WEEK 8 DO NOW - English is the most important subject to learn in school?

Topic : English is the most important subject to learn in school?

In my opinion I do not think that English is the most important subject to learn in school.

A reasoning for my opinion is that although English may be really important for non-fluent English speakers, I still believe that it's not as important as something else. Some students may want to focus on other subjects and some might want to focus on English. I won't really be able to say which is the most important because there are a lot of opinions that can be put in this. But if I were to pick i'd rather learn something else other then English.

Most of us have other passions in life, if you wanna be a maths teacher then maths would be the main thing you focus on and it'll be the most important to you. Some of us may even be able to learn English by ourselves so for some of us English isn't that important. For all of us it's very different because we all wanna achieve SOMETHING aka a goal.

My ending opinion is that I do not think that it is the MOST important subject.

Evaporation

Evaporating 

Condensation 

Distillation 

States of matter :

Solid 

Liquid 

Gas

What is Evaporation?

Evaporation is changing from a liquid to a gas, we do this by heating the liquid up.

As an example, you may notice that when you heat up your kettle with water it gives off a lot of smoke. That's the process of evaporating.

Condensation 

Condensation happens when you cool a liquid down, so it  is the exact opposite of evaporation. If you see this process it may look like shower fog!

Distillation

Separating a solution by using evaporating and using condensation after.

AIM : Use distillation to separate out the dissolved sugars in the coke/ coke zero/diet, from the liquid.

Hypothesis :

I think all of the sugars are gonna be taken out and the colour of the coke after will be very light brown, almost see through.

Results - Once the coke started boiling it started to form bubbles everywhere, this is when I think it started the evaporation process. As time went by the liquid started turning into a sludgy form which I think was the sugar. The condensing process was the gas coming from the liquid, the gas soon after turned into a liquid. After the experiment was finished the liquid hardened, some other people that did this experiment got different results since we used two different coke types. Coke Zero looked less dark and the classic coke was very dark.

My 5 Policies.

• Helping people who are living in poverty. - Poverty is happening all around the world, even to young children and their families. It is definitely important to help these people get back on their feet and start a much better life. For students that go to school and don't have money to afford lunch, I think that they should be proided free lunch to take home an to eat inside of school. This can help a lot of families that're suffering during these times.   
• Schools should consider giving students the option to wear mufti every-once a week. - You might be asking "Why?" this is because, if you ask most students in schools a majority of them would want to wear mufti every now and the. Some reasons they may give are "It's comfortable!" "You can be yourself while wearing your clothes!" etc.
• People should be able to vote at the age of 16. - Most adults think that "children" under the age of 18 are not smart enough to vote at that age, Well in-fact a lot of these "children" make more common sense and are a lot smarter. A lot of children around the world proved this, an example is Greta Thunberg. Although she is 18 now, when she first started (She was 15) she'd already noticed a lot of problems around the world that world leaders didn't bother to. This just proves that knowledge doesn't depend on your age! 
• Implement a national action plan to help eliminate everyday racism and discrimination - A lot of discrimination has been happening for a lot of years and I think that everyone should try there best to stop this. A lot of people have died due to this issue. People have even started BLM and Stop Asian hate but these shouldn't even exist! If only the world didn't differentiate someone because of their colour these movements won't need to happen.
• Banning vaping/smoking until the age of 20. - I think it should be illegal to vape/smoke (Until your 20) because it ruins young peoples minds and especially their lungs when it has nicotine. Kids should have the right to live their childhood rather then already vaping/smoking at a young age! Vaping is a unnecessary part of a young persons life and can ruin their future. If any children are found vaping/smoking their vapes/cigarettes should be confiscated immediately.  

Chromatography.

What is Chromatography? 

It is a method in a laboratory for separating a mixture. 

What are pigments? 

Pigments are small particles that can appear in certain colours because it can absorb different wavelengths of light.

Aim :  To separate the different pigments from ink using chromatography

Hypothesis : I think that the paper is gonna change overtime and  it will turn into the colour of the selected marker. It should slowly fade as the water keeps rising up.

