My Dream Outta This World Holiday..

‘Brring..................’ screamed the alarm. I tried to ignore it. I wanted to stay in my dream. My dream outta this world holiday.

In my dream holiday I would want to go to Jupiter, but if I took off today I would be 19 because it takes 7 years to get there. Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system.

Jupiter would be the fourth biggest object in the sky (after the Sun , the Moon and Venus). Its also is the fifth planet from the Sun and is the largest planet in the Solar System.

I would like to go to Jupiter not because its the closest planet to Earth or because its the biggest planet in our Solar System but because I really want to explore around the planet and see how big it really is. I heard that it has four large moons and many smaller moons that form a kind of miniature Solar System.

Thank you April.

The Order Of The Planets.

This term our topic is Outta This World, Solar System. We have been doing a Mnemonic that will help us memories the order of the planets. Here is a presentation that Reina and I have made. I hope you enjoy this presentation.

Were The Heck Is Pukekohe...?

Different Auckland town centres are hosting Rugby teams from countries that qualified for the World Cup. One of these places is Pukekohe.

Pukekohe is a suburb in the Auckland region of the North Island of New Zealand. Located at the southern edge of the Auckland Region, it is approximately 50 kilometres south of Aucland City. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe)

The Maori word Puke-kohe means ‘hill’ of the “kohekohe”, New Zealand’s Mahogany. During the New Zealand Wars, a battle was fought in Pukekohe known as the Defence of Pukekohe East 1863 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe)

The township population of Pukekohe is approx, 19,000 people. Pukekohe is Franklin’s main town along with Waiuku (population approx 5,500) and Tuakau (population approx 3000). Latest population figures show Franklin with a population of approx 58,932 and growing. (http://www.franklin.govt.nz/FranklinDistrict/tabid/269/Default.aspx)
Pukekohe's race tracks are famous their.(http://www.franklin.govt.nz/FranklinDistrict/tabid/269/Default.aspx)

Bibliography:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pukekohe

Our Designs For The Street...............

This Term, Term 2, room 19 and I have been making our designs for the street. We have been doing some research from the internet on furniture designs. We gathered information and sketched some of the idea’s and changing some of the idea’s. When we were drawing our designs we had to do a P.M.I. For those of you who don’t know what P.M.I is it’s Plus Minus and Interesting. When we finished our P.M.I we started creating our designs. When we were creating we had choices one of our choices were papermashaye. After we papermashayed we painted them the colours we wanted and them we drew patterns all over them.

James Mackenzie the Polygraph

In 1902 Sir James Mackenzie invented the Lie Detector also called the polygraph. His invention was a less successful machine then the Polygraph that John Larsen invented. The Polygraph is used in police interrogation but only if it needs to be used.

James Mackenzie was born on April 12,1853 in Scone Scotland.He died in January 26,1925.He was educated at Scone Village school, Perth Grammar School and Edinburgh University. He was a member of the Burnley Literary and Scientific Club.

1855- Mackenzie was caught stealing 1,000 sheep from a sheep station north of Timaru.

1897, to measure the resistance of the skin to small electric currents emitted through metal electrodes attached to two fingertips of the subject.

1902- Sir James Mackenzie invented the Polygraph

1915- an American psychologist, William M. Marston, began to demonstrate a lie detection test

1930- just before World War II, the government and private businesses took over further advances in the technology related to the polygraph.

1931- Mr. Leonardo Keeler patented his device before proceeding to market his device to police departments across the country.

1938 using the lie detector to determine the positive reaction to using this razor.

Dr Mackenzie's application for the position of Medical Officer in the Workhouse Infirmary. At the Victoria Hospital. He was instrumental in establishing the Victoria Hospital which opened in 1886 and spent some time working there.

His invention the lie detector (Polygraph) it is important because the Police need it so they can find out the truth from people in investigations.

Bibliography

http://www.umw.edu/hisa/resources/Student%20Projects/Singel/students.umw.edu/_ksing2os/polygraph/origin.html -21/06/11

http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/forensic_2.htm - 16/06/11

http://www.lancashirepioneers.com/mackenzie/polygraph.asp - 21/06/11