Monoprinting

Hey everybody, 

During art, we have been working on our monoprinting from this past few weeks. 

There were copies of plants, leaves and flowers, we had to trace some of it from different difference copies to make our own background using a baking paper sheets. Then we had to photocopy them 2x into papers. We had to colour and for the other one is to monoprint it, we used an ink. 

Since I haven't actual tried to monoprint, so at first I had no idea how it works. I had some struggles and difficulty when halfway to completing it, but I eventually finished it.

Here's my monoprint: 

I messed up many times but this is what I did. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I'll cya later, goobye :>

Making Ginger Beer (Science)

Kia Ora,

For today, it is going to be an another experiment that we're doing in science, which is making a ginger beer. 

Aim: I want to find out how to (brew) make ginger beer. 

Research: We had to find a YouTube video on how to make alcohol, making a ginger beer and a fermentation.

Alcohol from common table sugar

Making ginger beer

Fermentation 

Method: 

Equipment: 

• Plastic cup 
• Marker 
• Powder ginger 
• Water 
• Sugar 
• Spoon 
• Lemon Juice 
• Yeast 

Instructions: 

1. Get your equipment.
2. Take a plastic cup, write your name on it. 
3. Pour half a teaspoon of a powder ginger inside the cup. 
4. Add half a cup of water into the cup. 
5. Put one tablespoon of sugar inside the cup. 
6. Mix your ingredients inside the cup with a spoon. 
7. Add 5 drops of Lemon Juice into the cup. 
8. Taste it and adjust the flavour. 
9. Add one quarter of teaspoon of yeast. 
10. Let it brew for one week. 

Results: 

I only tasted it once but not much since I didn't really like it. We waited for a couple of days and we then finally tried it. It taste sweet but with no flavour at all but the smell of it was strong and it didn't seems like it taste good. 

Discussion: 

What is a Fermentation?

A fermentation is when a yeast eats glucose (sugar), and it breathes out CO2 (Carbon dioxide - gas), then it excretes alcohol. You'll know when the gas has come off, you'll start seeing bubbles. This process is called Respiration. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learn something new and goodbye:))

pH colours (Science)

Hey readers,

Today I will be talking about pH colours, another experiment we did last week. I didn't get to post it last week but here it is. 

Aim: I want to find out what the colours of pH are. 

Research: We had to add a YouTube video about pH colours. 

pH indicator 

Method: 

Equipment: 

• Acid - hydrochloric acid 
• Base - sodium hydroxide
• Test tube rack with a test tubes
• Universal indicator  

Instructions: 

1. Get your equipment ready. 
2. Add 10 drops of universal indicator into the test tube. 
3. Put different amounts of acid and base into the test tube (depends on you). 
4. Observe what happens to the colour. 

Results: 

Discussion: What are the pH colours? 

The indicators changes colours because of the different pH ranges. An indicator can only change colours when it is added with acidic or alkaline solutions. To see if a solution is acidic or alkaline, you can try to make an indicator from a red cabbage. 

Alkaline solution - Combination of base solids that dissolved in water. 

Acidic solution - More concentrations of hydrogen ions.

The range of the pH scale is from 0 to 14. 0 to 6 is acidic, 7 is neutral and 8 to 14 is alkaline. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I will be posting next time, goodbye:)