Project Base Learning

H.O.P.E.

At Hornby high school for the last 4 weeks of school (term 4), we have been asked to do something for the community that will have a positive impact. Our group; Fleur, Brooke and myself, had decided we were going to do something for the homeless. I would like to help the homeless because they are human and they deserve the same as any human being does. When our group was formed we had to come up with a name; H.O.P.E. - "Help Other People Enjoy" life.

Since we didn't know much about the topic we are going to be learning about for the next couple of weeks we did some research. Here are some links that has helped us so far: 

Website Name	Link to the website	Date we accessed site
Helping the homeless? - stuff	http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/92749094/helping-the-homeless-christchurchs-matthew-mark-is-a-man-with-a-mission	13/11/17
The salvation army	http://www.salvationarmy.org.nz/research-media/publications/the-reporter/homeless-in-christchurch	13/11/17
City mission	http://www.citymission.org.nz/	13/11/17
City mission - food bank	http://www.citymission.org.nz/get-involved/help-our-foodbank/	13/11/17
City mission - volunteer	http://www.citymission.org.nz/get-involved/volunteer/	13/11/17
stuff	https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/94983470/new-zealand-has-worst-level-of-homelessness-in-the-world-labour-say	13/11/17
stuff	http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/christchurch-life/76289678/giving-voice-to-christchurchs-homeless	13/11/17

When we had done enough research we had to answer the following questions:

Who was affected? - Many people of all ages had lost their homes to the Christchurch earthquakes and became homeless. And another reason is that people have lost their jobs and don't have money to pay for rent.

What are the issues? - The homeless are struggling to find shelter, currently, they are using cardboard boxes and sleeping on the streets. Sitting on the streets all day holding sign hoping for money for their dinner.

When did it start and how has it progressed? - people lose their jobs and not being able to pay rent for their house making them homeless. Christchurch earthquake in 2012 making thousands homeless because their houses were destroyed making a huge impact on the homeless.

Where is this happening? - Most homeless people are found in cities where there are more chances of getting money. Some homeless can be supported by communities and stay around there.
Homeless can also be found in most big cities.

Why is this happening? - There are fewer jobs and people are getting fired and can no longer pay for a house because the rent of their house is really expensive or because their house was taken from them from natural disasters or because landlords selling land etc.

How are we going to solve this or make a positive impact on homeless people?

After discussing this our group came up with an idea to make a little gift bag for the homeless, that may or may not be Christmas themed, that will have food, water and other small affordable things that can make a small impact for them. We feel this was a good idea because not many homeless people have a real Christmas and don't get as much as others do during Christmas that including food and presents.

I thought that this was a good idea because everyone deserves to be happy on Christmas and should be surrounded by family and friends.

First action plan:

We have completed the fist check point. We had to email a couple of companies only three of them replying. Kamart said that we have to weight them a letter. But we don't have time to do that. Next spotlight. We may have to go see them in the weekend to go and  collect the bags. Lastly we rang gorgeous foods and they are are possible able to donate some stuff to us as well. 

I had also talked to my uncle to see if he was able to give is some spare clothes.

Thinking ahead of time we are going to go out of school in PBL on the Friday to go give our donations to city mission. So for that we also need to fill in a permission slip to be able to go out of school. This will most likely be at the end of the day.

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Contact city mission via email and ask if we would be able to be a volunteer for the day and/or sponsor us for plan B. If we are able to help then we will ask mr rodgers. (ask him first) We will also try and contact queen Anne watties and lincraft	Emailing them both during school hours People are at school that we need to talk to and c/ mission email us Have permission for going out of school	City mission saying no to both things - we could overcome this by doing fundraising by ourselves. Not allowed to go out of school- we can overcome this by doing it in our own time, eg weekend.	aLL of us; Zoe, Fleur, Brooke	22/11/17 -Wednesday

Second action plan:

will be doing this on the Thursday.

Start of the final week, the 4th and 5th of December

We collected all the donations from the staff room and from family.

We got three bags fall of clothes, books and cans.

Zoes family gave her some stuff as well as some of the staff at school.

We planned to make little gift bags, but we ran out of time and desided to make a couples of hampers up.

We didnt get to do what we originally planned but got more donations than we would have thought.

 

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
We are going to make gift bags for the homeless that will include food and water. We will ba handing them out in our group around town. Will need to ask people for sponsors for the money. Ask if we can leave during school and make things during school that we are going to put in the gift bags.We will also try and contact queen Anne watties and lincraft	We might be sponsored from city mission to get more food and water. We have permission from the school and teachers. We get transport?	Are allowed to go out of school- we can overcome this by doing it in our own time, eg weekend. Might not have enough money to buy anything- we would have to do something that is free. eg, cards?	AlL of us; Zoe, Fleur, Brooke	30/11/17

Third action plan:

We made cards for the homeless.
We had made a total of 10 good quality cards.
The cards include cut outs of Christmas trees, and inside the cards a message and some holiday themed quotes.
We hope to give them to city mission as well as the hamper/goody bags.

