Willow trees

 Kia Ora readers!

Welcome back to my blog and today I will be talking about what we've done last week on hurumanu 1 also called as Nga Tangata (hurumanu 1 is about reading). In this hurumanu we we're doing some DLO about the creatures and plants that were on the book. We basically have to read the book pages 8-11 and pick a plant to research about and make a DLO, for me I picked the Willow tree because of the facts that we're written on the book, and I also find the willow trees good looking. I used canva for this DLO since I've used it for almost all of my DLO. I think everything went well except when I had to save the DLO, it didn't let me save it but only let me to take a screenshot which game the DLO a blue box around the text.

Here is the poster that I have created for this hurumanu.

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Flora and fauna

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Welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we had been doing last week at hurumanu 1 which is making DLO about what we picked on the book pages 4-7. For me I decided to pick the Paikea because of the facts I saw on the book about it, and they also looked interesting to research about.  

Here are some facts that I have found out.  

• According to a legend the Paikea is originally from New Zealand from the Pacific Islands, Paikea are also humpback whales which can live for 50years or more. They travel about 7,000 kilometers each year.

• Pakia is the youngest and also the favourite son of the chief Uenuku that was from the Islands of Mangai in the present day Cook islands. Since Paikea was the favourite it made his elder brother jealous and tried to plan on killing him and tell Uenuku that he drowned. But the plan didn’t work because Paikea overheard them, and the plan failed.

• The Paikea is important to the Maori people because it’s the key link to the ancient Hawaiki homeland. It’s also known as the biggest/large whale in New Zealand/ Aotearoa.

• Humpback whales weigh about 80,000 pound and are 6 feet long, and in the southern hemisphere there are about six humpback whales.

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Hot chilli tasting

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Aim: 

I would like to find out if milk really does help does help to reduce the burn from the hot sauce.

Research:

Here is the video of people reacting to the chilli sauce and the science of chilli. 

Method: 

• Hot sauce 
• Toothpick
• Stopwatch  

Instructions:

1. Gather all of your equipment's.
2. Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce.
3. Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick.
4. Start timing 
5. Stop the timer when the burn stops. 

Results:

The chilli sauce was really burning my taste buds, and when I first tasted it it wasn't that spicy but then it started to be.

Coke - it went away at 1:20, it really depends on how much hot sauce you eat.

Water - It dosent really remove the burning off the tongue. 1:46

Milk - the milk was the fastest to remove the burn from the hot sauce and it went away at 1:02

 

What is an acid?

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Names of acid:

• Hydrochloric Acid 
• Sulfuric Acid 
• Nitric Acid 

Formulae of acid:

• HCl 
• H2SO4 
• HNO3 

Where do you find Acids?

• Plaque Acid on your teeth.
• Stomach Acid is Hydrochloric Acid.
• Battery Acid Sulfuric Acid 
• Lemons and Oranges have Citric Acid 
• Vinegar contains Acetic Acid
• Bee-sting have Formic Acid 
• Coca-Cola has Carbonic Acid

What is an acid?

• An acid contains Hydrogen atoms that break off to react with substance.v

Litmus colour 

Litmus paper changes colour in acid.

It changes to a Red colour.

Red Cabbage Indicator

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Aim: 

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

Method:

Equipment:

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage 
• Hot water
• Dropper 
• Test tubes 
• Different samples for testing 

Instructions:

1. Gather the equipment's ready.
2. Rip the cabbage into small portions/pieces and put them into a beaker.
3. Add about 100ml of hot water on the beaker.
4. Then let it sit for a few minutes. 
5. Add in 2 cm of Sodium Hydroxide in the test tube same for Hydrochloric acid .
6. Then for both of them add the Red Cabbage liquid using the dropper and identify the colours.
7. Then mix the other liquids to create different colours.

Results:

Message In A Bottle

 Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog today I will be talking about what we were doing this week on wananga which is either Making a story about a message in a bottle or Make a letter. I choose to make a letter to myself because I want to know what change on my self. The letter was also about asking what I've done for the last few years. 

This is the letter that I have made for this task. 

Making Sherbet

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Aim: I want to find out on how to make sherbet.

Research: A clip on how to make sherbet.

Method:

Equipment:

• Icing sugar and Raro 
• A container/ and other sort of container 
• Citric Acid Tartaric Acid 
• Baking powder 
• Popsicle stick for mixing 
• Teaspoon 

Instructions:

• Get all of your equipment ready.
• Add one teaspoon of sugar/taro to the cup.
• Add half a teaspoon of acid to the cup.
• And half a teaspoon of baking powder to the cup.
• Mix with the stick.
• Taste the sherbet, and adjust the flavour.

Results:

What happens in the cup? When I mixed all of it the powder turned pinkish and there wasn't any reaction.

What happens in your mouth? When I tasted the Sherbet it fizzed inside my mouth while it was dissolving  and it tasted really good.

Discussion: 

Why did it foam up in your mouth?