Passion Projects Update 3

Today the 29th of November we were very busy. In fact, we were busier than bees (not quite). Anyways, we have been making all the products that we have made at the last few weeks of passion projects. We made all of the products because next week it's time to present what we have made. So today is the last day of making day, that means we can't make anymore food in passion projects. Today was very tiring, Although I was quite proud because that we finished on time and also cleaned our mess on time. All of us worked really hard and we all tried to make the best dish we have made. I actually thought that we were going to do worst because of the time we had. But we managed to do very well, our plan was working perfectly. However some of the dishes we made was a bit of a fail. It wasn't really a big fail, It was just that some of the dishes dind't really worked with mango and we also made a mango shake which was too watery. It turned watery because we didn't have crushed ice to put on the shake. 

Anyways the dishes that we made were, a mango version of panna cotta, cheese sticks with cheese on top, synonym rolls with some mango puree and mango fruit and last of all the new mango shake. We couldn't perfected the mango shake because it was the last day of making. If we had more days of making, we could have made the mango shake better and that's all. This is still not the end... We still have to somehow present what we have made and present it infront of other people. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed and I hope you have a great time!

Science Road Show!

On Wednesday, 28th of November which is today. The year 7s of HHS all went science road show, some of the year 10s also helped the program. There was a lot of different activities to mess around with. Not only that but they also opened our brains by teaching us knowledge that we might haven't even known before. The first thing they talked to us about, was about temperature which is hot and cold. They explained that lowering temperatures slow down the movement of the particles and molecules. Also, they told us that there is a limit on what the maximum coldness is. (273Co). Now, moving on the heat. Which is the opposite will occur instead of slowing the molecules down, heat makes them speed up. Although there is no maximum temperature of how hot it could get.

After the demos that they presented, we were finally allowed to explore and discover by doing experiments that were arranged throughout the room. There were so many activities to choose from that I had a hard time to choose a single activity. So I went with my friends which were Axle, Lars and Ranit. We had a few minutes to try out some of the experiments, then we had to go back because they had another presentation to talk about. It was about "Am I Alive?" There were different topics, nutrition and other stuff. They explained how we move our arm if you're asking how we move our arm. It's all thanks to our biceps and triceps. These two muscles work together to make movement. After that, they needed three volunteers. The person who was running the presentation chose three different students, and for some reason, those three students were all from my class. The first volunteer had to take a deep breath and blow it into a tube to see how much air there is in his lungs. The second volunteer had to be dressed up like a caveman and had to be blindfolded. He had to raise up one hand randomly, the person who was running the program placed two trays with different types of food. The other had nice food and fruits, while the other had skulls and eyeballs. He raised up a hand and he luckily got the good tray. It kept going until it was the last volunteer's time. The programmer guessed what height will the volunteer will be when he turns to be an adult.

But anyways that was all and I had a great time during the Science Road Show and I hope there will be another one next year. I hope you have a great time.

Passion Projects Update [2]

Today the 26th of November, on passion projects. We finally perfected the sweetness of the panna cotta, as you remember last time we made the panna cotta it was a bit too sweet. Although today it wasn't that sweet. However, what we need to do next time os just to make all of what we have so far in the days that we have been doing in passion projects. Which includes "synonym rolls", "cheese sticks", "panna cotta", and the last one is a "mango shake". We are not going to make the pandesal anymore because it uses too much time for Thursday and it doesn't look appetizing by itself, and on Thursday it's is the last day of making. We might still put some changes at some of the food, for example, putting mango puree on the panna cotta. It had been a busy adventure so far and it was a very fun journey working with my group. We all have learned so much from this experience. But anyways this is the passion projects update for today...

SLJ: Summer Learning Journey

Hey Emma,
My name is Vann and I am from Hornby High School, I really like maths, reading, writing, science and also cybersmart. I like playing with my brothers, especially playing basketball and badminton. Next year I will be a year 8, I also enjoy hiking with my family, when the weather is not so good I will usually play games and watch movies during the weekends. Between the weekends I will try to work really hard to win the Summer Learning Journey and get some really cool prizes.

If I win, I want to get the drone so I when we are out hiking somewhere in the mountains, I can use the drone to get a good view around the mountains. If I didn't get a drone I would rather get a headphone instead of the drone. If didn't win headphones I will get the Chromebook, so whenever my Chromebook is broken I have a spare one. But anyways I hope I can still get any of the prizes.

Barney Juice...

Last week on science we learned about pH scales. But today we are going to make a purple cabbage indicator that will test the acidity or alkalinity of white vinegar and washing powder. The indicator is neutral and has a pH scale of 7. I was grouped up with Lars and Blake, we worked pretty well during the experiment.

This is the procedure of the experiment:

• 1 Peel off three or four big cabbage leaves and put them in a blender filled half full with water. Blend the mixture on high until you have purple cabbage juice.

• 2 Pour the purplish cabbage liquid through a strainer to filter out all of the big chunks of cabbage. Save the liquid for the experiments to follow.

• 3 Set out three beakers, side by side. Fill each glass three-quarters full with cabbage juice.

• 4 Add a little vinegar to the first beaker of cabbage juice. Stir with stirring rod and watch the colour change.

• 5 In the second beaker, add a little laundry detergent and stir.

• 6 Take a photo of your 3 beakers side by side.

There was also a couple of questions before we did the experiment, and here are my answers.

What colour do you think white vinegar will turn the purple cabbage indicator?

I think that it the purple cabbage will turn into a colour red. Or close to red.

Why do you think this? Because the vinegar will take the colour purple and lighten the colour and the vinegar are acidic.

