Digestive system

This term we have been learning about the digestive system
What is the journey that the food has to go through in the digestive system.

Mouth - The mouth releases saliva to help break down food in your mouth
Oesophagus - the oesophagus takes the food down to the stomach
Stomach - the stomach has a lining of mucus so then it doesn't digest itself.

Hermes (English)

Hermes was the fastest god but he was considered the messenger for the Olympic gods. 

Choose a Greek god & Name- Hermes

What are they a god/titan of? Hermes was one of the 12 Olympian Gods and was god of trade, thieves, travelers, sports, athletes, and border crossings, guide to the Underworld. He was the second youngest Olympian god

How were they created/born?  Who were their parents? Hermes was the son of Zeus and Maia, one of the seven Pleiades and daughter of the Titan Atlas. 

Three interesting facts that he did in his life 
Messenger

As the primary messenger of the gods, especially Zeus, Hermes shows up in many tales of Greek mythology. Both Hermes' speed and his skills as a speaker made him an excellent messenger. Hermes would carry commands from Zeus to other gods and creatures such as when he told the nymph Calypso to set Odysseus free in Homer's Odyssey. Hermes gained his speed from his winged sandals which allowed him to fly like a bird and move like the wind. 

Inventor 

Because Hermes was clever, he was often considered the god of invention. He is credited with a number of inventions including the Greek alphabet, numbers, music, boxing, gymnastics, astronomy

Trickster 

From his first act of stealing Apollo's cattle, Hermes became known as the god of thieves and trickery. In many tales, he doesn't use strength to win battles, but cunning and guile. Whenever Zeus needed something, or someone, retrieved, he would send the trickster Hermes. Zeus sent him to steal the sinews of Zeus back from the monster Typhon. Hermes also helped the god Ares to secretly escape from the Aloadai giants. 

Sherbet

On Tuesday in science we made sherbet. It was a fun activity but tricky to. 

Ingredients: Icing sugar, Baking soda, Raro, Citric acid, Tartaric acid, Plastic bag, 

Method: What we did is we set all of the ingredient out on a table and we got out Zip lock bags. What we started with is by putting about 1-2 teaspoon of each of the ingredients and if it was to sour, we put more icing sugar in and if it was to sweet we put more of the acids in. 

Results: It turned out really good but my sherbet was was to sour because i run out of time to balance it. But some of the others was really good.

 

Home Economics (kiwi baker)

This term in Home economics we have been doing the Kiwi baker.  Here are some questions we were given to answer.  

What did you bake?
We made Oreo cookies

What did you like about what you baked?
It tasted very good and it gave some learning experiences. The thing that i liked the most was the sweetness of the food we made and the crunch as well. 

Did you make any changes to the recipe you used?
Yes, We had to add a little more flour do make it in to a dough. 

What were the key skills that you learnt?
Communication because that was important so then we didn't add to much of an ingredient. 

Did you enjoy the kiwi bakers unit? Give some reasons.
Yes i enjoyed it because we got to try some different things and different combinations with the food we baked and we got to work with people that aren't in our form class. 

Science

In Science our new topic is food and digestion. The other day we did an experiment trying to see if there is protein in curtain food.  We had eggs, milk, and butter.

Aim: TO test if a sample of food contains protein

Equipment: Test tube, Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH), Copper sulfate (CuSO), Food sample

Method: WHat we did is we got all of the equipment. Our food samples were Eggs, Milk, Butter. You put a little bit of the sample into the bottom of the test tube ( about 1-2cm in the bottom of it)  and then we put about 3-5 drops of each of the chemicals.  We then shook the test tube gently side to side to let it mix together. If it is positive with protein the liquid will go purple and it will remain blue if there is no protein present in the sample.

Resaults: 
                Milk                                                Egg's                                          Butter

NZ Government

L.O Understand how the New Zealand government is structured and how people can have a say.

In New Zealand there are different types of government. Legislative, Executive, Judaical. Legislative government - Parliament makes the laws.

Executive - Government: Cabinet - Develops and administers laws.

Has the power to make decisions

Judaical - Courts, judges - has the power to interpret laws (what they mean and how they work).

An Interesting fact:

• In 1893 women were granted the vote after a petition with 32,000 signatures was presented to parliament.

This term we have been learning about government. For this we got to choose a different type of government and I chose to do communism in north Korea. This is what I have done and some of the information I have found out. 
  

Eye Dissection

This week in science we have been learning about the different parts of the eye. For an experiment we got to dissect a cows eye.

Aim: TO find out all of the different parts of the eye.

Method: What we did is we got All of the equipment we needed and we had to start by cutting off all of the fat around the outside of the eye.  What we did after that is we cut a small hole in the cornea (small layer over the pupil to protect it) And squeezed out all of this clear liquid.  We found The Retina, and we detached the lens and had a look at that.

The lens focuses the light.
The pupil lets the light in
The iris limits the amount of light that gets let in.


I learnt that when you dissect a cows eye, it looks disgusting and i don't like it at all. but i also learnt different parts of the eye.

Have you don't this before?