Rot Ya Teeth!

For a few weeks now, our class has been doing Science. We've been learning about "Fair-testing". Fair-testing is where you have an experiment and when you fair-test it, you're keeping everything fair, keep it equal. But then we did Variables. A Variable is something you change or you vary. Our group (Mikaela, Felix and I) and every group had to make six variables up.

Our group was doing the experiment "Rot Ya Teeth". We used egg shells as teeth and got different types of fizzy drink: Cola, No sugar Cola, Lemonade, No Sugar Lemonade.

But before we made the experiment, we had to had to make 3 things we could measure of the end result. Out of the things we could measure, we chose how rotten/dark the egg shell had gotten in colour. Out of our six variables, we chose to change the types of drinks.

After we started our experiment, we left our cups of eggs in fizzy up in the windowsill for a week. When we got them down after the week we made a science board. Every group had to make one about they're experiments. We had to put all the information in, graphs or diagrams, all the variables and measurements. It took days, but on the day of the science fair, our group finished, and our board looks great.

The results were, cola was the most rot and dark in colour. The next was cola no sugar. Then lemonade, then lemonade no sugar. But lemonade no sugar's drink in the cup turned pee yellow, for some reason I don't know of. The cola's drinks went kinda milky and lost some colour. Lemonade stayed the same.

But before all that, we started small. Miss Wilton gave us little containers and we got to choose our groups. We put water in the containers then went outside and put different amounts of Barroca into the containers. That was when we learnt what a fair-test was. After that we did blood splatter. Miss Wilton made fake blood, and we measured it on the same surface. But we measured how big the splat was using the same amount of blood but from different distances, the different distances was the variable. Then we learnt how to graph our fair-tests. This was all so fun, but then we got into our own experiments, which all the information is in these other paragraphs.

Here are the photos of our science board.

My Mihi! Play and enjoy!

This week, as it is Maori Language Week, Our class was doing our Mihi's on a game called Gamefroot. It gave us a tutorial for a Mihi. It's kind of like coding, but because we had a tutorial, you don't have to do much/any coding, unless your doing the script. Anyway, this is my Mihi. Play it, and enjoy.

Infographic About Wind.

This week, we have been learning about wind and how it works. We had to make an infographic about wind. An infographic is something you make that can involve, pictures, diagrams, symbols, flow charts, numbers and letters to explain something in a fun way.

Wind is air. Hot air and cold air actually. So, when you get hot air, it'll come down for awhile and then rise again, because hot air is less dense than cold air. When the hot air rises it empties a space for the cold air to come. And the cold air will stay because it is more dense. This forms a cycle and makes wind. Then you get sea breezes and land breezes. A sea breeze is: The land will heat up more easily than the sea, so the air will get hot on the land, the the hot air rises. That makes a space for the air off of the sea, that is a sea breeze. It's like a cooling fan on a hot day at the beach. A land breeze is the complete opposite. Land breeze will happen at night. So, the land cools faster than the sea, so when the hot air rises from the sea, the cold air from the land will replace it. That's my understanding of wind.
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Here is my infographic, for a bit I didn't know what to do, so it's not exactly perfect. (You may have to zoom in).