Commercial Patterns

In textiles, I am making a bucket hat

I have done the top and the crown part and now I am up to sewing the brim.

Passion Projects

For the past 4 weeks, while doing passion projects, Talia, Paige and I made quilted blankets. we went and used scrap fabric from the textiles room and fleece from spotlight for it. And I love it

I don't have a photo of mine but it is similar to this one.

Passion Projects

 For passion projects, I am doing textiles and I am making a blanket. I decided to make a quilted blanket for myself.

Last week for passion projects I started cutting the fabric I got from a scraps material box, I cut out squares for my blanket

Metal Reactions

 1. Metal + Acid = Metal Salt + Hydrogen

Magnesium + Sulfuric Acid = Magnesium Sulfate + Hydrogen

Method: 1. Light bunsen burner. 2. Add your sample of metal to your test tube. Add 2 ml of acid. 3. Carefully invert the boiling tube above the test tube containing the metal and acid. 4. Hold the tubes together for few minutes, allowing time for the inverted boiling tube to fill with gas. 5. When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint. 6. Carefully, but quickly, tilt the boiling tube full of gas upwards and insert the burning splint into the boiling tube. 

2. Metal + Oxygen = Metal Oxide

Magnesium + Oxygen = Magniseum Oxide

Method: 1. Light bunsen burner. 2. Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of magnesium. 3. Place the other end of magnesium into the Bunsen flame (at the top of the blue flame). 4. When the magnesium begins to burn, do not look directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently damage your eyes.

3. Metal Oxid +  Hydrogen Peroxide = Metal Hydroxide + Oxygen

Manganese Dioxide + Hydrogen Peroxide = Manganses Hyrdoxide + Oxygen

Method: 1. Light your bunsen burner. 2. Add the manganese dioxide to the boiling tube and place it in your test tube rack. 3. Add 2ml of Hydrogen peroxide. 4. Light a splint and let it burn for a while. 5. Blow the splint out and insert the glowing embers into the mouth of the boiling tube. It should light back up

4. Metal Carbonate + Acid = Metal salt + Water + Carbonate

Method: 1. Add a pea-sized amount of the melt carbonate into one of the boiling tubes. 2. Place this boiling into a test tube rack. Ensure you have the bung and delivery tube ready. 3. Add 5ml of acid into the boiling tube and quickly insert the bung and delivery and tube into the mouth of the boiling tube. 4. With the other boiling tube hold it with tongs, capture the gas produced with the lime water.

Live Aid

Live Aid

In the 1970s Bob Geldof was a famous singer and musician who achieved success with the group Boomtown rats. He was famous for writing the famous song "I don't like Mondays", a song written about a school shooting. Bob Geldof was one of the main organisers behind Live Aid. With this concert, he became more involved in work for non-governmental organisations in Africa and became one of the leading spokespeople on third world debt relief.

Midge Ure is a famous Scottish musician, songwriter and producer. Midge was in bands such as Ultravox, Silk, The rich kids, Thin Lizzy, Visage, Band-Aid, Band-Aid 30. He was involved in forming Live Aid, a special project to aid famine relief1  efforts in Ethiopia. Midge Ure and Bob Geldof worked together and wrote the famous song "Do they know it's Christmas?"

The awesome music show advantage hung on July 13, 1985, for starvation alleviation in Ethiopia and Sudan was known as Live Aid. Live Aid was brought about by Irish artists, musician Bob Geldof, who had recently acquired distinction as head of the Boomtown Rats. Subsequent to watching a British TV news report on the limit states of yearning in Africa in October 1984, Geldof visited Ethiopia to see the situation for himself. In his return, he and Midge Ure made the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" and selected many British pop stars under the name of Band-Aid to record it on time for holiday release. The record sold a few million duplicates in 1984 with continues gave to starvation alleviation. 

Do they know it's Christmas? Link

Micheal Mew Mixed Media

For art, we were making a collage with painting on top. How we did it was cut pieces out of a magazine, then we pieced it together on paper until you found the layout that we liked. Then we glued it down after that we got Whaea Rowena to photocopy it, then we started painting. 

ThumbNail Sketch

Michael Mews Artwork

My Artwork

Base Collage

Acid Rain Experiment

Acid Rain Experiment

What is Acid rain? Acid rain is where the air is polluted with fossil fuels and the fuels get absorbed by the clouds and it rain, and it is bad for the environment and can kill plants and animals over a long exposure.

Aim of this experiment. To observe the effects of acid rain.

hypothesis. Petal calcium carbonate, apple, universal indicator, bromothymol blue

Method. In a petri dish place items around the edge. Wet dry ingredients with a drop of water. In the middle put a weigh boat. Add a spatial of sodium sulfate to weigh boat and 5 drops of sulfuric acid. Quickly close the lid.

