Inclusion

Watching the video about inclusion made me feel and realise that. 

not everyone is perfect and everyone has their own different thoughts and opinions about something. Everyone had an expectation for someone based on what they looked like or what they are. 

It made me realise that sometimes we don't realise that we aren't being inclusive and maybe a little judgey, for example we might forget to greet someone in a party.

What I usually do to ensure that people are being included is I look around if anyone looks lost or ignored and ask them if they're okay, or I usually got and talk to them.

I hope you enjoyed my post about inclusion, here is a link to the video I watched.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBBirlVxVsg

WGA - Commitment

How best have I shown my Commitment so far this year?

I think that I've been pretty decent on my commitment and have been doing and studying my best to keep up with my learning. I am learning ready and dressed in the right equipment. I am respectful to people that are older than me. I try to remain focused so that I can get my work done in every class. I keep my phone safe and out of sight during class time. 

What are my two top Commitment work-ons this year?

Being able to speak in front of people and not be anxious / needing to be more confident.

Waking up more early so that I can get to school at the right time.

In which setting do I find Commitment most challenging?

I find learning spaces the most challenging because it puts quite a bit of pressure on us since we have to do a lot of work, listen to the teacher, be creative and aim for excellence, having a can-do attitude and we also have to ask questions to other people which is for some of us "out of our comfort bubble".

All Stars Politics slide.

During this term, we've been learning many things about politics and different people who've changed the world!  

Around middle part of term our teachers decided to split us up into groups of around about 4 or more. 

Me, Kristille, Ashton, Issac & Rocki got into a team together and decided to name our group the "All Stars". 

Whilst making the slides I learnt that all of us wanted to help change the world for the better in our own way, that's how our 5 policies were made. 

All of us as a group thought that our slogan should be "Help one another to make the world a better place", this slogan represented what we believed in.

All of this work was for one day which was the representation day at our school, the year 9's were going to present and it was up to the others in the Kahui to decide which they group they thought had the best policies. We are still waiting/unaware of which group won and which one had the most votes.

Here is the slide to present what we've been doing this whole term!

Heat Transfer

Heat Transfer = Moving heat from one place to another.

Example - Fire can spread from one place to another.

Example - An air conditioner can spread heat through out your house.

Conductor of heat = Can pass on heat from one thing to another.

Example - A human can pass heat on if near each other.

Example - A blanket can pass on heat f you wrap it around you.

Insulator of heat = It doesn't pass on heat.  

Example - Your house can keep its heat because of the pink stuff inside the walls.

Example - Wood can keep its own heat.

Convection = Neat transfer without contact 

Example - It moves because the hot air rises so it becomes less dense and cold air sinks as more dense.

Today in BIO we burned the outer layer of a tea bag, we threw the insides and put the wrapper of the tea bag on a heat mat. We lit a match and put it on the tea bag and it slowly rised up into the air. It did go down a couple of seconds later because it cooled down. The tea bag got lighter (less dense) due to the hotness of the fire, it went down because as the fire went out it got colder so it got more heavier (dense).

STEAM KETE

 Group Members : Faye, Kristille, Qyn & KL

Our big question is “How can we make clothes without using too many materials”. This was our big question because in the future it is more likely for materials to become limited, another thing is that we may not be eligible to use fossil fuels to manufacture the clothing. Using less materials and reusing old ones can help our environment and can improve how our future is going to look.

I contributed by helping make the dress, helped by thinking of ideas, etc.

Talking about our model, us as a group decided to use a mannequin rather than a doll. This was because the mannequin seemed to be more flexible for use and is more proper for designing/putting clothes on. As for designing the mannequin, we had to change it up because of some unexpected things that came our way. Our outfit consists of materials such as scrap fabric, yarn, plastic, etc. The outfit itself looks floral, we tried going for a simple but fashionable look. On the shoulders there are ruffles and some see-through plastic made to look like fabric. The dress is long and elegant looking. Some parts of the dress look very old-fashioned but the materials are futuristic. We made a couple of extra accessories to go with the design, as an example a hat! One of our group members made this and we liked the look of it so we added it to the design. 

A couple problems we may have encountered were disagreements and design-failure, although there were problems we still managed through them and the dress turned out to be beautiful!

TO DO NOW - It is important for high school students to learn about politics.

My thoughts are that yes, it is VERY important for high-school students to learn about politics.

Why do I think its important? Well because some parts of politics can decide their future when they vote. They should be able to vote for the right person so that they can have a great future ahead of them. Maybe someone wants to be a political party re presenter one day, in politics they can learn how to be a great leader!

An example that I can give you is that, imagine this. You're happy and living you life to the fullest, then one day election day came along and you voted for someone you THOUGHT was great. After he/she got elected your whole country started going in to a mess, you've been deceived by someone who you thought you could trust. You stop to think and say "I should've focused on my political studies more". Now this is just a thought, this can happen if you don't learn about politics.

My ending opinion is that YES i do think high school students should learn politics.