What is a Drill Gauge?

What is a Drill Gauge?
A drill gauge is normally made of steel but can be made out of other types of metal for example; Aluminium.
The reason for its existence is to accurately measure or check the size of any drill bit. It is mostly used by engineers and can come with and in many different sizes.

What does a Drill Gauge look like?
A drill gauge has around 27 different sized holes with the sizes under or next to the hole.

The length is roughly around 150mm+ (if you want to add a slight curve on the edges) long and the width would roughly be around 66mm. It depends on what type of Drill Gauge you're looking at or wanting to create and how many holes you want.








Here is a photo of a drill gauge one of my classmates had created.

The one I personally created has been given away as a gift for another so it could not be shown.

The one my class and I have created has only 8 holes of different sizes, this being because they are the most commonly used drill bit sizes that we use or would probably need future wise. Some of us have also spray painted our Drill Gauge just to add colour, and some have kept theirs plain as you can see. On my drill gauge, I did not add any colour just because I liked the silver shine.


What are some of the measuring tools we used for this project?
While creating a drill gauge we obviously needed to have a tool appropriate for measuring.
For this topic, we used 6 measuring tools to achieve the exact sizes, they are-
-Ruler (Used for measuring on where to mark out our lines, and to measure the sizes)
-Engineer square (Getting accurate lines after marking it out)
-Vernier (This is just to assure that my first measurements and my draw filing were accurate)
-Odd leg caliper (Was used to help mark out a curve at the end of my Drill gauge)
-Micrometer ( I used to mark and check the thickness of the aluminium piece.
-Spring divider x3 (I used for engraving lines and the distance between each marking point)

How to use a vernier and micrometer-
Here are two videos on how to use and read a vernier and micrometer.
Vernier- VIDEO
Micrometer- VIDEO


Here is my Tinkercad/digital Drill Gauge.

We created these after finishing our real drill gauge.

While creating this digital drill gauge, for this we had to create the same shapes as the real drill gauge, we also had to use the exact same sizes, so we could distance the holes in the correct places, we also had to check the thickness is the same and that the holes are the proper size. I feel like this was a fun project to do and that the learning behind this topic was also a lot but helpful.

Child labour Research task

Here is a research task I have been given-

Who was involved/Included in child labour?
Around 152 million children are involved in child labour, it was said to be around 88 million of them are boys and 64 million of them are girls. 48% are aged 5-11 years of age. Almost half of the children/child workers are in Africa- 72.1 million kids, and the other 41% of children are in Asia and the Pacific -62.1 million. Almost half of the workers, work in the most hazardous child labour ever - 73 million. 

How were these kids involved, and how did they get involved?
More than 2/3 of all the children in child labour work as contributors family labourers on farms or in families- 69.1%. Some parents or families also sell their kids to pay off any debts, they cannot afford on time. Some kids who are given away to work can be gone from home for months to even years, it is a long period of time until they have worked off the debt, and sometimes the parents pay the rest, so their kid doesn't need to work longer.

Where is child labour, what areas of the world is child labour?
There are so many countries in the world that have child labour so I am just naming the top ten-
10-Somalia
9-Pakistan
8-Nigeria
7-Myanmar
6-Liberia
5-India
4-Ethiopia
3-Dr Congo
2-Chad
1-Bangladesh

What are the reasons for child labour?
The people behind it earn a large amount of money each year, roughly $150 billion dollars in illegal profits- This comes from what the forced labour generates.

Facts-
- 71% of child labour takes place in agriculture, for example, things such as-
Livestock herdings, Brick making, aquaculture, fishing, forestry, mining for gold, silver, diamonds and so much more hazardous jobs.
-19% of children who are in child labour, are in low-income countries and around 2 million victims live in high-income countries, but still, get paid lower than the minimum wage- illegally.
-More than 1/4 of children that work in hazardous are done by children under the age of 12, that's- 19 million.
- Some children in child labour are forced to work for other people as a way of paying a debt, for example, their family would have to give their kids to them, and the children would have to work until the debt is paid, this could take from months up to years.
- Some children willingly do it because they're scared of their families getting slaughtered if they don't.
-Children who try to escape from working would usually get a really bad punishment, and the ones who had escaped successfully would've eventually been caught, or in really bad trauma.

All summer in a day- Ray Bradbury

Here is a link to the story my class read together, and here are some questions and answers.
STORY LINK

Find 3 words you don't know the definition to, look them up and write the definitions in your words.
tumultuously, Apparatus & tremors.

