Looking forward to lots of FUN SCIENCE LEARNING in 2019

P.S.  How are your GIANT SUNFLOWERS growing ... keep watering them in this heat !  AND take a photo of it (with yourself ) when your plant is looking it's best ... biggest flower etc. 
HAVE a WONDERFUL HOLIDAY EVERYONE  ... Be kind and helpful to all you meet.

2018 was a huge year for science. Enjoy this review.

There was plenty of inspiration in the World of Science

As the year draws to a close, let's share these incredible, world-changing moments to remind the world there's plenty to be hopeful about.

Full links below!
Goodbye, Stephen Hawking: https://bit.ly/2Gr72c5
Neutrino source traced: https://bit.ly/2rQvMUG
Liquid water lake on Mars: https://bit.ly/2T1FVt1
Denisovan and Neanderthal child: https://bit.ly/2A9cqP6
Redefinition of the kilogram: https://bit.ly/2GzmNkU
First CRISPR-edited babies: https://bit.ly/2E4nSiF

How does the "Centre of Gravity' affect you in your sport / hobbies ? In the things we try to build e.g. bridges, playground equipment, houses ... sooo what happens in an earthquake? what can we do to reduce damage caused by changes in the centre of gravity and momentum ... Go Kids ... Get researching and thinking.

O K ...................

 Sooo  ... what has FRICTION and the CENTRE OF GRAVITY go to do with the 

"Christmas Tree Challenge?" ... a bit of fun to finish the year.
https://youtu.be/Fxg_zL3qJyk

CONGRATULATIONS to the following Students who represented HNI at the H B Science and Technology Fair, 2018, this week. Results : 4 outstanding, highly commended and commended awards. Check out the school fb page for photos and details CONGRATULATIONS everyone.

William Bush	Outstanding year 7
Ella White	Outstanding year 7
Georgia Willis
Yasmine Tiedemann
Tapas Kant	Commended year 7
William Leary	Adam Wall
Libby Fussell
Hamish Hutchinson
Sofia Lumbreras	Outstanding Year 8 project and Top year 7 and 8 Project at the HB Fair
Bridget Grant	Highly Commended year 8
Zoe Elliott
Charlotte Cole	Livvie Cole
Fionn White
Vaya Chaplow      Georgie Rust	Outstanding Year 7

Jack Firth
Holly  Andrews

 PROJECT SECTION ... lots of winners ... check out the HNIS fb page

Sofia Lumbreras	Wyatt Horsfall	Giselle August
Will Leary	Libby Fussell	Georgia Wills

QUIZ ...  great competition.

Piper Burroughs	Cain Young
Tayla Louise Lys	Leo Wiltshire

TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE  HNI were winners  ... check out the HNIS fb page

HNI Science Fair … getting exciting ... one week to go !

PROJECTS come to the sci tech room on Thursday morning, first thing, or at the beginning of lunch-time.  Class teachers will select which projects, in their class,  go into the HNI School Science Fair ... they will be the projects that best meet the science fair project criteria.

• Parents are invited to view PROJECTS on Thursday afternoon, while the interviews are on. Venue: Science technology Room.

The display boards are still available from the school office for $10.

Students interested in the Quiz section have already submitted their names and teams will be announced, after a selection process early next term.  
The Technology Challenge teams will also be announced early next term.  

Boys checking out the Plasma Ball ... https://youtu.be/We8h3D6JIrI

HNIS has so many budding photographers. ...

Celebrating TREES in our world ...    https://youtu.be/76wPbCq2_OY 

HNI students were invited to take 'People with Trees' photographs.   

Our TOP 3 entries are by Giselle, Tayla and Lyric-Rose (in the large frames) and runners up are Chloe, Ruby and Libby, , Bridget and Becs (small coloured frames).

Thank-you, everyone, for your creative entries.  WOW !  WOW ! and WOW ! again.

Science Fair is coming up ...

Class teachers and Miss Hawtin in Science Tech have all the info you need to create a fantastic investigation.
Did you know that ...   ???

• you only need to ask and you will get some ideas and help from teachers to get through your project
• you can earn up to 16 GOLD points for your project
• there is big prize money for winners and spot prizes
• you can work with a friend
• there are some projects in the library for you to look at
• there is a booklet for you and your parents
• it is DUE the first week of term 3

Full STEAM ahead

https://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-steam-is-and-why-the-a-matters-to-science

Diffusion, Chromatography, Capillary Action and Surface Tension.... What is happening with these colours?

Hey ... it's "Be With a Tree Week" !!! Take an ARTY TREE photo, i.e. a photo with you and your friends in it ... and ... Have a tree-rific week!

Email your 'arty  photo with your fav tree' to Miss Hawtin ...    Have fun !!! Your pictures will be published on this Blog .... with the best photo(s)  framed and returned to you.   A World with out trees is unimaginable ! Trees are so good for us. They… Help with climate change, make oxygen, and clean the air Are a habitat (home) for wild life, and are beautiful and fun Hold stories, meaning, and memories Make us feel safe and well and bring us together Stop soil erosion Give us food and resources, and shade and shelter Mark the seasons ............. what else?   ..............

Exploring the 'centre of gravity', through heaps of activities, in various bridge designs and then in one's chosen sport / hobby

FUNGI FRIDAY is coming up early in term 2 ... Look out for FUNGI and let's see if we can collect an even wider range of fungi to share this year.

The NASA "Tour of the Moon" video ... WOW ! (DEFINITELY not made of cheese, Kids!!! HAhahaha!)

NASA | Tour of the Moon - YouTube

▶ 4:40

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iSZMv64wuU

Mar 14, 2012 - Uploaded by NASA Goddard

Although the moon has remained largely unchanged during human history, our understanding of it and how it has evolved over time has evolved dramatically. Thanks to new measurements, we have new and unprecedented views of its surface, along with new insight into how it and other rocky planets in our solar system came to look the way they do. See some of the sights and learn more about the moon here!

Fun with Light .... 14 A designing holograms to test on their phones, iPADS and computers. HOW do we use HOLOGRAMS in our day to day living? Now to making holograms from PET bottles and other clear plastic waste. Do other shapes also create a holographic effect ?

https://youtu.be/LboLs2yFp1g?t=17

LIGHT ENERGY ... electromagnetic radiation ... year 7s checking it out

And the winners are: Lulu, Wyatt and Cain !! CONGRATULATIONS ... from us all at HNI ... magnificent growing

Time to send your photos, of your pumpkins and sunflowers, in to Miss Hawtin .... hawtinj@hni.school.nz ... EXCITING

14A making a da Vinci Bridge .. great teamwork and thinking ... so many challenges

Testing !!!    https://youtu.be/hsRLBTGo_jQ  

9A discover the properties of STATIC ENERGY and check out William's Periodic Table Song ... WOW ... up to 65 !!! (Update Will can now do up to 118 elements ,,, in front of his class on 11th April ... AMAZING!)

Periodic Table Memorisation ...Go William

Hair-raising science, today, group 12B ... Where would we be without 'static energy'?

Look what came through the door today!!! Cain's incredible pumpkin ... CONGRATULATIONS Cain ... first pumpkin in and it is a beauty.

Judging of our sunflower and pumpkin GROWING competitions is at the end of March.

Some cool stuff happening in sci tech lately ... checking out the 'PHYSICAL' world

Reminder to check out the AMAZING Moon tonight (it was pretty fabulous last night) ! Here is a video showing how to do that ... Please stay away clouds!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11984348

Exciting NEWS ... Blast off! Rocket Lab successfully reaches orbit ... Watch the video !

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=11979201

Three separate celestial events — a supermoon, a blue moon and a full lunar eclipse — will occur simultaneously on January 31.

 

Mark the date, the blood moon or blue supermoon is coming in a rare lunar event which happens only every 150 years.

Three separate celestial events — a supermoon, a blue moon and a full lunar eclipse — will occur simultaneously on January 31.

Just weeks after 2018's first supermoon of January 1 and 2, this astronomical rarity of events is being called a super blue blood moon eclipse.

This particular blue moon will likely look red in some areas, because of the total lunar eclipse which can give the moon a red tinge, giving it the name blood moon.