Safety - Equipment

For this blog post, I'm going to be talking about some of the rules that you need to know when your in a Science Lab. I'm also going to be talking about some of the Equipment that our Science teacher showed us.

Safety Rules:
1. No running inside the Science Lab.
2. Put bags under your desk or somewhere where no one can trip over it.
3. Follow the things that your teacher ask you to do.
4. Never try to taste or drink any chemicals that you are doing an experiment on.
5. You should never Eat or Drink inside the Lab.
6. If you accidentally spill or break something, you should clean it up then tell the teacher.
7. You should always wash your hands after you do an experiment.

Equipment:
1. Funnel
2. Beaker
3. Test Tube
4. Test Tube Rack
5. Tongs
6. Conical Flask
7. Measuring Flask
8. Glass String Rod
9. Spatula
10. Measuring Cylander

New Kahui's

This week, we moved to the new Kahui. Other people from the whole school moved to a building as well. My class moved with another class, while the other six classes separated into three and moved to the other two buildings. The building that we moved into is called Tieke. The other buildings are called Mohua and Riroriro and are inspired by our local Native Birds.

When I walked into our new buildings, I saw lots of colours that represents the names of the buildings. It's a really big space for us to learn and it feels really comfortable. I like the way my classroom looks like but I was shocked to find out that we don't get the whole classroom by our self. We have to share almost half of the classroom with another class, either the juniors or the seniors. By the back side of the classroom, there's another classroom but we don't really have to worry about them because they have a sliding door that they could open or close whenever they want. We also have a rule. The rule is that you always need to get out of your classroom if you need to do something. For example, if you need to go to the toilet, you need to get out of your class then go to the toilet.

The first thing that caught my eyes were the light behind the TV. It changes its colour almost every minute. The other thing that also caught my eye was the massive orange wall near  the back of the classroom that I find really cool. The other things that I find cool are the Tall Ceiling, the Furniture's and teacher's working area which is upstairs but we are not allowed to got to.

2040 Documentary

Today in Science, we didn't get the chance to do an experiment because of the move to the new buildings. We had to join two other classes the are doing Drama. 2 classes plus another 2 classes equals 4 classes which is hard to handle. Anyways, we had to sit on the inside the Auditorium and watch a Documentary  called 2040. It was really interesting seeing the Future if we use the things that we already have to make our Environment a better place.

What Surprised me ?
It really surprised me when I saw what our Environment would look like in the Future. Finding out things that I never knew before.

What Excite me the most?
Having less of the bad things like Methane and other bad greenhouse gas that ruins our planet.

What Worried me the most?
The only thing that really worried me the most is that what our planet could look like if we still don't do the right things that could possibly change our planet and make it better.

Art Hurumanu

This week for Art, we were focusing on making our characters from clay. My team mates are focusing the other characters such as the Father, the main character, and lots of other ones and I'm focusing on the Mother. The teacher told us that we are going to be making the background next week and we are still thinking of what it's going to look like. The thing that I'm sort of finding challenging is the way my group works as a team. That's all for this blog. Bye!!

Here is what our characters look like:

CIP - Gardening

Tane Mahuta

Today in Tane Mahuta, me and some of the group were doing the Gardening stuff and the rest of the group were focusing in the greenhouse side. Me and my friends got change into our P.E gear and walked to the garden.We arrived there a bit late as usual. We decided to help with the Gardening stuff rather than helping in the Greenhouse. They were picking up some weeds to be able to have more area to plant some Flower seeds. Then it was Morning Tea time. It felt like we only worked for a small amount of time.

After Morning Tea, we placed our bags inside the classroom then went to the garden right away. There were no Teachers at the garden so we had to wait because the gate that leading to the garden was locked. Finally, the teacher arrived. We went right back to the work that we left. The teacher told us to plant more vegetables in another area. We didn't get to do it the last time we planted so we had to do this week. The names of the vegetables that we planted were, Broccoli, Celery, and Lettuce.

