Last Week of PBL

This week was the last week to finish our bird feeders. But we couldn't find any pine cones we looked at pines around the School but we could only find one. So our teacher suggested we use the frons of the pine trees. It actually worked pretty well the frons could stay up and wouldn't slip from the string. Our finished product looked pretty good.So in the end I think we did really well. 

Pihitia Station trip

Just yesterday we went to Tristin's Dad's farm and they gave us a tour of the place. The first place my group went to was what farm vehicles they would use on a farm. There in front was a tractor, a motorbike, a quad bike and a truck. One of the people who came to help explained about what they used them for. Also, we got to see a drone flying around checking the farm in case of emergencies. After that, we watched what weighed the sheep and how you could tell their age. They could could tell their age by their 2 front teeth and how big they were. To weigh the sheep it would stand on a metal platform and weigh it in kg's if it went green it meant it would be going to the freezing works.

Then we got to see a few Sheep Dogs. Ones name was Cruise and other I forgot. Cruise was loud and the other dog was quiet. They do what you ask by doing certain whistles. Then we saw some people shear a sheep and show us how much it would cost for different parts of wool. Also, they showed us few things of what wool could create like jackets, socks, beanies and even a surfboard.

Next a person showed us most of the traps they used on the farm and what they caught. Some things they caught were stoats, ferrets and feral cats. There were different traps for different pests. Some of the traps could only be set once and some could go off 24 times without coming to reset. Then we got to see a cow and what it could make with all it´s milk like cheese, butter, calcium etc. And the very last thing they showed us was how they cut lamb what it would and what they used to cut it.

Project Based Learning Week 8

This week we had to make a video to the Principle of why we should be able to hang bird feeders. After the Principle checked our video she told us few things of what we had to work on. This week was a bit harder to get all our work done because we had to answer Koka Nolian´s questions. But we managed to get it done in time.We also had to gather all the materials.