Filtering drinkable water

On march 31st we learnt how to separate the clean drinkable water from seawater like the murky,sandy stuff.

These were the steps that were took to make this procedure we used a conical flask,a mat thing I don’t know the name of it then we used a bunsen burner plus the rest of the other equipment lastly we got a beaker fulled with ice; a tube that connects the conical flask with the tube. We also used a test tube.

What I observed from this was at the beginning nothing really happened we just turned on the gas and let it heat up.After a while the bunsen burner started to bubble a lot and at the end of the lesson we did a competition who had the most clean water in their test tube.

The soluble and insoluble particles stayed in the bottom of the filter paper and then it would just keep it there.

What happened to the water and salt particles is that since the salt particles are harder then the water it got filter out mostly.

Why people got more water others is because some of them just started earlier and they used less water in their filter paper so it could quickly boil and it would be quicker.

Here is the photo of our set up

 

Dissolving

We learnt about dissolving insoluble and soluble.Insoluble means it can’t be dissolved and soluble means it can.

A few things that are soluble is Instant coffee,Milk,Water,Salt and more.

Three ways we can speed up are experiment is A. using a mixing rod B. using hot water and C. using a bunsen burner.

The experiment that we did was mixing salt into water, tho it wasn’t to fun you got the main idea out of it we had 1 conical flask and 1 was a beaker the different ones had different temperatures in the water like one had hot water the other one had cold.The time we got for the cold one was 4 minutes for it to fully dissolve and the hot one took 3.30 minutes to dissolve.

The fastest way that we did the experiment was by using the hot water and a mixing rod to have the most efficient time.

Social studies

Today in social studies we did learning about the government and what they are doing.

Yesterday we did a PEEL paragraph on the landing of the british and how kemp ripped them off

BLOG HEALTH 2025 Rubber Band

There are 5 areas of hauora.

The 5 areas of hauora are Social,Spiritual,Physical and Mental and Emotional  and whenua

Te Whare Tapa is Māori concept about ……

The 4 walls of a whare are what make “you you”(interconnect)
Today in Health we played Rubber band game

The rules of the game were pick up a cup one at a time to get it to the other side

The best part of the game was us failing miserably 
My hauora was positively affected during the game as This had a positive impact on my hauora because it was a little physical and social

My hauora was negatively impacted when (nothing) This had a positive impact on my hauora because because I think I did pretty good for physical,social and mental and emotional 

Cover at least 3 areas of hauora
What I could improve on is getting a better tactic

This will have a positive impact on my hauora because then I will have fun winning

Experiments Term 1 Science

Over the going term we did some experiments on Convection,Conduction,Diffusion and Contraction.The experiments we did on these topics were Pins dropping were the heat would make the pins drop from the rod.Secondly we did a can popping were you had to get the can steaming and put into water then it would explode.

Thirdly we used potassium permanganate with a petri dish then we would drop the crystal into the dish with some water one hot the other one cold the hotter one gave the potassium more energy to travel faster and spread out.The last one we did is the same but no hot water one that’s it.My favourite one had to be the exploding can it was really funny when the cans popped because someone screamed, but sadly ours didn’t explode.

The key learning that we did was learning how to do a write up and seeing how energy transfers and works with a fun experiment.

In conclusion it was a great and fun learning experience for everybody unless you failed the experiment and in the future I hope that we keep getting to do fun experiments like setting our hand on fire because technically it involves energy right?? Most the time my hypothesis would mostly be right.

Here’s the link for my favourite ones

Athletics Blog

On Athletics day I thought that I did very well. The events I did were 100M,Long Jump,High Jump.The one I think that I performed the best in ways the 100m I came second and beat a year 10 and lost to a year 10 so think I did pretty well.I was supposed to go to finals for 100m but they did my time wrong with the person behind me.What affected my performance was inspiration that’s the only reason I ran so fast.What changes I think they should do with athletics day is give out free water plus a new event like hurdles because it would be pretty fun.

Sound

The sound was not working so ima say what i said the least amount of water made a louder noise and the one that had more made a lower pitch sound because of the vibration it leave less room so there will be a deeper sound( we couldn’t copy the video and send it

Taste

Today we did a chart about tastes and who in the class likes what 40.6 percent of the class likes sweet things like chocolate and no one likes pastrys exeapt for me sadly