Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff - Eels

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For the last few days we have been creating DLO's from the book Uncle Don Knows Heaps of Wacky Stuff. There is a lot of things we can research about that is on the book, and each week/day we got to read from specific pages. For yesterday and today we got to read from pages to 11-16 and see what we can research about, the one that caught my eyes were long finned eels, or just eels specifically. I can tell you the other pages are better because they have even more of items/things I can research about. 

 Here is my DLO that I created. 

(Zoom in, to read the DLO)

Reflection: 

What I thought about this was it was pretty fun because I thought that I found a bit more that interests me. What I didn't enjoy is the fact I only had 1 hour to work on this because of ESOL, but overall I think I did a lot better than I would most of the times. 

What about you? Do you know any other facts about long finned eels, or eels by itself? 

Drama

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I have had two terms of drama in this year and term 3 drama is one of my favourite one because the teacher got us to play lots of games, do a mini script play and watch videos. And we also got to talk about theatre style/genres. Something that I found challenging was trying to remember all the style/genres that we were supposed to learn, I also found some games challenging because some I didn't knew but some I did.

The games we played:

• JFK
• Wink murderer
• Blindman
• YOU
• Hide n seek 

What theatre style/genre did you learn about?

I'm not sure what I learnt about but the one I enjoyed was definitely Comedy, because it's the most entertaining one that I found, it wasn't funny but I did get a couple of giggles. 

Making Hokey Pokey

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This week we will be making hokey pokey, but we will unfortunately make it on Friday just because we are making this blog post today. The reason we won't do it today is because when we make the hokey pokey, we won't have enough time to make this blog post on the same day we try to make the hokey pokey. 

Aim:

I want to find out how to make hokey pokey. 

Research: 

Find three videos: Funny, How to make Hokey pokey and science of Hokey Pokey. 

How to make Hokey Pokey:

Science of Hokey Pokey (basically how to make it but it has some scientific stuff): 

Funny Version: 

Method:

Equipment:

• Pot
• 5 tablespoons of Sugar
• 2 tabelspoons of Golden Syrup 
• 1 tablespoon of Baking Powder (Sodium Bicarbonate, Sodium Hydrogen Carbonate)
• Wooden Spoon for mixing 
• Stove or Bunsen burner 
• Baking paper 

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment ready and gather them in one spot 
2. Set up your Bunsen Burner  (Yellow Safety)
3. Put your pot on the Bunsen Burner on the tripod and use the blue flame
4. Add the sugar and golden syrup to the pot.
5.  Mix with the wooden spoon
6. Stop mixing and turn of the Bunsen when the sugar begins to boil 
7. Add the Baking Powder and mix
8. Pour the mixture onto the baking paper
9. Let it cool 

Results:

What is a base

An acid is a liquid that had Hydrogen atom that can react.

For example:

• Nitric Acid               HNO3
• Sulfuric Acid            H2SO4
• Hydrochloric Acid    HCI 

A base is the opposite of an acid and has OH (Hydroxide) that can react. 

When an acid and a base react, they NEUTRALISE (cancel out) each other. 

Where do you find acids?

1. Oven CLeaner
2. Caustic Soda
3. Drainers 
4. Toothpaste 

Litmus colour 

• Red 
• Blue

Willow Trees

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Last week we have been working on Flora and Fauna. We read a book that has some things that we can research about, the one that caught my eye was about Willow Trees, I did that one because I found it the most interesting of how when you pour poison in it, it won't harm any animals or plant, instead they will continue sheltering the fishes and other creatures until other plants takes its place. And I'm also not really into plants. 

We had to create a DLO for this but trying out different apps such as: Canva, Biteable, Powtoon and such and such, because a lot of people would usually use Google drawing or google slides. 

Reflection:

I enjoyed researching about Willow Trees, because I'm not really a huge fan of plants. What I found something different from using Canva is I can't really edit much unless I use the templates they provide because I'm not used to other apps besides Google drawings or Google Slides. 

What is an Acid?

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Aim:

Names of acid:

• \Hydrochloric Acid 
• Sulfuric Acid 
• Nitric Acid  

Formulae of Acids:

• HCl
• H2SO4
• HNO3

Where do you find acids?

• Plaque Acid on your teeth
• Stomach Acid if Hydrochloric Acid
• Battery Acid is Sulfuric Acid
• Lemons and Oranged have Citric Acid
• Vinegar contains Acid 
• Bee-Stings have Formic Acid
• Coca-Cola has Carbonic Acid 

What is an Acid?

• An acid contains Hydrogen atoms that break off to react with a substance. 

Litmus Colour:

Litmus Paper changes colour in acid, it changes to a RED colour. 

Red Cabbage Indicator

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Aim: 

I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid. 

Method:

Equipment 

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage
• Hot water 
• Dropper 
• Test Tubes 
• Different samples for testing 

Instruction:

1. Get your equipment
2. Rip the cabbage into small pieces and put them into the beaker 
3. Add about 100mL of hot water into the beaker
4. Let it sit for 10-15 minutes
5. Get 2 test tubes and put both the hydrochloric acid and the Hydroxide along with the red cabbage water. (It should turn pink or bright green/yellow)

Results:

Message in a bottle

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Yesterday we have been set a task to, write about A message in a bottle, the stuff we had to do were: Where has the bottle been found? Who found it? Who wrote the letter? Why was the letter written? What does the letter say? It wasn't easy for me because I couldn't come up with an idea of how to start the story. Here is the story I made. 

Making Sherbet

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Today in science we are going to be making sherbet, we were supposed to do something else but we missed almost 3 weeks of class. 

Aim:

I want to learn how to make sherbet.

Here is a video of how to make sherbet: 

 Method:

Equipment

• Icing sugar and Raro
• Cup or any other sort of container
• Citric Acid or Tartaric Acid
• Baking powder
• Popsicle stick 
• Teaspoon 

Instructions:

1. Get all of your equipment ready 
2. Add one teaspoon of sugar/raro to the cup
3. Add half a teaspoon of acid to the cup
4. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder to the cup
5. Mix with the stick
6. Taste the sherbet and adjust the flavour 

Results:

What happened in the cup? Nothing happened in the cup, but it did turn pink because of the raro.

What happens in your mouth? My mouth starts sizzling and it felt foamy in my mouth.

The scientific word for fizzing is effervescence.

 

Activity 5

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I have been looking at different activities/tasks and one caught my eye, it was to interview everyone in your family what their favourite place in the country is. I also put why they like that country in a small sentence. 

Here it is! 

Make sure to comment down below what your favourite country would be! And mostly stay safe!! <3