Cheeseburger Experiment | Biology

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share the experiment that I've done in Biology today. I had to do the experiment myself.

Aim: To test if a sample of food contains complex sugar, simple sugar and protein.


Hypothesis: I think that it will have all of 

Bread
Meat
Cheese
Pickle

Will all change colour.


Equipment:

Complex Sugar:

1. Test Tube
2. Food Sample
3. Iodine Solution

Simple Sugar:

1. Water Bath
2. Test Tube Tongs
3. Benedict's Solution
4. A Sample of Food

Protein:

1. Test Tube
2. Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
3. Copper Sulfate (CuSO₄)
4. Food Sample

Method:

Complex Sugar:

1. Place about 2 ml of sample in a test tube.
2. Add 3-5 drops of iodine and mix.

Simple Sugar:

1. Place about 2ml of the sample into a test tube and then add 5 drops of Benedict's Solution.
2. Heat with a hot water bath until it changes colour. 

Protein:

1. Place about 2 ml of the sample into a test tube and add 5 drops of sodium hydroxide.
2. Add 5 drops of copper sulfate.
3. Shake the test tube gently from side to side.

Results:

Complex Sugar:
Bread has complex sugar. Meat doesn't have complex sugar. Cheese doesn't have complex sugar. Pickle has complex sugar.

Simple Sugar:
Bread is a simple sugar. Meat is not simple sugar. Cheese is not a simple sugar. Pickle is a simple sugar.


Protein:
Bread is not protein. I'll update the rest as soon as possible.

Conclusion:

In conclusion, my hypothesis didn't get all correct except some of them, like, meat, cheese and bread (in protein). What I had learnt in this experiment is that meat and cheese do not have complex or simple sugar. 

Identity - Who Am I? | Wellbeing

Welcome to another post on my blog. In our form class, we have been focusing on Wellbeing or Hauora. In Health, our class also has been learning about Hauora. Today, we have been learning about Taha Wairua or Spiritual Wellbeing. The main topic was Personal Identity, we had to first watch a video for the first 50 seconds.

After watching the video, we had to answer a question.

What does the word Identity mean to you?

It means about us and who we are. Our personal identity is who we are. That is what I think 'identity' means.

I hope you like my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Camera Techniques | English

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you my visual dictionary of the camera techniques. For this activity, we had to create a Visual Dictionary that shows the definition of each concept with a picture. Here is my visual dictionary.

I hope you learnt something new and liked my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

High & Long Jump | Physical Education

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you my time at Physical Education. Today, we, as a class practiced High and Long Jump. This is because we are practicing for Athletics Day. 

	Before
High Jump	1m
Long Jump	2.5m

High Jump
Fosbury Flop

1. Land with your arms and your feet facing up. Land on your back.
2. When you take off it should be on 1 foot.
3. and use yWhen you leave the ground you must spin around and use your knee to turn.

Long Jump

1. Run up is 21 steps.
2. Take off will be from the second marker.
3. Land will be measured from the back foot.
4. Land with both feet together.
5. If you are over the second marker when you jump, it is a fowl jump.

Testing for Protein | Biology

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share the experiment that I've done in Biology today. I had to do the experiment myself.

Aim: To test if a sample of food contains protein.

Hypothesis: I think that in the;

Glucose - is not going to change colour.
Apple - is going to change colour
Bread - is not going to change colour.
Potato - is not going to change colour
Egg - is not going to change colour.
Milk - is going to change colour.

Equipment:

1. Test Tube
2. Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH)
3. Copper Sulfate (CuSO₄)
4. Food Sample

Method

Method:

1. Place about 2 ml of the sample into a test tube and add 5 drops of sodium hydroxide.
2. Add 5 drops of copper sulfate.
3. Shake the test tube gently from side to side.

Results:

First, our teacher had tested the potato. After adding the potato in the test tube, she added 5 drops of sodium hydroxide. Then added 5 drops of copper sulfate. In my hypothesis, I had written that it is not going to change colour. Well, it really didn't change colour. Because it is not a protein food.

Secondly, the apple was tested. In my hypothesis, I wrote that it is not going to change colour, because it is not a protein. My hypothesis was right. It didn't change colour.

Thirdly, milk was tested. I had written in my hypothesis was that 'milk is going to change colour'. Because milk has got protein. Again, my hypothesis was right, it changed colour to protein.

