Daniel's Lances Lab Report

Lance Bass the pop star has been sent into space to make music while running space experiments. Such as ‘How does space make you lose taste buds?’ or ‘Why does space give you Amnesia?’ That is the reason lance has gone up to space. Lance will have to live up in space and bring all his food and water. He has three months to complete his mission.

Living

There are advantages and disadvantages while living in space. For instance, an advantage would be gravity. With no gravity Lance can move around freely, and even be able to reach things that would be out of reach with gravity.

-Eating in space may not be as easy as to hold canned food in, it looks but, with a magnet cupboard to hold canned food in, it makes everything easier to eat. With a built in can friendly microwave, cooking canned food is easy. It has a magnet at the bottom to keep the cans’ down. Cooking toast is as easy as pie, with toaster with a lid so that the toast doesn’t fly away.

-Sleeping while floating through space is not a good idea. But with this brand new magnet bed He will slide himself through and the magnets will hold him in place. He does not only have a blanket, he has a pillow as well. Lance won’t be sleeping in mid-space, he’ll be sleeping while attached to the inner wall of a space craft.

-Fun while floating in space is a lot harder then down here on earth. On earth Lance could just kick a ball and he would be having fun. But up in space it’s a lot harder. Seeing as there’s no gravity. Playing a free play Music would make him happy. But not enough. That’s why lance has an Arcade game that would excite him. Plus his laptop comes with a couple of amazing.

-Washing in Space is not like a normal shower where you can just turn a tap and water will come down. Lance will have to deposit water into a towel and clean himself with a wet towel. Even in space he will have to use a normal toothbrush and toothpaste.

-Exercise with gravity is easy, but without, not so much.

*Arms are easy to exercise when you know how, just as well Lance knows how to play guitar and drums.

*Legs are the easiest part of the body to exercise. A treadmill will work in space in space. The only problem is how Lance will stay on? Straps obviously. They will strap his waist to the appropriate height for him to run.

Music

-Instruments, Lance will continue to record music while in space using his normal instruments. All together; Guitar, drums, vocals and keyboard, create music.

*Drums have a special ring to them that keeps the song in rhythm. Lances chair is welded to the flour. The top has straps to keep lance down on the chair to make it easier to play.

*Guitars create catchy tunes that Lance will use to create an impressive song. Lance can sit on his drum set chair too, while playing guitar.

*Keyboards are an electrical appliance that puts electrical/Different sounds in Lance’s songs.

*Microphone/Vocals. Lance adds his vocals by singing into the microphone. All of Lance’s instruments are plugged into his laptop for him to record sounds

-Recording using a mixing panel is easy the panel is to change the pitch and volume. The instrument recordings can only be put together using a laptop.

Communication

Normal phones don’t work in space, that’s why lance has been given;

-A) A satellite phone. Is one of the only ways to communicate with Earth. There’ are many satellites around the earth for Lance to send messages to his family, friends and the scientists working on the theory’s of space.

-b) Facebook, twitter and Skype are also an excellent idea for Lance. His laptop is also plugged into the satellite, not only for Facebook, twitter and Skype, but also to send his music.

Extra laptop features

-Extra net access. This allows Lance entrance to any site on the web.

-Sound and graphic options. Lance has the ability to do anything to do anything with this feature. Both of these will help lance with his research and his song writing.

Experiments

Space is an amazing environment. while up there lance will analyze the atmosphere to see what causes loss of taste buds and memory. He has been given equipment to help him in his research. Hopefully he will come back with the answers

Lance has enough food and water to last over the three months. He also has extra toothpaste, (just In case) over the period; Lance may have written and made two songs at least.

By Daniel Pope

Tim-Lance's Lab

Lances Lab

Living in space is not an easy thing to do. There are aspects of living in space that are upsides but also can be major downsides. Like no gravity. Lance will have a bit of fun floating around, but what happens if he needs to go toilet? People have to design special toilets and design something for every useful household object.

Lance Bass has asked for a module to be designed for him. He plans to live in space for three months so the module has to fulfil his living needs.

Recording Music

The pod is well equipped for recording music. It has a guitar, saxophone, keyboard, microphone and a computer for recording the music. Although the keyboard is in another room it is highly portable with removable magnetic devices to hold it down. Singstar has also been downloaded onto his computer for a warm-up. Also when the guitar and saxophone aren’t in use they are strapped to the wall. He can edit his music on the computer and also put scenes with it on windows movie maker (the computer has a camera).  Lance will easily be able to continue his career of singing while in space. Keeping him partially entertained. But is it enough? Bringing up the next topic.

