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Thursday 18 June 2015

Amazing trip to MERC!!!

Today we went to MERC where we will be going to camp and we saw and did fun thing like playing and going around the camp. We saw the bunk bed where were  will be sleeping.We saw the chef and had a photo and we saw the boats where we will be sailing. We saw the bow and I though that we will be robin hood.
Flying Anas

Mrs Archer's job everyday

Archery bow

Nice view of sea

Kitchen photo

Sleeping bunkbed

Sail boat

Wednesday 17 June 2015

Wednesday 10 June 2015

NS Information Report writing Wk 7

We are learning to write an information report about a topic related to space.

By Friday 5 June you need to have written and edited your information report on a topic related to space so that it is ready to be published.

Here are some ideas to write
  • Jupiter
  • Astronauts
  • Earth    
  • The Moon
  • Eclipses
  • Stars

My topic is:
   Cygnus X-1


You need to attend one workshop with the teacher on an area that you feel you need help with for your writing. Here is the timetable where you will make your bookings. There is space for seven people in each workshop so book in quickly to make sure there is space!

Start researching and plan your writing here: (remember to write notes in your plan). Click here to see an exemplar of a plan.

Introduction:
Main idea:
A supergiant star orbits the Cygnus X-1
More detail: The Cygnus X-1 was the first black hole discovered

More detail: The Cygnus X-1 was discovered in 1972 by Tom Bolton
Main idea:

the cygnus X-1 supergiant
star orbits it 5.6 days

More detail:
the supergiant star is 25 to 30 times bigger.
More detail:
the hole in Cygnus X-1 is 7 to 15 suns larger
Main idea:
the Cygnus X-1 is located at sagittarius arm of the milky way
More detail:
the type of black hole it is stellar mass black hole.
More detail:
the cygnus X-1 is 8,200 light years.


Success Criteria for writing. Click here to see an exemplar of an information report about Mars.

Level 3
Student Targets:
Yes!
Audience and Purpose
  • Identify my audience and purpose for writing.

Content/Ideas
  • Write clearly and include all important information.

  • Add factual detail to expand my ideas.

Structure: including punctuation and grammar
  • Use different sentence starters.

  • Join some ideas using conjunctions such as: when, while, after, since, until, if, because, although, that

  • Organise my ideas into paragraphs and sequence my ideas so that my writing flows.

  • Use subheadings for each new paragraph to tell the reader what it is about

  • Check that I am writing in the present tense (for example: the sun is a ball of fire; the stars are shooting through the sky)

  • Use a range of punctuation correctly.    (.,?!)

Editing
  • Identify and correct most spelling errors.

  • Improve my writing so that it is more enjoyable/informative for the reader.



Start your writing here:
Introduction
Have you ever wondered of a black hole that is famous? if so the Cygnus X-1 information report is for you!

Orbit
The Cygnus X-1 orbits a supergiant star the star is 25 to 30 times bigger than the sun. It has been found in 1972 by Tom Bolton.

Large
Cygnus X-1 is a black hole in it hole it is 7 to 15 sun’s large.The black hole get gases from the supergiant star and the gases feed the Cygnus X-1.

location
The Cygnus X-1 is located at sagittarius arm of the milky way.

info
The star group it is in is Cygnus, the swan. It orgin of it’s name is First X-ray source found in Cygnus.The is no light in a black hole so a supergiant star give heaps of light so anything can see.

Blackhole
A black hole like Cygnus X-1 can crush heaps of sun’s.The sizes of the black hole are three different one is normal-size star, stellar-mass black hole and Supermassive black hole.

Falling into a black hole
Earth could orbit a black hole beyond at the event horizon.Get a bit closer and gravity from earth’s one side is going to be stretched and will be ripped apart.

Dimeter
The diameter from the black hole to the supergiant star is 20 to 40 miles (30 to 60 km).