All About Stoats

 KIA Ora readers, today I will be talking about stoats. Stoats are a pesky weasel that are endemic to New Zealand and kill native birds for fun sometimes. The stoat is part of the weasel family and they have a brown/black fur on top and a white undercoat. 

We are learning about NZ flora and fauna which is like plants and animals in hurumanu 1/ Nga Tangata and that stands for The People. We read this book called Uncle Don Knows Heaps Of Wacky Stuff from page 12 -16. In my opinion this book is fantastic absolute lovely and I would like to read it more so I can get more information about New Zealand flora and fauna. 

All About Stoats

Reflection:

My reflection is that I enjoy doing this because there are many animals that I did not know that live in New Zealand and I get to learn about them. The book Uncle Don Know Heaps Of Wacky Stuff is very fun to read and it has a lot of facts about New Zealand flora and fauna.

Drama term 3

 Hi Readers today I will be talking about drama. 

I learned about 

1. comedy
2. tragedy
3. melodrama 
4. musical

What games I've enjoyed

1. Wink Murderer
2. Hide n seek
3. rising of the dead
4. U
5. J F K

What was challenging

Nothing was that challenging at all

What Styles/genre did I enjoy

I enjoyed comedy because it was very fun to watch and it makes me laugh.

I enjoyed melodrama because it is very unique and I like the plot twists.

My comedy video

What is An acid

 Name of three acid you need to know in year 10:

1. Hydrochloric acid
2. sulfuric Acid
3. Nitric acid

Formulae of acid 

1. HCl
2. H2SO4
3. HNO3

Where do you find acid:

1. Plaque is in your teeth and it poos out acid.
2. Stomach acid is the same as hydrochloric acid and when you throw up the stomach acid burns your teeth.
3. Lemons and oranges have citric acid and it is very sour and if you have a lot you can have diarrhoea.

What is acid:

• an acid contains hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance.
• Blue litmus paper changes red when you add acid 
• The Red Litmus paper keeps its colour when it is in acid

The Bittern

 KIA Ora readers, I will tell you about what i'm doing today. We are learning about NZ floura & Fauna which if plants and animals endemic to NZ and I learned about the bittern which is a bird that is very shy and hardly seen. We learned it in hurumanu 3 which is Te Ao Whanui and the story that we had to read was uncle don knows heaps of wacky stuff the book is very interesting. I used this app called canva which I had never used before, it was very interesting to use and I would like to use it a lot more. 

Reflection:

It was my first time using canva and I really like it because it is very unique and way more better than google slides. And it was so much easier to use then a google slide because you have to search a picture and then take a photo of that and put it on your google slide. With canva there is a search bar and search a picture and it comes without making a tab of a new picture and delete the tab. 

Here is my presentation

My Presentatation

Red Cabbage Indicator

 Aim:

I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid.

Method:

Equipment

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage
• Boiling water
• dropper
• test tubes
• different samples for testing

Instructions:

1. Get your equipment ready
2. Ripped the cabbage into tiny pieces into your beaker.
3. Add about 100mL of boiling water. Into your beaker until it takes the colour out.
4. then wait until the colour of the beaker turns purple.
5. then you get your hydrochloric acid and hydroxide
6. then your pour 2cm of hydrochloric acid and add hydroxide into your test tube then you add the red cabbage water.
7. and see what the colour is.

   Result: 

The result was that the more hydroxide you added the pink/red it would get. The more hydrochloric acid you add the purple/ dark colour it would be.

Making Sherbet

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

How to make sherbet

Method:

Equipment:

• raro and icing sugar
• Cup or container
• Citric acid
• Tartaric Acid
• Baking powder
• Popsicle stick
• tea spoon

Instructions

1. Get your equipment ready
2. Add one teaspoon of sugar and raro into your cup
3. Add half a teaspoon of acid to the cup
4. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder to the cup
5. Mix with the stick
6. taste the sherbet and adjust the flavour.

Results:

there was no reaction in the cup

The powders dissolved in my mouth and then it fizzed in my mouth

discussion:

Why did it foam up in the mouth? citric acid + NaCo3 equal to CO2