Sunday, 25 May 2014

Tread lightly caravan



Last week the Tread lightly caravan came to our school. We talked about how to reduce reuse and recycle objects and turn them into useful objects or give them to someone who values it.
We played Geckos and vines which is a similar game to snakes and ladders. A very challenging one was to power the devices with a spinning wheel and a power bike. We found out that the kettle was impossible to power from a power bike(even a Olympic cyclist couldn't power the kettle)but the rest of the devices were a bit hard but still possible to power. I enjoyed choosing the healthy choices and the bad choices to get an average score to see how many planets would be needed if every single person had the same choices as you.

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Bee keeping

Honey bee notetaking-Mr Davis
Walt note take about bees

  • varroa mite-eat bees
  • sylva makes wax cells where honey & babies stored
  • stores honey on leg
  • chews it through glucose and fructose spits onto comb which creates honey.
  • 30 - 60,000 bees in hive
  • huddle to keep hive warm-job in winter
  • 5 kilometres from hive
  • fly separately
  • 1-4 months
  • queen 2-5 years
  • when hive is moved more than 1 kilometre they can’t find it again
  • smoke makes bee doozy-cold smoke
  • tell different bees by smell