Method :

1- Draw a line across the filter paper in pencil, 5cm from the bottom.

2- Draw a coloured dot in the centre of the line.

3- Measure out 10mL of water and place in the test tube.

4- Place the filter paper in the test tube and fold over the side. MAKE SURE THE PENCIL LINE/ DOT IS NOT IN THE WATER.

5- Wait for 5 minutes and observe the results

After results : What happened was it did turn into blue which was the marker me and my friend chose to do. Some parts of the paper were bright with the colour and some parts only had a faint bit of blue.

Mother Teresa.

Mother Teresa.

By : Faye Ordonez

Aim : To understand the life and achievements of Mother Teresa.

 Kia Ora! In today’s post I will be talking about Mother Teresa, a woman who created change for a better world and did many great deeds.

Mother Tereasa’s original name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. You might be asking why she’s called “Mother Teresa '' when her name is completely different from that. Well to answer your question, When she had joined the Sisters of Loreto order, she was given the name “Sister Teresa” after the name of Saint Thérèse de Lisieux. She became Mother Teresa after she said her final vows.

Mother Teresa is a nun. A common definition of a nun is that most nuns live together and devote their entire lives to serving god. This means that they don’t have the things we usually take for granted. Nuns give up all their possessions and can never get married because they must be focused on serving God and their communities. At the age of 18 Agnes (Mother Teresa) travelled to Ireland to become a nun and join the Sisters Loreto Order.

A convent in Ireland commissioned Sister Teresa to India to work as a missionary. She had wanted to become a teacher so she decided to begin working at St. Mary’s High School for girls.

During her time there she learned Bangali and Hindi to be able to teach/work at that school.

As a teacher, she had hoped to help educate girls so that they wouldn’t have to live in poverty and possibly eliminate poverty one day. 

In my opinion education can help people get rid of poverty because if they can earn more knowledge they can get a lot of different better paying jobs.

On 26th September 1946, Mother Teresa was riding a train. This is when she got the “Call from God”. During the train ride she said that god told her to leave the school and work with the poor, this is what she had said she did. Mother Teresa needed permission to be able to leave the convent and the school because of the vows she had made in the past. So she had to spend 1 year and half more until she finally got permission to leave so that she could fulfil her calling in 1948. She decided to change her clothes to blue and white, which is what she's famously known for.

Later in her life she received a lot of awards and prizes for her amazing achievements and even won the Nobel peace prize. Although she decided to decline the banquet. Why, you ask? This is because she said that she preferred it to be given to the people who need it more. This tells a lot about her as a person, she has shown that she really did care and that she doesn't need to get paid for her deeds she is just happy to help the people. 

From these past statements I can tell that Mother Teresa was a very lovely and caring person.

Another thing that Mother Teresa was a part of was the Missionaries of Charity. When they first started this organisation it only had 12 members but nowadays it reaches over 4,500 members. This organisation runs AIDS nursing homes, and cares for refugees, the blind, disabled, aged, alcoholics, the poor and homeless victims of floods, epidemics and famine.

Unfortunately, Mother Teresa passed away at the age of 87 on the 5th of September, 1997. Many people around the world were devastated because of this news. 

Mother Teresa will be remembered as an amazing person who changed the world in may different aspects, she will be remembered as a hero to many. I believe that her purpose in life was to help all the other people that need help and aren’t getting enough attention from the government. Thank you for reading this research of mine, I hope you learned new things about Mother Teresa that you may not have known about!

Is your name important part of who you are?

Topic : Your name is an important part of who you are.

I agree with the statement given above.

My reasons for agreeing are, names are important because it can differentiate you from other people and you've had it since birth! It helps others know you to are. Names are important because it was a name give to you by your parents or perhaps it was a name given to you by yourself? Some names are really rare and can make you unique! Its an easy way for people to remember who you are!

For example if you didn't have a name it could be really hard because people might just call you "Hey you" "Hello random person". If no one had a name it would be really hard to differentiate people from others, you'd have to describe them. Which can be hard because a lot of people has the same features as another person. Perhaps if a friend forgot who you are, maybe your name could ring a bell to them!