Entertainment

Lance will be quite happy on the space station. He has a TV with 200 channels and an Xbox Kinect. He has a special couch with seatbelts for comfortable watching. Lance also has a whole bunch of games on his computer including chess, solitaire, Singstar, Age of Empires (the entire series with expansion packs) and he has the internet so he can play any game on that. He can also download games from the internet so he will never be short of games. He can always play music too if they get bored. The only thing Lance has to worry about is getting morbidly obese.

Exercise

 Lance has a squat machine with straps to make it actually challenging because if there weren’t any straps he would be able to do it effortlessly. There’s also a treadmill with straps. Those are the only exercise machines but if he practices on them every day he shall remain fit. Computer games also practice finger strength.

Communication and Experiments

Lance’s computer is fully equipped for communication since it has Skype and Lance has his own satellite. So communication is a breeze. While Lance is up there he plans to do an experiment, to test out a theory. Supposedly when in space taste buds seem to disappear. Lance is going to test out this theory by rating his food out of ten every time he eats. The rating will eventually decline and once it gets to three the test will stop. He will then see how long it took and send the information down to earth. That covers communication and experiments, leaving one last thing. Everyday life.

Every Day Life

For sleeping Lance has a special bed. To make it portable we have attached magnetic devices to this as well.  To stop Lance floating around the bed has straps or bedbelts.  To keep him warm Lance has an electric blanket that he also puts under the bedbelts.

Lance has to cook everything in its container then slowly slurp it out with the lid partially open. To store his food he’s got a minifridge.

To go toilet Lance has to lay his faeces into a suction toilet. For urinating he has a suction pipe. For washing he has to use very little water so that makes drying very easy. So Lance shall be able to do everyday tasks. Although they won’t be as easy.

In conclusion Lance Bass has everything he needs to live in space. He will be very happy and cheerful, he may even want to stay longer than three months.

By Tim Sime

Lances Lab Report

Pop-teen sensation lance Bass is going to be staying at the ISS (international space station) for the next three months. In this report you will learn about his home in space. It includes his day to day tasks, relaxing, music, communication back to earth and why he is even going to space.

Day to day Tasks:

For his everyday tasks he has most of the normal equipment with just a few small changes. All his kitchen appliances are bolted to the floor and they all have magnets or straps inside to hold things in place. His bed is strapped to the wall during the day. Then at night it is lowered down to the floor and is held there by special magnets. He has to strap himself into bed so that he doesn’t float in the air. His toilet is a suction toilet so it flushes pretty much 24/7. His waste is flushed into a 200L holding tank. His washing machine is satellite powered and washes and dries his clothes all-in-one! To wash himself he has to carefully squeeze some water into a cloth and then wipe it all over his face. He has to be careful as any free water could damage any electronic panels. To cook his food he has special pots and pans. He gets his food out of its straps in the cupboard. Then once the pan is hot enough Lance pours his food in. The hot pan becomes sticky so that the food does not float away. He has to be holding the pan at all times and his feet are strapped to the floor.

Music:

To record his music he has his trustworthy guitar, a voice recorder and his laptop. All of Lance’s equipment is velcroed to his special space desk when they are not in use. He sings his songs into his voice recorders and emails them back to his producers through his laptop. When he gets back he will re-sing them. These are just the base songs so he doesn’t forget his ideas.

Communication:

To communicate with his family and friends Lance has skype, facebook, bebo and twitter setup from the satellite. He has his laptop to talk to them. Lance talks to them every day and discusses how things are going with his family and work colleagues.

Relaxing and Fun:

To relax Lance plays on Sims, Wii, Buzz or play station on his 50-inch flat screen TV. Otherwise he sings along to one of his hits on sing star. He gets sing star every time! Or he’s just sitting on a bean bag listening to or playing music.

Why Space? :

Your probably wondering why Lance is even going to space. Here are four good reasons why:

1)      He went to space for inspiration. For his music, life and fans.

2)     He went to be away from his fans and the pressure of being famous.

3)     He went to get a better understanding of what other people experience. He wanted a similar experience for his future career.

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4)    He needed a new study, something else to work towards. He experimented with the difference of gravity and its effects. He found out that NO gravity in the ISS makes life a whole lot harder.

Living in space is harder than living on earth as it affects the way you are used to living. Lance is coping well as he has all he needs: Relaxation, communication, music, and similar day to day tasks. Also, Lances family and friends are encouraging him all the way!

Bibliography:

The information for this report came from Wikipedia, google, a space information sheet, you tube and my imagination. To find out more about the ISS go to one of these places.

