Technology
: Whakakängia Ngä Rama — Light the Lights
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Approach: Station
Focus: Connecting electrical circuits.
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Resources: Board with two switches, battery and bulb; 6 wires with alligator clips.
Questions / instructions:
Read all the instructions before you start doing this task.
In this activity you are to make a switch board work so that the switches light up a light bulb in three different ways. Imagine you are making a switch board to be used for a competition. Each switch is for a different person.		 Mö tënei mahi me hanga koe he papa hiko [switch board] hei whakakä i te pürama [bulb] mä ngä pana [switch] i ahu mai i ngä ara rerekë e toru. Me whakaaro noa he whakataetae tënei. Kei te hanga papa hiko koe hei mahi mö tëtahi whakataetae. He pana mä ia tangata.
     
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MI
1. Use the wires to join one switch to the battery and the light to make the light glow.
The light should only glow when you hold down that one switch.
Whakamahia ngä waea ki te hono i te pana kotahi ki te pühiko me te rama, kia mumura ai [glow].
Ka mumura te rama inä pëhi iho koe i taua pana kotahi.
wired correctly battery, light and one switch in service
   
2. Draw on the diagram where the wires go. You don’t need to draw the clips.
If you have trouble with the drawing, ask the teacher to help.
Tängia ki runga i te hoahoa kei whea ngä waea. Kaua e tängia ngä rawhi [alligator clips]. Ki te raruraru koe, pätai atu ki te kaiako hei äwhina möu.
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3.

In the competition, two people are going to help each other. You need to join the switches to the light so it lights up when one or the other switch is pressed.
Mö tënei mahi, ahakoa te mahi takitahi, ka taea tonu te äwhina tëtahi i tëtahi. Me hono ngä pana ki te rama, kia kä ai inä ka pëhia te pana ahakoa ko tëhea.

Test your switch board by pressing one switch at a time.
The light should light up when you press each switch.
Whakamätauhia tö papa hiko mä te pëhi i ia pana.
Ko te tikanga ka kä te rama i t pëhitanga i ia pana.
wired correctly
two switches in parallel, together in series
with battery and bulb
   
4. Draw on the diagram where the wires go. You don’t need to draw the clips. If you have trouble with the drawing, ask the teacher to help.
Tängia ki runga i te hoahoa kei whea ngä waea. Kaua e tängia ngä rawhi. Ki te raruraru koe pätai atu ki te kaiako hei äwhina i a koe.		 9 2
Commentary:
Mäori students in general education (GEd) settings scored statistically significantly higher than did Mäori students in Mäori immersion (MI) settings.
 
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