Aaah, Help Me!! | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am sharing my task that I completed in Chemicals and Chaos. In Chaos, we had done an activity about the Zombie Apocalypse. The teacher explained the instructions and then did the work independently. There were 34 rules to survive in a Zombie Apocalypse and we had to either make it in Canva, Google Drawing or Piktochart. I chose to do the task on Google Drawings, here is my work. I hope you like it.

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

Filtration | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today in Hur 3, Chemicals and Chaos, while doing Chemistry, we are doing an experiment about filtration, this experiment will include chemicals being separated.

Aim: To Separate a solution from a precipitate.

Hypothesis: I think that both will separate

Equipment:

1. Sodium sulfate
2. Conical flask
3. Stirring rod
4. 200ml Beaker
5. Funnel
6. Filter paper

Method:

1. Pour approximately 50mL of copper sulfate solution into a beaker.

2. Add the same volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate. 

3. Watch demo then fold filter paper to fit inside the funnel

4. Place the funnel with the filter paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask. 

5. Stir the mixture in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel. 

6. Observe what happened.

Observation:

When we mixed Copper Sulfate and Sodium Carbonate, the 'carbonate' and 'sulfate' swapped and turned to;

Copper sulfate + Sodium Carbonate turned to Copper carbonate + Sodium sulfate 

The Copper carbonate stayed on the filter paper and the sodium sulfate filtered down.

Graphing | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post on my blog. On Monday, in Chemicals and Chaos, we learnt about the important Social Science skills. First, we learnt about FAULTSPK (F - Frame, A - Axis, U - Unit, L - Labels, T - Title, S - Scale, P - Plot and K - Key). Then, we were given a graphing exercise revising what we'd learnt. I hope you like it.

The task was: Use the following information to create a Line Graph from the given data.

March	# of cases
23	36
24	53
25	50
26	78
27	85
28	83
29	63
30	75
31	58

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

Rats (Kiore) | Chemicals and Chaos

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am sharing the work that I had done in Chemicals and Chaos, it was about Rats/Mice.

Rats/Mice can cause so much chaos!

Questions for Mice Video (Plague)

1. Where did this happen?
• Western Australia
2. How did this happen?
• The weather was rainy and sunny and rats came and ate all the crop food and spread all around.
3. How much offspring (Babies) can 2 mice parents make?
• 2000
4. How much wheat did the mice eat?
• 5000
5. How did they get rid of the mice and how many dead mice were there?
• Poison - 1080. 100 million rats were dead.

Sometimes Rats/Mice are not seen as chaotic

Questions for Rat Temple video

1. Where is this happening
• Northern India
2. Why is this happening?
• They consider rats as gods, they worship them and they believe in the reincarnation.
3. What special treatment do the rats get?
• VIP treatment, they were served as celebrities, you can eat with them, they taste the food anytime. Rats in the kitchen meant good luck for them.

Are Online Relationships Important?

This Is What Relationship Initiation Looks Like Online
Credit: https://www.psychologytoday.com/nz/blog/dating-in-the-digital-age/201903/is-what-relationship-initiation-looks-online

Welcome to another post on my blog. Today, in Health, we had to debate about, 'Online relationships are not as important as real-life relationships'. We had to write our debate on our blog.


Some people may think that online relationships are as important than real-life relationships, this may be because they can interact with people any time and anywhere, which incorporates online video chat and online fun. Another point of view is dangers if you are in a relationship with someone you don't know it can be dangerous. It is more dangerous if you don't know how they look, what they do, etc.

But on the other hand, some people believe that real-life relationships are more than online relationships, this may be because you can't have fun going to places together than having fun online. Among real-life relationships, you can go to places, eat together and do other things together in real. You can go to the ice-cream store and have fun talking beside each other.


In conclusion, I think that 'online relationships are not as important as real-life relationships' because it may not be safe and there is a different feeling to be present with them rather online.

The Present

Credit: https://thevideosuite.com/the-present-official/

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am sharing the activity that I've finished in Wānanga yesterday. As a class, we watched the video, 'The Present'. The video informs us that we need to be resilient and create connections. The body acknowledges that the dog is not kept back by his missing paw. The dog is playful, resilient and happy.

We were given a few questions to answer after watching the video, such as;


How would you describe the boy at the start of the video?

• Angry
• Gamer

What did he think of his present?

• Happy at the start
• Angry after seeing that the dog doesn't have a paw

Why didn't he like him?

• Because of his paw

Why do you think he didn't want to play with him?

• He was interested in his game

Why did the mum choose this dog for her son?

• Because he doesn't have a leg, so she picked a dog which doesn't have a paw.

How do you think the boy feels about himself?

• Bad because he is not the only one without a leg.

What message do you think the story is trying to teach us?

• To be happy what you're given
• Never give up - Dog

After that, we had to write a diary from the boy. I hope you like it.

One really hot afternoon I decided to play Xbox 360 when my Mum was at work. I closed the blinds because it was too hot. I had a selection of games on the TV cupboard.

When Mum arrived from work she had a box in her hand. Then Mum put the box in front of me.

“What was inside the box? Was it a new console, a comic? or something else?” I thought.

I was still playing on my Xbox 360, then my Mum had a phone call. My Mum said before answering the phone call “I’ve got a present for you. Open it.” I decided to open the box to see what is inside it?

When I opened the lid of the box a dog barked at me. It had bright yellow skin with a black nose and brown eyes.

I called out “Wow!! Awesome!!” The best present ever!!”

When I picked up the dog I saw that he had a half left leg. I dropped the dog on the ground.

The dog sat up and came to me, I kicked the dog and said: “Get lost!”

When the dog was looking upside down he saw a red softy ball under the table. The dog ran and smacked the cupboard door on his head (crash)! After getting the ball he ran to me with the red ball. I kicked the ball and hit the box that the dog came in and still carried on with my game. The dog ran but fell down on the ground because of his left arm the dog sat up and ran but fell again. He jumped and trapped himself in the box. He tried to find the ball but he couldn’t find the ball instead he smacked the TV cupboard. After getting out of the box the dog couldn’t find the red ball in the box. I laughed. Then I remembered that I had to concentrate on the game. I couldn’t concentrate because the dog was barking and running to get the red ball. When the dog noticed me watching him the dog ran the ball to me with the red ball in his mouth. But fell down, after falling down the dog tried to balance himself to not fall down. The dog dropped the ball in front of me.

“Maybe it’s awesome with a friend that has got half a leg like me?” I thought.

I took the ball, got the crutches and put the ball in my pocket.

“Mum we’ll be outside,” I said to my mum.

We played fetch out in the front yard the whole afternoon.

I hope you like my post about 'The Present'. Have a nice day!! Bye!!!

The Extinct Moa

Welcome to another post on my blog. In today's post, I am sharing information about the extinct moa that was a flightless bird in New Zealand. 

Photo by Sciencemag.org

Moa is New Zealand’s largest birds apparently became wiped out within one hundred of humans first landing in New Zealand, about 1300 AD. Although, there were unconfirmed sightings of moa by whalers and sealers into the 18th and even 19th centuries. Moa is ostrich-like flightless birds native to New Zealand and compose the order Dinornithiformes. Approximately 600 years ago, moas abruptly went defunct. Their extinction coincided with the appearance of the first humans on the islands in the late 13th century, and scientists have questioned what role hunting by Homo sapiens (Humans) played in the moas’ deterioration.

North Island Giant Moa skeleton
CC BY 4.0
National History Museum, London
Credit: Wikipedia

Scientists have long debated about what began the extinction of many species of giant animals including mammoths, mastodons, and moas, occurring between 9000 and 13,000 years ago when humans started to spread around the world. Usually, the animals abandoned shortly after humans landed in their habitats, directing some researchers to recommend that we killed them by overhunting. But some scientists have led to natural conditions, such as disease, volcanic eruptions, and climate change at the end of last Ice Age, as the key causes for these species’ dies. The moas show an especially fascinating case, researchers say, because they were the last of the giant species to disappear, and they did so recently when a changing environment was no longer a factor. But did other natural reasons set them on a direction to unconsciousness, as some scientists suggested in a 2004 paper?

Moa were nine species. The two largest species, Dinornis robustus and Dinornis novaezelandiae reached around 3.6 metres in height with neck outstretched and weighed around 230 kilograms. They were the only wingless bird identified to have existed, yet their cousin the flightless kiwi still has small underlying wings covered under its feathers. 

Size comparison between four moa species and a human
1. Dinornis novaezealandiae
2. Emeus crassus
3. Anomalopteryx didiformis
4. Dinornis robustus
CC BY 3.0
Credit: Wikipedia

According to Maori tradition, moas were speedy runners that protected themselves by kicking when cornered. Early Polynesian peoples captured moas for food and made spear points, hooks, and ornaments from their bones and water transporters from their eggs.

Moas were mainly browsers and grazers. Inference from skeletal and other remains unveils that they ate seeds, fruits, leaves, and grasses, which were ground with the help of more than 3 kg of stones in the gizzard. Moas laid one large egg, up to 18 cm in diameter and 25 cm long, in a hollow in the ground.