Bob Geldof and Midge Ure...

In the 1970's Bob Geldof was an Irish singer, he was born in Ireland in 1951. he went to a private catholic school. although he went there he didn't like it very much and thought it was boring. he was bullied for being bad at rugby. when he left school he got a couple of jobs but didn't like any of them. then later on he moved to Canada and learnt how to make music. that's when he wanted to become a singer and a musician. Bob Geldof was in a group called the Boomtown Rats. 

He donated to charity and promoting charitable events. He liked to sing and make money, with some of that money get would donate to charity and promote charitable events for all around the world, but Africa in particular. He was involved in a group/band called the Boomtown Rats. they were a group of musicians and singers who made alot of money back then.

In the 1970's Midge Ure was a scottish singer and musician. he was born on the 10th of October in 1953. he was in a few bands called Ultravox, Thin lizzy, Visage, Silk, Rich Kids, Band Aid 30 and Band Aid. He was in a band called Band Aid with Bob Geldof. The main song known by them were "Do they know it's Christmas?" and "I dont like Mondays". 
"Do they know its christmas" was made to fight the famine of ethiopia  because the didnt have enough food and water to survive. it was made by many singers trying tomake the money to help them. all of the money (200m) want to the people in ethiopia.

Acid rain

Acid rain is formed when factories burn fossil fuels and let the gas up in thew air through big tubes, the gas combines with clouds which makes the clouds heavier, then the acid rain can harm trees, dissolve buildings, make water toxic so you cant drink it, and it can kill fish. or it can just kill land. it ruins the environment

Petri Dish Experiment:

Aim: To observe effects of Acid Rain, 

Method: in a petri dish place items around edge. Wet dry ingredients with drop of water.. In the middle put a weigh boat. add a spatula of sodium sulphate into the weigh boat. and 5 drops of sulfuric acid. Quickly close the lid.

Hypothesis: I think that the acid will destroy all of the items and completely dissolve them so there is nothing left of it apart from the acid. the ingredients are, Petal, Calcium Carbonate, Apple, Universal Indicator, Bromothymal Blue. we added a spatula of sodium sulphate into the weigh boat.

Here are the photos of the results, The universal indicator went a light pink and the Bromothymal blue went a gold/green/yellow colour. the calcium carbonate just went clearer 

The Beatles

The Beatles was a rock band that started in 1960 The main members were: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. when they first started the band Pete best and Stuart Sufcliffe were apart of it, then by 1962 they has both left. They got a lot of grammy's  from a bunch of different years. and some MTV and NME awards as well. The Beatles were the most popular band of the 60s

On the 21st of June in 1964 The Beatles came to New Zealand and held 4 concerts.

Woodstock | Give Peace A Chance

 A Couple of weeks ago in social studies we were learning about Woodstock and the Vietnam war. for one of the tasks we had to  listen to a song about anti-war/peace the song I chose was "Give Peace A Chance" by John Lennon. it just repeats "give peace a chance" over and over again non stop. the song is basically saying to give peace a chance and stop the wars with Vietnamese. 

DTE - Cryptography

Hello, for the past couple of weeks in DTE we have been learning about cryptography and how to encrypt things, and decode them. I have made an infographic poster about it and what is is about, I have made 6 parts about it and how it works. we needed to watch a video and get things from it to put it on a poster. Heres the screenshot of the poster that I made for it.

Parihaka

Over the past few weeks we have been learning about the story of Pariaka. Which was about how the British soldiers took over Parihaka and arrested the leader because they were on there land. For this blog post we had to answer some questions from a song called Parihaka. Heres the link to the song > (Song Link). The main message of this song is about Parihaka and Te Whiti. In the song "you can't pull out your roots" means you can't stop them from planting seeds. The song also says "His children's children wearing the white plume"  which means they are wearing the white feather that represents Te Whiti. Te Whiti will never be defeated which means he'll always be remembered and talked about. 

ANZAC

Hello, in social studies this week we have been learning about Anzac and what it is, it was on April 25 where Australia and New Zealand made an alliance to capture the Gallipoli peninsula. I have been making a map for it. where the fights were, and what it was about, ANZAC stands (Australia New Zealand Army Corps).  I've made a map about where it was, and where the mines were in the water. Here is the map that I made. (Map). The red on the map was ANZAC and the green was the British.

The song comes on at April 21 every year, it is for remembrance for the soldiers that lost their life fighting on those days. it is played as a final farewell at military funerals and commemorative services. the song represents our 2 country's. The Last Post