I am a Year 7 student in the Uru Mānuka Cluster. This is a place where I will share my learning. Please note that some of it will not be complete, it will be my first drafts. Remember to be positive, thoughtful and helpful when you leave me a comment.
Tuesday, 25 May 2021
Football
Hello my name is Jason and today we are going to talk about football, in p.e we have been learning about how to play football. The six main things we have been are passing, dribbling, shooting, juggling, stopping and changing directions. We have also learning about the rules like only the goalie can touch the ball with there hands there is also a rule called ball to hand which is when someone kicks the ball onto your hand or hands, and no offside it means when you are behind a defender and you get the ball. and only 7 are on the field and there has to be 3 or less subs.
Thursday, 18 March 2021
Gummy bear osmosis
Aim:
I want to find out what happens to gummy bears when we put them into different solutions.
Prediction:
I predict that the gummy bears will grow bit by bit.
I predict that the gummy bears will dissolve into the solutions.
Method:
Equipment
- You will need 4x gummy bears of the same colour
- You will need 2x petri dishes
- Taper towel 2x
- Marker
- Water
- Sugar water
- Salt water
- Electronic balance
- beaker
- Measuring cylinder
- safety glasses
- Gather your equipment.
- Put on your safety glasses.
- Using the marker, write the name of the condition on the petri dish. DRY,WATER,SALT WATER,SUGAR WATER.
- Weigh the gummy bear and write the weight on the petri dish.
- Measure 40mL of the solution and pour it into the petri dish.
| Dry | Water | Salt water | Sugar water | |
| Initial weight | 5.51g | 5.51g | 5.51g | |
| Final weight | 4.28g | 5.25g | 6.40g | |
| weight difference | gained 1.23 | 0.26g | 1.2g | |
| Initial volume | 40mL | 40mL | 40mL | |
| final volume | 0mL | 0mL | omL | |
volume difference | lost 40mL | lost 40mL | lost 40mL |
Thursday, 11 March 2021
Skittles Colour Experiment
Aim:
I won't to find out what happens when I put Skittles in water.
Method:
Equipment
- Skittles
- Petri dish
- Warm water
- beaker
- white background
Instruction
- get equipment
- put the 8 Skittles in the perti dish
- Spread the Skittles around the petri dish evenly
- gently pour the water into the middle of the perti dish
- don't over fill the perti dish
- observe and record what happens
I think I will see the skittles colour would head to the centre
Results:
How cars changed the world
How cars changed the world
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Pele
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Equipment
Conical flask.
Beaker.
It holds liquids in the flask. You can also make elephant toothpaste fun fact elephant toothpaste is extremely hot and could burn you. We also have some others like beakers and a ton of other equipment. We also have some




