Term 1 Week 8 & 9 Class Camp

In Week 8 we started doing science for tech arts we learnt how to display a science diagram you only draw from one perspective, all labels must touch the materials. Things like that had to be checked when it was marked.

In Week 9 our class went on camp to wellington we visited many amazing places like Weta Workshops where they work on special effects and costumes for movies like The Hobbit and the Avengers. We also went to the Space Place, Parliament, ONTV studio and media lab at Capital E, Zealandia bird sanctuary, Wellington Zoo, We visited a museum about the Wahine Disaster, We went snorkeling and we also went to the Holocaust Center.

At the Holocaust Center one of the people talking to us had been a Jewish child in the holocaust and had managed to make it to New Zealand she told us her story and what it was like for her. I found out that the Germans gave the Jews labels and made the children go to a school for Jewish kids only. I also found out that one school who had visited the holocaust center afterwards collected one point five million buttons in remembrance of the one point five million children who died during the holocaust.

At Capital E we were split into two groups. I went to the media lab first in their we were shown and taught how to create our own apps. Sam our instructor showed us how to make a app and we were to copy the app. the first one we made was simple. There is picture of cat and when you tap it, it meows then you also make the phone vibrate as if the cat is purring. The  second app was a magic eight ball app so when you shake the device and ask it a question a answer would come up. when we coded this we got to make up a list of answers and then the computer would pick a random one. That took up have the day then we went into the ONTV studio at Capital E in there we learnt and created our own mini movie called once upon a crime. I was floor manager that meant the director told me to cue the presenters in our story then i would tell the presenter to be ready and looking at the camera. I liked Capital E and I also learnt alot on hoe to make apps and also how to make a mini movie.

Zealandia is a bird sanctuary in Wellington when we arrived had a game where we had to match the Maori and English names for birds with the correct photo.We scored eight out of ten. Then we went into their display room and watched a video about what humans have done in the past that have ended up in some species extinct they also showed us their plan that they think and hope Zealandia will be in about five hundred years. I learnt that mammals didn't originally live in New Zealand and all the mammals in New Zealand were brought by humans from other country's.

 On one of the last days in Wellington we went to Wellington Zoo there we saw lots of animals even some from Australia. I got to pat emu and it even walked down the hill with us. When we went past the meerkats they weren't out except for one that was there look out. We had a learning session with one of the people there and she let us touch a blue tongue skink. We also learnt what adaptation is it means that an animal has a certain ability or part of their body that helps them adapt to their environment.






We also went to Parliament and while we were waiting for our guide Andrew Little showed up and had a talk with us. When we went inside Parliament we were taken into a mini debating chamber and we learnt the what people do for certain jobs.