puppets

today me and ashton  Nathan and Sahara made a puppet show and it got filmed  by miss tozer i do not no why we had to do it with puppets we could have just done the play ourselves not with puppets the play was about healthy food do not eat to much food or you will be fat and get diabetes which is very very very very very very  bad

cooking pasta

in this post i am going to tell you about the history of pasta and the different types of macaroni and give you some facts like pasta was made between 1271 and 1368 pasta was also made in Italy . there is 350 shapes of pasta the average Italian eats 60 kg of pasta a year and most people only eat 100 grams at a time . And people used to think that pasta grew on trees . There is a world pasta day which is October 25 . Most dried pasta only needs 2 ingredients . Italy make 1700 000 and 3 300 000 tons per year . Barrila is the most popular pasta worldwide the first pasta factory in the U.S was in Brooklyn there are 600 types of pasta with 1300 names . If pasta is cooked perfectly it would stick to a wall if you through it , Italy exports 1,7 million tons a year you can feed pasta to dogs and cats

voting on rubbish

ts tz bh and sh voted on what the rubbish sculpture we want and we choose a endangered native animal you could choose from a big H or a native animal or something else i can not remember i wanted the native animal because it s native to new Zealand someone wanted a dolphin it is where it is smart to have big H it represents Hornby high school

cleaning up the school

I cleaned up the school with Jesse and Daniel from TZ  helped me with this mission of cleaning up the field

drama drama drama

on Tuesday we did some work on our freeze frames we did a lot of work

mars rover

Mars

How to get to Mars

Aim: To design and build a Mars Rover using  Lego Technics.

1. Rover facts
2. Design and make draw Rover
3. Mars facts

Research links:
Mission to Mars - NASA
Mars rover view

Information about Rovers 5 parts

1. Rover facts

Why do we have each of the parts?

Fill in the table below.

Name:	Purpose:
Wheels	to move
Solar Panel	the battreie
Laser	to scan
Camera	to film
Shovel, rock pick,drill	to drill mars

Mars Rover details:

2. Make a Mars Rover that has the following:

• 6 wheels
• 1 camera
• 1 shovel, rock pick, at the front
• 1 solar panel
• 1 laser that points at the ground

 ( Upload a photo of your mars rover onto your blog.)

3. Mars Facts

You will need to find out the following:

Fact	Earth	Mars
Picture of planet
Length of 1 year	365 days
Length of 1 day	24 hours
Distance from the sun	far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far far away
Distance from Earth.	far
Gravity:	crap
Colour:	red
Temperature	-88 to 57 C
Rainfall	not a lot
Atmosphere
Surface
Moons and names

Extra for experts
Draw your mars rover. Clearly label each part.

The drawing must be neat, clearly labelled, and coloured.
Upload a picture of your drawing onto your blog.

white powder forensics

What is that white powder?

Today you will be a forensic chemist. 

A bag of white powder has been confiscated by the airport customs.  You need to find out what white powder it is?

Aim: To learn about the makeup of different white powders.

There are  a number of different white powders in our everyday life. Some of these are harmful and others are not. Test the four white powders listed to see which one has been found at the airport.

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour, Cornflour, Sugar, Salt, Baking Soda, Baking Powder, Icing Sugar, Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid, Gluten Free flour

You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. On the black cardboard using a magnifying glass look at the powders.

Look at them under your magnifying glass and record what you see. 

These are the four powders we will be using. Upload a photo of each powder. 

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4.  Sugar 

Before you add the iodine, vinegar or water you will need to divide each powder into 3.

Materials

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Findings:

the sugar and the salt look different

	Sugar	Salt	Baking Soda	Cornflour
Appearance	white	white	crumble	a mountain
Texture	hard	sharp	crumble	crubmle
Smell	plain	salty	like dentist office	plain no smell
Iodine	black	spread	orange	the same
Water	black	nothing	silver	soaked in
Vinegar	darker	spread	black	nothing

Write a paragraph about your findings.

Making Sherbet

Once you have completed your blog and cleaned up all your equipment you can make sherbet.

Using the following recipe you can make sherbet.

Sherbet recipe

Recipe: 

1 tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/2 tsp icing sugar
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.

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Findings:

Sherbet
Taste
Colour