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North And South

North And South

I live in Greymouth on the west coast of the south island of New Zealand.

We have a river running through Greymouth which
splits it into two parts Greymouth and Cobden.
The river is called the Grey River. In Greymouth
there are many fun activities you can do.
We have a surf shop in town where you can
hire your own surfboard and take it out at Cobden beach.
We have lots of walks spread out across the west coast.
We also have good fishing opportunities and our river is
well known for the amount of whitebait caught in it each year.
Greymouth has a big specially designed skate park.
We have two high schools and lots of primary schools
spread around the west coast.

The Legend Of New Zealand

The Legend Of New Zealand

Top three fun facts about New Zealand.

Fact number one. New Zealand is the only country in the world where you will find the flightless bird the Kiwi.

Fact number two. New Zealand was the first country to have its three top positions of power held simultaneously by women, Prime Minister Helen Clark, Governor General Dame Silvia Cartwright and the Chief Justice Sian Elias.

Fact number three. The west coast of new Zealand is very well known for its pounamu. Pounamu can only be found in new Zealand and is very valuable due to its rarity and its smooth dark green skin.

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Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my learning this Term: I have taken part in William pike this term/year and have learnt many new things from it. I took part in the chess tournament pushing and challenging myself to go against harder opponents to build my confidence

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my environment this Term: I have participated and contributed to my environment this term by cleaning up rubbish while i go surfing. I take care of my equipment and other peoples equipment . i also try eliminating plastic from my day to day life whenever i can whether it is not buying things in plastic  or refusing to take straws from mcdonalds.

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to my family this Term: I have helped out by carrying bottles and bags filled with basketballs  for both my parents basketball games. I also reffed their games which helped them out when they didn't have a ref. I also do jobs around the house like doing the dishes disposing of compost/rubbish/recycling ETC. I occasionally make tea

Ways in which I have participated  in and contributed to the local community this Term: I have contributed by taking part in the local special Olympics and referring local basketball games. I also took part in the teacher strike but i can't remember if that was this term. I took part in our school gala by buying things that contribute to my school community. I take part in kapa haka which also contributes

Ways in which I have participated in and contributed to the global world this Term: I have posted stuff on my blog that contributes. I contributed at the special Olympics tournament. By helping them out with their different activities

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Sun-dance Surf Break

Running down soft maroon coloured sand.
Lucid sun rising slowly over the horizon.
I jump over sharp obsidian rocks, mussels piercing my skin.
Light blue water reflecting the almost blinding sun into my eyes.
I paddle further out to sea,
arms thrashing to fight the push of the waves,
trying to take me back to shore.
I paddle past the break.
Relief floods my tired body.

I sit and watch the sun rising
higher and higher into the sky like a lost kite.
I see a swell growing in the distance.
It comes closer and closer,
like gigantic turtles rushing towards me.

I paddle
the lip of the wave lifts me up
towards soaring gulls above me.
I turn
slicing the roaring, thundering rush of water
filled with immense power
beneath me.
I pull off the wave
getting small air
as I soar over the top of its large body.
I paddle back out towards the break.
My mates are running down the beach behind me.
Today is gonna be a good day.

Miko Ginivan-Barrow

The Nowhere Land

Guided Text: “The Nowhere Land Where Children On The Move
Are Someone Else's Problem”
by Sarah Crowe - U.N.I.C.E.F

Pre-read discussion

What is a Peugeot 404?

What is the difference between a migrant, a refugee and an asylum seeker?

A refugee is someone who has fled their country in search for a safer place to live.
They are usually people who have left due to war and fighting or because of
unfair rights.
Lots of refugees are children without parents who travel alone until they get
sent to refugee camps
“concentration camps”. Or get picked up by human traffickers or people
smugglers who ship them off to different countries in big shipping containers.
Lots of refugees die while in the containers due to lack of oxygen,
lack of food and dehydration.

An Asylum Seeker is a Refugee who has traveled over a course of time
to an large defined area where the government has sent the Army Or
the United Nation Troops to set up a camp and a medium sized Safety Asylum.
The Refugees are rather put into the 1st class safe Asylum or are in the
Refugee camp.

