Reflection 2011

Today's the last day of enrich for the year. We had to answer the questions on the sheet above. This is my one. 

Talent Development

Today at talent development we made sherbet. The ingredients were,
Icing sugar
Raro
Baking soda
Tartaric acid
Citric acid.
We mixed it all together in a bowl and Katie gave us some each in a resealable bag.
It looked liked this:

It tasted really good.

We also made some bread. I'm not sure what the ingredients are but this is what it turned out like.

Well done on a productive session during science talent development last Wednesday.  You have been an active member of our group throughout the term, showing your interest by questioning the activities we have been completing.  The lava lamps showed an instant reaction, whereas the steel wool and vinegar would have taken a lot longer - but great to see the start of this reaction by using the heat sensor and the data-logger.  You are beginning to detail your hypothesis more by explaining why you think something is going happen.  Well done Hyrum.

Katie

Talent development

Today at Enrich we chose a new group for talent development. My group is science with Katie. Today we looked through the science lab that we will be using. You can plug in some sensors like a thermometer and a light sensor that measures how bright the light is. Katie said that it was kind of weird that one of yesterdays groups results was the opposite to ours today. Today one of the experiments was to test if different types of light were constant or fluctuating.  We tested the lights of a lamp, a candle, a remote control and a dinoscope.  We found that the dinoscope and the remote control fluctuated the most and the lamp and the candle were the most constant.

Term three reflection

This term my two stars would be first learning how to use iMovie. I know how to use it because that's what we made our documentaries on. The second one is making a documentary.  Before the start of this term I hardly new what a documentary was. My wish is that we could make another documentary next term about what we wanted to because I would do mine on animals.

Talent Development

Today my talent development group interviewed Richard Dickel. We filmed it and put it on the computer. I think we have one or two more weeks to finish our documentaries. We are thinking about going to Stadium Southland to talk about it and how the ILT helped make the velodrome. One of the questions that we used was "What would the Sharks be like if you didn't have the ILT?"

Talent Development

Today at talent development we interviewed Tim Boys. Tim Boys is a rugby player. He's in the Southland stags. We were interviewing him about how the ILT helps the Stags. Also what the Stags would be like without the ILT. He said that there might not even be the Stags if they didn't have the ILT! We recorded it all on the video camera, then put it on the computer.

We also filmed our documentaries introduction as a group.  It was hard trying to remember what to say, but it was easy importing our footage onto the computer.