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