Resilience Board

Bonjour Everyone,

How was your weekend?

For the last few weeks in Wananga we have been doing a resilience board. The resilience board is a board of activities that involve resilience. The activity I chose was to make a gratitude journal. A gratitude journal is where for five days I write one thing each day that I am grateful for and why. Another thing I am grateful for is the beautiful winter season. Because I love winter. 

Here is the Resilience Board (My activity is on the left down corner) 

Here is my Gratitude Journal

What activity would you choose?

What are you grateful for?

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Gummy Bear Osmosis

 Aim:

I want to find out what happens when gummy bears are put in liquids.

Method:

Equipment

• Salt Water/Sodium Chloride
• Normal Water
• Sugar Water/Sucrose
• Gummy Bears
• 2x Petri dishes
• Marker
• Electronic Scales 
• Safety Glasses

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment
2. Wear your safety glasses (IT IS A PRINCIPAL in the science lab).
3. With the marker, write your name and the conditions (dry, water, saltwater, sugar water) and the weight of gummy bears on the bottom of Petri dishes
4. Do the experiment.

Results:

	Dry Gummy	Sugar Gummy	Water Gummy	Salty Gummy
Initial Weight (g)	2.03	2.16	2.8	2.13
Final Weight (g)	2.13g	4.53	8.4	4.27
Difference	Gain 0.10g	Gain 2.37g	Gain 6.32g	Gain 2.14g

The water gummy weighs the most weight.

Why? The reason why is because gummy bears have small holes inside them. In water there are small molecules and Sugar/salt water have big molecules. Since gummy bears have quite small holes more little water molecules can come in and can expand. Sugar and salt water aren't able to do that because of their big molecules only a few could make it inside but they get clogged.

If not because the gummy bear absorbs the water.

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Tofa

Samoan Language Week

Happy Samoan language week!

Are you Samoan?

In my wananga class we have been doing some activities to help us learn some Samoan words too. For example we have been doing word searches, crosswords, learning numbers and drawing pictures before labelling them. My favourite was the word searches. Too bad we had to do them online because it would be easier on paper and I prefer that.

Here are my activities(there's more but on paper)

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Lighting a Bunsen Burner

Aim:

I want to find out how to safely light a Bunsen burner.

Method:

Equipment

• A Bunsen burner
• A heat mat
• Matches or lighter
• Safety glasses

https://www.twinkl.de/teaching-wiki/bunsen-burner

Instruction

1. Get your equipment prepared
2. Wear your safety glasses
3. Connect the hose to the gas tap
4. Turn the collar to close the air hole
5. Light the Lighter/Matches over the barrel
6. Turn the gas on
7. Turn the collar to open the air hole 
8. When finished turn off the glass

Different flames

Safety flame:ORANGE (When air hole is closed) Heating flame:BLUE (When air hole is open)

Results:

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Parihaka

 Bonjour Bloggers,

In Hurumanu 1 we have been learning about the people. We learned about protests like Kate Shepard and how she stood up for women's rights and others like The Great Depression or the Vietnam War. But one protest that really stood out to me is the Parihaka one. 

In Hurumanu one with AL(Miss Allan's class) we learned about Parihaka. We split into groups of five or less to solve a puzzle. We had to answer the questions on the puzzle pieces. 

Basically to summarise: the Parihaka protest is about how the Pakeha were trying to take the Maori land. They kept confiscating what wasn't their.s So the Tangata Whenua people tried to rise against them and lived on land that belonged to them in the first place, even though they were't allowed on. After some months the Pakeha found out and tried to attack the Maori. Instead of defending they fed the soldiers and invited children to welcome them. However, the Pakeha still sent them to jail. After a few years the Pakeha apologised and Parihaka became a sign of peace.

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Hands on Fire

 Aim: 

I want to find out light my hands on fire SAFELY

Method:

Equipment

• Lighter
• Water
• Gas
• Tray
• Hose
• Liquid Soap
• Safety Glasses

Instructions

1. Get the Equipment ready
2. Fill the tray with water
3. Squirt the liquid soap into the water and mix it it around
4. Connect the hose to the gas tap
5. Turn the gas on
6. Make bubbles of gas
7. Wear your safety glasses
8. Wet your hands and arms with water (If you have fire in your hands your hands will burn)
9. Scoop the bubbles with both hands from the tray
10. Take two steps from the tray
11. Hold the bubbles as far away from your face as possible (Hold steady in front of your face)
    
    
    
12. Light the bubbles on fire
13. Don't PANIC! and slowly open your hands
14. (LIKE THIS)

Results

I saw... the fire emerge and disappear. It was bright red and yellowy orange. It went straight up and dissipated when I put my hands out.

I heard... other people being loud and somehow the sound of the fire getting burned.

I smelt...the heat from the fire. It smelt burnt and gassy. Even when the fire went away the smell remained.

I felt... excited and nervous. My heart was beating so fast. It was great and so much fun.

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Safety in the Lab

           Hola viewers,

1. Liquids do not go in the bin because it could leak out of the bin or be to heavy for the cleaner to take and make a hole.
2.  Solids do not go down the sink because it could block the sink or pollute the water.
3. Wear safety glasses when you do experiments because dangerous stuff like chemicals or fire could get in your eyes.
4. Put your chair under the desk, and stand at the bench when you do experiments because its better to do that.
5. Bags do not go on desks because chemicals or stuff like that could get inside your bag.
6. Long hair should be tied back because it could be caught on fire and you could become bald.
7. Do not smell the chemicals because all the chemicals would get in your lungs and you could pass out.
8. Walk, do not run around the room because you could trip over and hit some chemicals or break your arms 
9. Do not eat or drink in the lab because you could swallow germs and poison yourself. 

        

       What is wrong with this picture?

        Things on the floor people could trip over

Chemicals on table

Boy standing on tip toe on stool about to trip over

There is no fire extinguisher

Fire near 

Not paying attention to work

Other boy sitting on the table

      No teacher

Don't put anything fragile up high

Poisonous smell coming out of bottle

No Safety glasses

No looking after fire experiment

Laboratory rules with no rules

Glass near the edge of the bench about to break off

         Girl is going to punch other girl or surprise her

Fire will make the metal get very hot and will burn the table

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