Biography

Jean Batten Biography

Name:

• Jean Batten

Date of Birth:

• 1909

Place of Birth:

• Rotorua (New Zealand)

Achievements:

1. England - Australia (14 days, 23 hours, 25 minutes)
2. Australia- England
3. England - Argentina

Other information:

• By The late 1930’s she had received many honours and was a celebrity until she stopped flying and became reclusive.

Blog comment

This is the blog comment I did on Jack's blog.

Tables conga

For this I did my 8 times tables.

Tables Conga

For this I did my 7 times tables.

Rockets

This is the work on rockets that me and Aung Naing did, for it we had to make rockets and test them out both times.

Flight - Explanation text

Flight

4 things that make a plane fly/fall:

Weight: is what makes the plane go down.

Lift: is what makes the plane lift up.

Thrust: is what boosts the the plane using the engines.

Drag: comes from air resistance, the more air resistance the plane has the more drag it will have.

How things with wings or propellers overcome earth's gravity:

Birds rotate their wings round and round to overcome gravity so they can fly

Planes have bigger wings (than birds) and engines which they use to overcome gravity to travel

Helicopters use their propellers to lift them up and overcome gravity.

Summarising

Text: High Flyer’s

Read the text and record key words/phrases that answer these questions:

Who? Yr 6,7 and 8 at Auckland point school

What? Making an advertisement/ replica of plane, Videoing the airplane and then adding sound

Where? At Auckland Point School - Nelson, Recycling Centre

When? Six weeks - time to make it and film it,

Why? 30 second Advertisement,

How? They used materials from the recycling centre, donated wheels, only $8 used, Used the sound of a lawn mower’s engine running as the plane's engine

Summarise the text in 25 words:

It’s	a	text	about	Yr 6/7/8
students	wanting	to	be	on
the	tv	with	their	30
second	advertisement	which	happened	when
they	were	at	camp

Average Temperature

This is the average weather I did with San Kyaw. We had to do this problem with July where we had to find out what the average temperature was. And I can see from this that averagely most people would wear rain jackets in August and May and also averagely most people would wear sunhats and singlets in February and March. my LI is to accurately interpret data and to accurately present data.

Blog Commenting

This is my comment I did on Room 2's blog if you want to see their movie here is the link: Link

Bar Graph

For this I had to go around the class and ask people what game they prefer in this case Minecraft got the most votes with 17 and coming close behind was Call Of Duty with 16 votes. My 3 LI's are to accurately interpret data,  accurately present data and to accurately collect data.

Rockets

We played this game where you could build your own rocket, But when we finished a mission on it then we realized that there were real life rockets somewhat similar to our ones.

Inference Sheet

My LI is to infer information from the text. For this my group had to read a text and do inferences about the things inside it.

Flight Explanation Text

Flight

Right now there are thousands of planes in the world but until 1903 there were none at all so the only way you could travel were with hot air balloons, cars and ships.

4 forces in flight

The 4 things that a plane has are Lift, Drag, Thrust and Weight.

Weight: is what makes the plane go down.

Lift: is what makes the plane lift up.

Thrust: is what boosts the the plane using the engines.

Drag: comes from air resistance, the more air resistance the plane has the more drag it will have.

How do flying things overcome gravity?

Birds: rotate their wings round and round to overcome gravity

Planes: They have bigger wings and engines which they use to overcome gravity

Helicopters: Use their propellers to lift them up and overcome gravity.

How do flying things overcome air resistance?

Birds: Thrust/Lift

Planes: Engines

Helicopters: Propellers

Imagine a 747 is sitting on a conveyer belt as wide and as long as a runway. The conveyer belt is designed to match the speed of the wheels but going in the opposite direction.

Can the plane take off? Why / Why not?

The plane can’t take off the belt because a plane flies through the air by continuously pushing the wind underneath it which causes the air to go underneath it and in return the air pushes the wings up to make the plane fly, a wing is shaped so it pushes the wind down.

Maths Questions

For this I had to choose 2 questions from my group slide, Figure them out and write down their answers. My LI is to comprehend word problems and to choose the best strategy to solve the problem.

200 - Alex 4 x 25=100 so 8 x 25=200. <-- Max's savings.
10 minutes - Alex strategy: 7:40+20=8:00+15=¼ past 8+ 10 minutes= 25 past 8+15=40 past 8. <-- On time for school.