A migrant is someone who chooses to move to a different country not
because they want to for a whole lot of different. Reasons maybe like
economical reasons, maybe they are low on water and food.

Where is Niger? Niger is located in West Africa, bordering

Chad, Nigeria and Libya.Where is the Sahara? How big is the
Sahara compared to New Zealand? The Sahara is roughly
thirty times bigger than New Zealand.

Define:

Wasteland -

ghetto,

milling about,

Turmeric-coloured,

elusive Eldorado,

throngs,

smuggler,

daunting,

clampdown,

frontier,

bearing the brunt,

from pillar to post,

Guinean,

gesticulating tirade,

impoverished,

ironically,

threadbare,

a motley bag,

dynamics,

transiting through,

traumatized,

undetected,

gangly,

flip flops,

lucrative,

GPS,

glitch,

philosophers,

grim,

Read the text to yourself and make notes/highlight/bullet point as you read.
You are looking for the main idea in this article. Be ready to discuss your notes.

I think the author has written this text to raise awareness towards
children refugees from over the world with no home.
These children have been returned to niger.
A place where most of them aren't from and now they have to travel across the
Saharan desert.
The author in this text is biased when she says
“nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this
scorching unearthly wasteland and
“stranded with dashed hopes and un for filed dreams.”
“onto a bone dry open plane with a few thread bare tents”.
These are all signs of byasim towards the refugees.
The author is making it sound a lot worse than it possibly could be.
She is making it sound like they are living in unbearable conditions
and would do anything for a chance of freedom including walking
across the Saharan desert with no food or water and nothing to
protect their feet from the scorching hot deadly sea of sand.
Of course this is all quite possibly true but you would have to be there to know.
The author is making it sound very bad (Which it is)
To make the reader sympathies for the refugees.
The key points in this text are:

Nothing could be further from the gates of paradise than this scorching,
unearthly wasteland stretching out as far as the eye can see and beyond.

Arrivals into Italy from January to early June this year were down by two
thirds compared to the same period last year when 60,000 crossed over
from North Africa.

Since November last year, more than 8000
West Africans, including 2000 children, have been returned to Niger from
Algeria, with another 900 refugees and asylum seekers from
East Africa transferred from Libya awaiting cumbersome and
slow resettlement processes.

According to Unicef estimates some 120 children drowned at sea
between January and May. At least there are coastguards at sea.
No one patrols the vast and deadly sea of sand.

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Gravity

• Highlight the main ideas. Summarize these main ideas  in one or two paragraphs.

• When does gravity decrease? When you get further away from the main source of gravity

• When does the force of gravity become noticeable? When the object has a large mass

• Gravity disappears when you are above the atmosphere. True or False?

• According to the text, how long does it take the International Space Station (ISS) to orbit Earth?
• It takes
• 90 minutes for the
• international
• space station (ISS) to orbit the earth.

• Who first stated that all objects are attracted towards each other by gravity? Isaac Newton

• Find six words in the text that have a suffix.  “Attracted”
• “Attraction” “
• Orbiting”
• “Fixed”
• “Noticeable”
• “released”

Gravity

Gravity is a force that attracts all objects towards each other. People are attracted towards

the Earth and the Earth towards people, the Moon and the Earth are attracted towards each

other, and the Sun and the Earth are attracted towards each other. All of these attractions

are caused by gravity. Gravitational attraction is greater for more massive objects. Gravity

decreases as distance between the objects increases.

Gravity attracts all things towards each other

Every object in the Universe is being attracted towards every other object by the force of

gravity. This means that there is nowhere you can go in the

Universe where gravity is not acting.

Examples of gravity in action:

• Gravity holds the atmosphere in place around the Earth.
• Gravity keeps people on the Earth’s surface.
• Gravity keeps the International Space Station in orbit around the Earth.
• Gravity keeps the Moon orbiting around the Earth.
• Gravity keeps the Earth orbiting around the Sun.

