Category: STEAM sem 2 2024
Week 1 Term 4 STEAM- podcast
My group:
Milan — blogger, designer
Scarlett— recorder, co designer
Siena— organiser, researcher
Our Podcast Name:
Sea Beasties
Our Podcast Logo:
We chose this logo because it fits in with our sea life theme and the animals represent the three people in the group. We chose these animals because we found them really cute and went perfectly with our background. We also liked how they were in a circle and and would look good under the sun rays and in the middle of the coral.
Our Podcast Theme:
Sea-life protection
Week 5 STEAM-TGS weather
TGS weather report
for my weather report I chose to do the temperature of TGS throughout the week. Here is the graph that I made:
Week 4 STEAM – Water cycle
My life as a raindrop:
Firstly I flow through the grate in the dam. The eels and fish that live in the dam can’t get through this. When I enter the treatment plant aluminium sulphate is added to us. This makes the dirt stick together so that it can be removed. When the dirt particles stick together they form a big particle called a floc. The floc and sludge then go to landfill. Then we enter the sand filter where floc, giardia and cryptosporidium are trapped. Further down the pipe chlorine is added to kill the bacteria in us that could make people terribly sick. Lastly fluoride is added to me, so is lime. This lime is added to reduce my acidity.
This is how I get to your house!:
Week 3 STEAM
Activity 1
What did we do?
For this activity we poured some water on the court and traced the outline with chalk. We were doing this to see how long it would take for the water to evaporate.
Where did it go?
The water evaporated into the clouds. This took about 13 mins to happen. Since the court was not flat some of our water ran into the soil. This made it become ground water. Eventually the water would flow into the ocean or some other body of water.
Here are some photos we took during the evaporation process:
Activity 2
For this activity we had to choose a New Zealand mountain or hill. Then we chose a river or stream that ran down the mountain or hill. We then had to find out what ocean the river flows into. I chose Mount Taranaki for my mountain and Stony river for my stream/river. I also added Oaonui stream. Stony river runs into the Tasman sea and Oaonui stream runs into the South Pacific sea as well as the Tasman sea. Here is the drawing I made of it.
Week 1 STEAM-water cycle
Week 1 Water cycle
What do I know about water cycles:
I know that there are three main points to the water cycle; evaporation, condensation and precipitation. Collection is the last step of the water cycle,but not as well known as the others. Precipitation comes in three forms; snow, rain and hail.
What do I want to learn about the water cycle and cycles in general:
Im not sure what I want to learn but I’m sure whatever we do/learn will be heaps of fun! 
What did I do in Tuesdays session:
In Tuesdays session we had big pieces of paper with different subjects; rocks&soil, air, water, plants and life cycles. We then had to write what we knew about each thing on the piece of paper. After that we tested if ice would weigh the same when we melted it.
Here is my work for the initial water cycles of lake Taupo:
