Effects of Heat

Kia ora koutou katoa, Today we are making a blog about science. Here are some experiments we  have done throughout the term of having science

The key experiment was to add thermal energy to the experiments

The 4 experiments that we will be telling you about are

The convection experiment we did for convection was potassium permanganate, where we put the potassium permanganate into a straw and let it fall into the boiling hot water

That experiment had a 50/50 chance of working for our group. It worked, but for some others, it didn’t work for reasons that probably didn’t work with their experiment. Maybe they didn’t boil it and just went for it, but it does work if you just have the patience for it

Conduction: For conduction, we did the dropping pins experiment. This was my favourite because I just got to stand there and wait for the pins to drop. We had to wait, wait, wait until every pin was of the metal rod.

Contraction- For contraction, we did the imploding can. The imploding can was a really hard experiment because I didn’t get it right the first time, didn’t get it the second time, and didn’t get it the third time, but I got there in the end because the heat wasn’t high enough.

Diffusion: For diffusion, we did a skittle experiment (don’t know what that is?) Basically, you get a bag of Skittles, you get cold water first, then the hot water, then you place the skittle in the middle of the dish, and you wait for the skittle to dissolve. Put a timer on.

 

 

Section – Instructions Your write up
Title – Your title should tell readers about your experiment Use of Hot and Cold Water. 
What is Diffusion?

Fill in the blanks of the definition using these words:

 Find a picture of diffusion and put it here:

Particles move from areas of high concentration to areas of low concentration until they are spread out evenly.
Aim – What was the goal of the experiment? The aim of this experiment was to obreve the skittles and to see if the skittle would move faster 
Hypothesis – What do you expect might happen?

Finish the sentences to complete your hypothesis. There is no “right” answer here.

 When the skitlles placed in the cold water it was moving slowly and it took a long time 

When it is placed in hot water it decided to move faster and it nearly worked 
Equipment – What equipment did we use? Label the images. The equipment I used was:
Method – What steps did you follow to complete this experiment?

Look at the 5 steps on slide 57, and re-write these steps with some of your own words.

Paste the diagram on this slide here too

 The step-by-step method for my experiment is as follows:

  1.  Grab a dish 
  2.  Grab a skittle 
  3.  Put the stopwatch on 
  4.  Put cold water in first 
  5. Put the skittle in the centre of the dish and time it 
  6. Repat the same thing again but with hot water

Here is the diagram of my experiment:
Results/Observations

With your group, record your times here. Make observations about what you see happen.
Time taken for the water to go purple
Cold Water 28 seconds
Hot Water 05:05seconds

When we added the Skittles into the water we saw that the color was  
Discussion

Fill in the blanks using the words below:

  • Quickly
  • Movement
  • Particles
  • Diffusion

List one way you would like to improve your experiment if you did it again.

Move the arrows to show which beaker is likely to be filled with hot water, and which is filled with cold water.

 The particles in hot water are moving about more movement than the particles in the cold water. This increased particle quickly increases the rate of diffusion.

I think I could make my experiment better by:

  •  By placing it in the centre of the dish 
Conclusion

Highlight one and re-state your hypothesis to conclude your science report.

 My results supported my hypothesis was to put the skittle in the dish and observe to see if it was diffusion, and this did not happen.

Rubber Band Challenge

There are 5 areas of hauora

Taha Whanau, Taha Wairua, Taha Tinana and Taha Hinengaro, Whenua

and I am doing Ruku/Legend

Kia ora koutou. Today, I am here to talk about the rubber band challenge. It was one of the easiest games ever.

My group came in first place {wow}. You may be wondering what the rubber band challenge is. Well, here is an answer to that.

The rubberband challenge is a game where you have to get 1 cup to the other side and repeat the same steps {Now I will tell the steps and the game}

The Steps of the game: 

  1. First, you have to be in a group of 4-5 people
  2. Second you have to get 5 cups and 5 pieces of string, and 1 rubberband
  3. You have at least 2 minutes to practice
  4. Once the teacher says go, you start

What I could improve on is to be more patient and wait with my group.

Nga Mihi.

 

Algebra/Pangarau

Kia ora nga kapapanui, This week in maths we have been focusing on Algebra.

I didn’t like Algebra at the start of last year but then in 2024, I got the hang of it, I am currently working on Pro, and although it was a bit harder, I worked through the sheets and it was a little bit harder, I needed to know how to add numbers and subtract.

The first question was easy, but it got harder, harder, and harder, I am up to question 7. I didn’t know how to subtract numbers, I nearly completed the first sheet.

example on the first sheet:

37, 32,27,22,17,12, 7 and the rule is -5

I will try my best to finish all of the sheets and I will update you when I am finished the whole entire thing.

Ka kite, nga kapapanui.

 

 

Week 3 Pangarau/Maths

Kia ora nga kapapanui, Today I am learning in Pangarau about angles, Week 1-2 we learned what angles are, During week 2 we used how to learn a protractor, protractors are really hard, but I got it in the end. This week we learned to identify the different types of angles, here are the types of angles we learned over the weeks:

Right angles: A right angle is exactly 90 degrees

Isosceles angles: An isosceles angles is all the same sides

Equilateral angles: An equilateral angle is three angles that are all the same size {60 degrees}

Scalene angles: A scalene angle is when all three angles are different measures.

I really hope you guys find this useful, It was hard at the start but then I got used to it.

Ka kite ano kapapanui.

Landscapes in Dance:

Kia ora, I am here with another blog post about my landscapes,  my landscape was about me being in the ocean and coming up to the ocean to find a beautiful and handsome prince above the land.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WSBLtBSetdMx3UeEZVxVgI3MicuVDRvI/view?usp=drive_link

I worked by myself and It was really hard choreographing this for our landscapes

The Button Story

Kia ora, today I am here with another blog post about the book “Button” which became popular during World War 1 and 2.

What have I learned so far?

I have learned that the school in Wellington was donating buttons to the school for fundraising for the people who were killed in the war, and also for the children who had lost their parent’s lives that year and never came back. The school has a website called {www.moriahbuttons.wikispaces.com} and the kids from Moriah School were collecting heaps and heaps of buttons that they had in their lives. They had to do this for 2 years. The 13- year old girl named, Liza said “We wanted to make sure that they didn’t be forgotten”. The name is called “The Button Project”.

 

In my next blog, I will talk about my work and what we are doing. Nga Mihi.

   My Reading response

 

My buttons vocab

Weekly Reflection Term 3 Week 3

This is my week that was…

Good

What went well this week and why?

Dance, because we get to do musical theater dancing.

Something that challenged me this week was: 

Maths, because we are learning how to do fractions and sometimes it is really hard for me to do I know half of my fractions and I don’t know the rest.

This challenged me because: 

There were some difficult fractions and more.

One new thing I learned this week was:

Musical Theater, Musical theater is my favorite Dance and Drama subject.

My goal for next week is:  

To learn all my fractions and to dance more in the school

The emoji that best represents how I felt this week is:  

(circle the one you choose) 

 

😁