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.
I want to find out if the food tastes different when you can't see or smell.
Research:
Funny Eating
Science of tasting
Blind Eating Experiment
Method:
Equipment:
- Blindfold
- Mystery food
Instructions:
- Get your equipment.
- Wash your hands.
- Put your blindfold on.
- Put your hand out and pinch your nose.
- Eat what you got given on your hands and put it in your mouth.
- Release your nose and taste the food
- Where does the food react on your tongue.
Results:
food #1 - sugar - tasted sugary with nose blocked and the same when unblocked.
food #2 - Salt - tasted Vinegary and bitter when nose was block and unblocked.
food #3 - Baking powder - tasted dark when the nose was blocked and unblocked.
food #4 - citric acid - tasted so sour and bitter when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #5 - powdered gummy bear - tasted a bit sour and chew when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #6 - burger ring - tasted flavoury and weird when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #7 - dry Marshmellow - tasted sugary and nice when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #8 - apple slice - tasted sweet and bitter when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #9 - unpowdered gummy bear - tasted sweet and dry when the nose was blocked and unblocked
food #10 - pear slice - tasted a little bit sweet but mostly sweet when the nose was blocked and unblocked.
food #11 - chocolate - tasted sweet and yum when the nose was blocked and unblocked.
food #12 - Lemon - tasted sour and bitter when the nose was blocked and unblocked.
Discussion:
is there a difference between blocked and unblocked nose taste?
yes
Why?
blocking your nose does not fully block your ability to taste. Because the throat and nose share the same airway, chewing some foods allows aromas to get the nose through the back of the mouth even when you block your nose.
And our sense of smell is responsible for about 75% - 95% of what we taste.
Did the sweet, bitter, sour salt, tastes react on different parts of your tongue?
where?
there are 5 basic tastes - sweet, bitter, sour, salty, umami.
and you taste those in different places of your tongue
I want to find out the best way to cool down your tongue after eating hot chili.
Research:
Funny
science
Experiment
Method:
Equipment:
- Hot Chili Sauce
- Popsicle stick
- Drinks - Soda, Water, Milk
- Timer
Instructions:
1. get your equipment.
2. get a drop of hot sauce on your popsicle stick.
3. Lick the hot chili sauce and swirl it around your mouth.
4. start the timer.
5. after 2 minutes drink your drink.
6. after 5 minutes, how hot is your mouth?
7. repeat the experiment, but with a different drink.
Results:
1st chili - no drink: 8/10 - stopped burning at 3 minutes
2nd chili - water: 6/10 - still extra chili leftover from 1st try, still burning at the end. had water after 4 minutes.
3rd chili - coke - 5/10 - burns more than the first ones, went straight down my throat, the drink did not cool it down even though I had two.
Last Chili - milk - at first it was still burning from the leftovers, but then at 2 minutes when we drank the milk it only helped a little but the last drink helped more than the first drink - 5.5/10
Discussion:
why does chili burn your mouth? capsaicin makes your mouth feel like it's on fire because the capsaicin molecule can fit into your receptors perfectly (receptors - the end of any nerve on your body) and when this happens it triggers your receptors, which send a signal to your brain, fooling it into thinking that your mouth is literally burning.
(what is capsaicin?) capsaicin is an active part of chili peppers, which are plants that belong to the capsicum, capsaicin is a chemical irritant for mammals, even humans.
why did the milk reduce the burn?
Casein, Many milk-based products can help break down the capsaicin. You can think of casein as a detergent, helps wash away the capsaicin molecules, similar to how soap washes away grease.
Hello, Each week my class gets given a book to read and get information from it, for 2 weeks, we have been reading Uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff, so each week we get a limited number of pages to read and we have to read the facts that are in the book and research more about it. Heres what I've been doing.
Kia Ora, this term for Hurumanu 3/Shaping up, my class has been learning about many things in this unit of Hurumanu. We have been learning about Lines/Angles (Parallel, line segment, point, intersecting) Polygons (shapes, lines of symmetry) 2D/3D shapes (nets) Reflection - which is when you try and copy or draw the same and exact thing/shape as the one you are trying to copy/Rotation - is when you turn something or a shape around from one point of the shape/Translation - is when you slide a shape from every point of the shape you are moving. (Scale/maps/compass/direction, and some basic fact sheets that our teachers have also provided us with.
Although they were a lot of work that we were given, I will only be showing you 2-3 sheets of my work, and they will be a part of Reflection and the Basic facts sheets.
Here are the photos:
The first and last photos are both pages of my answers to stage six basic facts that were chosen for me by my teacher, and the middle one is my answers to the Reflection part of the Shaping up Hurumanu. The activities for the middle picture were that we had to draw what the shape would look like in a mirror on every side, and the activities for the first and last picture were just from a sheet from our teacher with questions that are for our level.
