Evan, Roger, Aidan and Ethan) started to think what we should sketch and where should we put it so we were writing our ideas down and finally we had an idea our idea was to sketch drawing for the bathrooms because we thought that there is not enough colour or art.

The start of term 3

we surveyed lc1, lc2 and lc4 to see what art they were interested in 70% of them choose to do things related to Hobsonville point such as Catalina cafe, parks, Hobsonville point primary school and other things related to Hobsonville point. Once we knew what they were interested in we started to say what we were sketching i choose to do the front view of the school (hobsonville point primary school.) because it is part of Hobsonville point.

Getting started

I searched up an image and started to do the main parts of the school ( the building and the stairs) once i sketched the stairs and building i started to think about if i should colour the whole school in or should i just colour in one thing like the plants or the logo. I asked the other people in my group what i should do most of them said that i should colour in just the plants and logo so i went with what most of them said once i knew what i was doing i got a A3 size paper and started to sketch the front view of the school. I used different techniques such as shading, colouring and other techniques you can use.

Progress so far.

Once i completed the main part of the school i started to think how i was going to draw the ramp the ramp is definitely one of my challenges so far because i couldn’t get the lining right so it was wonky. After the 5th try i finally got it right.

And i decided i should add a bit more detail by adding logo and the quote (reach for the sky) so it looks more realistic. The hardest part was to get the proportion right because i either did it to

A few people in our group went to the warehouse to buy the frames for our sketches once we had them we placed them into the frames.

this is my final copy.