Because we didn't have egg, we didn't test it out. But what I'd written in my hypothesis was that egg is not going to change colour. Well, it did change colour, which I had learnt.

The fourth test was the bread, I had written that bread is not going to change colour. Luckily, I was right and it didn't change colour. I knew that the bread didn't have protein.

The last test that was tested was glucose or sugar. I had written that sugar wasn't going to change colour because it hadn't had any protein in it. 

Conclusion:

The experiment was really well done and I'd learnt something new. We had tested 5/6 samples of food. From my hypothesis that I had written earlier, I had got 4/5 or 80% of my hypothesis correct, which was really good. 

Learning Reflection | Health

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share my learning reflection so far on health. A week ago (10 Feb), we started health.

For health, we (our class) are learning Wellbeing or Hauora in Maori. Firstly, we learnt, what is Hauora mean? Also, it's four areas. 'All areas need to be “well” or “working” to be 100% healthy'.

The four areas are if you don't know,

• Physical - Taha Tinana
• Social - Taha Whanau
• Mental/Emotional - Taha Hinengaro



Te Whare Tapa Wha

• Spiritual - Taha Wairua

Next, we did the Hauora Mix & Match cards, where we had to highlight the four wellbeing areas into different colours, then, matched them into the four wellbeing areas. 

After doing that activity, we had wrote (as a class) about, 'What is Hauora?' After writing lots of words about the four wellbeing areas or the 'Te Whare Tapa Wha'. We had wrote about our current Hauora, which means that how are we (I) showing these four dimensions. Because we hadn't finished the 'Current Hauora' activity, we continued it today. 

In today's lesson, we had completed the 'Current Hauora' activity and wrote some Hauora Interactions that we have. Our health teacher had taught us that our 'Current Hauora' changes every day of what we are feeling. I had written about sleep and food. 

I had to answer some questions, the reason I created this blog post. 

How did you participate during this lesson?

I participated well because I was doing my work and finishing it. I contributed by asking questions. Next time, I will try to work extra harder and finish my work quicker than today. 

What is the current state of your hauora?

My wellbeing is well because I am showing all of the dimensions of Hauora. The wellbeing that I need to work more on is Physical Wellbeing, I need to do more physical activity like sport. I could do this by doing physical activity when I am free.

I hope you like my post on my blog. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Testing for Simple Sugars | Biology

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share the experiment that I've done in Biology today. I had to do the experiment myself.

Aim: To test a sample of food to determine whether it contains simple sugars.

Hypothesis: I think that in the;

Glucose - it might change colour because it can be any simple or complex sugar.
Apple - it will change colour because it is a carbohydrate (sugary)
Bread - it might change colour.
Potato - it won't change colour.
Egg - might change colour.
Milk - won't change colour.


Equipment:

Method

1. Water Bath
2. Test Tube Tongs
3. Benedict's Solution
4. A Sample of Food

Method:

1. Place about 2ml of the sample into a test tube and then add 5 drops of Benedict's Solution.
2. Heat with a hot water bath until it changes colour. 

Results:

What I observed is that every sample changed colour except,

We first got the apple, potato and bread and put it in the test tube. Next, we had put 5 drops of solution.

Adding Benedict's Solution into a small piece of potato

Next, we put the three test tubes in the hot water bath until it changes colour. We put three test tubes into two beakers with hot water. 

Hot Water Bath

What I found out weird that the egg had changed colour too! Because I wasn't sure if it was going to change colour or not. 

Conclusion:

My experiment worked really well. I am not sure if I got the hypothesis right or wrong because I mostly had written: "might".


I hope you liked my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Do You Want To Be An Entrepreneur? | Business Studies

Welcome to another post on my blog. A week ago, I started my first Business Studies lesson. We had got to know what is an entrepreneur, and how to become one, so we got a checklist and ticked or not things about us. If the majority ticks were yes, then you are almost an entrepreneur or near to become one, and so on.

Today was our second lesson of Business Studies. We got taught about entrepreneurs and how they became one. Everyone got different entrepreneurs and tasks that we had to complete. We had to read through their profiles and answer the questions in the tasks.

After finishing it, we had to do an Enterprising Business People Research, which involves researching an entrepreneur of your choice. We had to create a digital presentation using some prompts. After finishing, we had to put it on our blog.

I had chosen Sam Morgan, the founder of Trade Me.





