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Monday, March 25, 2019

What is that white powder

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 
A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs.  You need to find out what white powder it is?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.
Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Before you add the iodine, vinegar or water you will need to divide each powder into 3.

Materials

1.  vinegar
2.  water
3.  iodine
4.  flat surface
5.  a dropper
6.   something to record for the reaction
7. paper

Steps

1. split powders into three piles
2. add in a drop of iodine to 1 of the 3 piles 
3. add a drop of water into another on of the piles
4.  add a drop of vinegar into the last pile then repeat for every powder
5. see what happens



Findings:





Sugar
Salt
Baking Soda
Cornflour
Appearance
whitewhitewhitewhite
Texture
cubycrumblysoft / crumblysoft
Smell
sweetsaltycookedhas no smell
Iodine
fizzingcrystalfluffyno reaction
Water
crystalcrystaldissolved obleck
Vinegar
greycrystalfizzyno reaction

Write a paragraph about your findings.

what happened in this experiment was really cool we got a reaction out of almost all of the powders i hope we get to do this again.

Making Sherbet


Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.
Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.
Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.

Materials:

1.  powdered sugar
2.  any juice flavor 
3.  plastic bag
4.  something to stir with
5.  baking soda

Steps. 
1.grab a zip lock bag
2. place in sugar or citric acid
3. place in sugar or citric acid
4. put in juice 
5. stir
6. taste

Findings:


Sherbet

Taste
yummy
Colour
pink


Friday, March 22, 2019

Drama

What were we doing in Drama
In drama for the past week when have been doing freeze frams  my group (Jessica, Felicity, Ella) were doing a freeze fram of a game we are making called icaball  its a mixture of ice skating and basketball but we didn't have enough time because of the something from last fridaay
Friday apart from that we have to perform 3 weeks from now so wish me luck!


Readin DLO

Friday, March 15, 2019

Novel Bingo ~ YEET

Cool Facts About How To Hang a Witch!

Fact 1:The author of this book is actually a descendant of Cotton Mather. 

Fact 2: How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather, 9781406378795, available at Book Depository with free ... ghost who has appeared in her house, and her new neighbour Jaxon only complicates things further.

Fact 3:

What is a community ~ Add on!

What is a community?
A community is like a group but more. A community are a group of people that try to engage them self's into the conversation.

What kind of groups are at hhs?

some different types of groups are...
singing, Dancing, book club, kapa haka, rugby, 

Drama ~ Blogging


Hewwo my fellow readers today im going to be talking about the puppets we have made for drama. My group contained of 4 people Me, Jessica, Felicity & Ella we all made different puppets me and felicity made dragons Jessica made two pieces of fruit and Ella made a half demon half angle now watch to see what happened!

Here are some healthy eating recipes.
  1. Honey Mustard, Pear & Walnut Salad.
  2. Avocado Greek Salad with Pearl Couscous.
  3. Hawaiian Spaghetti Pockets.
  4. Chorizo & Pea Slice.
  5. Smashed Broad Bean, Avocado, Mint and Feta.
  6. Mediterranean Spring Power Salad.
  7. Chicken & Mango Summer Salad.
  8. Broccolini and Kale Slaw.


Thank you for watching/Reading

DMIC Maths learning

Hello my fellow readers today i will be talking about a little math's activity my class did. I was in a group of 4 the people were me Emily Heaven & Jessica. So basically the question was two children are working for there mother over the holidays and who would you be to earn the money for working. Ariana had 10$ each day and it went up by $2. you could choose from another person that gets 2$ each day but it doubles by each day. i choose the boy and skip counted in 2 so the question would be 14 x 2 =44 That's what i did for math's today thanks for reading.!