Therefore I agree that your name is a VERY important part of who you are as a person.

Physical Fitness

Physical fitness refers to the capacity of an athlete to meet the varied physical demands of their sport without reducing the athlete to a fatigued state. The components of physical fitness are (Davis 2000) :

Body Composition 

Endurance 

Flexibility 

Strength

Speed

Sir Edmund Hillary Research/Essay

Sir Edmund Hillary Research

By : Faye Ordonez

Starting our paragraph off I will be talking about his life before fame. Edmund Hillary was Born in Auckland, New Zealand on July 20, 1919. Unfortunately he died on 2008, 11th of January at the age of 88 years old. June Hillary and Rex Hillary were Edmund Hillary's two siblings. Percival Augustus Hillary (Dad) and Gertrude Hillary (Mum) were his parents. Percival Augustus Hillary’s occupation was beekeeping, Gertrude Hillary's occupation was teaching kids (She was a teacher). With his brother Rex, Edmund pursued beekeeping like his dad but soon went to work as an air force navigator during world war II, but soon became interested in mountaineering (Which led him to becoming the first person to fully climb Mt. Everest). He chose to climb Mt. Everest because it is his passion and he loved to explore places, he also liked to have a little bit of a challenge every now and then. Unfortunately a few years after climbing Mt. Everest, Edmund and his wife had three beautiful children but both the wife and daughter of Edmund Hillary passed away due to a light aircraft crash accident. 

As we already know Sir Edmund Hillary was known for his incredible achievement which was climbing Mt. Everest, in this paragraph we will be learning about how he succeeded in his goal and journey of becoming a world famous person! Sir Edmund Hillary's passion was Mountaineering, he even climbed many more Mountains considered to be tall! As people should already know, Edmund Hillary was with Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing and were the first people to climb Mt. Everest. In fact Mt. Everest is 29,035ft, it is unimaginable that someone from a small country managed to climb everest! Most mountaineers take about 2 months to climb Everest, so it’s a pretty long journey and a hard one considering the conditions up there. Research shows that it took Edmund Hillary 5 months to finish his expedition on climbing the mountain, although it did take him awhile but he still managed to complete his goal! He faced many challenges along the way to get to the top including the 40 foot rock wall that is now called the ‘Hillary's Step’. Because the air was too thin, they had to go back and tell others about their amazing achievement. In Fact Hillary wrote books about his many accomplishments/journeys traveling and exploring the world.

Moving on, we will be talking about what he did after his adventure/expedition to get to the top of Everest. After he climbed Mt. Everest, he continued his passion of climbing many more tall and challenging mountains ( Which probably wasn’t as challenging as Mt. Everest ). As we know Sir Edmund Hillary has become very famous, in fact so famous that even the Queen noticed him! Soon after his achievement the Queen decided to knight him, This gave him the title of ‘Sir’. This is why most people write Sir Edmund Hillary rather than Edmund Hillary. It is clear to tell that New Zealand really appreciated what Sir Edmund Hillary did because they even put him on the 5$ note! He also got a Padma Vibhushan medal, Hubbard medal and Patron’s Gold medal. As you can tell from my research, he got a lot of attention/rewards for climbing this Mountain. In my opinion it was definitely worth it, he not only got recognition/rewards he got respect from New Zealanders and many more people around the world that support him! Although he died his legendary expedition will continue to live on.

I hope you learned a lot of interesting facts from my research, who do you think is the most inspirational New Zealander?

The Principle is the most important person in the school?

Kia Ora! In today's lesson we were given a topic to write about, Here is our topic :

The Principal is the most important person in the school?

I disagree with this statement.

In my opinion the Principal isn't necessarily the most important person because I think everyone in the school has equal roles and is as important as the school principal. Although, yes school principal's are important because they make a lot of decisions that make the school better for us students but... If students didn't attend school, the school would be useless and it would be nothing. If there weren't any teachers no one would learn anything! If it weren't for the cooks we wouldn't have free food. This is why I think everyone in the school has their own special role.

