The Tuatara 

Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog I hope you are all doing well. Today I am going to be blogging about another topic from uncle Don knows heaps of wacky stuff journals. Although at this point I have been researching a totally different topic. As some of you may know the topic of my blog is the tuatara, the tuatara is one of New Zealand's endemic creatures meaning can only be found in New Zealand. The tuatara looks very similar to a lizard but is not, it is known to be the only living dinosaur alive. It is known for its third eye sitting in the top center of its skull. In this Hurumanu we were given the task to make a DLO filled with as many facts of the topic we had chosen. 

The tuatara comes from the Rhynchocephalia family that lived in the time of the dinosaurs. The name tuatara is a Maori word meaning peaks on back or spiny back. They adore cool weather such as lizards like warm weather. Tuataras can regrow their tails if it has been chopped off by a predator. Tuataras are found offshore and in the mainlands. I hope you enjoyed my blog so far, thank you for taking your time to read my blog. Don't forget to check out my other uncle don knows heaps of wacky stuff blogs. Hope you have a good one! Cheers!

Making hokey pokey

Aim:
I want to find out how to make a hokey pokey.

Research:

 

Equipment:

*Pot

*5 tablespoons of sugar

*2 tablespoons of golden syrup

*1 tablespoon baking powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Hydrogen carbonate)
*Wooden spoon
* Stove/bunsen burner
*Baking paper

Instructions:
*Get your equipment :)
*Set up your bunsen burner (Yellow safety flame)
*Put your pot on the bunsen burner and use the blue flame.
*Add the sugar and the golden syrup into the pot.
*Mix it with the wooden spoon
*Stop mixing and turn off the stove/ bunsen when the sugar begins to boil.
*Add the baking powder and mix

*Pour the mixture into your baking paper
*Let it cool!

Results:

                             Lab equipment :)

Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you all are doing well.  Today this blog post is relating to science lab equipment. I am going to be sharing with you some equipment that was taught to us by our amazing science teacher Mr. Stock. Here is some basic lab equipment...

Beaker: Beakers are used to sample different substances, and is normally a container that contains liquid or solid samples.

Conical flask: Conical flasks are used to make solutions in and to hold liquids, and are also used to measure the substance. 

Funnel: The funnel is used to channel liquid or some type of powder into another container. 

Measuring cylinder: The measuring cylinder is a piece of measuring equipment and mixing equipment as well. This is normally known as laboratory equipment.

Spatula: Used for scraping, mixing, and other things. Referring to transferring substances from one place to another. 

Test tube rack with test tubes: Used for holding liquid and test tubes, these are used to mix substances to see the reaction of different liquids being mixed together.  

Bunsen burner: The bunsen burner used in chemist labs, it produces a single gas flame thaqt is used for heating and combustion. The bunsen burner is named after the famouse chemist Robert Bunsen. 

Petri dishes: A petri dish is a shallow transparent dish that is used to collect diffrent types of cells etc. 

This are some of the lab equment that we had used this term in our chemistry class. This term class was a heaps of fun, personerly I had so much fun doing the experiments and learning more facts about the diffrent substances they are. I would like to thank my scince teacher Mr Stock for taking us for this class, thank you Mr for everything that you have done for us, spending your own money to buy the experiment indgridiants. You have been such a amzing teacher thank you for teaching me all that I know about chemistry Mr Stock :). Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you all are doing well, I hope you learn somthing from my blog. Don't forget to check out my other blog posts. If you have anything to say please drop a comment. Thanks :) Have a great day! Cheers!

 

Drama

 Kia Ora readers, welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is relating to our drama class, throughout this term we have learned so much about drama. And today I am going to be blogging about some of the things we learned as a class. In this class, MR Wilkes has taught us lots of games that push us out of our comfort zone. We have learned the different types of theater, what F-a-r-t's is, the different types of clowns, etc. To be honest we have learned so much in this class and it is one of my favorite classes.

What we have learned...

*The different types of theater

*The different types of clowns

*The different genres of movies

*Different games

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog, I hope you enjoyed reading what I did for the past 8 weeks of school. I have learned so much from this class and I thank our amazing teacher Mr. Wilkes for being so nice and just an amazing teacher.  Thank you for everything. I think that comedy is a great genre because everyone likes to have a little laugh at the dumbest things so that's why I think comedy is one of the best. 

Willow tree facts

                          The Willow Tree

Kia Ora readers welcome back or welcome to my blog, I hope you are all doing well. Today's blog is regarding our reading period. In this Hurumanu we are given a journal to read and choose facts to research about. I had chosen to do a little bit of research on the Willow tree. I had chosen this topic because a few weeks ago I had been walking in town with my family and we would walk past willow trees and I think they're pretty.  I have created a DLO on canva with facts about the willow tree. This hurumanu is called Te Ao whanui, this is our reading hurumanu. 

Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoyed it, from this blog I have learned so many facts about the willow tree and I hope you do too, they are so many facts that I did not know. Learning this fact has definitely extended my knowledge of willow trees. If you have any facts drop them in the comment section. Have a great day! cheers!. 

What is a base?

Kia Ora readers welcome back to my blog, I hope you are all well today I am going to be blogging about what a base is in chemistry science. 

An acid is a substance that has a Hydrogen H atom that can react. 

For example:

*Nitric acid- HNO3
*Sulfuric acid- H2SO4
*Hydrochloric acid- HCl

A base is the opposite of acid and has OH (hydroxide) that can react. A base consists of oxygen and hydrogen atoms that are held together by a covalent bond. When an acid and a base react, they NEUTRALISE each other. 

 

What is an acid?

 3 acids:
Hydrochloric acid-HCl
Sulfuric acid-H2SO4
Nitric acid-HNO3

What is acid?
An acid contains hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance

Litmus color
It changes to a RED colour