VISION
Our vision is to create an efficient way to water our school garden so we can distribute fresh herbs and vegetables within our school; as well as out to our local community.
Team Members
Ishaan, Sheldon, Paige, Gurkaran, Arthur, Htet, Tyler, Tobias, Jayden S, Jayden H, Cairo, Shayaan and Shane’
Science Partners
Dr Cathy Bebelman: Environmental Specialist at Auckland Transport and lives in The Gardens community
Ivana Saric, Oscar McGerty, Michael Ranjitsingh – Fisher & Paykel Healthcare SouthSci project mentors
Botanical Garden –
Sustainable Schools – Pragna
Supporters – Clevedon Herbs and Seedlings
Dial A Doug – Doug Fowler
Term 3 2020
Week 1 Getting started and FP Healthcare Mentor Visit
Today we brainstormed some vision ideas for our project and looked at what science we may need to think about to get our project started. This will help us later come up a the scope of what we are going to achieve.
MENTOR VISIT
Oscar and Michael came to visit us and show us some of the cool things they do in their jobs. They showed us the breathing masks they make for premature babies and a very cool hand held 3D Printer that they used to make a model of Michaels head.
Week 2
We spent today working out the vision for our project and thinking about how to involve the community. We are going to have a community open day and survey our community to find out what people already know and how they might help us.
Week 3 We had a visit from our local scientist Cathy Bebelman
Week 4 – Week 6 Unfortunately we are back in lockdown and have had to postpone our Community Open day. We will have to do this and our survey in term 4
Week 7 Mrs Bebelman We got to talk and learn about fair testing and variables
Week 8 Scope the project.
Michael and Oscar came and we worked together to make sure we had scoped our project so that we can stay focussed and not get distracted by all the interesting things that could happen.
Our aim is to get water from the roof of Weka up to the gardens and then work out how to get it to the garden beds.
Week 9 We are really lucky and able to go to camp this week on Motutapu Island Camp.
Week 10 Potential Energy converted to Kinetic Energy
Term 4 2020
Week 1 pH Testing with Mrs Bebleman
Weather Station
Week 3 – Soil moisture testing
Week 6- The trip to Coromandel WaterWorks
Archimedes’s screw: How does it work?
Term 1 2021
Week 4 – Ground Preparation for Tank
Week 5 – Back in lockdown
Week 6 Visit from Sustainable Schools – water cycle/Forces / pumps types for getting water uphill
Week 7 Visit from FP mentors Solar power/ batteries
Week 8 Research the places to buy what we need
Week 9 Easter Break
Week 10 Nano Girl visit
Week 11 Last prep for tank.