Vocabulary knowledge

Tuakana Vocabulary knowledge 25/07/2017

A new life for old machines

Stator - It’s another word for a motor or a electric generator

Dam - A barrier constructed to hold back water

Agitator - This is for stirring liquid

Turbine - A machine  for producing continuous power

Rim - The upper or outer edge of an object

Coils -  A length of something wound in a conjoined  sequence of concentric rings

Kinetic energy - Energy which a body possesses by virtue of being in motion

Hydroelectric dams - When water flows by it through dams and rivers

Gully - A ravine formed by action water

Ridge - A long narrow hilltop, mountain range or watershed

Windmills - A generator that turn by the wind to generate electricity power to grind corn with flour

Simple machine's

Tuakana Simple machines 25/07/2017

Types of simple machines

Name:	Examples:	Description:
Lever		A lever helps by pulling something high up. As in there are two ends, one end has the object and the other end has people trying to push it down so it could go up in the air and be placed where needed.
Wheel & axle		This helps lower things down without having any mess or so that people don't have to get
Pulley		This helps carry things on higher level, by pulling the rope connected to the object.
Inclined plane		A inclined plane is an uneven wood or metal, used to put objects in something or to load it on.
Wedge		A wedge is really narrow, which could help split things apart like wood.
Screw		A screw helps keep things together so that it won’t fall apart.

Electricity

Tuakana Inferences activity 26/07/2017

Activity 1:

List 10 electrical appliances we use in our everyday life.

• Oven
• Radio
• Hairdryer
• Toaster
• Kettle
• T.V
• Microwave
• Fredge
• Wifi Modem
• Vacum

Activity 2:

How would our lives be different without electricity?

Well everything would be harder like doing the washing, cooking, clean and so much more. If we didn’t have electricity, it would be more difficult for us humans to live like back in the olden days.

Activity 3:

What sort of activities would be impossible  without electricity?

Welling playing on your phone would be hard without electricity because a phone battery does run out so it will be needing to charge by using electricity

Activity 4:

Where does New Zealand get its electricity from?

Its called hydropower, which uses the wind or the river's current

Activity 5:

Why is burning fossil fuels to generate electricity a problem?

Burning fossil fuels is a problem because it releases carbon dioxide, which can effect and increase global warming.

Activity 6:

How can we get electricity without harming the planet?

By using Solar panels, it’s safer and doesn’t affect global warming and plus it doesn’t release carbon dioxide, it just collects energy from the sun itself.

1. Electricity - It is a type of force or power that generates anything using electricity
2. Magnetism - Attractive and repulsive forces between objects
3. Kinetic energy - Energy a body posses by virtue of motion
4. Windmills - A generator that generates electricity to grind corn with flour
5. Water wheels - It is a large wheel driven by the flow of the water to make the water level rise higher.

Reading comprehension, Making connections

Tuakana    Making connections 06/07/2017

Today I completed this activity having to do with making connections. The idea of the game was to help out these statue’s who could understand the book they were reading, meaning we had to make connections with the given texts. When I get it right, I get all 5 gems but every time I got it wrong one gem would be taken away. As you can see I only have two because that questions was quite hard. Anyways it was a good experience because now I know what I will have to work on.

Making connections

Making connections

WALT - add and subtract fractions

WALT - add and subtract fractions