I am a Year 7 student in the Uru Mānuka Cluster. This is a place where I will share my learning. Please note that some of it will not be complete, it will be my first drafts. Remember to be positive, thoughtful and helpful when you leave me a comment.
Thursday 26 August 2021
Brownies (In Lockdown)
Wednesday 25 August 2021
Dice Roller On Google (In Lockdown)
Hola Como Estas Amazing Readers,
Today I'm going to be making a blog post about dice roller on google. I was given this task by on of my amazing maths teachers Miss Bancroft. I made a video explaining how I did this so look at the video down below.
Multiplication Table (In Lockdown)
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Today I'm going to be making a blog post about my Multiplication Table Activity that I was given by one of my maths teachers. This Table is from 1 times table to 9 times tables. Here is my work.
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Tuesday 24 August 2021
Should We Move To MARS? ( In Lockdown)
Hola Como Estas, Amazing Readers
Today I’m going to be making an online blog post about Mars.
This blog activity was given to me by one of my Teachers for reading and my reading
group is called The Social Distancers well here is my work
Should We Move To Mars?
Do I want to move to Mars? No, I don’t think we should move to Mars because there is 0.13 percent of
oxygen on Mars compared to the Earth with 21 percent of oxygen on it. Mars also has up to 95 percent of carbon dioxide. I also don’t want to move to Mars because you can only live there from up to around 2
minutes or so before your organs ruptured. Here is a true fact, Difficulties and hazards include radiation
exposure during a trip to Marsand on its surface, toxic soil, low gravity, the isolation that accompanies Mars' distance from Earth, a lack
of water, and cold temperatures. In Mars there have been 40 missions to Mars, but only 18 missions have
been successful, so there would be a 40 percent chance we could not survive going to Mars
Did you know that the distance from the Sun to Mars is 141.6 million mi. The radius for Mars is 3,389.5
km or 2,106 mi. Did you know that the polar diameter of Mars is 6,752 km and the surface pressure of
Mars is -153 to 20°C. Have you ever wondered if other planets have a moon??? Well really Mars has two. One of them iscalled
Phobos and the other one is called Deimos. Those are the 2 moons for Mars.
Have you ever wondered where Mars got its name from? Well obviously Mars did not get its name from
the chocolate Mars because the planet Mars was there before the chocolate Mars because the chocolate
Mars was made in 1911 and the planet was made about 4.5 billion years ago. Well the real reason why
Mars got its name is because It has a distinctive red colour and was therefore associated with battles and
war and named after the Roman god of war.
The surface of Mars is a reddish-brown colour due to the rusting process of the surface minerals.
Another name for Mars is “The Red Planet.” Other civilizations throughout history have also named the
planet due to its colour. The Ancient Egyptians called Mars “Her Desher,” which translates to “the red one.”
Today we often call Mars the “Red Planet” due to the iron minerals on the surface. It’s the iron in the
Martian dirt that has oxidized or rusted that causes it to look red.
Here are some facts about Mars that I found and read about.
“ Mars is only half of Earth’s diameter and its surface has many appearances as the dry land on Earth.
Mars has volcanoes, crust movement, impact craters, and atmospheric conditions such as dust storms
that, over the years, has changed the landscape. Valles Marineris is a large canyon system on Mars
whose length is long enough to stretch from New York to California on Earth; with a distance of over 3,000
mi/4,800 km.” Mars also has the solar system’s largest volcano, Olympus Mons. The volcano is three
times taller than Mt. Everest on Earth and has a base that is the size of the state of New Mexico. Thanks
to the incredible Mars rovers, we believe that Mars had water on its surface in the past. The temperature
on Mars never goes any higher than 20 degrees C. The temperature differences are due to the density of
the two atmospheres.The atmosphere on Mars is very thin while there is a thick atmosphere on Venus.
Scientists have done a lot of research on Mars and they also think that the atmosphere may have caused
the loss of any liquid water that was once on the planet.
Orbiting spacecraft has shown that Mars does have frozen water in its polar caps and there is some
evidence that indicates that there might be liquid water under Mars’ surface.
Scientists think that at one time in its history, Mars might have had a good enough atmosphere to have
water on the surface.
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Wednesday 11 August 2021
Tokyo Olympics 2020
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Today I'm going to be making a blog post about Tokyo Olympics. I made 2 slides for the Tokyo Olympics, one of them are about 5 NZ Olympians and the other one is about the NZ MEDALS. Here is a true fact the first Olympics started on the 6th of April 1896.
