Science Experiment (Crystals)

19 March 2019

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using evaporating

Method: 

1. Set up the Bunsen burner, tripod and gauze mat. Dont place the Bunsen burner under the tripod yet.

2. Add approximately 50ml of hot water to your beaker and place it on top of the tripod, on the gauze mat.

3. Add enough copper sulfate solution to quarter fill the evaporating basin.

4. Carefully place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker.

5. Light you Bunsen burner.Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under the tripod.

6.Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming

7. Turn off your Bunsen burner

Distillation Experiment

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation 

Method: 

1. Set the equipment shown in the diagram

2.  Add approximately 50ml of salt water to your conical flask

3. Light your Bunsen Burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under then tripod

4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent ha been evaporate.Turn  off the Bunsen burner.

=  We were using coca cola instead of salt water.

 Discussion: The coca cola is mixed with salt and water which is a solution, Then we would heat that up, then the gas will go down the delivery tube into the beaker with ice then it will condense = (The gas going back to liquid.)

(This is all a distillation)

100 Facts On Planet Earth

8 March 2019

Today in English we all had to read a book of our choice and then summarise some facts.

Summarise:

1. Flint is found in chalk and limestone. Thousands of years ago people used to make axes,knifes and arrow heads.

2. Some fossils of bacteria are three and a half billion years old

3. Everyday there are 45,000 thunderstorms on the earth

4. 30 to 50% of all living species may be extinct by the middle of the 21st century

5. In one part of Turkey,people have cut caves in huge cones of rocks to make home

Quiz

= !Comment!

1. If a sandstone has red,round,smooth grains,where was the sand made?

2. Which rocks are made from seashell and tiny sea creatures?

          3. Which rock changes into slate?

Answers:

1. The Dessert

2. Limestone and Chalk

3. Mudstone

Health

20 February 2019

In health we are learning about wellbeing we are focusing on spiritual wellbeing 
(Taha Wairua)
and kindness I'm doing a random act of kindness
What Does The Word Identity mean to me?
 Identity means to me is what makes you who you are,like your home, your culture, what you like and enjoy.

Home Economics

20 February 2019

Lately we have been doing Home Economics, we have preparing by going through health and safety. 

 Last Monday I made chicken stir fry with my group Madi, Aroha and myself.

The first thing we had to do was prep.

We used Carrots, Peas, corn, broccoli, beans and cabbage

First we cut the chicken.

Then we sliced and diced our vegetables and put them together

Then we put together our sauce that we were going to use for our chicken, we put together soy sauce and honey then added some salt and pepper. We have done prepping so we started to heat up the frying pan, when that was done Madi put the chicken in till it was nearly done. So we started adding the vegetables one by one.

When there was 2 minutes for the chicken and vegetables to be cooked we added our sauce. while Aroha and Madi were doing the finishing touches I started to get out our bowls and test it.

Our meal turned out very good we should have used least soy sauce and more honey because it tasted very strong but it looked good smelt good but not so much taste good

Te Whare Tapa Wha

20 February 2019

Te Whare TapaWha

Te Whare TapaWha is about a four wall house of hauora which is representing four basic beliefs of TAHA WAIRUA, TAHA HINENGARO,TAHA TINANA. and TAHA WHANAU.

Taha wairua means Spiritual Wellbeing
Taha Hinengaro means Emotional and Mental Wellbeing
Taha Tinana means Physical Wellbeing
Taha Whanau means Social Wellbeing

I contributed with my group by giving ideas, putting up all 4 walls, writing down all meanings of the 4 walls.Next time I will make sure everyone is involved by doing there work.
It was challenging when we all didn't have an idea towards our whare.
I coped with the challenge by working together putting ideas out.
I worked well with others because its better with 4 brains than 1.

Science

 19 February 2019 

Science Experiment

Aim

Measuring the tennis ball by different heights you drop it from

Hypothesis

The higher you drop the ball the higher it will bounce

Method

Someones going to hold the ruler as another person is going to drop the tennis ball from different heights as recording the measurement also repeating it 3 times each height

Results

1m - 32, 19, 21

2m - 34, 29, 27

3m - 41, 39, 37

54cm - 21, 24, 26

Discussion

When we dropped it at 1 metre the bounce back was 32cm when we dropped it at 2 metre the bounce back was 34cm.

When we dropped it at 3 metre the bounce back was 41cm

The we dropped it at 54 cm then came back to 26cm 

Conclusion 

Our aim was 

(Measuring the tennis ball by different heights you drop it from)

These results came back to my hypothesis

 (The higher you drop the ball the higher it will bounce)

 !WHICH IS CORRECT!