After we did that, we went back to the pulling the weeds. We only worked on a small part of the land to be able to finish it and plant on it. Once we got all the weeds out and the ground was clear, we sprinkled some flower seeds on top.

Anyways, that's all for this week. Thank you for reading!!!

Solar Energy

Solar Energy

Aim: To find out which colour attracts the suns heat.

Hypothesis: I think that the colour silver or black will attract more sunlight that the colour white.

Aim: To see what colour attracts more sunlight or light

Materials:

1.  1x Styrofoam cup 
2.  1x Styrofoam cup covered with tinfoil
3.  1x clear cup covered with black plastic
4. Black plastic 
5.  Tinfoil
6.  Paper 
7. Thermometer
8. Heat Lamp

Steps

1.   Get the Materials.
2.  Set up the Cups. 
3.  Cover the clear Cup with Black Plastic.
4.  Put the Cup with black Plastic on top of another Black Plastic. 
5.   Put the Tinfoil Cup on top of another Tinfoil.
6. Put the White Cup on top of the Paper. 
7. Measure it every minute.

Findings:

Time	Cup 1 White	Cup 2 Black	Cup 3 Tinfoil
0	16 D	16 D	16 D
15	19.1  D	19 D	20 D
30	25 D	27 D	26 D
45	20 D	24.5 D	22.5 D

Photo of the experiment:

This is what the Experiment looks like.

Conclusion

In conclusion, my findings on this experiments state that the colour Black attracts more heat which is in my Hypothesis. The White was really the one that attracts less heat than the other colours. 

I think that the Solar Panels’ colour are Black because again, it attracts more heat than the other colours. Also, in some Countries, they don’t want to paint their houses black because they are afraid that their house will be extremely hot.

Ella West

Ella West

Today on Period one, we walked to the Auditorium to listen to Ella Gates who is an author. She talked to us about her two books that are called " Night Vision and Rain Fall ". These are two completely different stories but both of them has a crime in it. At the end of the session, she also gave us some time to be able to ask her some question and know a bit more about her.


Anyways, the Night Vision Novel was about a child that is allergic to the Sun or the Sunlight. The child was lost in the forest at night when she saw something that she shouldn't have. She witnessed a murder. The hid behind something so the the murderer wouldn't see her. The murder was caused by putting a body inside a car. I can't remember if it was a dead body or if it's still alive. Then the murder set the car on fire. The author said that she chose that type of way of someone getting killed in her story because she thought that the setting was in a forest, it will be loud and if the child was wearing a night vision glasses, it would be too bright for her to see. She didn't really explain as much things about the Rain Fall Novel, but by looking at the cover, it's about a boy that was lost and maybe murdered.

I really enjoy knowing a lot of things about her. I found out a lot of things about her like her living in Dunedin. She has a small Sheep Farm and the Government earns more money from her book.   

Water Cycle

Hi guys, so this Blog Post is about the Water Cycle that we made last week. Here is the "Writing" that  I made. Hope you guys like it. Bye!

