Making Crystals!

Talofa everyone, Last week in Science we made Borax Crystals. In groups of 2 or 4, we had to work together to try and make Crystals, But the crystals didn't just appear we had to wait for about 1 week. Have you ever made Crystals before. I think that this experiment was very fun but it also includes a lot of patience. We are back today to see our crystals and the results are really cool. Here are the Equipment, method, and our Aim.

Aim To use Crystallization to separate Borax and water. 

Equipment:

1. Beaker 
2. Heat mat
3. Tripod
4. Spatula
5. Gauze mat
6. Bunsen burner
7. Borax 
8. Pipe Cleaner

Method:

first, prepare all your Equipment. First pore 150 miles of water into the Beaker. Then seat up your Busen burner and put a Gauze mat and tripod over the bunsen burner. Make sure you have a teacher or parental guidance to help you light up your Bunsen burner and turn on your gas. When the water has boiled turn off your gas.  then add a lot of Borax, waiting for it to dissolve until adding more. When the solution has saturated, leave it to cool down with a pipe cleaner suspended on the beaker. 

Results: 

Conclusion:

First, we dissolved the borax in the water, so that makes the solute the borax, and the solvent is the water. We made a concentrated solution. using crystalization we separated the Borax from the water.

Discussion: Crystallization is used in salt and sugar. The only chemical with the right shapes can make crystals, and crystals are used in a lot of science experiences too. 

 

Marshmallow challenge

Kia ora, For another blog post today I am going to be posting about health. Today in health we did the marshmallow challenge. In groups of 2 or 4, we had to try and work as a team to get the tallest Tower using only 12 marshmallows, skewers, and a cup. Our goal for today was to work on our IP skills (my one was Active listening) and also to use our warm fuzzy sentences (Good job, keep trying). Here is a picture of our tower. 

Here are some questions we had to answer:

How did our IP skills and our warm fuzzy help us today? 

My Ip skill helped us to listen to each other and the warm fuzzy also helped to encourage eachother.

Who did I work with and how did it go?

I worked with Bailey, and I think that we did pretty well cause we worked together and were nice to each other.

If we were to do it again, how would you do it differently?

If we were to do it again I would want to come up with a better and stronger plan before we make a tower.

What Helisons behavior did level were you working at?

I was working level 3 because we worked well as a group and we were prepared with our equipment to write this blog. 

Drawing game: Health

Hi guys, welcome back to another blog. For today in Health, we played a drawing game where we had a partner and that partner has to describe a picture that they got from the teacher, and their buddy has to try and draw the picture. I was buddy up with Bailey and we both had to draw pictures, my picture based was down at a beach near the sea and her picture was a color page with words in the middle. It was quite hard to draw because I had no idea what the picture was and if I was to give my draw and score out of 10 it would be a 5 out of ten. Next time I would like to do better when drawing but other than that we did well.

Questions:

What IP skill did you show/use today? Did you use any warm fuzzies?

The IP skill that I used was active listening because I had to listen to the instructions that my partner told me to do, and the Warm fuzzies that used were a Good job and keep trying.

How did it help with the success/lack of success, of the activity?

The warm fuzzies helped both me and my partner because they encouraged us both to keep going.

Who did you work with that went well today? 

I worked with Bailey and I think it went well because we both worked as a team and we didn't have any problems

If you were to do it again, how would you do it differently?

I don't think that I would change anything if I was to do it again.

What level of Helisons behavior model were you working at in this activity and provide examples of this? I think that I worked on level 3 because I was ready for the activity and we were being sensible and we were listening to what each other had to say.

Things that im grateful for:

Kia ora everyone welcome back to another blog post. Today in Wananga we had talked about our resilience board, and on that resilience board, we had to do a task. For today's task I had picked to write a couple things that I am grateful for and why. The reason I picked this task is because I don't think that I or other people talk or think enough about what they are grateful for. What Are you Grateful for? 

This is what I wrote:

Day 2 I forgot to mention that I am going to be posting things that I am grateful for, for the whole week.

This is my day 2 of what I am grateful for. 

 

Sciene experiment!

Hello everyone, for today's blog post I will be posting about one of the experiments we did last week with Mr. Reizinger and our class. the Experiment that we did was called Dilution and filtration where we had to add two chemicals (which are copper Nitrate and sodium Hydroxide) into a test tube and see which one made the most bright blu precipitate. 

Equipment:

1. 3 or 4 test tubes 
2. A test tube holder
3. filterPaper to make a funnel
4. copper Nitrate
5. Sodium Hydroxide

Method: 

Take 4 test tubes, and in the first one add measure and pour in ml of copper Nitrate. Then take 1ml of copper Nitrate and pipette into the second test tube. Add 9ml of water into the second tube to make it up to 10ml. Then repeat for the third and fourth test tubes.

Making the precipitate - Now add 5 ml of sodium hydroxide to each test tube.

Questions:

which test tube had the most concentrated sample?

The first test tube had the most concentrated sample because we didn't dilute it with any water.

when we added water what were we doing to the concentration of the solution?

We were diluting the solution (making it weaker).

 

Which concentration of copper nitrate formed the most precipitate. why do you think it's the case?

I think that the first tube formed the most precipitate because it had the most chemicals. 

Key terms:

Filtering is when you can separate the solute (solid) from solvent (liquid)

Separate means to split apart.

once the solvent has been filtered that is called Filtrate.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, I think that this experiment was a success because all the tubes made at least a little precipitate. I had lots of fun doing this experiments, but next time I would like to add more chemicals to see what happens.

The black dealth

 Hi, guys welcome back to another blog, For today's blog I am going to be posting my Torture devices Intro. We had to write a practice essay because next week we have the main essay AKA the essay we are going to be marked on. So far I have only written my intro, but I will keep adding on to this blog post once I have finished the rest. 

My intro. 

I think torture devices were one of the most painful devices used to torture people. Torture devices were used mostly in the medevil period (1300 - 1600).  Some of the common and painful used torture devices were, The iron Madien, The thumb screw, rat tourture, The breaking wheel, and many more. Many people like criminals and people who used the word of god wrong had been punished and tortured. Sometimes people got to speak freely for their sins and they're wrong, though sometimes people were confused and people had still be punished.

bunsen burner experiment

 Bunsen Burner Experiment!

Hi guys, welcome back to another blog. For our first period In Science, we did an experiment called the Bunsen Burner experiment. So what we had to do was first make an paper box, and then we had to put it over a bunsen burner to see how long it would last. ( the Box had water in it). Ours lasted for 5 minutes 8 seconds. 

Aim: To see how long the paper box filled with water would last under the Busen Burner.

Equipment:

1. Paper
2. Scissors
3. Glue stick
4. Bunsen burner
5. Safety Glasses
6. Heat mat
7. Tripod
8. Beaker
9. Timer
10. Lighter
11. Gas
12. gauze mat

Safety rules:

1. Safety Glasses on
2. Bags under table
3. Watch for people around you
4. NO running
5. start the flame Orange.