By Sara Taylor

The Pheasent And The Chooks

When I looked out the window I saw a pheasant so I quietly went out to look thinking it would just fly away but it didn't it stayed with the chooks, so I called the chooks and fed them then the pheasant came running to.

It stayed with the chooks all day so we thought it must have been someones pet but when night came and I went to shut up the chooks it wasn't there. The next day it wasn't there but the day after that it showed up at the chook house waiting for some food so I feed it and the chooks. It is sort of like a pet now but it is not quite friendly enough to pick up.

                                                                     By Josh West

The New Speedometre

When my dad was nine he got a new speedometer for his bike. He and a friend found the steepest hill in Oamaru which happened to be beside a cemetery.They decided to test out the speedometer there.

They went flying down the hill trying to get maximum speed they reached 80 kilometres per hour (according to dad) when they got the speed wobbles they both skidded out of control and fell off. Mark (my dad ) wasn't hurt but his friend had blood all over him. They scattered home and Mark's mum totally freaked out when she saw the state of him his face had turned white and he had blood all over him. She patched him up and rung his parents luckily there were no broken bones.

The next weekend they went to watch his friend play tennis covered in plasters. Ever since he hasn't rode down that hill.
                                                 
                                                                By Josh West

    

When joshn came over .

When joshn came over we had lots of fun we hade shots with my gun we shot 2 birds with my sisters bedo,s because we had ran out of bullets for it but we still had fun shotting the gun . when me and josh nilson went down to the water fall what we have at our house we were walking down it but if you fall down you would badly hurt your self

William's weekend recount

In the first day of the weekend soccer was canceled so I practiced for winter sports and played ping pong on the Kinect. At 5:00pm a friend of mum came up, and for dinner we had chicken pie.

in the second day I  went to Alex's house it was really fun there, we fed the ells there pieces of bacon one of them were huge, we also climbed big trees  but at 3:00 it was time to go. 

Some of the Schools History

Back in the 1970's when my dad had just started at a much, much different Maungatapere School, the field was being extended. When the school bought the land from the Northland Dairy Company, my poppa helped with the hoeing and the grubbing to make the field flat.
When the field had been finished, there were trees to be planted. My poppa grew all the shelterbelt trees from seed. The trees had been grown in our nursery at Redwood Orchard.
Later Poppa became the school groundsman and he looked after the field, the trees and the swimming pool. He made sure that the pool was clean enough to swim in and that the school had no litter in its grounds.
Poppa mowed the all of the open areas on his tractor-mower , while my dad used the school's ride-on mower for around the trees and buildings.

By Sasha

I Don't Think I Was Ment To Eat That.

When my mum was a little girl her older sister told her that if you like butter you like buttercups so to prove her wrong she ate one. As soon as she put it on here tong she recoiled in disgust and ran two km to get back home so she could tell on her and when she got back she got sent to bed without dinner at 4 o’clock in the afternoon. That served her right. When she was 9 she made a milk shake with beetroot juice because she liked the colour, but that’s another story.      

 By Eva M

RUN!

                 RUN

30^th of April Rebecca her sister Claire and I went down to the creek. We were having a great time. We didn’t want to go back so we went even further, BIG mistake!

           We were fine at first. We saw two eels, a couple of sparrows and a fantail or two. Then we saw a fence but it was flattened, so we kept going.  It was after we crossed the fence that we started to hear noises.

            We’d gone about an hour down stream. We couldn’t see anyone but us and we couldn’t hear anyone but us and the noises. We were starting to get a bit freaked out. But we thought we were getting worked up over nothing. So we kept going.

             When we came to a clearing we were standing under very crumbly rock! So we had to run through the ankle-deep water. Then when came to a clearing Claire said to quickly hide behind a rock. I asked her what she’d seen. “A man in a helmet.” Then she told us to: run!

             So we practically sprinted under the crumbly rock, and when we came to a clearing we thought we could stop so we did. But then we heard a voice behind us so we sprinted off again. We kept running over rocks through trees then after about half an hour we came to the start, But we didn’t stop we went up the path until we could see people and they could see us. Then we basically collapsed on the ground from running so much in so little time.

          We haven’t gone down there since. But I plane to go there again soon.

By Sarah.

The worst mistake ever!

The worst mistake ever!

       When my dad was only about six, he went to Helena Bay Hill School. They had furnace instead of a big bin to be taken to the dump. That’s how the worst mistake ever happened.

       One day my dad had to take out the bin to the furnace to be burnt. He had to take three bins. So he carried one at a time down to the furnace to burn the paper.

