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**___HEY EVERYBODY IT'S DANIEL!___**
**___WELCOME TO MY AWESOME PAGE!___** = = = = = __MY ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT__ =

**riding my bike to hockey training and other places that are in riding distance.**
= **LEGO EDUCATION EXCURSION** =

**there from being as much pollution which is great for the environment.**
**WHAT I HAVE LEARNED FROM THE EXCURSION:** **When all the grade 5/6 students when on an excursion to the 'LEGO EDUCATION** **CENTRE' in the Docklands we were split into two groups. The group i was in were** **tasked to make a Ferris Wheel out of the parts we were supplied with. To make them spin** **we had a small Lego device that stores energy. It is connected with another Lego device to** **a small solar panel with a lamp shining on it. That gave it the power to spin the Ferris Wheel.** **Or you could have used a Wind Turbine but we found out that it wasn't as powerful as the solar** **panel. I never knew that before I went on this excursion. I thought that the wind turbine would** **have been stronger than the solar panel but it worked out the other way round.**

**Then we had a break to eat recess.**

**After that we swapped activities.** **We were using gears to make a Ferris Wheel. After that we had to work out the ratio.** **What we had to do to work out the ratio is to see how many time we had to turn the handle** **(which turned a pole which turned a gear which turned another gear which turned the Ferris Wheel) to make** **the man go around ONCE. Then we tried it with a different sized pole and worked out the ratio of that** **if it was more or less. After you finished that you were given a little piece of paper with a bird on one side** **and a cage on the other. What we had to do was re-design our Ferris Wheel to make it spin the bit of paper** **and make the bird look like it was in the cage.**

**Tai and I were working together on this activity and what we found out is that in our kit we were missing a cirtain** **size of a pole to turn the gears. So we used a bigger size but that didn't really work out for us.....**

**So what i learned from that activity is that you must follow all the instructions correctly.**

**I had a lot of fun at the Lego Education Centre and my favourite activity was probably getting the Ferris Wheels** **so work with the solar power and the lamp.**

= = = **THANKS FOR VISITING!**__ =


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