Friday, September 27, 2019

History of tom as a tunnel digger

History of Tom as a tunnel digger


 In the year 1923 Tom and his buddies were finishing a day of banging a
few more holes in the nearly finished tunnel. His shift was almost done 
when he heard a sound of people digging on the other side, everyone
gave a big hit and the wall collapsed. After a big cloud of dust swept
through the tunnel they met the people from the other side. 


After they walked to the end of the tunnel and got a ride with a local horse
carriage person named Lil. She asked where they wanted to go and the
answer to that was the pub. 


Five horses were used to pull a carriage and the road was rough and
jagged so they had to take a horse.  It was a bumpy ride but they got
there safe and sound. Everyone got drunk that night, they even put a
bit of bacon throw a mangle!
FACTS:
  1. What did ill's family often live in A: tents 
2. Which section of  the road needed carriages A:  Arthur's pass to Otira 
3. How did cars get up the hill earl 1920s A: 2 
horses tow them
4.In what year did the Otira tunnel open A: 1923 

5. Accidents often happen with the horses on the steep bits A:
false Started 1907.       End 1923

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

How mass affects the swing of a pendulum


In our class we have been doing science experiments for this one we did pendulum science. First there is the normal one then the one were we did painting. Here is mine.

How mass affects the swing of a pendulum
Question:
How long does it take to stop swinging depending on its mass.
Aim/Hypothesis:
We think that objects with more mass will go for longer
Results 

This is how long it took for each of the objects to stop singing.
Bottle 2mins 59 secs . 63
Microphone   2 mins 48 secs . 98
 Blue pen 2 mins 7 secs.40
Highlighter 2 mins 41 secs.19
Conclusion: It is true objects with more mass do swing for longer


Here is my second one


Science Report Pendulum Painting

Aim/Hypothesis: 
Our hypothesis was that it was going to be easy to make a pendulum painting device. Our aim was to make one.
Results:
First we tried using paint but it didn’t work because it was too watery.
So we tried again but the hole was too small. So the paint was to thick to fit
threw the hole or we are just unlucky. We tried to make a bigger hole and
the paint was still to thick. So we tried flour and it didn't go through the
funnel so we gave up.
Conclusion:
In the end our hypothesis was wrong and we didn’t achieve our aim
nothing worked. Maybe next time we could plan more and come up with
a better mix.

Tuesday, September 10, 2019

Gold mining in Waiuta

This term Te king have a topic of local history so we did research about the ghost town Waiuta and me Jakob and Zak have made this it is about the history of waiuta and how the got gold and where it was mined with also a mini video hope you enjoy.