Tag: Art

25. Hard Materials – TECHNOLOGY T2 W1

Kia Orana, Reader(s)

What’s your favorite subject?

WALT: Learning about new things in Hard Materials.

For tech this week we’ve been transferred to a new technology class for term 2– Hard Materials: Where we handle substances like stone, wood, tempered steel, etc; by using certain machines to shape the solid.

During our time in the class room, our teacher, Matua AJ, brought us through an important session of safety hazards. One of the most important ones is having to be wearing eye goggles (so small or big sharp particles or objects hit you straight in the eye causing chaos) when controlling the machines with rough materials along with safety gloves to prevent chopping your fingers off.

Mauta AJ announced that we had to give a start for next weeks tech class by giving us sheets of papers with initials on it for us to begin something equivalent to thread art. We started off by reading the safety instructions first as I mentioned earlier, then we traced along the geometry of the letters Aj gave to us. The sign I chose were Q, T, & K, because they’re really nice looking letters and they have meaning behind them. The reason why I chose Q, was because it stood for Queen and yes I am a queen. I’ve chosen T because that’s the beginning of my name, then K because KFC (aka the best fast food chain in NZ). All together  it spells QT, K which is pronounced as Cutie K :). Anyways, after drawing our initials (it has to be 1-3), we coloured them in then cut them out, leaving it for the next session.

I think we’re using the letters for like a template of what our thread art thingy Is going to look like? — I’m not completely sure yet, since I couldn’t hear the teacher very clearly.

Thank you for reading! God bless you.

Bye!

 

24. Raewyn Harris – (ART)

Kia Ora.

For art, we had to select and draw at least five different culture patterns to add in with our koru’s. The Koru for this art session is meant to represent our whanau (family).

Next, we had to choose an image that Raewyn Harris drew (on google), and take credit for her design, and draw them on a draft paper.

Then, when we finish practising drawing korus and patterns, we can move over to our large paper (the one that’s going up the wall.). Our job is to try not to make our art messy so it can look pleasing to look at once it’s placed on the wall. There are two options that you can do; you can make your picture a circle or a rectangle. I did a circle so I can finish my art faster.

Using chalk to trace over the lines of your art work (this is where the paint will go). This line also shows where we might change pastel colors.

I’ve recently coloured the top half of it and I’m trusting the process!

Hereby are the slides of room 9’s imitation of Raewyn Harris’s art.

 

Thanks for reading! Bye.

24. STEAM Launch

Kia Ora.

On Tuesday this week, room 9 and 11 were settled in the Hall to do a science experiment. There were some white plastic bags scattered all over the floor that included the same material, such as: Two each of A2 Newspaper, 2 paper straws, 1 plastic straw, also having a roll of cello tape, scissors, 2 meters of string, a rectangle piece of cardboard, polyester, and a circle shaped foam. They all sorted into their groups that had four people per group. Some groups are expected to have at least one engineer in them, but a few didn’t. My group had an engineer in it which made our group a lot better. Even without an engineer, we’d probably still manage.

Anyways Whaea Peta explained what we have to do, and what we have to use the materials for. Our task was to use those materials to protect a boiled egg from breaking by dropping it from the second floor in the Hall.

My idea of protecting the egg was to create a parachute for it, but it seems that my group disagreed. Which wasn’t a good idea. Because when I made the parachute, they decided to change it into something else. If you’re keen on knowing how I made the parachute, I used tape to attach the A2 paper together but bending it to create a pocket for the egg to settle in. I also added straws to the top corner of my pocket so the white plastic bag (the one that had the materials in it) can act like the parachute and pick up the air through it as it’s falling. We tried protecting the egg by adding polyester under the egg and to help hold the polyester up, we added foam underneath and then wrapped the A2 newspaper around x2 before stupidly adding cardboard around the egg thinking that its going to be ‘Extra’ secure (don’t worry, we did add tape to hold it up.) Lastly, we added the white plastic bag so the egg doesn’t crack when it hits the ground. Our hypothesis; we all bet that our egg would survive falling about 9ft or 10(? we’re not sure how far our egg has dropped from the second floor)

When one of my buddies went upstairs to the top floor in the Hall, she was ready to drop the egg. Whaea Peta was counting down from 3, as Tanya took pictures for us to look back on. Here’s the picture of my buddy holding up our invention… and when she dropped it. (The person on the right)

Later on when every group had a turn dropping their tests, Peta and Tanya opened up the eggs that were now on the floor to check if it cracked or not. A few openings later, Tanya found our egg and opened it; and it turns out that our egg.. cracked.

When we heard the news, we were disappointed. Next time we could do better.

STEAM. Meaning Science, Technology, Engineering, Art(s), and Mathematics.

For science, we did the planning, for technology we ‘protected’ the egg. For engineering, we connected the pieces together, including arts, we eye’ed the design, and finally, for maths, we calculated whether our egg is going to break or not – by looking at how high the second floor is to the first.

I hope you understood my explanation, bye!

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