What colour do you think the washing powder will turn the purple cabbage indicator? I think it will be still purple or it will be red again.

Why do you think this? Because washing powder is alkaline.

Reflection:

Were your answers right or wrong? Some of it was right but not all of them.

What number do you think the white vinegar would be on the pH scale? pH 3 or 2

What number do you think the washing powder would be on the pH scale? pH 8.5 or 9.5

Update On Passion Projects!

As you know, for the past few weeks we have been working on our passion projects. which was posted last blog post. But I didn't tell you what the product was doing, but now it's time to reveal the product. We started making the product our product on Monday, November 19th. We had lots of ideas on what we were going to do with mozzarella, we practiced making one of the two ideas. The first one is the Burrata with mozzarella cheese sticks. Although, making the Burrata was a bit of fail and it became too rubbery. Axle and I tasted the Burrata and it was chewy, so we chose to make cheese sticks instead of Burrata.

Our second idea was making "PanDeSal" when we made the PanDeSal was made we added mango puree. It tasted good but it could have been added with milk to make it heavier. But anyways today in the passion project, we practiced making lots of dishes. We perfected making the cheese sticks, not only that but we also perfected the PanDeSal. After that and also perfected our "Synonym Rolls" we also practiced making the "Panna Cotta". We made three Pana Cottas, It came out fine but it was a bit too sweet. We were supposed to put the mango puree with the Pana Cotta, but Khush forgot to bring one.

Next passion project, we are going to make the mango shake. I will put some videos and pictures.

SLJ Practice: Let's Learn About Mexico!!

This week on cybersmart, we had to choose a country from these options. Canada, Austrailia, Chile, Mexico, Japan, Germany, England, United Arab Emirates, South Africa and last of all Malaysia. We are doing this because we are practicing for the summer learning journey. We could only choose one country and find out what is the name of the capital city, the population of the capital city is. etc. We had to also include 2 fun facts why we want to go to this country. I wanted to go to this country because I wanted to try some of their food and visit their outstanding landmarks.

Here are some facts about Mexico:

• The capital city of Mexico is at Mexico City
• The capital city of Mexico has a population of 21.2 million people.
• The average temperature of Mexico is about 23°C
• The capital city is located at the southern part of the country.
• There is no official language in Mexico, however, most people speak Spanish.

The reason why I wanted to go to Mexico:

• First of all, I wanted to try out their food.
• Secondly, I wanted to go to the most famous landmarks in Mexico.
• Thirdly, 

But anyways I hope you learned something from this blog post.

Understanding Probability

This term (the last term) on maths we have been focusing on probability. Probability means there are no exact answers and it could go either way. When we started probability it was a bit easy, but when we progressed it got a bit harder. But learning probability was excellent. But anyways our teacher told us to make a DLO explaining what theoretical probability and experimental probability is. Here is my DLO explaining what it is about and help you understand more of what probability is.

Passion Projects!!

This Monday we started a new Kete topic called "Passion Projects." It is every Monday and Thursday, there were different topics to choose from. There was Maths Craft, Discovery, Stone Sculping, and lots more. We had to choose 3 different topics. My first choice was Stone Sculping, my second choice was Discovery. The last was sports. Then the day came, the first day of passion projects. I found out that I was in Discovery, I thought that I was going to be in Stone Sculping but I wasn't. But luckily I was with Axle, Khush, Ranit and other people. I felt relieved that I was with some of my friends, our teacher in discovery was Mr. Stock.  He was a funny science teacher. The four of us had different ideas on what we wanted to discover, here are some examples. Dissect an animal, make a telescope, make food, etc.

This Thursday, we did planning, ideas and lots of other stuff. My group and I wanted to make food, We wanted to know what dish goes well with mozzarella. We are still on work in progress and I will try to keep you updated with our new discovery. Bye!

A google a day keep you searching for days.

This week for cybersmart, we started to use the filters when you are searching by the teacher giving us the question. We had to use the filters to find out the answer. The main question was to find out the amphibious invention that was made. For an example a vehicle, if it can travel from land and water it is called an amphibious. The answer was an amphibious bicycle, it also turned out that the amphibious bicycle is not used very much now. We also learned to shorten our questions and make them on point.

This is what I found out:

• It was man-powered
• Capable of both land and water.
• It uses air-filled floats.
• It can fit a backpack.
• Its speed is about 1.2

The pH Scale Quiz!

This week in science we were given a quiz about the pH Scale. I teamed up with Lars and we worked together during the quiz. Some of the questions were hard to answer but we were allowed to search up the questions to get the answer. It was a fun quiz to do and I have learned lots of things I haven't known before. I believe that Lars and I did pretty good, during the quiz. But the other questions were too hard for us, although Axle helped us at some of the questions. The answers are made bold and they have brackets around them. But anyways here is the quiz!

Task 1

Complete the quiz below

Neutral solutions have a pH of  (7)

What colour represents neutral on the pH scale (Green)

What is the range covered by the pH scale (0-14)

pH is a measure of (Hydrogen  ions) Oxygen Hydrogen Hydroxide

Acids and bases can combine to create water and salts (True)

Which is not a property of a base Sour taste Bitter taste Slippery (Sour taste)

There are a variety of strengths of acids and bases True False (True)

Vinegar is an example of a Strong base Strong Acid Weak Acid (Weak acid)

An acid’s pH is between (0-14)

What is true when acids and bases neutralize each other; (They react to neutralize then the  acid and base properties will produce a salt.)

Water is produced Salt is produced Both water and salt are produced (Salt)

Does baking soda have a pH of 9? Explain your answer (“Yes” it have a pH of 9, making it a mildly alkaline substance.) _________________________________________________________________________________