What happened after we put the sodium sulfate and sulfuric acid in the weigh boat the petal started to lose colour, the universal indicator change colour to very light pink, the bromothymol blue change colour to an orangey-yellow 

Before sodium sulfate

After sodium sulfate

Anthology 100 word challenge

Date - 07/04/21

Topic / Title - Stracey’s 100 word challenge

Stracey always wondered why no one ever went into Room 12, Now she knew.  It’s because the room is dangerous and scary so no one wants to go in there. Then last time someone went in there, they didn’t come back out, no one knows why. But Stracey went to figure out why it’s so dangerous. She slowly walked up to the door, when she opened the door she turned on her flashlight and slowly walked in and there she figured it out, there was a really deep hold that someone dug and everyone who walked into fell into it.

Give Peace a Chance

 Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon

This song was written about the Vietnam war and the message behind it was to stop the fighting and killing people and give peace a chance. John Lennon played this song in Woodstock.

Give Peace a Chance

Part One - Triplicate

 Unwind

1 - How much brainwashing do you think has happened for teenagers to make this sort of claim they’re being led to “death”?

There must have had to be a lot of brainwashing, to make people of people feel like it has to be done and make then feel like their useless. The government from a young age could have shown tv commercials.

2 - Why do you think, has Shusterman chosen to have three characters tell their story?

So the reads can have three different points of view about being unwound, and if there was only one main character there would only be one point of view. To see the different ways and different reasons for being unwound.

3 - Lev is a tithe. This means that he is 10% that his family will give back to the church as an offering. What are your thoughts on this?

I think tithing and giving your kids up to be unwound is bad.

4 - Risa is a state home kid - she was unwanted at birth, and now the state has decided she is no longer useful. Do you think that the state should ever be able to determine if one like is more useful than another?

They should be able to find her a new home, instead of unwinding her just because she did something wrong.

5 - Conner’s parents have been chosen to unwind him due to his difficult behaviour. They have then booked a ticket to the Bahamas. In your opinion, how do parent view their children? Why do you think about this?

6 - Pastor Dan presents as being conflicted. What reasons might have to be encouraged? Lev in his journey as a tithe? Why does he encourage him to run?

Significance of WW1 - The last Post

When do you hear the song "last post"

On ANZAC day which is the 25-26 April.

Why is this song so significant/important to New Zealand?

This song is important to New Zealand because it is a way to cherish the soldiers who fought for New Zeland in the war and sacrificed their own life.

What is the history behind the last post?

The last post was first published in the 1790s.

What does this song represent?

In the military tradition, the last post is the bugle call that signifies at the end of each day. It is also played at military funerals to indicate that the soldier has gone to his final rest and at commemorative services such as ANZAC day and remembrance day.

Significance of World War 1 map

Atomic Science: Periodic Table

What does the periodic table show us? The periodic table shows u the elements ad their atomic number. and the elements are arranged by their atomic number and electron layout.

What is the mass number? The mass number is the total number of proton and neutrons in an atomic nucleus.

What is an atom? Atoms are the simplest form of matter. Atoms make up everything in the world.

What is an element? An element is a substance that can not be broken down into any other substance. Every element is made up of its own different type of atom. Everything in this world is made up of atoms. The periodic table lists all the elements that we know and groups together those with similar properties.

What are alkali metals? Alkali metals are the 6 chemical elements of group 1 on the periodic table, chemical elements metals are sodium, potassium, lithium, francium, rubidium and caesium.

What happened in the experiment? Miss Abernethy put lithium in the water, when she did that the water changed the colour of the water. then she used a little bit of sodium and nothing really happened, then Miss put a bigger piece of sodium and it caught on fire and it made a little explosion. 

Culture - Taha Wairua

The Day Of The Dead

How is The Day Of The Dead celebrated? The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. The Day of the Dead is celebrated on November 2nd.

Who is it celebrated with? The Day of the Dead is celebrated with relatives.

Why is it important? Sure the theme is death, but the point is to demonstrate love and respect for deceased family members. Day of the Dead is a celebration of life and death. It usually celebrated with drinks, food, parties and activities the dead enjoyed in life

Christmas

How the Christmas celebrated? Who is it celebrated with? Christmas is often celebrated in different ways. It is usually celebrated with family having a nice breakfast, lunch or dinner. Some people/families go to church for Christmas.

Why is important? Christmas is important because for Christians it reminds them of Jesus Christ, son of God. And for other people, it is a good way to spend time with family.