Isaac Newton was the first to come up with the idea that all objects are attracted towards

each other by gravity. Even people are attracted towards each other by gravity, but this force

is so small that it is not noticeable. Gravity only becomes noticeable if one (or both) of the

objects has a lot of mass, such as the Earth.

There is gravity in space

Earth-Moon system and gravity

Any two masses are attracted towards each other by gravity. This force of gravity

causes the Moon to change direction to make it orbit around the Earth.

Gravity doesn’t disappear just because you are above the atmosphere. Even if an

object is high above the Earth’s atmosphere, there will still be a strong force of gravity

pulling it towards

the centre of the Earth. At an altitude of 30 km, you would be above 99% of the Earth’s

atmosphere. At 100 km, you would officially be in space, yet the weight force of gravity

would still be nearly the same. You and the Earth would still be pulled together.

Isaac Newton worked out that, if the distance from the centre of the Earth doubles, gravity

becomes a quarter as much as it was on the surface. A satellite with a mass of

1000 kg has a weight

force of 9800 N at the Earth’s surface. The radius of the Earth is about 6366 km,

so at 6366 km above the Earth’s surface, the distance from the centre of the Earth

will have doubled.

The weight force pulling it towards the centre of the Earth will now only be a

quarter

as much but will still

be 2450 N.

So why doesn’t a 1000 kg satellite just fall back to Earth?

Sideways speed keeps satellites in orbit.

As a satellite moves around the Earth in a circular orbit, the direction of the force

of gravity is always towards the centre of the Earth.

At an altitude of 100 km, you would be so high that you would see black sky and stars if

you looked upwards. If you took a satellite to this height and released it, it would still fall

towards the Earth because the force of gravity is nearly the same as it is at the

Earth’s surface.

However, if the satellite is given speed in any direction horizontal to the surface of the

Earth, it will travel further before it hits the Earth. If it is given enough speed, it will travel

so far that, as it curves towards the Earth, it will miss the Earth altogether. At just the

right speed, it

will move around the Earth in a circular motion. This type of motion and the path that a

satellite moves in is called an orbit.

Close to the Earth at an altitude of 100 km, a satellite needs to be moving at 8 kilometres

per second (28 000 km/h) to stay in orbit. At higher altitudes, satellites do not need to be

travelling as fast. Television communication satellites are at a higher altitude of 36 000 km

and only need to travel at 3 km/s (11,000 km/h).

The Moon is 360,000 km from the Earth and only needs to be travelling at 1 km/s to stay in

orbit around the Earth.

If there is gravity in space, why do astronauts appear weightless?

Astronauts appear to be weightless for the same reason that a person on a trampoline

feels weightless when in the air. There is still the same amount of gravity acting, but

there is no floor pushing upwards on the astronaut, so the weight force cannot be felt.

If a person was in an elevator and the cables broke and the brakes failed (which is actually

quite possible), the person and the elevator would fall towards the Earth at the same rate.

The

floor would not be holding the person upwards, so the person could enjoy

the sensation of weightlessness (for a brief while before a painful death).

This is the same for astronauts high above the atmosphere on the International Space

Station (ISS) at an altitude of about 400 km. Gravity is still strong, but the astronaut and

the ISS fall towards the ground at the same rate. They are also both travelling

horizontally

at 28,000 km/h. As they fall towards the ground, they travel so fast horizontally that

they miss the Earth altogether and orbit the Earth once every 90 minutes.

Nature of science

Science ideas change over time. Isaac Newton’s gravity-based world view has since

been superseded by Albert Einstein’s ideas that all masses distort space and time.

This

highlights

the fact that science is not a fixed body of knowledge. Although Einstein’s theory

is widely accepted, Newton’s law of universal gravitation is still used for practical

situations

such as satellite motion.

Gravity attracts all things towards each other.

There is gravity in space

Sideways speed keeps satellites in orbit.

If there is gravity in space, why do astronauts

appear weightless?

Gravity is a force that attracts all objects towards each other.

Gravity doesn’t disappear just because you are above the atmosphere.

orbit