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Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Environment

Today day at Enrich we worked on our environment projects. We organize the presentation. We also did a good copy of the mural that we are hopefully doing at the airport. We sorted where we think it should go and it is very blank. This is what it looks like.

Later on after morning tea we talked about water pollution. We watched a video about the water pollution and here's a link to it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YAoyTsyM7M. It was saddening  seeing whats happening to the sea life. We found out that tortoises and turtles are now the most endangered animal groups. I hope that after you watch this you will think about you having fresh water because lots of other don't.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Fibonacci maths 2

Today at Enrich we did the high interest station again we went though and looked at other way of how the Fibonacci sequence connects to nature. Like, a rabbits family tree and a cows family tree. Up the top there is a family tree of a rabbit. You can see that the dots go 1, 1, 2, 3 and the rest of the ones that are on there. It was great learning about the Fibonacci sequence. I will probably see how far I can get at home on a piece of paper. There is also a picture of a Fibonacci spiral.  The size of the boxes are the Fibonacci sequence.  It connects to so many things in nature!

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Fibonacci numbers

Today at Enrich for math we did Fibonacci numbers. They are a sequence of numbers where you add the two number before the number for example 0 and one make 1. Here's the first 100 numbers:

 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711, 28657, 46368, 75025, 121393, 196418, 317811 29514229 832040 1346269 2178309, 3524578, 5702887, 9227465, 14930352, 24157817, 39088169, 63245986, 102334155, 165580141, 267914296, 433494437, 1134903170, 1836311903, 2971215073, 4807526976, 7778742049, 12586269025, 20365011074, 32951280099, 53316291173, 86267571272, 139583862445, 225851433717, 365435296162, 591286729879, 956722026041, 1548008755920, 2504730781961, 4052739537881, 6557470319842, 10610209857723, 17167680177565, 27777890035288, 44945570212853, 72723460248141, 117669030460994, 190392490709135, 308061521170129, 
498454011879264, 806515533049393, 1304969544928657, 2111485077978050, 3416454622906707, 
5527939700884757, 8944394323791464, 14472334024676221, 23416728348467685, 37889062373143906, 61305790721611591, 99194853094755497, 160500643816367088, 259695496911122585, 420196140727489673, 679891637638612258, 1100087778366101931, 1779979416004714189, 2880067194370816120, 4660046610375530309, 7540113804746346429, 
12200160415121876738, 19740274219868223167, 31940434634990099905, 51680708854858323072, 83621143489848422977, 135301852344706746049, 218922995834555169026, 354224848179261915075.


It get's very high numbers in the first hundred numbers. It was very fun this morning and here's a picture of Fibonacci. The largest Fibonacci number has 465 digits 

4346655768693745643568852767504062580256466051737178040248172908953655 
5417949051890403879840079255169295922593080322634775209689623239873322 
471161642996440906533187938298969649928516003704476137795166849228875
 

We explored how a Honey bee's family tree was like the Fibonacci sequence.

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Electricity circuts


We used 12 batteries in this one 
We used 12 batteries 
                                                               I think this we used 6 batteries

Today for science we made light bulbs. We used pencil leads, a jar, pie tin, positive and negative wires, eight D size batteries and tape. First we got out the batteries and taped them into twos. We attached the  wires and tried a whole lot of different leads. The first one we used was the hard kind. It exploded. The next was soft and one lit up and broke. We kept experimenting and I think it was when we used twelve batteries to power a 4B lead. Here's some pictures of most of the attempts.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012




Today at Enrich I did chemistry with Jenni. We made elephant toothpaste. We had to put rubber gloves on to protect our skin and hands. We had to because it had hydrogen peroxide in it. We added food colouring and yeast to make it rise. This was what it looked like after we poured the yeast into it up above. Mine was the second biggest. Kavarn's was the biggest  

Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Technology Challenge




Today at Enrich we did a technology challenge. The challenge was to make a shuttlecock launcher. We were put into groups of three. The people in my group were Hannah, Blake, Kyle and me. Our ideas were a sort of sling shot. The materials we used were card, tin foil, skewers, tape and a shuttle. We haven't launched them yet but I hope that it flies the furthest.

Tuesday, July 17, 2012


Custom Glitter Text



Today at Enrich we had 3 options to do. There was science (Chemistry), Maths (tessellation's) and Art. I chose Maths. I'll give you an example of tessellation's and chemistry down below. Tessellations are a pattern and elephant toothpaste is like a sort of toxic paste. We also played a Wilson game, we were in groups of 3 and we had to try and jump in a hoop , keeping our feet together.  We were almost 3rd.