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Zombie Apocalypse

                                       How to survive a zombie apocalypse

Zombie apocalypse surviving ideas:

Food (regrowing food)
Water
Silent weapons
Thick clothes( so that the zombies will have a hard time trying to bite you)
Water filterer

Matches

Batteries
Radio
Lantern

Blankets
Tools

Shelter

Clothing

Exercises
Weapons
Power

Communication

Transportation

Medication/health products/first aid

Wood/stones

8 most important things:

Food
Water

Shelter/blankets/pillows

Medication/health products/first aid

Tools

Clothing

Communication

Wood/stones

Group of 3:
Sarah

Sofia
Liz

                                                     

                                                                     POWER 

                                                Why Do We Need Power

• In our everyday lives, we use power. We can’t live without power (electricity). We can’t imagine what life is without electricity. Every night time, we use a lot of electricity, because we need light so that we can see. Without lights, travelling would be very risky,we won't be aware if there are zombies near by and there's a possibility that we bumped into a dangerous weapon.. Whether its  day time or nigh time, electricity keeps our lives in order.We use power to charge electric motors or to make things work. 
• This energy comes from the movement of electrons. Electrons are small particles that orbit, the nucleus of an atom. When electrons work together to flow along a circuit that's is electricity.

https://www.google.co.nz/urlsa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&ved=0ahUKEwio3fzOp73QAhUBqJQKHUfuDwoQjBwIBA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.giphy.com%2Fmedia%2FHBBkgNpTs7y0g%2Fgiphy.gif&bvm=bv.139250283,d.dGo&psig=AFQjCNEfktdpryX0RBz70_e0TGu5owrdIQ&ust=147993660527239

How we make power

One way to make power is through windmills. Modern windmills have three blades. Other number of blades have been tried, but the three blade windmill works greater. Modern windmills rotate clockwise, people say that there are no special reasons for this. Modern windmills are controlled by computer. Windmills are connected to gearbox or generators. Once electricity is made, it is made suitable to enter local grids, it is then used to power your home or someone else's.

Why are group is the most important

Our group is the most important because without it nothing much would really work, like for food, we sometimes need to cook food and without it the stove wouldn't work or the microwave wouldn't work, although you can use fire to cook food. Or for clothing if they were to sew something using a sewing machine without electricity the sewing machine wouldn't work, but they can hand stitch it, but it is still better to use a sewing machine so you can get it done easily.

Fun facts:

• Only 10% of energy in a light bulb is used to create light.  
• From 2008 to 2030, world 

Sustainability

Aim: 
I want to find out how to grow a sustainable garden.

Things I need to consider:

• Can the plants grow in our climate?
• What plants can you grow when planted in September?
• How long do they take to mature? When can they be harvested?
• How many mature plants will fit into my garden size?
• How can I water them during the holidays?
• How do I keep pests away?

Research:

I would like to grow :

• Silver beet to be ready in November
• Sunflower to be ready in November
• Potatoes to be ready in December

https://nz.pinterest.com/explore/self-watering-bottle/

Here is a system I found that will water the plants from under the soil.

It is a plastic bottle, and the bottom has been cut up, and the lid has been taken off. 

Pest Control

How am I going to keep snails, slugs and birds away from my plants?

https://www.growveg.com/guides/slugs-gardeners-enemy-number-1/




Basically its a plastic bottle that has been cut up in half, and has been put around the seed.

Method:

Equipment

• Weeding/Gardening Tools
• Seeds
• Plastic 2L Water Bottles
• Scissors
• String and 1m ruler
• Stakes
• Fertiliser

Instructions

1. Pull out the weeds and use a spade to turn over the soil.
2. Mix the fertiliser in with the soil.
3. Plant the seeds according to my map below.
4. Put the plastic bottle greenhouses over the seeds.
5. Add the self-watering system that I found.

Making Biltong (Beef Jerky)

Aim:
I want to find out how to make biltong (beef jerky).

Method:
The equipment I will need to make biltong...

• Raw steak
• Spices for flavouring (a pinch of coriander, ginger, garlic, pepper, chilli, cummin)
• A small handful of salt
• String (50cm)
• Sharp knife
• Bowl
• Newspaper

Instruction for making biltong:

1. Get all of your equipment out, ready for using.
2. Get your newspaper and lay it on a table.
3. You then wash your hands.
4. Then add salt and all of your chosen spices onto a bowl.
5. Mix your salt and spices together.
6. Then get your raw steak and cut it into thin strips approximately 1-2cm wide.
7. Once done get your raw steak and put it down on the newspaper.
8. Get your seasoning, and massage it onto the meat.
9. Then get your string that is approximately 50cm long, and tie it at the end of the raw steak.
10. Then get your meat and tie it on a drying line.
11. Wash your hands again and clean your workplace once done.

Tip: Make sure that your raw meat is getting air, and make sure that you have something underneath the meat so that it can catch all the blood, that is going to drop from the meat on the first days of it being hanged up.

Results:

The biltong was brown and dry. It was a little hard, but you can still bend it a little. It didn't really smell like raw meat, in fact it didn't really smell like anything. There were fats that had become white. It tasted like plain ordinary meat, at first. But as I kept chewing it, it became more salty.

Discussion:

Why did we salt the meat?

There are two different main reasons on why we salted the meat. The first reason is that the salt will kill the bacteria that is on the outside.

The second reason is that this will absorb all of the water that is in the meat. This will cause it to kill the bacteria because the bacteria needs water for it to grow.

How does salt kill the bacteria?

The salt will drain the meat, and it will cause the bacteria to die because bacteria needs water to live. So then the bacteria will not be able to grow anymore in the dried meat. The bacteria will burst because of the salt.

P.E Class Time

Today in P.E class, we were having  a Jump Jam challenge, to see  which class was the best in Jump Jam. After all of the classes were done dancing, we had an award giving. The awards were for students from each class, to receive an award for showing the CARR values, 2 people were chosen from each class. Once the grown ups were done giving the awards to the students, they announced the winning class for Jump Jam, 7Bk came 3rd and 7Mg, and 7Rc were tied, so we had to dance again, to see who the winning class really is. In the end my class won, and 7Rc came 2nd. Our class then received a trophy, that had our class name on it.

After the challenge, the other classes got dismissed by their teachers.  Our class had P.E for the next period, so we stayed in the gym. For our P.E class we did a beep test. Our gym teacher wanted to know  who was the fittest person in our class. The person who got the most points was Matthew, with 59 points.