The Erebus Plane Crash.

 Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster? 

All I know is that it occurred on November 28th 1979! And apprently there were no surviors!  

What do I think I will find about this disaster?

I wanna know how it happened because I don't actually know! 

Task 2- Read and rescearch

1. Where was the Flight 901 heading, and where was it planning to land?

Air New Zealand Flight 901 left auckland for a trip to Antractica. They were to fly over several islands, see McMurdo Staion and Scott base, and land in Christchurch after covering over 8,600 kilometres and flying for 11 hours.

2. What were the names of the pilot and co-pilot of flight 901?

Caption Jim Collins and co-pilot First officer Greg Cassin.

3. Why did the pilot ask to descend to 450 metres?

At 12:45 PM, the caption gained permission to descend to 450 metres, so his passengers could have a better view of the surroundings.

4. What reasons are given in the passage for why the crash occurred?

After an hour of radio silence, search planes were sent out but the wreckage wasn't spotted until after midnight. 

5. What time did the crash occurr?  

It happened at 12:49 PM.

Video one

Notes-

- Air New Zealand flight 901 crashed into mount erebus on ross island Antartica on November 28th 1979

- A mcdonnell douglas dc-10 carrying 257 passengers and crew dissapeared whilst on a sightseeing trip to the southern icy continent

- The aftermath of the crash was steeped in controversy and suspected corruption 

- The event on occasion is still talked about to this day 

- The continent of antartica is a vast icy dessert 

- Air New Zealand themselfs had said that the minimum altutide here was six thousand feet  

- The white of the ground and the white of the sky can blend causing spatial disorientation to pilots

Video two

This video is blocked for me so I couldn't find any notes from this sorry!

Last thing we had to do again was a venngage of the disaster! 

Here is mine! :) 

Hope you all enjoyed my post! Is there anything you know about this disaster that I didn't say? Other than that have a nice day! :)

Red Cabbage Indicator!

 Aim: I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid.

Method:

Equipment

• Beaker
• Red cabbage
• Boiling water
• Test tubes
• Acid + Hydroxide
• Dropper

Intrusctions:

1. Gather your equipment
2. Get the red cabbage and shred them apart
3. Put the shreded cabbage in the beaker
4. Put the boilling water in the shreded cabbage.
5. On one side of the test tube pour 2cm of hydroxide and the pour the other side of the test tube with Hydrochloric acid.
6. Then use the dropper to suck up the cabbage water
7. Then drop the tinted water into any tube 
8. Then try sucking up the acids into different tubes and see what colours you can make!
9. Some of the colours should be: yellow, dark green, ( or just any green ) purple, blue, pink, or mulitcolour! 

Results: 

With using the dropper and putting different acids into each other they turned all cool colours :)

Photo! (not mine): 

The Wahine.

Predictions-

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know for know is that the interisland ferry wahine struck the Barrett Reef in Welligton Harbour and overturned! How scary would that be!

What do I think I will find out about this disaster? 

I think I will find out good infomation like about on how the boat sank because I don't actually know on how the whole thing worked! 

                                                              Task 2 - Read and Reasearch

                                                                                                                                                                               1. What weather condtions casued the Wahine disaster?

The boat was casued by a fierce storm stirred by Tropical Cyclone Giselle.

2. Where was the Wahine travelling?

The Wahine began transporting for day and overnight trips between New Zealand's inter-island route between the ports of Welligton and Lyttelon in 1966.

3. How many lifeboats were able to reach land?

At 1:30 PM the abandon ship order was given but only four lifeboats could be launched, one of the lifeboats was immediatley sinking. So only three lifeboats reached!

4. What were passengers forced to do once the lifeboats were full?

When the three lifeboats reached to land the rest of the passngers were forced to jump into the sea and swim to shore. 

5. Why were rescuers unable to get to the shore?   

The rescue teams couldn't get through slips that blocked the roads so some people died on the shore. 

6. How many people died in the Wahine Disaster?

 A total of 51 people did die on board. 

Notes- 

Video one:

-566 passngers and 110 crew were safe

- Fourty six bodies have been found and only six were missing

-  Searching for missing bodies is to continue for the next two days at least, and mountian clubs have been asked to help tomorrow and on Saturday and possibly Sunday to!

