I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 7 and in 2021 I will be a year 8. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Today is an another period of science, which means another experiment. We will be doing a blind taste testing, there will some foods that they're going to give to us and we will put it in our mouth, but our eyes will be covered, while we'll be pinching our nose to stop it from smelling the mystery food that they'll give, then guess what it is.
Aim: I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can't see or can't smell.
Research: We had to find a different video that relates to the experiment that we're doing which is a funny video of someone eating, a science of tasting video, and an experiment about blind eating video.
Funny eating video
Science of tasting video
Experiment about blind eating video
Method:
Equipment:
Blind fold
Mystery foods
Instruction:
Get your equipment ready.
Wash your hands
Put on a blindfold.
Put your hand out and pinch your nose.
Eat the food and guess what it is.
Release your nose and taste the food.
Where does the food react on your tongue.
Result:
I didn't get to do the experiment since I wasn't at school but I heard that it was fun.
Today I will be talking about what I've learnt about gymnastics during P.E. This week, we have been doing gymnastics, and we have Mr Hilliard for P.E.
We have been given a document where we keep track of the things we're going to learn, basically like a checklist. I haven't done that much since I've missed 2 period of P.E. But I was able to try some of these skills.
We went through the attitudes and values we must show, and about how we can manage ourselves. We also need to have a partner who will rate your skills and your improvements during this week. The person who'll rate my skills during this time will be Rheanne.
At first, I didn't really think gymnastics would be fun since I'm not really into gymnastics but I did learn something, and I guess it was fun since I tried some of these skills.
I've only learnt cartwheel, blind walk, and forward roll. I'm still currently improving my skills.
Thank you for reading my blog, I appreciate it, goodbye:))
I will be sharing some facts about the bird called Kea. I think this will be the last time that I'll be posting about "Uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff" activity book. Today we had to read page 23-28. I used canva to create this poster that I made. This topic was interesting to I tried to find as much information as I can. Here's the poster:
Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learnt something new, goodbye:))
Today, we are doing another experiment for science and it's going to be about hot chilli. For this experiment, we're going to try hot chilli and wait for about 2 minutes after we try 3 different drinks at once, which will be milk, water and ____. We have to repeat this 3 times and to keep track of the result.
Aim: I want to find out the best way to cool down your tongue after eating hot chilli.
Research: We had to find 3 different types of videos about Hot chilli, funny, science and experiment.
Funny
Science
Experiment:
Method:
Equipment:
Hot chilli sauce
Popsicle sticks
Drinks - Soda, water, milk
Timer
Instructions:
Get your equipment ready.
Get a drop of hot sauce on your Popsicle stick.
Lick the hot chilli sauce.
Start the timer.
After 2 minutes, drink your drink.
After 5 minutes, how hot is your mouth?
Repeat the experiment but with a different drink.
Results:
The first chilli I did was without water. I only took a bit and it was still spicy. At first it was burning in my tongue, I rate the burning sensation an 8 but then after 2 minutes, it wasn't that spicy anymore, the spiciness dropped down to 4.
The second chilli I did was without water, again. I took the same amount of hot chilli but this time I rate the burning sensation an 7.5, after 2 minutes it only dropped down to 6 because my lips was also burning with my tongue because of the hot chilli.
The third chilli I tried was without coke. It was still spicy, at first the burning sensation was an 8.5 and after waiting for 2 minutes and took a sip of the coke, it then dropped down to 7 but I feel like the coke wasn't effective it got worse a bit. But this time it feels like there's a sting in my tongue, my lips was still burning.
The last chilli I tried was without milk. Honestly, it's spicier than before when I tried it the burning sensation was about 9 and after 2 minutes I rate is as 7, for me the milk did work.
The water works the most, then milk and lastly coke.
Discussion:
Why does chilli burn in your mouth?
A chilli has a compound that is called Capsaicin and it's actually an alkaline. The capsaicin is the reason why we feel this hot sensation in our mouth when we eat chilli.
Why did the milk reduce the burn?
Since the hot chilli has a capsaicin which is fat-suloble, and a milk has milk fat in it, it washes the burning sensation in your milk.
Thank you for taking your time to read my blog, I hope you learnt something new, have a great day, goodbye:))
For today's blog I will be sharing some information and facts about these different types of animals. We had to read the article "Uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff" activity book, in page 17-22. I found lots of animals that is interesting, but these are the one that got my attention, giant weta, peka-peka, stoats, and ruru. I found tons of information that I didn't know.
That's all for now, I hope you learnt something new, goodbye:))
We are now back at school. During art, we had to listen to a story book that talks about Henri Rousseau. Henri Rousseau is a French painter. While listening to the story book, we had to take notes, facts that is in the book/video.
This is the notes I wrote that I currently have (not finish yet).
Henri Rousseau is a toll collector, 40 years old that wants to be an artist.
He loves nature (foliage).
He has to teach himself since he cant afford an art lesson.
After hearing about the art exhibition, his canvas are displayed on the place the show is held.
He walked around to gather some ideas, and ends up in world's fair.
While he was painting, a tiger crawled in.
Every year he attends the art exhibition, but art experts always makes fun of him.
He spends hours painting on cemetery, he paints and learns.
A gardener sneaks him into the hothouse, and he goes in.
Words I didn't understand:
frond
tenderly
banquet
frolic
This is one of Henri Rousseau's art works that I admire. This painting is very realistic and has lots of details in it. It is called "The Equatorial Jungle" that is created in 1909.
That is all for today, thank you for reading my blog, goodbye:))