Kia Ora, today I am posting about what we have been doing in Wananga, what we have been doing is a activity on Earth Day, and its a task that our teacher gave us: Earth day 2021: Restore Our Earth Volcanoes
1970 - Earth day began in the U.S
2019 - an area of forest the size of a football field was cut down each minute/
2015 - around 190 countries signed the Paris agreement
2030 - sales of new petrol and diesel cars will end in the U.K
Look at the section called Global Warming. Find and copy one word which shows that climate change on the Earth is not following the course of nature. - unpredictable
Fill in the missing words. - Trees produce valuable oxygen and help absorb CO2 from the atmosphere.
How much plastic is currently on Earth? - 9 billion tonnes
Explain how the process of reforestation helps with carbon offsetting? - reforestation helps absorb carbon dioxide and helps restore the habitats of many animals.
Electric and hybrid cars - Which produce lower/zero CO2 - are now being widely manufactured - Explain what the term ‘widely manufactured’ means? - It means that the creators are making lots of them and are successful.
Discuss why you think nations may have chosen to sign the Paris Agreement. - I think that other countries decided to sign the Paris Agreement because they think it would be better for their country and the Earth.
Summarise why it is important to restore our Earth in 30 words or fewer - I think we should restore our Earth because of what’s happening to it at the moment, animals are dying or becoming endangered/extinct, loads of trees are getting cut down, and small countries are losing most of their land each minute.
1. Liquids do not go into the bins, because they could leak out of the bin and can make a stinky smell.
2. Solids do not go down the sink, it can block the sink and make a flood.
3. Wear safety glasses when you do experiments because chemicals, flames, or glass can go into your eyes.
4. Put your chair under your desk, and stand on the bench when you do experiments because people could be holding chemicals and they could trip and spill the chemicals everywhere.
5. Bags do not go on the desk, because heaps of animals have been dissected on that table, and the animal's germs can go onto your bag that you carry around everywhere.
6. Long hair should be tied back because if there's a fire in your experiment your hair could get caught in the fire and it will burn it.
7. Do not smell the chemicals, because they could get into your stomach and you could pass out.
8. Walk don't run around the room, because you could trip up and spill your chemicals.
9. Do not eat or drink in the lab, because you could poison yourself after dissecting an animal.
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Gummy Bear osmosis
Aim:
I want to find out what happens when gummy bears are put in liquids.
Method:
Equipment: . Salt Water (Sodium Chloride) . Normal Water . Sugar Water (sucrose) . Gummy Bears . 2x Petri dishes . Marker pen .Electronic Scales
Instructions:
1. Get your equipment
2. Wear safety glasses
3. Using a marker pen, write your name and the conditions and the weight of the gummy bear.
4. Do the experiment
Results:
Dry Gummy
Sugar Gummy
Salt Gummy
Water Gummy
Initial Weight (g)
2.03
2.16
2.13
2.08
Final Weight (g)
2.13
4.53
4.27
8.4
Difference
Gain 0.10g
Gain 2.37g
Gain 2.14g
Gain 6.32g
The water gained the most weight.
Why? since there are tiny holes outside of the gummer bear, the small holes are only small enough to let all the water molecules inside the gummy bear, but the sugar/salt molecules are not small enough to be let inside the gummer bear.
I want to find out how to make edible slime without getting poisoned.
Research:
Method:
Equipment:
Gummy bear
Powdered sugar
Microwave
Spoon/Spatula
Glass Bowl
Instructions:
1. Remove the wrapper from all of the lollie's that were in the packet.
2. Pick all of the lollie's up and put them inside the bowl.
3. open the microwave by pushing the lower button and then place the bowl on the microwave plate, then by using your hands, close the microwave door until it makes a shut noise.
4. then if the microwave is not plugged in or switched on, switch it on or plug it in, and when the microwave is on, press the button's 3 then 0 then start, then the microwave's light should turn on and it should make a sound, and your bowl should be spinning around.
6. Then when the microwave makes a beeping sound, open the microwave like how you did in step 3, then use your hands to pick up the bowl from the sides of the bowl, and place it on the table you were working on.
7. Now that your lollie's are melted, pick up the spoon you had chosen, then use that spoon to mix your melted lollies around, by using your hand and moving your hand in a circular motion.
8. Then with the icing sugar that the teacher has provided with you, Open up the packet at the top of the packet and get 2 cups of icing sugar, and gently pour it into the bowl where your lollies are.
8. Then using your hands, kneed the lollie and icing sugar together until your lollies don't stick to your hand anymore.
9. Then using your hands and Mouth, grab your Edible slime, open your mouth, and put the edible slime in your mouth, and use your top and bottom teeth to grab some of the slime, and eat it, then swallow it, and that is what you call EATING!!.
Results:
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Aim:
I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water
Method:
Equipment:
8x Skittles
warm water
Petri dish
Beaker
Paper towel
Instruction:
Get your equipment
Put the skittles into the petri dish
Spread them out, around the sides
Clean and dry the beaker
GENTLY pour the water in the middle of the petri dish so that it is half full
Observe what happens
Describe what happens?