Here are the Slides
Monday 9 August 2021
Science Ginger Beer with Yeast
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Today I'm going to be making a blog post about Yeast. This week in Science we are going to be using yeast to make Ginger Beer,(NO ALCOHOL INCLUDED). Today we made ginger beer in class. We did this by activating the yeast first by adding sugar to the yeast, putting some ginger and warm water in a cup together. Once we had done this we put it to the side and left it to ferment while we made the rest of the ginger beer. We made the ginger beer in an ice cream container by adding first the sugar, then the water,some lemon juice and lastly the ginger beer bug. Once everything was mixed up we put it in a bottle. It is going to take about 6 days to turn into ginger beer. Mr Palmer is going to keep it in his office for the next week.
What things are yeast used for? - Yeast is used for making Beer and mostly making bread.
What is Yeast?
Yeast is Fungi.
Yeast is made out of egg shaped cells only visible in microscopes.
Yeast is made living and it can also die.
Yeast has been there sense the Ancient times.
Yeast is all around us in the air which is called natural yeast.
There are 250 species of yeast in the world.
Yeast can make carbon dioxide gas with are the bubbles in your bread paste.
Yeast can make wine to is is made by the grape skin on a grape.
Here is the Ginger Beer Recipe:
Equipment
- Spoons
- Kettle
- Bowl
- Beaker
- Cloth Sieve
- Funnel
- Plastic (PET) bottle and cap.
- 50ml warm water
- 1/2 tsp active dried yeast
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 1/2 tsp ground ginger
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/2 tsp cream of tartar
- 1L cold water
- Juice of 1/2 lemon
- 1 tsp ginger beer bug.
- In a large bowl, put the sugar and cream of tartar. then add the warm water.
- Stir to dissolve the sugar before adding the cold water.
- Add the ginger beer bug to the large bowl of cold water.
- Stir well and then pour into your clean bottle
- Label your bottle with your group names.
- Place all the bottles in the class container
- Store in cool,dark place for one week before drinking.
- Make sure you open the bottle in the kitchen sink as it might overflow. Open the cap bit by bit to allow the air to escape.
What effect does sugar have on yeast?
Too little sugar in dough can slow down yeast activity: Yeast is a lot like us – it loves to eat sugar. Yeast needs sugar to produce carbon dioxide – the leavening gas that causes the dough to rise. If there is not enough sugar available, the dough will rise slowly or not at all.
What are 3 foods that have yeast?
Bread,Muffins and Beer.
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Thursday 5 August 2021
Science Chilli Tasting 2
Hola Como Estas Amazing Readers
Today I'm going to be making a blog post of CHILLI TASTING IN SCIENCE
Aim: To see which is the best way to cool down the hot chilli taste in your mouth when eating chilli.
Hypothesis: I think that that by using Milk I will be able to remove the hot chilli taste from my mouth.
Equipment:
- Milk
- Water
- Coca Cola
- Tasting
- Chilli
- You will work in groups of three for this experiment. Each person in the group will use on of the drinks with the chilli. You will then swap results in your group so that everyone has the same results.
- Each member of the group needs to have their own tasting cup. This will be used for putting the different liquids in as we cool off the chilli in our mouths.
- Place a piece of chilli in your mouth.
- You will drink the liquid that you have in your cup. As you do this you will complete a results chart.
Chilli Tasting Results
Record : Yes or No
Immediately | After 3 minutes | |
Milk | Good/help | Better after |
Water | Did Nothing | The Same |
Coca Cola | It was the same | A Little better but still kinda hot |
Monday 2 August 2021
Science Chili Tasting
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Today I'm going to be making a blog post about Spicy Chillis
- What is the name of the chemical in chilis that make them hot? - Capsaicin
- The name of the five hottest chillis in the world? - Carolina Reaper, Moruga Trinidad Scorpion, 7 Pot Douglah, Primo, Butch T Trinidad Scorpion.
- Name 5 countries where chillis are grown? Mexico, India, Africa, China, Thailand
- What is the Scoville Scale?
- Milk
- Water
- Coca Cola
- Tasting cup
- Chilli.
- You will work in groups of three for this experiment. Each person in the group will use one of the drinks with the chilli. You will then swap results in your group so that everyone has the same results.
- Each member of the group needs to have their own tasting cup. This will be used for putting the different liquids in as we cool off the chilli in your mouths.
- Place a piece of the chilli in your mouth.
- After 10 seconds you will drink the liquid that you have in your cup. As you do this you will complete a results chart.
- The effectiveness of the liquid immediately.
- The effectiveness of the liquid after 10 seconds