Tech at Tamaki College

Today for tech we finished making our games. Today I looked on thingiverse which is a website that has designs that you might need to create your game. I looked around the website to find jigsaw puzzles. Most of the pieces I saw were cookie cutters which weren't useful to what I was creating, so I looked for a plain white puzzle base on google. We were creating the game pieces that we made on tinkercad, so it could be 3D printed.

RISE UP: THE STORY OF THE DAWN RAIDS AND THE POLYNESIAN PANTHERS

Today Me and Angela worked collaboratively to create a DLO about the story about "THE STORY OF THE DAWN RAIDS AND POLYNESIAN PANTHERS". First we read the story together and then formed an opinion on what we thought about this true story. My opinion on this incident is that the white people shouldn’t have barged into Polynesian house early hours in the morning and been racist because everybody is human right? In our DLO we have summarised the story in our own words and included pictures of the Polynesian Panthers logo as well as the march that took place.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week for tech we started doing our games and started to do our game pieces. Today we started making our game pieces and used tinkercad to make our game pieces in 3D. I created a jigsaw puzzle so I didn't use tinkercad since you have to make the jigsaw pieces from scratch. The website I used was thingiverse because on there you can search up a topic and then people might've made something related to that. There were multiple puzzle pictures that I could chose from so that next week I could start making my puzzle.

Swimming

This week was our third week of swimming lessons. For this lesson we had James as our instructor. The swimming skills we did were free-style, we did swimming with the swimming boards, backstroke, dolphin diving, and many other skills. I learnt that when I do free-style I shouldn't bring my head up all the way because that is how you sink. Instead you should roll to the side and not lift your head up. I am excited to go swimming again next week because I'm learning how to stay safe in the water and I'm also having fun.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week was the last week of tech for term two. Today we started making our games that we planned out last week. We worked on our games for a couple of minutes and then we went on tinkercad. On tinkercad we tried making shapes and we had a challenge to try and create Mrs Anderson using the shapes. I enjoyed this week of tech and look forward to going back next term.

Math's Game

The math's game I created helps you to practice your long multiplication. If you get the question right you will see an animated character I have made that shows you that you have the correct answer. If you get it wrong you will see the animated character that says you got the answer wrong and if you can't figure the question out, there is a link that leads you to a DLO that shows you how to do long multiplication. Once you have finished understanding how to solve long multiplication equations, you can go back to the question and try again. Creating this math's game made me think about the right and wrong answers because I didn't want to make it too easy or too hard. I also thought about what kind of layout my game would be, the size and font, and the colors I was going to use. When I finally completed my game I asked some of my friends to test my game and see if all the slides were linked correctly. The feedback I got was to link the slides to where it should go and to change the size of the words. I enjoyed creating my game because math is one of my favorite subjects and I also had fun figuring out the questions.

HIIT

Today we had HIIT since we finished gymnastics last week. My partner was Sakina so we could encourage each other while we were doing our exercises. We did strength workouts like doing press ups, pull ups, and mountain climbers but before we did that we had a warm up. Our warm up was to try and tap the other persons shoulder and every time someone got tapped on the shoulder they would have to do a bur-pee. The other person would have to do a squat until the person doing a bur-pee gets up. After a few rounds trying to tap the other persons shoulders we swapped partners. The next warm up was to try and tap the other persons knee. Then we had to do all the exercises and did a squat challenge to the song bring sally up. After the challenge we did a little warm down and I would like to thank Mr Ogilvie.