Hard Materials

Conceptual Statement

I am designing A wooden basketball toy for myself. chose this idea because I play basketball and I play it every day at morning-tea and lunch-time so that’s why I chose basketball.

WOODEN TOY

NAME: Wiremu TePania

Evaluation

Key Attribute 1:

A design that I,the stakeholder, likes.

Key Attribute 2:

It had to be fully functional because if it doesn’t work then it was a waste of time.

Key Attribute 3:

It has to work smoothly because if it didn’t work smoothly it wouldn’t work the way you wanted.

Development/ Final Design Drawing

I was feeling good about the final design because I thought it was the right one for my interest. When it came time to print it out on the card I couldn’t get it to encrypted his eyes and stuff so I had to stick picture of him on.

Concept Ideas

I wanted something that represents me like rugby or basketball. The decision was easy in the end because before I drew the second picture I knew I was going use the first design no matter what the other design was.

Research

When I chose the basketball design I wanted him to be doing some kind trick when he’s going for the dunk. So that’s why I chose the rotary and reciprocating motion for my design. This motion allows the toy to spin around move up and down.

Mystery Writing

Mystery Writing

The biggest bank in the world, the Millennium Bank in Paris. Russell McDonald was getting ready for another day at the bank but today was different. He walked in and he screamed, thousands and thousands of dollars had been stolen from the central vault.

“Put your hands up,” said a voice. He turned around and there were three men holding guns and large bags of money. They sprinted out and into the getaway car. Russell immediately rung the police but 10 minutes later the cops still had not arrived but my friends Tom, Francis and Joe had. They said “We heard about the burglary, so sorry” said Joe. “We'll be off” said Francis.

As they walked away I wondered how did they know because I only rung the police. They said they wanted to go on holiday but they had no money to go but I didn’t think too much of it. The police arrived and immediately started finding fingerprints and DNA samples. They got the results of the tests the next day and the prints were from Tom Williamson, Francis Mason and Joe Matson. Who just happen to be all of my friends. They were all caught on the way to the airport. All of the money was returned and the bank was safe.

Athletics Day

Athletics

Last Friday we had athletics. The Te Kanawa boys started at long jump. Reif did the furthest jump in our house with 4.44 metres, that's a lot further than mine 2.29 metres, but I didn't try.

Next was discus. I almost hit my friend. I didn't do the 200 or 100 metre sprints. In the shot-put I threw just under 7 metres but didn't do the vortex throw. I didn't qualify for the high jump team.

In the relays Te Kanawa boys came 2nd and 4th. But in the girls relays we came 1st and 3rd. In the 32-man relay Te Kanawa smashed because Nepia dropped the baton 2 times and 2 of their team rolled there ankles, so it was easy for us.