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Room 5's walk up the grampians

 On the 9th of July, Room 5 walked the King of/Queen of the hill course as a practice and a trial of fitness for the event the following day. This is us at the first gate, where the native bush, (And the race!) ends. Years four, five and six will be contesting in the race, and first one to touch the gate is crowned the King/Queen of the hill. House points are available for grabs, and there is a girls race and a boys race for fair competition. 

See you there!

Written by Ella  

Enviroblog

Just thought I'd put this link up to our current HSS envirogroup blog-the Hampden Street Website has 2012's blog up and seems in no hurry to move with the times!

Maybe you'll like what we're doing?

http://hssenvirogroup.blogspot.co.nz/

Buddy Reading with Room 9-How Cute!

Wool Bombing

Star Size Comparison HD

Putting into perspective just how big we really are!

Was the First Moon Landing Faked?

We are digging up the dirt on the Apollo 11 mission to the moon.

Here are some of the first reasons we've found that some people argue the mission was faked:

• The Astronaut-Neil Armstrong appears to be attached by a wire whilst putting the American Flag on the moon.
• The American flag appears to be moving in the wind-but there is no wind on the moon.
• There appears to be no stars evident in the sky.
• Someone at a conference later on asked Neil Armstrong to put his hand on the bible and swear that they landed on the moon-and he refused!
• There was a rock with the letter 'c' on it.
• Most of the photographs have the shadows filmed in the wrong direction-appearing like it was on a film set.
• The glass stuff on the spacesuit showed the reflection of a studio light...
• In each photograph the same crater backdrop is used.
• There is no impact crater evident-which the spaceship would have made had it landed.
• Some photographic weirdness involving chest shots....
• The rocks brought back from the mission are the same as those from the Antartic.

Other media reaction to alien life being found....magazines and newspapers....

Guess what this is!

Found on the way to School on a frosty Friday morning.
What are they? Why are they clustered?

Documentary making in progress...

The scientists busy reviewing their shot footage.
We are busy making films explaining important science-space concepts and more importantly 'what space knowledge would we need to keep if the world was to end...'
Watch this space!

 Intense editing and filming in progress. Film deadline is Friday 21st June. Can't wait to see the finished movies.

Alien Life forms discovered-Important Radio Announcements!

Skip forward to 5mins for Moh and Toms
Eleanor and Amelia's Radio Announcement

Why is there life on Earth but not other planets in our Solar System? Our Research so far...

Open the google Doc. to see

https://docs.google.com/a/cloud.hampdenstreet.school.nz/document/d/1HElvb2RqHGgXVikDy_ENJIOZLDS9bdGQIHa5xXaDCrI/edit

Magnificent Moon Maths!

We are using some amazing maths skills to calculate a few different problems.

• Firstly, how much fuel will it take to get to the moon? Easy-google it. 
• Then, can that amount of fuel fit inside our school hall?

We started by first measuring the volume of our classroom-an epic 225 cubic meteres!

                                                                       Amelia's calculations
                                                          

So we need to measure the volume of the hall space.
Then compare the amount of fuel needed to get to the moon, to the volume of the hall.

We also need to convert the unit measurements into litres-how do we do that?

Here are some super exciting photos of maths books! But seriously-check out the calculations! Amazing!

We found out that it takes 3,787,350L of fuel to get to the moon-approx.

We measured our school hall and found the Length, Width and Height.

21.5x13.5x3.8m= 1102.95 cubic metres

So we needed to convert this to Litres.

We know there are 1000L in 1 cubic metre- so we had to times the volume by 1000 to get the Litres that fit in our hall.

1102.95x1000=

So our school hall can fit 1,102,950L of fuel

Questions: Would our school hall fit the amount of fuel needed to get to the moon?

Answer:   No because, the total amount of fuel needed for getting to the moon is 3,787,350 L 

If 1,102,950 L is what we fit in our hall 3,787,350L of fuel would not fit in our school hall 

We would need 3.43 halls

by Maccrae

A helpful link

Source SPACE.com: All about our solar system, outer space and exploration