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Thursday, 8 December 2016

Pseudoscience task

Pseudoscience Task

Walt: Find and link information across a range of texts

Task
Work on this Doc together with a partner.


What was the author's main message in pseudoscience
To be careful of what companies say and do

What are some of the differences between scientists and advertisers?
Scientists
Advertisers
Tell the truth
Tell lies
Experiment
They are convincing us to buy things



Write 3 sentences explaining something new you’ve learned from this reading.
I learnt that Advertisers tell lies like for example what if they said that chocolate was good for our brain now that is a lie

What i learnt about scientists was that they test like how Advertisers said that chocolate is good for our brain they experimented it and they said that it is unhealthy for our bodys

Advertisers convince people to buy things


Monday, 5 December 2016

Ricky Baker



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When he has his soccer uniform on                      when he has his school uniform on

Character traits:nice,helpful,popular,Brainy
Name:Ricky baker
Location:21 jump street in rio
M/F: Male
Skin colour: brown
Hair colour: black
Culture:Maori,French,Mexican,Irish
What make her special/unique:soccer pro and pro at hacking
age: 15
What he loves doing: soccer,hacking and hanging out with friends and family
Sports:soccer
College:Rio hondo college

There was a boy that was 15 years old he loves soccer he is Maori,French,Mexican,Irish and he is nice, helpful, popular, brainy his name was Ricky Baker he lived with his dad in 21 jump street in rio because his dad was a plays for the Real Madrid C.F.  and a soccer coach he teaches 12 and 13 year olds.he lives with his dad Because his mum Sadly died with his little baby sister a long time ago  But now he’s thinking about his future to make his family proud of him.

Three things he is really good at and special
about him is he is a soccer pro like his dad and a hacking pro. Nobody knew about him hacking and. He was a school person he loved doing and finishing off his work.

One humid day he had a soccer game and his team and him had went against a tough team, they were only tough because they’ve been playing for years ever since they were 5 years old ricky baker and his team mates have been playing soccer ever since he was 7. Ricky Baker was so nervous but he was thinking but his best friend,Terry Teo that had been telling him “ghee it’s alguds remember all those trophies you won and all those goals you got”.Ricky baker was thinking about his mum and how proud she would be if he won.His face was red his tears were running down his face like waterfalls he didn’t want to see his friends cry because of him so he wiped up his tears and did some push ups so ne can stop thinking about sad things his coach called him because they were about to start

Friday, 4 November 2016

Science Investigation - Fair testing

Science Investigation
Fair Testing
Fill out the following table to help you explain the Growing in the dark: Plants and light experiment

Aim - what are you trying to find out?
Do plants need sunlight to grow?
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
Initially the dark cupboard plants go higher then the light plants
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
One set will be in the sunlight and one set will be in the dark

Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
The height of the plant
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
The same amount of soil and seed

The students of Room 4 wanted to find out what colour of bird feeders birds preferred. FIll our the table below thinking of which variables you would make independent, dependent and controlled.


Aim - what are you trying to find out?
finding out what colour of bird feeders
Hypothesis - what do you think your results will be?
Of all the feeders, the birds will most prefer eating from the red feeder.
Independent Variable - what variable will you change?
The colour of the bird feeders
Dependent Variable - what variable will you measure?
The number of birds that visit the bird feeder
Controlled Variable - what variables will you keep the same?
The type of seeds