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
We are going to make gift bags for the homeless that will include free stuff for example cards. Ask if we can leave during school and make things during school that we are going to put in the gift bags/cards. Will make a board and show all sponsors in hub mall	We have permission from the school and teachers. We get transport to give out the cards/bags? Resources like paper, stamps, pens etc.	are allowed to go out of school- we can overcome this by doing it in our own time, eg weekend. No resources - make at home. No transport- we might have to make plans with the three of us to go on a bus or one of our parents to take us if the school won't.	AlL of us; Zoe, Fleur, Brooke	30/11/17

Final action plan:

After we finished checkpoint three, 5th to the 7th of December.

We organized city mission to come and collect our own donations as well as others groups.

Citymission are able to come and collect all donations from the school.

When we emailed city mission they resounded almost instantly.

There was another group that went before us that we would have liked to drop our stuff off.

Everything is oragnised and ready to be picked up. Now to start on the precentaion.

Steps needed to achieve the goal.	What will help us achieve this goal?(Enablers)	Possible barriers and how they could be overcome.	Who is responsible for this step?	Date this step will be achieved by.
Make people more aware of homeless people are why they are homeless by making posters and blog etc. ( if all other plans don't work out) And possible share it at assembly. Ask if we can present	There is good reliable information we can use. Have permission to show at assembly. having resources and time in class that we can use for the posters and to make our blog.	Not allowed to present in assembly - we can overcome this by putting up more posters. Not allowed to have posters - we could share our blog with everyone instead.	All of us; Zoe, Fleur, Brooke	28/11/17

Persuasive writing essay

 Zoe

Better food, better students, better grades. The school’s tuck shop should have more healthy food options. This will give the tuck shop more customers, students will have more energy, and it's more practical to prepare.

If the school's inferior tuck shop were to add more healthy options to the menu more students will come and buy the food. For example, more people would rather eat healthy than a damaging, unhealthy school lunch. Foodinsite.org says that 6 to 10 students put effort into eating healthy, at home and at school. The school's tuck shop only has so much good quality food. If we were to add healthy foods to the menu it won't only give the tuck shop more variety of food but will attract more minority of people.

If the tuck shop added healthier options it won't only add customers, but it will give students energy for classes. For example, eating healthy can make you sleep better, therefore making you less tired and ready for class with enthusiastic energy. Due.com says that eating healthy will make your energy last longer and will prevent sick days. This will lead to more work being done in class, students focusing on their work and not disturbing others during classes. More energy and less sick days, who doesn't want that?

Not only will more customers come and students will have more energy, but if the tuck shop would have more healthy food options it would be a lot faster to prepare exceptional, healthy food. For example, when you look up healthy meals it comes with many quick and easy ready meal ideas. If you go to jamieoliver.com he has quick healthy meals that you can use. Whether it be fish or a fresh garden salad. QSR says that 61% of people say that they like a variety of healthy food at cafes and fast food restaurants. If there were to be more healthy options on the menu you will have a variety of food; this will give students healthy and unhealthy food choices.

There are many positives to having healthy food choices at our tuckshop but there is one main negative about it; the cost of the ingredients. Ingredients like carrots, apples, berries, bananas, whole grain bread and smoothies can be very high-priced, especially when not in season or out of stock. Although there are some pricey negatives to it, the positives definitely outweigh the negatives about making out tuck shop healthier.

The school's tuck shop should have more healthy food options. This will give the tuck shop more customers, students more energy, and it's more practical and quicker to make. A better way of eating is a better way of living.

Random Writings

Women should not be allowed in the military.

Women should be able to join the military. They are wanting to serve their country, they are just as good as men.

Women should serve the military not just because it is just a man's job but help with numbers in the army, and the skills two. If women were to serve the military there would be more people offering to join than forced when a war started. Why wouldn't we want that?

Women who serve the military are just as good as the men are. They serve their country the same way and train the same way. Just because of the gender of the person doesn't mean they still can't serve their country like the other gender.

National parks are not taking up valuable real estate space and should not be destroyed for it. National parks are home to many kinds of wildlife, a great place for people to see things they haven't seen before, and national parks are way nicer to look at than houses.

National parks are homes for many birds, mammals and insects, if you were to take away their home, by cutting down trees and filling up ponds, where would they go? For example, if you were going to destroy the trees to make houses, you would be cutting down squirrels and birds houses down. If you were to destroy a small lake or pond, you would be taking away frogs homes, and at least fifteen different types of fishes too.

People from all over the world come to see the national parks of different countries, would you want to take that experience away from them? People could learn about the types of birds and trees around, teaching others and making it a more popular place for people to come from other counties, or from other parts of town.

Not only do National parks have a wild range of species and have people come from other counties to see, but it looks way better than housing. Wouldnt you rather have a walk in the wilderness than down a busy street with cars and pollution.

Dangerous sport should be banned

Dangerous sport should be banned because of a number of deaths it has caused. From skydiving to car racing.