- The ship was carrying 68 cars and 25 tons of general cargo and had 144 mail aboard 

- Skin divers went out to the wreck today to have a good look at the ship and they have found that there's no sign of surviors aboard the Wahine

- 106 people were orignally sent to hospital but many have been discharged, one small boy is in a serious condition.

Video two: 

This video is actually blocked for me so I can't find any notes for this video sorry! 

Venngage 

The last thing we do is a venngage about the what happened and some facts about it or you could do a timeline about it!

Here is mine! :)

 

Hope you all liked my post! What's something you found intresing about the Wahine disaster! I hope you all have a good day!! :)

Taskboards!

 Kia ora viewers!

Hopefully you all are doing fine in lockdown! For this week for another taskboards our group topic is about the sun! Once again for our new taskboards we had to look at websites and do the new activites! 

My first activite we had to do was wrtie 2-3 key ideas from the acticle. Here is mine!

The next one we had to do was write some words from the acticle and then do there definition! Here is mine! :D

Some things I learnt from the websites were that the sun is 93 million away from the earth! Did you know that the sun is bigger than earth! Also The sun is the closest star to our planet, which is why we see the sun so big and bright.

I really enjoyed this weeks topic! Is there any sun facts you know? If you do please let me know! Hope you have a amazing day! Bye! :D

                                                                                

The Tangiwai Rail Disaster!

 Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster?

I know that it happened cause of the tragic volcanic lahar from the Mt Ruapehu crater lake. I also know that it happened in Dec 23th 1953.

What do I think I will find out about this disaster? 

I don't know yet but I think I will found out some good infomation!

Task 2 - Read and Research 

 How many people were on board on the train?

1. There were 285 people on the train! ( and 151 people died!)

 Where did the lahar begin?

2. The lahar began at Mt Ruapehu crater lake.

When did the Tangwai Railway Disaster take place?

3.  Dec 24th, 1953.

How did the train driver know to put on his emergency brakes?

4.  He saw a man waving with a torch warning him to stop.

Why did the Queen give out medals?

5.  She gave medals to 4 people showing their bravery.

What was the installed after the Tangiwai Railway Disaster?

6.  They installed an early waring system on the Whangaehu.

Notes-

Our class didn't take any notes this week so I will just put the videos on so you guys can watch! :)

Video 1:

Video: 2 

Video 3: 

Thanks for checking my new post! Do you know anything else intresting about the Tangiwai

Railway Disaster that I didn't say in my post! If you do please let me know! Hope you all have a good day! Bye :D

Taskboards

 Kia ora viewers

This week we have done another taskboard! Are new topic is about rugby in NZ.  We also had a new article called mossie! And for our new activeites we had to get 25 key words from the article called mossie and another word cloud art! We also had websites to find infomation from! ( I don't really know that much about Rugby! )

Here are my two activites! 

Key Vocabulary:

Word art:

The last thing we had to do was do a screencastify about 3 things I learnt or 3 things I've enjoyed! 

Here is my screencastify :D

Hope you all liked my new post for my taskborads for week 3! Do you know anything else about Rugby that I don't know? If you do please tell me! Have a good day :D Bye!!

The Napier Earthquake

Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster?

at least 256 people died in the magnitude 7.8. The earthquake was on 1931. New Zealand's deadliest earthquake devastated the cities of Napier and Hastings, Hawke Bay.

What do I think I will find out about this disaster  

I think I will find out something interesting and new!`    

1. at 10:47 on Feb 3rd, 1931 

2. The official death toll was 256. 161 in Napier, 93 in Hastings and 2 in Wairoa

  3. In the botanical gardens and the racecourse in Napier 

4. They were able to rebuild the houses in art Deco style, making it a tourist attraction

5. 2 and a half minutes.

6. Children were sent around NZ because there were no schools for them to go to and no houses for them to live in. Also, it wasn't safe with all the aftershocks.

Notes:

- The veronica bell rings for 2 and a half minutes, the length of the quake

- The HMS Veronica helped the people in the city

- House chimneys fell down, people had to live in tents.

- Cracks in the road and the railroad twisted. - after the quake  

- 256 people were killed! 

- There was a quake followed on with the fire 

- cruises from Auckland had doctors on board to help 

- 6% were taken out of the city

- The water supplies were damaged

- The railway to Wellington were going two days after

- The navy helped clean up after - demolished buildings, supplied food and 

water  

- The nurse home collapsed and many night nurses were killed    

- 1% of population died!