I hope you learnt something new from the presentation and liked my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

The Language of Film | English

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you my dictionary of the language of film.

What am I learning? - I am learning to learn about film study and it's languages.

How does this work show my learning? - This shows my learning because I've typed every word to its definition.

What am I wondering as a result of this learning? - If there is another language of film.


Thanks for reading my post. I hope you liked my post. Have a nice day. Bye!!

Testing for Complex Sugars | Biology

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share the experiment that I've done in Biology today. I had to do the experiment with a pair.


Aim: To test if a sample of food contains complex sugars. 

Hypothesis: I think that in the;

Glucose - won't change colour because it is a simple sugar.
Apple - won't change colour because it's also a simple sugar.
Bread - will change because it is complex sugar.
Potato - will also change colour because it is complex sugar.
Egg - it might have simple sugar or complex sugar because it's protein.
Milk - it might have simple sugar or complex sugar because it's also protein.

Equipment:

1. Test Tube
2. Food Sample
3. Iodine Solution

Method:

1. Place about 2 ml of sample in a test tube.
2. Add 3-5 drops of iodine and mix.

The Bread

Results:

First, we tested the bread. From my hypothesis, I had predicted that bread is complex sugar. When we had tested the bread with the iodine, it changed colour because it was complex sugar. It changed the colour to black.

Secondly, I tested the apple. What I wrote in my hypothesis, that it won't change the colour because it is a simple sugar. But, actually, it changed colour, so apple is complex sugar. It changed the colour to dark green.

Apple

Potato

Glucose
(Sugar)

Egg

Thirdly, I tested the potato. According to my hypothesis, I had written that the potato will change colour because it is complex sugar. Actually, my hypothesis was right, it had changed colour because it was complex sugar.

Next, we had tested glucose (sugar). From my hypothesis, I had written that it won't change colour because it is a simple sugar. I couldn't tell if it was or not because what I could see was iodine.

After glucose, we had tested the egg. From my hypothesis, I guessed that it might or might not change because it's protein. This test was similar to the last one, I couldn't tell because what I could see was iodine.

Lastly, we tested the milk. From my hypothesis, I had written that it might change colour or not because it's protein.

Conclusion

In conclusion, my hypothesis was 50% correct, it's okay because there are no right or wrong answers in the hypothesis. From the hypothesis, it is what I thought about this type of food.

What I had written in my hypothesis, is that glucose won't change colour, because it's a simple sugar. But, actually, I was wrong, which is good because I had learnt something new.

The next food that I had written about was an apple. I had written that it won't change colour, but it actually did.

The third food that I had tested was the bread. I had written that it will change colour because it's a complex sugar, which was correct.

The fourth food that I had tested was the potato. I had written that it will change colour because it's a complex sugar, which was correct.

The fifth food that I tested was the egg. I couldn't tell if it changed the colour or not, so I didn't know.

The last food that I tested was the milk. When iodine was added, it diluted slightly, but it didn't change colour. So, milk is not complex sugar.

What I observed that all of the food samples that we had tested were all complex sugars.

What I've learnt in this experiment is that glucose, apple and bread is complex sugar. 

Shot Put | Physical Education

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you my time at Physical Education, or P.E. This was our first session doing P.E. and we were taught, Shot Put. This is because we are practising for Athletics Day. One of the events is Shot Put and we got taught how to do Shot Put. We were taught 5 things to do while doing Shot Put.

1. Hold the shot with three fingers and a thumb.
2. We have to put, which involves pushing rather than throwing. In the Olympics, if you throw rather than push, then you will be disqualified.
3. Keep your elbow up while pushing the put.
4. We can skip to throw the put or spin around to throw the put.
5. You have to bend down before throwing the put.

I hope you liked my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!

Self Directed Learners | Inside and Out

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am going to share you my matrix which I have assessed my self about what I've done well or need to achieve (need to work on). I've started a new hurumanu, called Inside Out, which is about English and Biology.

The green which I have highlighted is what I've done well and the yellow is what I need to achieve. I need to write three ways to improve what I've chosen.

I have chosen 'Ask for feedback when I am unsure.'

1. When I need help or unsure if this is right or not, I can ask people around me. 
2. If I need some help from friends or pairs, I can ask them.
3. If I've done some type of writing, my friends, pairs, or teachers can give me some next steps for next time.

I hope you like my post. Have a cool day!! Bye!!