Transit of Venus,Captain Cook

 Today we had to complete 2 tasks for reading and this was about Captain Cook and the Transit Of Venus. 

 Transit of Venus -                              

Like Earth, Venus travels around the sun but it follows a closer orbit.

 Sometimes the planet’s path takes it between the earth and sun. Whenever this happens, we can see Venus move across the sun’s face. This is called a “Transit”. Even though Venus Transits are rare they are also predictable. They are located in pairs but at least 8 years apart but separated by long gaps which either consist 105 or 121 years. 

In 1716, a English astronomer called “Edmond Halley” worked out a way to use the transit of Venus to calculate the distance between Earth and Sun.

 

Around the early 18th century, people didn’t really have this information.

Over a hundred scientists watched the transit of Venus in 1761, but some couldn’t really take the accurate measurements because there was bad weather. But luckily they tried once again after 8 years (1769) .

 (But if they were unsuccessful they would have to wait another 105 years.)

So the 1769 transit was watched from various places like Canada, Norway and Russia. Then they combined the results from 1761 and their successful transit together. After a few years they discovered that the Earth is at least 93, 727, 000 miles away from the sun.

So if we use our modern day technology preferably a radar we would know that it’s around 149, 600 , 000 kilometers.

(Which one do you think was better? 1761/1769 or now?)

Te Tiriti o Waitangi Create Task

Today my group Kina had to read a story about Waitangi and what happened during that time.Then we had to do a create task about it but we could work with someone but I preferred to work alone.

Create task for Holes

WALT: Monitor ourselves to complete a task

Here is my create Task.

My Mother's Coat

My Mother's Coat

Do you agree or disagree with each statement. Be sure to provide evidence from the story to show how you made your decision.

Statement about the poem.	Agree or Disagree	Evidence from the poem. (How do you know?)
The author’s mother taught her to sew.	Agree because in the story the author wrote that I can sew now.	Although it’s not really me It’s because of her I can now sew on my own
Many Cook Island people wear coats similar to the author’s mother.	Agree it is pretty similar to the one that the cook islands wear.	The uncool design extravagant colouring and awkward fit I did not want to be marked if only I knew then.
The author grew up somewhere with very cold winters.	Agree if she grew up in winter she would or see what she knows.	Since the author grew up in winter she knows a few things when she was little.

Personification is giving human traits or emotions to a non-human object.

Ex. The wind angrily howled through the night.

For each object in the picture, write a sentence using personification.

The clouds:

The clouds were gray which means lightning will happen.There were rain happening as well.

The rain:

It was raining hard with the clouds gray. It kept raining until it looked like thunder.

The lightning:

It was raining and lightning was very shocking to happen during the dark night.