Comrades Marathon Collaborative Challenge

 

Last Sunday saw 20,000 athletes cross the start line in the world's oldest and largest race. The Comrades marathon is a 90km ultramarathon that tests the skill, ability and endurance of the runners who take part. This week we looked at information about the race to collaboratively decide what qualities these athletes would need in order to participate in this annual event.

Congratulations Junior and Hajera!

Congratulations Junior and Hajera! A certificate for participating and contributing in Kiwisport. This is very well deserved as you both confidently join in all learning opportunities. Well done!

Reflex Experiment by John

Reflex Experiment

Hypothesis

Sanujan - I think that I would be best at test 1 because my eyes send messages
to my brain fast.

John - I think that I could be good at test 2 because I think that I am great at
listening.

(Test 1)

	Sanujan	John
1	24.5	16.5
2	11.8	24.1
3	0	29.7
Total	66.3	60.7

(Test 2)

	Sanujan	John
1	12.6	11.4
2	12.8	0
3	27.8	15.8
Total	53.2	57.2

(Test 3)

	Sanujan	John
1	10.4	13.7
2	18.6	11.9
3	13.6	21.4
Total	42.6	47

Evaluation:

Sanujan : My hypothesis was incorrect because according to the graph I was great at
tactile which is test 1 I was surprised that my connection from my eyes to my brain is not
as fast as through touch.

John -  My hypothesis was wrong because I expected that I had really great ears but I actually don’t. The graph had surprised me when I was excellent on test 3 because my ears sent messages to my brain faster than my eyes open.  What I found surprising was that my partner had faster reflexes than me.

This week for inquiry, we learnt about human reactions. We had a small challenge

that included simply a ruler, a partner, and our reactions. Our task was to attempt

to grab a ruler as fast as possible. We were given 3 different reactions to test.

Visual, where we had to grab the ruler just by watching it. No count down, go or

anything. Nextwas aural, where we had to close our eyes, and where only told "GO"

for when we could attempt to grab the ruler. No countdown, no looking, no

touching, just a simple go. Finally, was touch. We closed our eyes, no words,

just a tap on the shoulder letting us know when to grab. The partner that I was

given was Tiava, and we had a lot of fun working together. What we needed to do

next was graph our data. Although to make it even better, we were to group up

with another pair and graph all of our data in one big graph. So for this, we chose

to work with Jack and Tiava. We had a lot of fun all working together, and in the end, made a pretty great graph.

1877 Education Act by Alex

This week, the other task for poetry was to create a DLO based on what life was like back in the 1870s. I worked with Jeremiah, Jay-Don and Junior to create this. My group decided to do the education law that was passed throughout the country in 1877, for it we needed to research what the teachers wore and what the classrooms looked like. Jeremiah and I did the researching for the writing whilst Junior and Jay-Don worked on getting photos, I drew the second page's pictures.

IPhoneFakeText by Affonso

For writing this week we were to go on a text creator called Fake iPhone text to write a fake conversation between two peoples we could int use name form our school so I chose mike. First we were to write the message in the Fake iPhone text message.After that we were to write the message in a story format that included punctuation such as speech marks. This meant that we were to write every thing that a new person said on a new line.

Newspaper Article - Cinema Attendance

This week Ms Kirkpatrick maths group examined a continuous data that showed the cinema attendance by age group and year. First we were to answer a questions based on the data. Jeremiah and I worked collaboratively together to answer it. Some of the questions were: In which year was attendance highest for the 25-34 age group? What happened in 1992 and 1994 to the attendance for 15-24 year old? How else could the data be displayed? It was really interesting to see that in 1999 15-24 year old attendance to cinemas increased comparing it to 1984 where it was really low. At the end Jeremiah and I were to make a newspaper article based on the data. We were make our own Newspaper headline and we decided to call our article New Blockbusters. Captivating or monotonous?