         So he got to the furnace, he set the full bins down and lifted the lid and poured the first bin in. He went down to pick up the second bucket he forgot to shut the furnaces lid. Just before he poured the second bin, a big gust of wind blew and a small piece of lit paper came out of the furnace and went over towards the big school hedge, and, WHOOOSH!! The hedge burst into flames! Like colourful fireworks, red, orange and yellow.

         Of course he was scarred. So he ran to the school buildings and hid under one of them. But he found him, and got the strap, because they didn’t know it was an accident.

          But everything’s ok, the hedge is grown back to it’s normal state. Now it’s just a funny story to share!

By Sarah.

Holiday Recount

  That Sickining Smell

A couple of weeks ago we went somewhere to look at a car and this is how it happened.

“Eva get in the car we need to get going or we won’t get there in time” called me as she was locking the door. “Yes mum, coming” I said flying through the door with a pillow in hand. I wasn’t going to sit there and twiddle my thumbs, I was going to have a quick 40 winks. At first it was hard go to sleep but in the end I got to sleep.                                        

We were in kawakawa and I had woken up, I was hungry but I dad didn’t stop. We were coming out of kawakawa and dad said it was only around one hour to go. I was starting to feel a bit queasy because we were in my granny’s car and it had one of those little smelly bags and the road was winding a lot.

An hour later we pulled in a driveway. At last we were there. Mum and dad jumped out of the car but I just opened the door. After a little while I got out of the car. Once I got out of the car we got into the car we were looking at to go for a test drive. There were heaps of spider webs were the doors met the car. Mum drove down the road first, the road was bumpy. We got down to beach road, mum pulled over and dad got into the driver’s seat and went back to the house.

Mum and dad ended up buying it. I didn’t feel too bad on the way home. (Thank goodness for that) Mum and dad were going to go and pick up the car the next day. Mum said that I said that I didn’t have to go with them. Yess!

by Eva M

Easter

  As I woke up my cousins started to yell its Easter   Its Easter then me and my brother brad got our Easter egg from my mum and dad.

 As me and brad were heading back to my cousins cabin as I slipped on my cousins ball and hit the picnic table.

 As I pulled myself back up I had lots of blood coming out of my mouth and a two front teeth that were aching too.

Then I had some of my small egg then my cousin Leroy came and gave all of us an egg except one because she did not want to give him an egg so she missed out so then I gave her my egg for two little egg then I went to get a hot chocolate then we had a Easter hunt.         

by Gabby

Northland Polo Horse Trek

Sara 3/5/2011                         

Last Saturday I went to the Northland Polo Fundraiser Horse Trek. My Dad is the captain of the Northland Polo Club, so we kind of had to go. Dad woke me up at 6:30am! I got dressed into warm clothes and gumboots then set out to catch Paris, the 15 hand 6-year-old thourghbred that we are grazing at our house for the winter. I took her out the gate and over to the horse truck. Dad decided to leave her cover on as it was a bit chilly. I took her up the ramp and Dad and I jumped in the cab. Then we were off.

First we went down to the dairy, filled up the truck and had a sausage roll for breakfast. Then we headed out to my Grandparents place to pick up two of the other horses. We arrived and loaded up Castor and Dione (the other horses). We kept going and arrived Tangowahine, at the horse trek. The trek was going up the mountains at Michael Youngers farm. We arrived at about 8:00am and unloaded the horses. Then Dad went over to register while I took the covers off the horses.

Once everyone had arrived, they all registered and the two people that were riding Dione and Paris came, they all set off. I was left with the others who weren’t riding to cook the onions and sausages, butter bread and organize cakes.

Two and a half hours later they all came back along the track. I ran outside to help dad unsaddle Castor and give him (the horse) a wash. Once all the horses were sorted everyone came inside for some lunch. There were speeches and the works, and then everyone started to leave.

All the Polo people stayed for about one hour later and had drinks. We raised over $2000 for Northland Polo and had a great time. Then Dad and I loaded up the horses, were given about 50 leftover sausages, 2 loaves of buttered bread, a 2 litre bottle of tomato and BBQ sauce and a bottle of mustard then we drove off. We dropped off Castor and Dione, then arrived home unloaded Paris and went inside for some dinner. (Sausages, bread and sauce!)

Gabby's Fish Life

One afternoon I got put in a glass tank and named Bubbles. E

Ever since then, I have had animals look at me, stare at me and even watch me and all the others too. I think it’s kind of random.