If someone were to tell you that another person was more important then you, what would you think about it? I'm sure you'd think about many reasons on why you think your as important as them or even better! An example is that, a company wouldn't be anything without their costumers and employees.

Therefore, I disagree with the statement due to the reasoning's above this text. 

Shark infested Custard.

Kia Ora! Today in health we played a game called Shark Infested Custard! It was really fun playing it with my classmates! 

The IP skill I picked was active listening and communication! Some warm fuzzies I used were "you can do it!" "Nice!". 

Using the IP skills I chose today helped because we all listened to each other and communicated so that we knew what to do, although we didn't finish in first place the IP skills still helped us finish in 2nth place! We all told our opinions and told each other what to do so that we could succeed.

The people I worked with were Kristille, Leo, Sereybuth, Travis, Hamid and Chelsea. I enjoyed working in this team because all of us were kind and encouraging to one another and no one got mad even though we lost!

If I were to do it again I would change the way we played, as an example I would put the hoops a bit more farther so that we could go faster and possibly win!

Again I think I work on Hellisons level 3 because I think that I worked well with my team and didn't get stressed even if we lost! We learned some new skills by communicating and listening to each other. 

Concentration & Dilution

Kia Ora! in today's lesson in BIO we will be learning about concentration & dilution. Concentrations means, measure of how much solute has been dissolved in the solvent. Dilution means Making something less concentrated (weaker), there will be less particles in the liquid. We will be able to measure it in two ways,  How dilute something is (how weak it is), how concentrated something is (how stronger it is). 

Today's experiment will be about Serial Dilution. (Serial Dilution - Diluting something multiple times.) We will be doing this experiment five times.

Aim : Cary out a Serial Dilution with Potassium Permanganate.

Hypothesis : I think that all the waters inside the tube will turn into different colours because of the dilution?

Method :

Observation :

As expected all of the colours turned into a different colour which was different shades of purple, as we dropped more to the other test tubes it got lighter and lighter and more dilute. Test tube 1 was a lot more concentrated because it had more particles and text tube 5 was the most dilute because it had less particles.

Filtration Experiment.

Hello readers! In today's blog we will be doing a little science experiment  about filtering in bio, we will also be learning about this and possibly researching about it! Some of the things we might do are recording the data on our blog and put the things we've learned in during and after the experiment.

Filtering - Filtering is separating different sized particles in a mixture (Filtering things based on their size)

Not everything can be filtered ( If the particles are the same size you cant separate them) It only works if 2 particles are different sizes.

Today's experiment/goal will be, to make a mixture and separate it. The 2 liquids listed below will be the things we are using/filtrating today.

Equipment -

Copper Sulfate -

Light blue

Liquid

Transparent

Sodium Carbonate -

Colourless

Liquid

Translucent 

Hypothesis - In my opinion I think the 2 liquids will not be able to get separated because they're both liquids, usually you can't separate liquids together because it is insoluble since they are the same size. Although, both liquids might turn blue due to the colour of the other liquid.

Aim: To Separate a solution from a precipitate (precipitate is the name for a solid that forms in a liquid during a chemical reaction).

Method: 

1. Pour approximately 50mL of copper sulfate solution into a beaker.

2. Add the same volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate. 

3. Watch demo then fold filter paper to fit inside the funnel

4. Place the funnel with the filter paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask. 

5. Stir the mixture in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel. 

6. Observe what happened.

Observation -

The first thing we did was mixing the 2 liquids together with a clear mixing tool, as we stirred it faster and faster it turned foggy blue. It didn't look very clear anymore. After we've mixed it, we soon put it through the filtrating paper to see how it would react. The colours ended up changing into a clear liquid mixture, so the two other liquids were put mixed in with each other and was able to make that type of mixture. The ending mixture turned into copper carbonate.

Copper carbonate -

Blue sludge ( Precipitate ) 

Sodium Sulfate - clear liquid