I like your Latitude - Team 5

Today we learnt about how to track your location without the use of google maps.
We also learnt what a latitude is and what a longitude is. Latitudes are imaginary lines that start from 0
to 90°. It goes from 90° N to 90° S. 0° being the Prime Meridian Equator. You can see your latitude by looking at the sun and at the stars. There are 360 latitude. Another set of imaginary lines is longitudes. Longitudes help you how far you are from the equator in terms of left and right. So the maximum can be 180.

With the help of both latitudes and longitudes we can decipher coordinates and we can figure out where we are.I picked up a random coordinate from https://www.random.org/geographic-coordinates/ . The coordinates are Latitude: 9.29765° N, Longitude: 59.11700°E which is in the middle of South Africa.The longitudes go from 180° W to 180° E with the Prime Meridian being the 0°.

Treaty of Waitangi Game Design Process

In the above presentation, Me and Justice made 5 possible game ideas that are related to the Treaty Of Waitangi. We are supposed to think of a game which could be played in most schools to tell people about the Treaty that keeps all cultures together in New Zealand. Our first idea was to make a Super Mario World Rom hack where you play as Mario who is a maori. You need to save the 'princess' who is the Treaty and bowser is the pakeha people.

As for our second idea, we have City Skylines which is a city building game on Steam ( The most well known platform to buy games ) and in the original game you can build any type of city so we will use that idea in our game. The player can make a city with industrial, commercial and residential areas for the maori people and after their city reaches the population of 10,000 people they would need to make the Treaty which will make everyone unite and also it will show to origins of the treaty.

Then for the Third Idea, we thought of Civilization in which you start your own " Civilization " and meet everybody. In our version of the game we have a maori civilization who will do all the things that happened in 1830s and 1840s So the player can experience everything that happened during those days.

For our Fourth Idea, We are thinking of making a version of Super Smash Bros. Especially when its new sequel has sold 12.08 million copies in 24 days.  The 30 games have sold more than 15 million copies and Smash Ultimate sold 12.08 million copies just in 24 days. We thought to make Maori people as the good people and pakeha people as the bad people.

For our final idea, we are making Diablo, which is an open world RPG game in which you learn things yourself. You earn money by killing enemies to get better armour so you get more money and the cycle repeats and it doesn't get boring. We thought to make the main character maori and Diablo as pakeha.

Attitude Talk - Blog Post

Today, Year 7s and 8s had an Attitude Talk with Jannah. Jannah worked for an organization called Attitude which teaches young kids about health and relationships. Jannah told lots of funny jokes and told us  about friendship relationship and Do's and Don't Do's. She first introduced herself to us and told us about the 3 Friendship Factors which are Girl - Girl, Guy - Guy, Girl - Guy. We also got to know some facts like Girls talk 12,000 words per day and Boys talk half of that which is 6,000 words per day. Another fact was that boys don't take friendships too seriously. One thing boys can learn from girls is to talk more and One thing girls can learn from boys is to not friendships too seriously. We also got to know 5 Thing's NOT to do in a friendship like:
1. Don't have Mean Humour.
2. Don't Backstab.
3. Don't be a Smotherer.
4. Don't Show Off.
5. Don't be a bully.

6 Thing's to do in a friendship are:
1. Be Friendly.
2. Remember Names.
3. Learn to Listen.
4. Be Positive.
5. Remember Special Times.
6. Be Yourself

Different Cultures in Room 4 Maths

The following is a bar graph and a pie chart of different cultures in Room 4 Maths

The "Key Words"- Reflection

The term "Key Word" means the important(Key) words we use to research or use to know more about a thing. For example: if you want to search about a ferrari but you don't know its name you could just search up important words to describe that car like "Red" + " Car" + " Nice Looking " + "Fast" you get about 4 million and out of that 400,000 are of Ferrari so that is a 10% chance only on easy adjectives that you will get your item. I got the 400,000 number by adding the name Ferrari so I could see how many websites have the term Red,Car,Nice Looking, Fast and Ferrari. You could get way more specific and get your desired item.

To test this theory, I asked my friend Lepa to describe me Key Words of an item and then after looking for it in the net I got the right item that he described about.

I then tested the theory again with different items and then got the right thing.

In the Web Res File I searched up 23 different keywords searches and got a lot of good hits like the one with the football in which I got the photo I liked a lot and used for my careers slide.

Another important thing to acknowledge are the quotations marks and they affect the searches a lot. Most of the times they help lower the search but sometimes they increase the number of hits.

You can group the words too without the plus and the Quotation marks. Another Very important part is that you can add more key words to the search to be more specific but we should not add random words or we may not get what we wanted.

We also learnt a lot of skills like how to make slides, Add text to slides, how to search for items and images we want, How to copy and paste images and text. 

The above slides includes all of those skills to make a good presentation.

The above skills will be used in the future a lot and especially when we are in the time of AI and robotics. If you don't know how to copy and paste images or how to add slides in a presentation you would probably not get jobs that are complexed that pay high like an engineer or a marketing because they require a person who knows knowledge of modern technology. If you know how to type fast you will be known amongst a lot of people and you may also get lots of jobs that require typing a lot of data. If you wanted to search something like research about someone in your history projects you can easily get a lot of research. For Example I searched about George Washington.

I used the keywords: "george washington"+ " research"+"History"+" important facts"and the first thing I got was a lot of important facts about George Washington and also about his history.

  

Twist Story

The following is a twist story that I heard about and I edited some bits to make it seem more interesting.

There were two ill men in an hospital room. A patient named Nicholas whose bed was near the room’s only window and the other patient named Brendan was at the opposite side near a wall. Nicholas who was near the window would tell stories through the window like how there were people eating good food and how there were guards near the road and how a little girl dropped her lollipop. One day Brendan was jealous and thought “I should be the one near the  window because I deserve it. Why does Nicholas get to see through the window”. That night Nicholas was calling for help as he was choking and was calling for help but Brendon didn’t care as he wanted Nicholas to die so he can be near the window and then the next day he shifted himself near the window only to find a brick wall covering the window.

My Job and Career

In the above google slides presentation I discuss about my future job and career and what I think I will do after school to get that job. I researched with my friend Leone who helped me do the whole thing and I got to know more about the people who do that job every day.