One day two animals brought in some rocks big rocks. It was cool with a k. I thought they were going to put it in the tank but no they had to scrub it, clean it, wash it and even let it dry yet it was still not in our tank. It sucked a lot because now we don’t have anything to hide in except the weed that is fake.

By Gabby

Pike's day

“What a Day! This morning I was just happily swimming around the pond, when a big, net thing scoops me up.

 Next thing I know I’m in a tank! Oh, hi my name is Bebo and I’m a fresh water guppie. Anyway, back to the story. So now I’m in a tank right? But it’s not that bad; I’m here with seven other guppies, oh now it’s only five! In my new tank there is a jug house, fake plants, rocks and the Bubble THEMEPARK. I go there all the time with Bobblelogs and Bubbles. You get blown around in the bubbles and it is SO MUCH FUN!!!!! To eat we have food from a can, and when scary h-u-m-a-n-s look at me I hide in the weeds. My new life is much better than my old one in the pond. Even if it is a bit scary, but new adventures are so much fun, This tank is full of them and surprises, I can’t wait!!!
By Eva

Bubble's Life

Hi my name is Bubbles and I am the smallest fish in the tank. I have a rainbow coloured tail and a silver body. There are six of us in the tank, there were eight but I kinda got a bit hungry last night, but hey, they didn’t feed us yesterday so it’s not my fault. We got put in here the day before yesterday. We came from a small creek which is about an hour away from here. But in our tank there is a big Air Slide it is so much fun!!!! My new friends are: Larry who is sleeping as usual, Stella who is looking into the glass doing her hair, Mrs Guppy who is dusting the fish tank, Higgy who is playing Hide and Go-Seek with the snails and Steve who is banging against the glass trying to get out.( Which we all know that it obviously won’t work, so we all have learned to ignore it.) So this is my life and hopefully I’ll have a fishy girlfriend and will grow taller and fatter by the time I next see you. (Probably not!!) Bye!!

By Rebecca K

A Freaky, Fish Tale

“Come on fish, keep swimming!”  I yelled as I frantically searched for somewhere safe to hide.

“Ahhhhh!” shouted one of my friends as a big, thick net swooped around her and picked her up.

“Marcie!” I shouted. The big net lowered down again and began to scoop my family and friends up. ‘Keep on swimming’ I told myself as the dangerous net cornered me. I was coming to the end of the stream, when suddenly I was lifted up into the outside world.

“Mum I caught one,” the human said.

 “Good job Courtney,” another one answered.

“I think that’s enough.” I was carefully lowered into a white bucket.

 “Abby!” cried my friend Marcie.

 “What’s happened?” she said.

 “I don’t know,” I replied. I turned around to see all the worried townsfolk talking quietly amongst themselves.

"Let’s go mum,” a voice beamed. Suddenly the bucket was lifted up.

“Let’s get some rest,” I advised. When everyone had seemed to have nodded off, I slowly opened my eyes. Hopefully everything would be alright.

When I woke up I screamed. Obviously it woke everyone else up too.

“Oh my fish fins!” one of the stubborn fish said.

“Arhhhhh!” I yelped. I slowly swam forward.

“Where am I?” I cried. All of a sudden the other fish swam forward.

 “AHHHHHHH!” she yelled.

“Seriously,” I said “Can’t you see there are other things to think about?”

 Instantly, a man opened the top of the glass tank. Immediately we all swam up to get some of this heavenly smelling food that had been sprinkled on top of the water.

After we had all had a marvellous feast, one of the youngsters swam over to this black thing.

“What’s this?” he said peering underneath it.

 “Help!!!!” he screamed. I quickly turned around. He was gone! ‘I better stay away from that thing’ I thought.

“I bags the jug!” I yelled. I could be here a while so I had better get the best bed!!!

By Rebekah

A Day in the life of Bebo

A day in the life of Bebo
By Sara

“What a Day! This morning I was just happily swimming around the pond, when a big, net thing scoops me up.
 Next thing I know I’m in a tank! Oh, hi my name is Bebo and I’m a fresh water guppie. Anyway, back to the story. So now I’m in a tank right? But it’s not that bad; I’m here with seven other guppies, oh now it’s only five! In my new tank there is a jug house, fake plants, rocks and the Bubble THEMEPARK. I go there all the time with Bobblelogs and Bubbles. You get blown around in the bubbles and it is SO MUCH FUN!!!!! To eat we have food from a can, and when scary h-u-m-a-n-s look at me I hide in the weeds. My new life is much better than my old one in the pond. Even if it is a bit scary, but new adventures are so much fun, This tank is full of them and surprises, I can’t wait!!!