Chili Tasting

Aim :

I want to find out how to reduce spice from food

Research :

Experiment Video

Scientific Video

Funny Video

Method :

Equipment 

1. Hot sauce
2. Chili
3. Tooth pick
4. Stop watch
5. Water
6. Coke
7. Milk

Instructions :

• Get your equipment
• Dip the toothpick in the hot sauce
• Suck the hot sauce off the toothpick
• Start timing
• Stop the timer when it stop burning

Results :

The time it took stop the burning 

Just Chili : 50 secs Water : 12 secs Coke : 11 secs Milk : 7 secs

Conclusion :

I found out that milk is the best to stop the burning

Discussion :

Why does chili burn your mouth and why does milk stop it? 

Chili burns your mouth because the capsaicin is released into your saliva and then binds on to receptors in your mouth and tongue and  the milk stops it because many milk products contain casein, and casein stops the spice.

Goal Setting Term 3

 Hello viewers,

This past weeks we have been doing a goal setting for term 2. If you don't know what a goal setting is, it is a google doc were we write our goals for each term. In the goal setting, we had to write the subjects taken this term and what hurumanu we have. Then we had to write academic goals and non-academic goals.

This is what a goal setting looks like

Year 7/8 Wānanga Goal Setting

Name: Rye		Class:  TZ	Term: 3	Year: 7
Greatest achievement from last term:
I haven’t achieved anything
Subjects taken this term: WdT, SmT, Sci
Hurumanu:
1	Ngā Tāngata
2	Tūhūra
3	Te Ao Whānui
Technology: WdT, SmT
Language:
Other: Sci
Academic Goals
Short term (this term):
1	Maths
2	Art
Non-academic goal (can be out of school):
Drawing, Reading, Writing.
What are my learning strengths (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)		What are my learning work ons (Refer to Year 8 Graduate Profile)
I always listen to the talker I alway try my best I am usually organize		Start being a outstander
How will I achieve this?
Help other that are in need
End of term reflection

Thank you for reading my blog. Bye!

Blind Taste Testing

 Aim : 

I want to find out how we taste food.

Research :

The 5 main flavour Sweet, salty, sour, savoury and bitter. The back is very sensitive to bitter and the sides are sensitive.  A average person has 10,000 taste buds, a older person has 5,000 taste buds

Here is a video to explain it more

Method 

Equipment :

• Blind fold
• Unknown food
• A person with a tongue

Instructions : 

1. Get your equipment
2. Put your blind fold on
3. Block your nose
4. Put the food in your mouth
5. Describe how it taste
6. Unblock your nose and describe the taste

Results :

Food #1

When I ate the food, it felt crunchy, wet and sweet, it tasted like an apple

Food#2

When I ate the food, it felt crunchy, salty and bitter. I think it is a onion

Food#3

When I ate the food, if felt crunchy, but I didn't taste like anything. I think it was a potato

Food#4

When I ate the food,  it was soft and sweet. I think it was a gummy.

Food#5

When I ate the food, It was soft and little sour. I think it was a sour gummy

Powder#1

When I ate the powder, It was sweet. I think it was sugar

Powder#2

When i ate the powder, it was salty. I think it was salt 

Powder#3

When I ate the powder, it was salty. I think it was baking soda

Powder#4

When I ate the powder, it tasted salty and sour. I think it was citric acid

Powder#5

When I ate the powder, I tasted salty, sour and sweet. It tasted like sherbet

Conclusion :

I learnt that different parts of the tongue reacts differently to the food/powder. I also learnt that blocking you nose doesn't help with tasting.

Discussion :

When i ate the citric acid the sides of my tongue felt sore.

Shape Transformation!

Shapes Transformation

Hello viewers,

This past weeks for hurumanu we have been learning about geometry ( Shaping up ), right now we are learning about shape transformations. Shape transformation is about reflecting the shape, translating, enlarging and rotation. Let me explain what those words means. Reflecting, reflecting the shape is basically flipping a shape. Translation, translation is moving the shape into a different spot. Enlarging, Enlarging the shape is just making it bigger. Rotation, rotation is rotating the shape.

Here is a examples ( Made by Jam board & Google Drawing )

I hope you learnt something new. What are the 4 shape transformation? Goodbye!

Skittles Colours Experiment! :D

 Aim :

I want to find out what happens when you mix Skittles colours.

Method :

Equipment

• Skittles
• Petri dish
• Warm water
• Beaker
• White background

Instruction's :

1. Get your equipment
2. Put down the petri dish on the white background
3. Place the skittles around the inside rim
4. Then you pour the warm water in the middle of the petri dish
5. Observe what happens

Prediction :

I think the skittles will mix into a colour, like brown. Then the skittles will lose its colour.

What happened :

The colour mixed all together and I made a orange-ish, brown-ish colour.

Discussion :

The first thing that happened 

1. The colour slowly fades away ( When solid is mixed into a liquid, creating a solution. )

2. Why did the colours spread ( When you pour water over the skittles the coloured coating dissolves spreading through the water. because all the molecules are on high concentration but they do not like that so they rush to the low concentration)

The Treaty of Waitangi

The Treaty of Waitangi

Konnichiwa Viewers,

Today we will be talking about the treaty of Waitangi. This past few weeks we have been learning about the treaty of Waitangi. Our teacher set up some questions for us to answer. Then we had to choose 2 questions out of the drawing.

Here is the questions

Here are the questions that I used

In what ways is a contract or the treaty like a computer : 

1. They shared the treaty with the country 

2. They connected to make a treaty

3. They each played a part in the treaty/contract

If the treaty of Waitangi was never signed what will happened :

        1.  I think there will be a lot of conflicts and warfare even to this day. New Zealand governments won’t be able to have enough money to help their environment. Maori tribes will be against England.

I hope learnt something new. Can you answer one of the questions? Thank you for reading this. Goodbye!

Coloring thing for SLJ

 Hello fellow bloggers,

It is the first day of summer learning journey. You might be wondering what is summer learning journey well summer learning journey is something you can in the holiday, involves tasks to do to keep up your learning up. That is basically it.

Its time to talk about my task. The task was a colouring book thing. We had to colour a picture and compare it to real the painting. We can also make a template.

Here is my template.

Here is the link to the site

Thank you for checking in. I hope you enjoyed. Bye! :D