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. 

PE - Gymnastics

 In PE for the last 2 weeks we have been doing gymnastics and learning some gymnastic basics. The first day of gymnastics we watched some videos of people doing really cool gymnastics and videos of people doing gymnastics and injuring themselves to show that gymnastics is dangerous and you need to take it seriously. After that we went into the gym to do some exercises and stretches before we got into doing gymnastics. 

The first thing I saw when I walked into the gym I saw the trampoline so I went straight to it and was the first one on it. I like the gymnastic trampolines because they are bigger and way bouncer. After that I went to the bar and stuff on there that we got told. Then I went onto the beam and did some stuff on that, that we had to do.

The next day when we did PE there was a mini tramp right next to the big mats so I went there just to play around and jump on people off from the mini tramp. Next I went to the funnest thing in the gym with was the trampoline and on a peice of paper it had things to do on the tramp. Then I went to the bar and did some things on that, then I went onto the beam and did some jumps over the cone and it was quiet hard.

Here is the photo of the peice of paper with all of the things we had to do on the trampoline.

Here is a photo of the trampoline.

Here is a link to a video of someone doing this activity

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DuFbkYVl-khqOsHamlyQTt2LN7ecqcEh/view?usp=sharing

Home Economics - Steak Sandwiches

This week in HE we made steak sandwiches and they were way better and delicious than I thought they would be like. First when we got into the kitchen we got our aprons on, washed our hands and washed our table ready to cook. After that we got our recipe and looked at it. Then we got our mese on play ready and if you don't know what that is it is where we have to get our ingredients ready on our table for the lesson. After that we started cooking.

Ingredients:

- Lettuce

- Steak

- Cheese

- Tomato

- 3 bread buns

- Mayo

- Tomato sauce

- Seasoning

Here is a photo of the recipe for the steak sandwiches.

Here is a photo of our ingredients.

Here are a couple of photos of the steak cooking.

Skills learnt: How to cook stripes of steak

Sensory Evaluation: The steak sandwiches tasted really good because the steak was seasoned almost perfectly and the steak wasn't chewy. It looked like a steak sandwich but in a bread roll not in pieces of bread. The smell was amazing because the steak was seasoned good which maked it smelt better.

Rate the food: 9/10

Could do differently: What we could of did differently was to make sure the whole team was there because one of my teammates was there for about 20 minutes and then he went to sport photos and the other two people were at the sport photos for the whole lesson until the end.

How did the team work together: The team worked badly because Tobey and I was the only one in the team for about 20 minutes but the steak sandwich's turned out better than they would if the team was there. 

Sorry I forgot to take the photos of the finished product, I am really bad at taking photos because when I am doing something that I like I forget to take photos.

Business Studies - Budgeting language dictionary

 In Business studies we are learning about budgeting and what it is. When we first learnt about it we had to do a couple of activitys about what is budgeting and now we are doing this blog post for out report for business studies. For this blog post we have to chose 1 activity out of 2 of them and I chose the second one because it is much easier. The activity I chose was you have to make a budgeting language dictionary explaining what each term is and how it relates to budgeting. 

Here is my budgeting language dictionary.

Budget - Budget is where you have money available to spend. If you dont have a limit its important because it helps you limit your odds of going into a deficit.

Spend - Spend is where you buy something using money for example you have to give money to pay for goods or services otherwise you don't get it. If you want a house, a car or something you have to give the money to the owner to be able to purchase it.

Savings - Savings it where you have extra money that you haven't spent yet, If you have spend the money you have for your budget it is always good to have saving because then you can use it.

Price - Price is the amount of money expected to be given to the owner that is selling the product or something else that has a price on it.

Needs - Needs is something that is essential to your life for example you need education to get somewhere in life you may not want it but you really need it in the real world, you need to be good at maths, spelling reading and the essential things you need to know.

I think I did quiet good because I wrote heaps of information to help people understand what each word meant. I got some of this information from dictionary.com for reference and then I put it into my own words. 

Sources: 

https://www.dictionary.com/

Science - Mixture and Dissolving experiment

Today in science we did an experiment to see how long it takes for something to desolve in water. First when we got into the science class we did a pre-test on quizlet about mixing and separating for our experiment that we did afterwards. When we started the experiment this is what we had to do.

First we got the equipment ready before we did the experiment.

Equipment:

- A big beaker

- Spatula

- Sugar

- Water

Aim: To find out how long it takes for the sugar to desolve in different situations

Then we did the experiment.

This experiment has four parts to it so you can test the speed that it takes to dissolve and to see the dissolving rate.

Method: 

1. Put 50mls of cold water into the big beaker and put one spatula of sugar into the beaker and start a timer and stir consistently until the sugar dissolves

2. Put 50mls of hot water into the big beaker and put one spatula of sugar into the beaker and start a timer and stir consistently until the sugar dissolves

3. Put 50mls of cold water into the big beaker and put one spatula of sugar into the beaker and start a timer then wait until it dissolves (DO NOT STIR)

4. Put 50mls of hot water into the big beaker and put one spatula of sugar into the beaker and start a timer then wait until it dissolves (DO NOT STIR)

Results: These times are the total and average times for all the groups in our class.

1. Total: 274sec Average: 54sec

2. Total: 119sec Average: 29.75sec

3. Total: 381sec Average: 76.2sec

4. Total: 819sec Average: 163.8sec

Our results:

1. For the first experiment we got 59sec

2. For the second experiment we got 25sec

3. For the third experiment we got 90sec

4. For the fourth experiment we got 360sec

Discussion:

Our results made sense because the one that was the fastest combined two things that speed up the time of dissolving. This is because when you add heat and stir it add speed to the matter and it starts to dissolve.

The results also show that the one with nothing that affects the time it takes to dissolve will end up as the slowest.

We started with sugar and water and at the end we ended up with sugarwater

Here are the photos of the equipment we used.

Sorry I didn't take any photos when we were doing the experiment it was because we were having to much fun doing the experiment so we forgot.