Social Studies - Slave Trade Triangle

For our first assesment in Social Studies, we had to make a map about the slave state that we have learnt before we created the map for the slave trade. After we did all that, we had we had to create a blog post to finish and complete this assessment, in the blog post we had to answer questions that was given about the topic. Here is my blog post that I have completed.

1) Explain the use of Spiritual and what they were.

- Spirituals are songs that the salves sang to express their emotions and to help them escape. After the 2 month boat trip in west Africa the masters went to church except for the slaves because the slaves were not human anymore. While the masters were in the church, the masters thought they were praying to god, but instead they were singing songs to help them escape in their language so the masters didn't know what they were saying.

2) Explain who Harriet Tubman and what the underground railroad was.

- Harriet Tubman was one of the ex slaves that was famous for helping thousands of slaves escape, she used songs to send messages to the slaves. Altogether there were 12 million slaves ,but 1.5 million slaves died on board on the ship, about 10.5 million slaves arrived in America. Harriet Tubman used the underground railroad, which were secret passages used to sneak slaves to escape out of the slave state. Slaves used to swim in the rivers because they didn't have showers so if they went in the rivers than there smell would disappear. If the slaves ran on land than dogs and the masters would be able to track them because of there smell.

3) Write about a spiritual you chose and highlight some lyrics and the hidden messages behind them.

- Wade in the water was one of the spirituals that the slaves sang to send a message to help them escape.

Wade in the water
Wade in the water
Children wade, in the water
God's gonna trouble the water
Who's that young girl dressed in red
Wade in the water
Must be the children that Moses led
God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in white
Wade in the water
Must be the children of the Israelite
Oh, God's gonna trouble the water

Wade in the water, wade in the water children
Wade in the water,
God's gonna trouble the water

Who's that young girl dressed in blue
Wade in the water
Must be the children that's coming through,
God's gonna trouble the water, yeah

Wade in the water,…    

- The hidden messages used was wade in the water, what that mean't was that swimming in the water helped to escape. The other hidden message was God's gonna trouble in the water, what that mean was that god is going to stir up the healing water.

4) How are these events still significant today?

- These events are still significant today because in America people still talk about the debate of the slavery's. Slave songs and spirituals are still used today. It influences the creation of the blues, souls, rnb, gospel, rap and rock n roll.

Science - Heating Zinc Oxide

Today in Science we had to do a experiment with Zinc Oxide. First we had to setup our equipment, then we had to to get the zinc oxide and put it in the Crucible using a spatchular. Next we had to turn on the head, then thats when it changed from colour to colour. Here is the experiment.

Aim: What changes happens when we heat Zinc Oxide.

Equipment:

Bunsen Burner.

Heat Mat

Tripod

Safety Glasses

Crucible

Crucible Holder

Zinc Oxide

Spatchular

Method:

1. Get all of the equipment and set it all up

2. Get the zinc oxide and put it into the crucible with a spatchular ready to heat it up.

3. Turn on the heat and light the bunsen burner with a lighter. 

4. Wait to see what happens to the zinc oxide.

5. Have fun!!!

Results: When I heated the zinc oxide the powder changed from the colour white to yellow but when The heated turned off the colour changed from yellow back to white.

Discussion: When the zinc oxide is heated, the electrons in zinc move to other levels making it change colour. When it is heated the oxygen goes away but when it is not heated the oxygen attracts back to the zinc, which makes the zinc move to other levels.

Science - My Element

This week on Monday and Tuesday in Science we have been learning about atoms. First on Monday we got our scipad and we did our scipad about atoms. On the scipad, we had to describe an atom, name particles inside atoms and other questions about atoms. Then we looked at the elements on the scipad, there are 72 different types of atoms on the scipad. After that we started to do an activity where we had to pick one atom from the two rows on the scipad, I picked Lithium, then we had to make a model atom of one of the atoms that we had to chose from. Since I chose lithium I had to get three beads of the same colour and four beads of the same colour. One of the coloured beads represented the protons and the other coloured beads represented the neutrons. In the centre of the atom is the nucleus.

Equipment:

• Coloured paper

• Vivid

• Scissors 

• Blu tack

• 2 lots of different coloured beads

Method:

1. Cut 2 circles out of the paper but one had to be bigger than the other.

2. Get blu tack and make a ball.

3. Since I chose lithium I had to put all of the seven beads on the blu tack ball. 

4. Cut a square out of the paper and write down what it says on the periodic table of elements of what atom you chose. 

5. Get the some string and tape together the two circles, the square and the atom ball.

6. Make sure that the atom ball is in the middle of the smallest circle.

Here is a photo of the finale product that I made, hopefully it makes sense.

Then we had to answer these questions according to the element of our choosing that we had to make a model of.

If I were a element I'd like to be Lithium and my symbol is Li.

My atomic number is 6.9 which means I have 3 protons in my nucleus and 3 electrons around my nucleus.

At room temperature 20°C I will be a solid.

My melting point (the temperature when I turn from solid to liquid) is 180.5°C

My boiling point (the temperature when I change from liquid to gas) is 1,330°C

I was first discovered by Johan August Arfwedson in 1817. It was discovered in Stockholm, Sweden

I am found in spodumene, petalite, tepidolite and amblygonite important minerals containing lithium.

My uses to humans are to help humans from bipolar because lithium salts have been proven to be a useful mood stabilising drug in the the treatment of bipolar disorder in humans.

Some interesting things about me are that lithium burns with a bright red colour because lithium chloride imparts a read colour to a flame. A carmine red colour is imparted to the flame by lithium chloride. The colour is less intense than the strontium flame colour. Other interesting things about lithium is that lithium is the lightest metal, lithium has the lowest density of any metal, lithium is a shiny, soft metal which reacts violently with water forming a strong corrosive base, lithium is used extensively to rechargeable batteries.

Home Economics Yr10 2021

Today in Home Economics we did a practical revision from last week. We did the practical revision on a google slide. Every theory lesson we have to make a new google slide on the same google slides so all of our work is in the same place. We had to include what we made, what personal and food safety we used and what hygeins we used. We also had to include a photo of our finale product linked with a link to the recipe that we used. Here is the google slide that I have made. 

Here are all of the photos of the process of making this dish.

Wanaga - Waitangi Day

Day 1: Today in Wanaga we had to do an activity were we had to write why do we have a waitangi day holiday and write about waitangi day. This is why we have a waitangi day holiday and what happened on waitangi day. 

Every year, New Zealand celebrates the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi on the 6th of February which is also a public holiday but we have the public holiday on the following Monday on the 8th of February to make it a long weekend. The treaty was first officially celebrated in the year of 1934. The treaty was signed by representatives of the British Crown as well as over 500 Maori chiefs 

Day 2: Today in Wanaga we were looking at two words about the signing of the treaty and the two words were governorship and sovereignty. Then we watched a video about what really happened on waitangi day. We didn't end up watching all of the video cause we didn't have time because we needed to write at least two paragraphs about what we have learnt. Here are my two paragraphs.

In the English version of the treaty on waitangi day the word Sovereignty was used to explain who would be in charge. Sovereignty is where authority has supreme power, control, rule, subjection. In the Maori version of the treaty the word government was used to explain who would be in charge the same as the English version but two different words. government is a group of people with the authority to lead or control a country or a state, in other words a group of people that have leadership and can manage a country.