Tumultuous- When an unintentional noise happens and you have many ideas on what could've made that sound, or just a loud noise like applause.

Apparatus- Any machinery or equipment needed for a project or to create a structure of some sort.

Tremors- Shaking of some sort, or small shakes for example- Mini earthquakes.

Discuss the Exposition of the story -- what are the characters, setting, and mood?
Margot, students, William and the teacher.
The setting- On Venus
The dark, gloomy and dreary.

List and label one metaphor, one simile, and one example of sensory language from the story.
Metaphor- "The children lay out laughing on the jungle mattress"
Simile- "The sun is a flower, that blooms for just one hour".
Sensory language- {They were taking off their jackets letting the sun burn their arms}

List and label an example of show not tell from the story.
"It was the colour of flaming bronze and it was very large" - The sun
"The sky was a blazing blue tile colour". - The sky colour description

Child soldiers.

Here is a map I have created on where child soldiers are mostly made and are a large amount.
The information on it is about what other types of labours take place there.
I have ordered the countries in line, on the mildest labours to the most extreme, starting from Somalia to Yemen.


What is a child soldier?
A child soldier is literally what the name is, It is a kid who has either been taken or chosen to leave their homes and go away to learn how to fight, cook, clean, kill and so on. These kids can be turned into a bad army, they go around killing or having wars with other armies, sometimes innocent people.

Here is also a S.E.E.L paragraph I have created on Child soldiers-

Children are used in wars and armies because they are captured at a young age, some have a will to join to avenge their families death and are easily manipulated by warlords and recruiters. Child soldiers have no human rights or freedom because they are controlled by warlords who deny advantages. For example, child soldiers in Somalia are used for either sexual entertainment or as messengers, porters, spies and even cooks, they are very easily manipulated, have chosen too, or have grown into the army. The ones that have chosen to join the army may have done so because they have either lost their families and want to get revenge for their deaths, come from poor families, are homeless or have trauma and are too scared that if they don't join, they will get slaughtered along with their families. Most of these child soldiers are sold to other armies for sexual use, or as slaves.

Health- Taha Wairua

For the past few weeks 10Ak Health class have been learning all about Taha Wairua and Spiritual well-being, we have been learning about how it can effect people's life.

Spiritual wellbeing-  It is when all of the Values are together and how people connect with each other, it is also a way if people being able to speak. It also gives a purpose in life for people, you can connect through hundreds of different ways, for example- Internet, music/lyrics, notes even nature. To me I believe that my spiritual wellbeing is very important and effects me through everything I do.


Here is a slideshow on one of my Taha Wairua tasks.

Here is a photo about things that are important to me in life and that I think, are the reasons I live happily.

Child Labour

My S.E.E.L Paragraph-

Child labour has been around from the 1700s and the early 1800s. Child labour is still to this day very frequent and on going. Around 168 million children are stuck in child labour, and nearly 60% of child labour takes place in Agriculture, because of this, child labour children miss the chance to have a bright education, and have to find or work for more money so they can support and help their families. For example, children are used in child labour and are manipulated into doing longer hours and still get paid under the minimum wage. The reason behind this is that the government of people controlling the child labour, pay minimal as possible while they start becoming filthy rich. The children in child labour have less time to rest that the average kid. They have to grow up working for their life, literally. They also don't have much time to properly bond with their families of friends. Due to child labour so many children are living without basic human rights.

My Final Reflection On My Show Don't Tell post.

My final reflection-

Have I learned anything while working on this topic, if so what and how is it going to help me become a better writer?
While I have been working through this topic, I have started to learn on how to write and create mini proper stories, I have also learn't new words, and I am able to understand and say the meanings. For example the words 'Protagonist & Antagonist'. I think this can help me in life, if I feel like becoming author of novels, or if I would have a job that includes a big amount of writing, it can also help me through writing essays or assessments. It can help me become a better writer, because I would know how to use proper punctuation, and I would be able to explain and be descriptive in my words/sentences.

What activities have I enjoyed from this unit of work and why?
The one that I enjoyed mostly would have to be, creating my own personal 'show don't tell' stories, I found it very fun, and I enjoyed coming up with funny ideas and I got to create a story line while trying to get others to understand and see what I see or can imagine.

Which styles of learning works best for me, can I identify any obstacles to my learning?
I think the style I prefer to work with would have to be setting it up part 1, because I like creative and imaginative stories. I also think a obstacle I had to try harder for would be 'setting as a backdrop' because I don't think I am good at trying to get people to see the background or imagine it.