Averages DLO!

Hey, Everybody, For maths I am working on averages at first I thought it was going to be a bit hard and challenging but I still went for it, and it ended up being really fun and it started to end up being really easy. Even when it was with decimals! if you know averages give a comment and give me an equation like on the drawing so I can answer it and I can do a blog post about it on how I answered it. Then try to answer my equation!

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Alchemy!

Today for science we did alchemy with alchemy our aim was to try turning a copper coin gold. for it to turn gold we had to boil 50 ml of zinc nitrate after that we add zinc metal strips to it. Then we let it boil for 10 minutes. I was put into a group with Teyha and Blake, at first, the color of your coin was turning into a rainbowish paua shell color. One of the groups had found a cool thing about their coin it was burnt so they tried to rub it and it ended being a shiny metallic color. For us we after the rainbow color it turned into a silverish color. It was a pretty fun experiment it didn't actually matter if we got it wrong or right because every other coin would change to different colors. In the process, we took a few photos and here they are.

  This is how it is supposed to like when you set it up.

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       We turned on the orange flame and it burned our beaker 

        This is a 20-second video of us hold the coin over the flame

     and here is the final result it is a little shady but it turned out like a silvery color.

After the experiment, I thought that it was really fun and how I learned a lot more new things maybe I should have held it over the flame longer overall it turned out right.

Orana Park!!

On the 18th of September on Wednesday we went to Orana Park in Christchurch. Before we left to Orana park I put myself in so much trouble I woke up a 6am to just get to school early since I was so stoked to go. So we arrived at school an 8am since we walked, My feeling inside was the feeling of being a rocket just blowing up into the sky.  I don’t know why I was so excited to go when I already went there. To be honest with my opinion it was way better than going with family I still love going with them but it is much better when you get taught about them. The different thing was that if I was with my family I would mostly be shown the farm animals and all the common things and we wouldn’t get to stay at one animal long enough to admire them. But if I was with my zoo teacher We got to admire the animal, see the endangered ones and learn about it was a bit more fun than having to just actually walk around. The whole of year sevens was split up into four groups and I was in group 2 and my zoo teachers name was Elaine.

Some of the rules we learned about at the zoo were about the basics you climb over the fences to pet the big cats or poke you finger the fence of a cheetah but the one we had to talk about the most was HIPPO you might know or you might not know about it. No, it is not the animal a hippo but it stands for something and I will tell you what I means. The H means Habitat lost like animals if they lose their homes or it is demolished by us human to make farms or mall and stuff like that, that we have now. I mean Introduced species as in when other animals get brung into New Zealand that is not native in our country. The first P means pollution if you're polluting the animal habitat like if you litter in the drain it will go into our water source and that is the ocean so turtle they endangered and probably soon to extinct since we litter. The second P means Population growth there are more and more humans so that is more and more home then that means there are less and fewer animals and homes for them. Finally, for O it means Over exploitation that means when people killing animals for needs to much and the problem is that some people don’t hunt responsibly like some people kill the animals just for sake of killing or some people kill a rhino and just the horn.

Now I will tell you about what I have learned about the animals, the first animal we saw was the Kiwi everyone in NZ know what the kiwi is.

Kiwi - The kiwi is a nocturnal animal and if you have them in the and you want to feed them you have to feed them live insects because they won't eat them when they're dead.  They have strong bones in their legs unlike other birds when they have hollow bones to fly but the kiwi is a bird and they don’t fly.

Kea - the kea is national bird to NZ it’s a bird don’t give chocolate to kea because it is toxic to them and make sure you, before you drive the kea, is off your car if you do encounter that also if there are any kea around your location  if there is keep and shiny things safe.

Spider Monkey - Did you know that spider monkeys have a thumbprint on the end of their tail and also they use their tails to keep balance?

Lion - The cool thing about lion is that they have the loudest roar of all wild cats and their roar can be heard 5 miles away from them.

Tasmanian Devil - Did you know that Tasmanian devils are marsupials and they have a pouch and that pouch has the purpose of holding babies in it but it can only hold about 4 babies.

Tiger - Tigers live alone and spray to mark their territory.

Zebra - Did you know zebras are black with white stripes how do I know? It’s because they are born black and then slowly develop white stripes while they're growing up, and every zebra has a different stripe pattern.

Buffalo - The buffalos would go in the water and the nose would be poking out but the funny thing is that they hate rain so they go under the trees.

Cheetah - Cheetahs are the only big cat that can purr, cheetah need to rest after they have hunted their food since they use all their energy for it. So when they rest its food gets stolen by lions or hyenas.

Apes - The oldest ape is basically the boss of all the other younger apes and the younger ape must give him whatever he wants.

Orangutan - Orangutans put a sack over their head like sun hats.

Rhinoceros - Did you know that rhinos eat the giraffe's grass so the giraffes don’t get sick because the grass is bad for giraffes? Also they have to shape their own horn to get it in the right shape they want.                 

Giraffe - Giraffes tongues change from pink to purple so it doesn’t get sunburnt.

I had so much fun on that day and I would definitely recommend for you to come back again. There were so many things that I have learned about animal and how they are endangered. Also about hippo and that the kea was the only mountain parrot in the world.

Mindset DLO!

Today for philosophy we had to do DLO on mindsets and comparing them to each and one of my tasks is to tell you the reflection of what mindset I think I have.

I think I have a growth mindset for all subjects but I am in the middle for writing sometimes I feel like giving up but I keep going because I want to get better grades

Ice and Salt Experiment!

Today for science we had an ice and salt experiment the experiment itself was about putting an ice in cold water and placing a match gently on top of it then adding some salt. That will somehow create the match sticking onto the ice so you can just pick up the matchstick its self with the ice cube dangling off it.  I was in a group of three with Keghan and Teyha, the science behind his experiment is that the ice cube and water is state of forces being balanced. It releases a lot of energy in the form of heat, that means everything gets colder even the ice cube. So under the ice cube where there is no salt the ice refreezing and freezes the matchstick as well so the matchstick sticks to the ice.

My team was not so lucky we got the job but there was evidence as soon as we turned off the video succeeded but you couldn't see that we had so much trouble. Why? It's because we probably added too much or too less salt also we had to keep grabbing more ice cubes. After we finished we washed the beaker and there was a load of salt in there so we knew we used way to much salt. We took some photos so here they are.

Why do we sprinkle salt on icy roads? It helps the ice on the road to melt quicker so we drive on it and not slip and accidents.

Geometry Definition!

Today on the 13 of September 2018 in math I had to make a DLO defining all these things relating to geometry from what I have learned about them hope you like it and make sure to give feedback on anything I am missing.



                        

Elephants Toothpaste!

Another day of science and it was amazing we got to try elephant toothpaste it was so fun we had a bit of trouble with the dry yeast but we succeeded and it looked great! here are a few photos of our experiment.

 We Had to wear gloves and goggles to protect us.

  Here is the funnel empty

                                     

 And here is the funnel  with some kind of poisonous liquid so that is why we wore gloves.

 we put 3 tables spoon in dry yeast and made it look like peanut butter.

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 And here is a picture of one of my team mates