As easy as it is to jump out of the plane, there might be some difficulty trying to open the person's parachute, they jump without a parachute, or ram into a tree and get stabbed and die.

Car racing looks like fun and seems like an easy sport. But what happens when you hit a corner too hard or smash into another consistent. Many people have been in car crashes and died, why play such as risky sport.

There are so much more sports and scenarios that could happen with multiple risky sports.

Adrenaline can cause twice as much drama and death as it is what daredevils live on. Jumping from a roof 30 stories high. Jumping a fire hoop on a motorbike.

We should not keep this up, but sign ourselves up for more safer sports. To keep them safe and for more fun without worrying about the consequences. Stop worrying, and play safe sports.

Science - Milo Experiment

What are the earth's layers, what are they called?

Youtube clip of our experiment - Screenshots

Our Master piece - recreation of the youtube clip

• The cocoa represents the earth's crust. -Plate tectonics etc.
• The cracks represent the earths plates moving and forming new continents/ volcanoes.
• When the cocoa starts to more they form little islands like the world’s continents.

• This all happened because of the milo Underneath the crust, which in the real world would be magma. The magma forms new land by expanding the earth's crust therefore making the earth's surface move, crack etc. The milk started to move because of Convection.
• Convection: This happens because when water is heated the cold water sinks to the bottom because the particles are closer together, and dont move much. The hot water rises because the hot water particles are moving fast and are all spread apart, Making the water move, therefore making currents. Making what ever on top move!!

I like this experiment because it showed us how tectonic plates move and what happened around that. Marshmallows weren't needed but made it more fun and interesting!! Next time i would try drinking chocolate as it is finer and may work a bit better. Some Things that were different with the youtube clip and our experiment was that our milo (crust) did not crack as much, and our milk didn't bubble. We just added the marshmallows for fun!

Social studies

English - Creative writing

English Assessment - The Risk Of The Day

The soft salty breeze, blowing through my knotted hair. The velvet, soft waves hitting the rocks. The toxic smell of sunscreen and orange fill my nostrils. As the waves overlap each other, I see white foam forming across the sharp jagged rocks closer to the cliff, where I stand is a challenge, and let alone a risk. I was at the edge of cable bay. And the tide was coming.

As the rocks loosened their grip underneath my feet, the closer I get to the water, I quickly jump to the next rock, almost like a game of hopscotch. Looking for a path back to the now far away beach, where the rest of my family were signaling me over for lunch. I had been looking for crabs and kina, on the way looking for these small creatures I had found myself here. I had a choice to jump into the dark cold water, or put myself in more of a risk, by finding my way back that is almost completely under water. The seagulls screeching and squawking above my head, scavenging for food only make it more death defying.

The more I thought about it, the worse the thoughts. One thought was that of a sting ray would come a sting me, as we had just seen one before I had come out here. I have to admit I was pretty scared, and I wasn't even in the water. I was afraid that it might be too deep and that i'll drown, or to shallow and that I'll fall on to deadly sharp rocks that could be underneath me. I couldn't see a thing, it was pitch black, for all I could know it looked like an endless void out of some sci fi movie.

I started to physically shake, like a trembling child. I close my eyes, clear my head, hold my nose and jump. As the Icey cold water hits my body, instantly numbing my body to the bone, I swear it was like swimming in a ice cube. Slowly lowering my feet, keeping a lookout for sharp rocks. Hitting the ocean floor, the soft and soothing sand calms me.

I start to make my way back to shore. So I decided to go look under the water to see if I could see anything. But unfortunately I didn't. Until I got to the rock pools. I decided that i wanted to go to the rocks pools on the way back, it would only take me an extra 2 minutes to get back to shore, but just deep enough to hold fish and crabs.

By the time we had left the bay, I had my lunch, went swimming some more. On the way back to shore from the rock pools I had counted 27 crabs and 13 fish. And even two stingrays. And how can forget those pesky seagulls, squawking above my head. I had really enjoyed my time here today, and am thankful that I did take a risk as it makes life more exciting.

D.T.E. Whats inside a computer

This term we have been  doing a topic that includes ripping apart a computer. Here is a info graphic that will tell you the main parts of a computer:

Here are some pictures that we took while ripping apart our computers:

It took us about 2 lessons to complete this task.

We were supposed to put the computer back?! - but i dont think it will happen

It did take a lot of time, there were a lot of screws. At the end it was taking to long so we just ripped it apart. There is no way we are going to put this computer together again.

One of my team mates had a really good time pulling the computer apart and smashing the screen.

I was away for most of the time so i missed out on pulling stuff apart on the second day. But from the first day i learnt that you need to have patients and it is good to keep things in a pile not all over the table.

if i had more time i would have liked to have a look at all the main parts of the computer individually and where they are located, on the computer, inside the computer, or on the mother board etc.

Next time i would like to try a different type of computer etc. And i would also like to have more variety of screw drivers and i would have like a little more time to do this task.

This task was over all very fun and i learn a lot from it. I would do it again :)

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