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.
For today, I will be sharing my work about how Maui slowed the sun. This story is about a guy living on a village where there's not enough sunlight during the day, so he decided to slow down the sun.
We had to read a text and watch a video to know the story. There were some questions that I had to answer that is part of the work. I haven't finish all of the slides but I will be showing what I currently finished.
Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learnt something new. Goodbye:))
Today is an another blog during science. We are going to learn how to make sherbet.
Aim: I want to find out how to make a Sherbet.
Research: We had to find 2 different videos that are the experiment and science about sherbet.
Method:
Equipment:
Popsicle sticks
Mini red cup
Baking Soda
Citric acid
Raro (Flavour)
Paper
Instruction:
Get your equipment ready.
In the paper, you will be given a baking soda, citric acid and raro.
Pour a small amount of each ingredients inside the mini red cup.
You have to add each ingredients one by one (You can't put them all at once).
Try to get your mixture right, it depends on you on what you should add more or less. (You can have a taste to check)
It has to be a little bit bubbly and not too sour.
Results:
(During the process of making it, I didn't have time to take a picture but I only had this.)
At first I couldn't get the mixture right because I added too much citric acid which made it really sour, but as soon as I added the baking soda it kinda had no taste and is really dry. I then added the raro, I think it got a little better than before since it wasn't that sour anymore. It took me some time to make it right. I had to add less citric acid and more baking soda with raro.
Discussion: Why did it foam?
It starts to foam because of the chemical reaction from the baking soda and citric acid. This is what makes them sour. citric acid is a type of chemical that is an acid, some of these are strong and can be dangerous but it doesn't apply for all, some acids are safe.
Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you learnt something new today, goodbye:))
For today, I will be going to talk about what we are currently working on during Art.
The first thing we had to do is to go on the link (Quizlet) and go over the words that are used about art works. We were given an image of Henri Rousseau's paintings and cut them up into background, foreground and middleground images. I had to stick them into an A3 paper and position them separately.
This is what I've done:
Henri Rousseau's painting
Here are some facts about Henri Rousseau's art:
- His paintings are mostly jungle landscapes.
- Henri Rousseau's painted 123 artworks.
- His most expensive artwork is the "Lion eating a boa".
- His paintings are worth from $10 USD to $2,882,500 USD.
Thank you for reading this blog, have a great day and goodbye:))
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:))