What happened was when I GENTLY poured the warm water in the center of the petri dish, when it touched the skittles the skittle lost color and got into the water, when the all the colors got into the water, they moved to the center of the petri dish making a rainbow.,
Why did it move the way it did?
The Skittles moved the way it did because when the sugar dissolved, the sugar is pushed outwards into the water which sends the colored water outwards as well
Hello, this term in my Nga Tangata class we had been been given a lot of tasks about protests, Parihaka and Kate Sheppard. so is what we have been doing...
Protests
Kate Sheppard
Kate Sheppard
Q - where was Kate Sheppard born? A- Kate Sheppard was born in Liverpool, England in 1847.
Q- Why do you think Kate Sheppard was placed on the New Zealand $10 note? A - I think that Kate Sheppard was placed on New Zealand $10 not because of her leadership role in the Women’s Suffrage movement.
Q - What does WCTU stand for? A - WCTU stands for Women’s Christian Temperance Union.
Q - What are the three actions, Kate Sheppard took in her quest for women to have the right to vote? A - the three actions that Kate Sheppard took in her quest while traveling around the country were, writing to newspapers, holding public meetings, and talking to the Members Of Parliament
True Or False?
Kate Sheppard was born in 1847.
True
Australia was the first country to let women vote.
False, New Zealand was the first to let women vote.
Nearly 32,000 signatures were collected in Sheppard’s vote
True
Kate Sheppard’s image is on the $20 note.
False, it’s on the N.Z $10 note.
Summarise the article in your own words:
This article is about Kate Sheppard’s life and her leadership in Women’s Suffrage, she made a Petition where more than 32,000 women signed it, and she held public meetings, wite to the newspapers and talked to the Members of Parliament, then after Kate Sheppard achieved her goal of women voting, she moved back to England the following year, with her husband. After a few years, she returned to New Zealand and helped to organize the National Council of women and campaigned for women to serve as Members Of Parliament. Since her death, she has received many honors within New Zealand buildings, streets, and neighborhoods, throughout New Zealand, are named after her and in 1991 her image was placed on the New Zealand $10 note.
In the following sentences, circle the nouns and underline the verbs.
Sheppardtraveled all over New Zealand, writing to Newspapers, holding public meetings, and talking to Members Of Parliament.
Women could now vote! New Zealand women were the first in the world to be able to vote.
Understand explain ideas and concepts
Using the word bak below, fill in the gaps to complete these sentences.
Note 32,000 believe postage stamp
Many men didn’t Believe women should be able to vote
Kate Sheppard collected 32,000 signatures in a petition
Sheppard featured on a postage stamp and in 1991, her image was placed on the New Zealand $10 note.
In the following text, circle or use a highlighter to show the keywords and/or phrases.
In 1893, Kate Sheppard and her team collected the signatures of nearly 32,000 women and men to show how many people supported their cause. They also had the support of the Prime minister at the time, John Ballance. This petition was 270 meters long!!
Q. Who did Charley bang into? - A. Charley banged into Michaela’s desk
Q. ‘Charleys at the library more relaxed than ever, what is the main message/purpose of this paragraph? How does the author create this mood? What does it teach us about Charley? - A. What it means is that for the first time in a long time, Charley was finally relaxed, and it shows that she has been having a difficult time at the moment.
Q. What impression does the author want to give of Charley? How do you know? - A. The author wants us to know that Charley is a bit weird, and is an introvert.
A. Why is Charley angry with Amy? Do you think that she is right to be angry? Why/why not? - Q. Charley is angry with Amy because she does not want her standing up for her when she gets bullied, and I don’t not think that Charley is right to be angry at Amy, because Amy is just trying to be nice and stand up for her.
Find a range of words and phrases to show how Charley is feeling throughout the story. A. Sad, Lonely, Embarrased, Nervous, Angry, Relaxed, Happy, Proud.
Exploring language
What do these words mean? Find a definition for each one and use it in a sentence.
Screeches - Giving a loud, high-pitched sound or noise - when the students open the door, it makes a loud screech.
Apologies - Asking for forgiveness - The student gave apologies to the teacher for her silly behavior
Intently - to do something with concentration and with eagerness - She read the book intently
Write 3 sentences about the story using ‘they’re’ ‘there’ ‘their’.
There is one main character in the story and Their name is Charley.
Charley and Amy are in the story, and in the story They’re classmates
If you read the last page There is Charleys drawing of a horse in the forest.
All in order!!
Select at least 10 or your adjectives and put them in alphabetical order.
Best
Chewed-up
Childish
Closed
Lemon
Little
Old
Sports
Straight
Quiet
Why do you think we gave you this article to read as part of our Outstanders hurumanu? Write a paragraph explaining your ideas and giving evidence from the story? - I think that our teachers gave us this article so we can learn that we are not always the same and sometimes need our alone time.
