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Thursday 24 September 2015

Record Breaking Roller Coaster


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Record Breaking Roller Coaster

Created on September 21, 2015

Ohio’s Cedar Point amusement park is set to open the Valravn Birdseye roller coaster which will break 10 world records!
Scheduled to open in 2016, the Valravn Birdseye will be the tallest, fastest and longest dive coaster.
Cedar Point amusement park has released a mock experience of what it will be like to ride the Valravn and it certainly isn’t a ride for the faint hearted!



Polar Bears

For the past few weeks my group including Tiperia and Suliasi created a report about polar bears. Here is just a little bit of information we learnt.

Polar bears only live in places they can hunt for food. Although they are very fussy about there food as they only love to eat ringed seals. It is also very rare for a polar bear to live until 30 years of age unless they live in a marine park. It is rare as most polar bears pass away before they can even reach the age of 25.

But if polar bears aren't raised in a marine park its best to stay away as some polar bears will attack. So be aware every time you may come across a polar bear especially if its not friendly!


Wednesday 16 September 2015

Smart Media

If you happen to be searching for images online make sure you can use them first. To do that click on search tools then usage rights and finally labeled for non-commercial re-use. If your wondering why you have to do this it's so that your not making any money from there images. After you have chosen an image visit the page the image is from, sometimes you can left click and it will take you straight there. Make sure the image has a creative commons licence so you can use it. The other thing you could look for is the attribution it should have the title, the author and the license information. You should now have full rights to use your image you wanted.


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Thursday 10 September 2015

My Wood Tech Project

Today I received my little drawer that I made in wood tech at Tamaki College.


It took a few weeks to make and a lot of measuring as well as sawing but I finished it in the end. The first thing I had to do was plan out what I wanted to do and got given a piece of wood to start off with. I then measured it out so that I could saw it and make my first cut. Soon I was getting the hang of it and was taught how all the tools worked including how to chisel which was quite fun. A few weeks later I had completed my little drawer and was allowed to take it home.

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Wednesday 9 September 2015

Special Visitor


Today Myron Simpson came to our school and talked to us mostly about racing as well as why it is good to read. Myron shared his bike, helmet, skin suit and shoes with us teaching everyone that his gear is all aerodynamic. Aerodynamic means that  they were all built light so that he can cut straight through the air and wind. Myron also said the fastest he has gone on his bike was 110 kilometers per hour which amazed us all. Soon he let some of us wear his gear and talked about reading then finished by presenting the duffy books.

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