Climate Chaos

Written by: Janel

Title	Water Cycle
Purpose	To see and understand the Water Cycle.
Materials	Experiment #1 1x Zip lock bag 1x Vivid  ½ a cup of Warm Water 2 drops of Food Colouring  2 strips of Double Sided Tape 1x Scissor Experiment #2  1x Zip lock bag 1x Vivid  ½ a cup of Soda water 2 tablespoon of Baking soda 2 drops of food colouring  1x Litmus paper 1x Scissors 2 strips of Double sided tape
Steps	Experiment #1 Get a Zip lock bag and a Vivid. Draw the Water Cycle on the Zip lock bag using a Vivid. Get two strips of double sided tape and stick it on the top and the bottom of the Zip lock bag evenly. Open the Zip lock bag and Carefully pour ½ a cup of Warm water. Carefully put two drops of food colouring inside the bag with the warm water.  Give it to the teacher to stick it on the sliding door that gets sun. Experiment #2  Get the Zip lock bag and the Vivid.  Draw the Water cycle on the Zip lock bag using a Vivid. Stick both of the Double sided tape on the front of the Zip lock bag. Open the Zip lock bag and put the Litmus paper in between the Zip lock bag and close the half that has the Litmus paper on it. Pour the ½ a cup of Soda water inside the Zip lock bag then put two tablespoon of Baking Soda then close the Zip lock bag as quick as you can. Give it to Mrs Shehata to stick it on the window that gets most of the light.
Conclusion	Experiment #1  I think the outcome of this experiment is that the water will turn to a different colour.  Experiment #2 I think the outcome of this experiment is that the water will be gone and Litmus paper will turn into another colour.

Two Images:

	The Water Cycle: Bag 1	CO2 Water Cycle: Bag 2 Acid
Does it cycle?	2	1
Amount of Water	2	2
Acidity	1	2

Key: Water and acidity amount: 1 = none 

2 = small 

3 = large 

Bag number 1:

It had a small movements of the Cycle.

The amount of water change a little bit and there was only half of the amount of water inside the bag.

The amount of the acidity in the bag stayed the same.

Bag number 2:

It did not cycle at all.

The amount of water was change by a small amount.

The amount of acidity inside the bag was pretty low.

Conclusion:

The normal Water Cycle had a small movement of the Cycle. The amount of the water inside the bag changed by a small amount and the Acidity inside the bag did not change at all.

The Water Cycle with acid did not show any evidence or clue that it cycled at all. The amount of water did changed by a small amount and the amount of Acidity in the bag was pretty low.

Greenhouse effects - Climate Change

Aim: To look at Climate Change and the Greenhouse Effect.

The Greenhouse Effect experiment

Materials

1. 1 plastic bottle
2. 1 Teaspoon Baking Soda and Citric Acid
3. 1 heat lamp
4. 1 Thermometer
5. 100 ml water
6. 1 rubber bung

Procedure

1. Collect all the Materials from Mr Palmer.
2. Setting up the Lights, Bottles, Thermometer, and Bungs.
3. Mr Palmer add the Baking Soda mix.
4. Wait for five minutes then start recording the Temperature.

Variables:

All water added to the bottle was from the classroom tap.

Findings:The Greenhouse Effect Data 

Minutes	Bottle 1: Water	Bottle 2: CO2 Gas
0	18'c	18'c
5	22'c	25'c
10	25'c	25'c
15	26'c	25'c
20	No Recording
25	No Recording
30	No Recording
35	No Recording
40	30'c	41'c

Conclusion:

The Bottle of water didn't heat up as much as the Bottle with gas in it. It's the same with Climate Change.

Tane Mahuta - Rock Painting

For Tane Mahuta this week, the outdoor classroom is looking really different. We cleared out everything that was outside the classroom and it really looks so different from the first week that we were doing the Tane Mahuta project. Me, Anneleise, and Keyana were told to pull out every Ivy weeds we see from the front side of the classroom. It was pretty hard to pull out  because they were really stuck on the ground and tied up to each other. After that, it was Morning Tea time.

After Morning Tea, We went in the classroom because it was raining and I was suppose to go to my passion which is "Singing". But we didn't have singing because they were really busy organising the activity that they are doing. Instead of doing a blog post right away, the teacher told us that we are going to paint rocks. Some of us were pretty sad because we didn't get to continue the work that we already started earlier, and some of us were really excited to do it, like ME!

We first had to make a design of what we want to paint on our rocks. The teacher called us table by table and get a rock. The design that I decided to make is the Philippine's flag. In my mind, I was thinking of making it really bright and pretty, but the colours that we are using is not as bright as I expected it to be. Instead of bragging about it, I just used some glitter to brighten it up.

Here is how my stone looks: