Health - Cannabis Discovery Task

For the last month or so in Health we have been set a task to create a presentation about a topic of our choice but before we created the presentation we had to plan out\r questions for our topic so we know what to research about. First we had to choose a topic on what we want to do.

Here are our choices for out topic:

- Gender issues in sport

- Discrimination or racism

- Drugs on the mind & body

- Effects of gaming on the mind & body

- Steroids in sports

- Illness (pick one)

- Effects of social media on the mind

-  Brain development during teenage years/neuroscience

- Coping strategies in practise

- Binge drinking

- Mental health/the mind

- Vaping

OR any relevant health topic that is approved by your teacher

My topic that I chose to do was cannabis because it is an interesting topic to do. After we had chosen our topic we had to create 5 big questions to find out for our topic. After that we had to answer them 5 big questions so we knew what to write when we had to create a activity to present this on. Then we had to explain how it will improve wellbeing in the short term and long term. After that we had to create our activity to present. I chose to present this activity on prezi.

Here is a link to my planning sheet:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HZ8s-NLOgI3HWqFNd5HhzcPOaQQavt60oM4Xe4WgYkc/edit

Here is a link to my presentation on prezi:

https://prezi.com/i/40qw333r4--z/

Plan a social event - Business Studies

For the last 2 weeks in Business Studies we had to chose one out of two task for this activity and the two activitys were we had to chose to plan a sports event or a social event and I chose to plan a social event because it was the easiest one to do. For the social event we had to make considerations for our planning and the planning considerations were we had to choose a venue, lighting, security, band/dj, drinks, food, decorations, cleaning supplies, cups/plates that you can hire and advertising/marketing. 

Here is photo of the whole planning sheet:

Here is a link to my planning sheet for the social event:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11RYtapT5kJAwlH9MgXGphWZKwfqKXx73NYt_vlDgSX8/edit

Science - Distillation Experiment

Today in Science we are doing a distillation experiment and there are 2 parts to the experiment. The first part of the experiment is evaporation and what is going to happen is there is going to be a liquid which is turning into gas and that = heat. The second part of the experiment is condensation and what is going to happen is there is going to be a gas which is turning into a liquid and that = cooling.

Aim: To separate a solution (Coke / Coke Zero) to form a solid + a liquid.

Hypothesis: I think that the coke inside the conical flask is going to evaporate through the delivery tube and the liquid will turn clear inside the test tube. The reason the coke is going to evaporate is because when the coke gets heated by the bunsen burner, the coke is going to boil up with is going to make the coke evaporate. I think that both liquids will be the same for both cokes because it will lose the solids added to both of them. In the regular coke I think the sugar will stay as a solid while most of the other products in the solution will be a liquid. In the coke zero I think instead of the sugar the sweetener will stay solid/

Equipment: A solution of coke / diet coke, conical flask, heatproof mat, a delivery tube and bung, Bunsen burner, tripod, gauze mat, retort stand, boss head and clamp, test tube.

Method:

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram.

2. Add approximately 50mL of coke to your conical flask.

3. Light your Bunsen burner, open the air hole and gently push your Bunsen burner under the tripod.

4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off your Bunsen burner.

Observation: What I saw happened was the coke boiled under the heat and the liquid evaporated through the delivery tube. We caught the liquid and it was clear while the solid stayed in the flask. The solid that was left was sugar. The sugar in the coke zero was like a small brown sludge like the regular coke but looked more like dust.

Conclusion: My hypothesis was correct because like I said in my hypothesis, the coke would boil because it was getting heated by the bunsen burner which made the coke evaporate through the delivery tube. The liquid that was trapped in the test tube was clear like i said in my hypothesis as well. The regular coke had more sugar because their was more solids in the regular coke than their were in the coke zero.

Here are photos of our setup and our experiment:

Business Studies - Social event or Sports event

 This week in Business Studies we have been learning how to plan out a social or a sports event using budgeting. First we had to get into pairs or you could be by yourself within our table, I chose to do it on my own because I wanted to do it myself and it was a bit more easier. After that we had to choose 1 out of 2 options, the 2 options were to plan out a social event or to plan out a sports event. I chose to plan out a social event because it was the easiest one to do and mostly everyone was doing it. If you chose to do a social event you had to click on a link and if you were to do a sports event you had to click on that link, it would take you to a page were it told you what you had to plan out and how much your budget was. The budget that everyone had was $5,000. Here is a photo of what it looked liked.

Here is a link to my plan to make a social event.

House party:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vS1RXKA0GlWm4wtVVSRx5K-QpF369U9wFADNMsGX0NMzkg1AcOrwic9wcZdM3lPE8KyU2Yue-_93FAa/pub

Overall spent: $4,990

Surplus: $10.00

I think I worked well because I got the task done and have got it onto my blog. I think I did well because I put a lot of information in it and put in the correct cost and prices. It was probably one of my favourite tasks we have done yet because It gave us a chance to organize a social event for people to go to. Unfortunately we wernt making a social event for people to actually go to, it was just to see if we could get the task done or not to be able to organize a social event. 

Would you come to my party if you had the chance to?

Sources:

Noel leeming, google, pak n save, countdown, K-Mart, JB HI-FI, Henry's

Smoothies - Home Economics

 Today in HE we made smoothies and some were delicious and some were gross. When we got into the kitchen we did our per usual things as I always say at the start on every HE blog post. When we were finished doing that we went to our working table each group had a different recipe to make smoothies. Our group had to make the mango and banana smoothie and it was alright, when every group finished making there smoothies we had to go around each table and try them to see what one was better and we had to write it down with the results. Here are all of the ingredients for the smoothies and the full results. 

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The frozen fruit yogurt smoothie: 

Ingredients:

Sorry but I forgot to to write down the ingredients

Results:

9/10

This smoothie was quiet thick but it taste delicious, this smoothie actually was 1 of the best smoothies that one group made today. This smoothie actually tasted like a smoothie but the other ones just tasted like a soft drink.

The flavour was quiet delicious with all of the fruit that they had in it

I definitely would have again

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Fresh fruity breakfast smoothie:

Ingredients:

1 cup cold milk or soy milk

1 weet-bix (crumbled up)

1 banana, chopped

1/2 cup fresh or frozen berries

Results:

1/10

This smoothie mostly tasted like a weet-bix smoothie and it was awful. I love weet-bix by itself but not in a smoothie.

The smoothie was very thick, chewy and disgusting. It was not a smoothie it was like a chewy disgusting thick shake. This would be good for a morning smoothie / thick shake as it has weet-bix in it

I would definitely not have it again.

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Peach yogurt smoothie:

Ingredients:

1 1/2 cup sliced peaches (fresh, frozen, or well drained tinned chopped peaches)

1/2 cup Greek yogurt

1/2 cup very cold milk (best frozen in an ice cube tray beforehand)

1 T honey

Vanilla ice cream (optional ingredient)

Results:

Sorry but I forgot to write down the results for this smoothie

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 Super berry smoothie: 

Ingredients:

125g frozen mixed berries eg raspberries, strawberry's, blueberry's

125ml yogurt

50ml cold milk

10 - 15g rolled oats

1 tsp honey

Results:

1/10

This smoothie tasted very sour and it tasted disgusting. The smoothie was very chewy and thick and it just wasn't the one for me

I probably would have again

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Easy banana ice cream smoothie: Was made in a food processor

Ingredients:

2 or 3 bananas (peeled, sliced and frozen)

Results:

6/10

This smoothie tasted quiet nice and cold because the bananas were very cold from when they were in the freezer for a few hours.

The texture was quiet thin and chewy, the texture was also very runny 

I probably would have again

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Our group: Mango and banana smoothie

Ingredients:

½ tin well drained mango slices (cut into pieces)

1 banana - sliced

200ml orange juice or pineapple juice (cold)

½ small apple - optional (cut into small pieces)

2 or 3 small ice cubes

Results:

8/10

Our smoothie tasted quiet sweet and moist, It was good compared to most of the groups

The flavour was alright but it wasn't the best but It would of been better if there was ice.

From my perspective I probably wouldn't have often but I would have it again sometime

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The mystery smoothie:

For this smoothie no one knew what was in this smoothie except for the group that had made this smoothie. In this smoothie there was a special ingredient that no one knew what it was.

Ingredients:

Ice cream

Yogurt

Mixed berry's eg  raspberries, strawberry's, blueberry's

Milk

Weet-bix

Honey

Vanilla essence

Results:

12/10

This smoothie was the best one of all because it was just right, it had all of the ingredients mixed together and it was delicious. I was surprised because I didn't know there was honey or vanilla essence in it until our teacher told us all of the ingredients.

I definitely would have it again, I could have it everyday if I could.

The special ingredient was the vanilla essence

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Here are photos of us making the smoothie and our ingredients:

Dilution Experiment - Science

Definition for Dilution: Making something less concentrated. There will be less particles in the liquid.

Concentration: How strong something is.

Aim: To make a dilution series to investigate concentration.

Hypothesis: I think the first test tube will have the most dilute liquid because it would have more added to it in the start.

Equipment:

A potassium permanganate crystal

Six large test tubes

Tweezers

A plastic transfer pipette

A test tube rack

10 mL measuring cylinder

Method:

1. Place the six test tubes in a test tube rack. Label the rack with numbers 1-6

2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill test tube 1 with 10 mL of water. Fill the remaining test tubes with 5 mL

of water.

3. Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1

4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.

5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 mL from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.

6 Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.

7. Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5 mL of solution from test

tube 2 to test tube 3.

8. Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tube 4, 5 and 6.

Was my hypothesis right: Yes because overtime the mixture was more watery and watered down. This makes it more dilute, and the first one was the least dilute

How do I know how this happen: This happens by the mixture overtime become more dilute as it was moved more into more water.

Here is a photo of our experiment

Filtration Experiment - Science

 Aim: Separate a mixture we have made using filtration.

Hypothesis: I think that it will just mix the two colours together and I think they wont separate because they are both liquid. I also think that when the copper sulfate goes through the filter paper and the funnel the colour will change from blue to clear. The things we are mixing in copper sulfate which is blue and sodium carbonate which is clear. I think it will go pale blue because one of the liquids are different and different coloured. Since they are both liquids they will not split and both liquids will go through the filter 

Equipment:

Copper sulfate

Conical flask

Stirring rod

200mL, beaker

Funnel

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

Observations: When we mixed the the copper sulfate and sodium carbonate the mixture flips and is now copper carbonate and sodium sulfate. Because of this happening the copper carbonate now is insoluble and wont dissolve making it a solid that wont dissolve. 

Since we now have a solid in a mixture some part of it wont go through the filter making it clear in the beacon after the blue is filtered out.

Here are the photos of the experiment.

Rice paper spring rolls - Home Economics

 Today in Home Economics we made rice paper spring rolls. First when we got into the kitchen we did our per usual thing which is to put on out aprons, wash our hands, Wash our working table and look at the recipe so you know what you are making. I dont know know why everytime I make a blog for home economics I always say what we do when we first get into the kitchen. Here are the ingredients that we used.

Ingredients:

12 rice paper sheets

½ avocado, sliced

½ cup coriander, chopped roughly

¼ cup Thai
basil leaves

1 carrot, sliced finely

¼ cucumber, sliced finely

1 cup lettuce, sliced finely

½ cup bean sprouts

¼ cup peanuts, roasted and chopped

½ cup cooked chicken, sliced

Here is a photo of the recipe we used.

Sorry I took photos but I dont know where they went.

Skills learnt - How to make rice paper spring rolls

Sensory evaluation - The rice paper spring rolls wernt that nice because of the texture, the texture tasted really tangi and the feel of the rice paper spring rolls in your mouth feels like a wet condom. It would of been better if there were sauces to choose from. We had no chicken so it didn't taste that nice.

Rate the food: 5/10

Could do differently: What we could of did differently was to make sure that there was all of the ingredients we needed especially some sauces and chicken to go in them. If the rice paper didn't feel like a condom and there was all of the ingredients the springs rolls would of been good,

How did the team work together: The team worked really good this time because everyone was there and participating. The team worked good because everyone was helping getting the ingredients and heling each other. 

Business Studies - Budgeting guide

 This week In Business we are still learning about budgeting and what it is. We are doing the same thing as last week where we have to pick one thing to do out of 2 things and the two things are to create a budgeting guide to help other learn budgeting skills. Explain what budgeting is and what key things to keep in mind when creating a budget. Present this creatively Or to create a screencastify sharing a budget you have created and explain what a budget is and why you have designed the budget the way you have. I choose to do the first one because it is the easiest one for me cause I dont like my voice to be videoed. 

Here is my budgeting guide that I have made.

Reflection:

I think I did well with this activity because I did an a entire presentation for this activity and have wrote heaps of information to help people know what happens if you don't have a budget and all those sorts of things.