Last week we could either research Samoa or research about foods or make art about Samoa, etc for Samoan week. I chose to research Samoa because that’s what I’m good at and I’m not really a food expert or an artist. I researched about Samoa and this is a link of the slideshow.
Today, we made fake news. We basically made a fake magazine cover to show us how easy it is to fake news. I made fake news about NASA confirming that the earth was flat. It was pretty easy for me to make and that shows just how easy faking news is. Here is the fake news I made.
This term was great. I particularly enjoyed learning canoning and mirroring. One of my favourite examples of canoning is the Mexican wave. I have not taken part in any other school activities. For me, textiles have been very challenging this term. I did not like sewing because I just don’t like it in general. My goal for next term is to study harder.
It was a cloudy Monday morning, I woke up and barely got out of bed because I was too lazy. I didn’t wanna go to school because it was athletics day but my mum forced me to. I got ready and went to school early. It was around 7:50 when I arrived and I saw only a couple of people and none of them I know. I waited in front of my class for about 10 minutes and I still didn’t see anyone I know. I was starting to get anxious and thought that what if I wasn’t supposed to be there. I went to the playground, searching for someone I know. I didn’t see anyone and I just went back to class and I waited for ~10 minutes then I saw Patrik. I chatted with him about the rain and if athletics is getting cancelled. After a couple of minutes more and more people came and after a while class started. We went inside and we were handed our paper that tells us where to go at what time. A couple of minutes later, a couple of classmates and I had to go on an 800 meter run. It was still raining and my ankle hurt so I wasn’t too enthusiastic about it but I went. We had a warm up and then we had an 800 meter run. I ran and ran but in the end, I got last because of my hurting ankle.
I think that the small plane will fly further because less force is required to make it go faster because it is lighter than the bigger plane, but with more thrust for both planes, the big plane might win because of the bigger wingspan.
The first paper plane was made around 200 years ago.
The longest distance ever flown by a paper plane was 88.1 metres.
There are four forces that act on the paper plane when it is flying.
This video shows some information about how paper planes fly. I thought that it does a great job explaining how to make a great paper plane.
Follow these steps for your own paper plane.
Get a piece of paper
Fold it in half
Unfold it
Fold the ends
Fold the ends again
Fold it in half
Fold the wings
The big plane flew further.
We measure how far each plane travelled using a metre ruler. The results are shown on this table.
| Attempt | Big plane | Small plane |
| 1 | 4.2 meters | 3.9 meters |
| 2 | 5.3 meters | 4.5 meters |
| 3 | 3.7 meters | 3.6 meters |
| Average distance | 4.4 | 4 |
The big plane flew further than the other plane.
Why I think that the big plane flew further because it has bigger wings therefore creating more lift.
I did some research and found out that planes with bigger wings fly further because they can generate more lift. Here is a Youtube video explaining why. Especially at 5.30 where he talks about bigger wings generating lift.
This website also has a great explanation about wing sizes and lift.
I would test it inside of the gym because the wind outside might have changed the results.
In dancing class, we have been learning different dances. One of my favourite dances I learnt in this class is canon and unison dances. Unison dances are basically just mirroring your partner. Canon dances are basically just unison but when copying your partner, you do it late. An example of this is the Mexican wave. I’m looking forward to learning more and more dance moves.