science - earthquake proof house

What makes a house earthquake proof: Solid structure, concrete foundation, scafolding, make your house a pyramid shape.

Aim: To design and make a house that can survive an earthquake caused by Mr Heath:)

Equipment:m
- 4 pieces of paper
- 4 cotton buds
- 6 thin sticks
- 6 popsicle sticks
-  small + one large cork
- 2 foam cups
- scissors + tape

Results: We won the earthquake challange! :)
was it the tallest: No 
did it look the best? Obviously 
WAS IT EARTHQUAKE PROOF!!? Yes

What do architectures use to make super tall buildings safe? The depth. For example the depth of the pit that holds the substructure has to reach all the way to bedrock. If bedrock lies close to the surface // the soil on top of the bedrock is removed, and enough of the bedrock surface is removed to form a smooth platform and this is what they build on... 

Social Science Refelection Blog

Reflection: what did you accomplish today?
I started my presentation for the unit of work we're doing. I started to write about the formation of my chosen natural disater and gathered some more information on the cyclone im doing which is called "Hurricane Harvey".

What went well today?
I finished my reaserch and started to prepare my slide show.

18/10/18
I completed all my reasrech on hurricanes and next lesson im going to start a diagram on the formation of hurricanes.

Persuasive Writing - English

New Zealand / Aotearoa should fix its own problems before helping other countries.

I strongly agree with this statement. New Zealand / Aotearoa is a beautiful country surrounded by acres of bush and and rivers and is filled with natural resources as far as the eye can see, However not everything in New Zealand is picture perfect. Over the years New Zealand has evolved and formed amazing landscape / landmarks, Each and everyone of them have a great story to go with it.  But despite our breathtaking views and spectacular cuisine we have a lot of economical problems such as pollution, the extinction of native animals and plants not to mention global warming. Theses are all major issues that we as a country are facing and trying to prevent and improve.

New Zealand is home to 4,749,598 people, That’s 4,749,598 people that the government has to provide for and half of those people don’t even live in homes, they’re either homeless, had to move, But it doesn't stop there. Not only do we have high numbers in homeless people but we have endangered animals being poisoned in the forests of New Zealand

Recent studies show that a new pest control called 1080 has not only been killing pest and unwanted plants but it has been killing our native birds! The Green party have been against this new poison and have told the government that it would harm our native animals and possibly increase the number of endangered birds and they were right. The Green party wanted the government to get the message and stop using the poison so they gathered a team and found a number of dead birds of all different species and dumped them at the governments door.

So I must admit New Zealand is a beautiful country with many amazing features but we have many cracks that need filling and plenty of issues to sort out.