Science: Refraction of light

Hello! This last week of Term 2 in Hurumanu 5, we did an experiment about how refraction light works. Refraction light is like where it sorts of zoomed up when in water like for example for the straw. It sort of bends in two when it's viewed in a glass filled with water.

Investigating Refraction - Bending Light

Aim: To investigate how light is affected by changing the substance it is traveling through.

Equipment: Ray box, power source, glass or perspex block, single-slit ray slide.

Method:

1) Collect the equipment from your teacher, and set them up to produce a single beam of light.
2) Place the glass block in the shaded area below
3) PLace the ray box at the top of the page and shine the beam so it travels along the 10° line to the centre of the protractor (this is your angle of incidence, °i).

Results:

Part A: Going from Air to Glass

Angle of Incidence (i°)	Angle of Refraction (r°)
10°	7°
20 °	15°
30°	20°
40°	25°

Part B: Going from Glass to Air

Angle of Incidence (i°)	Angle of Refraction (r°)
10°	8°
20 °	12°
30°	20°
40°	25°

Bye! Have a great day everyone!

Cupcakes - Home Economics (Finale)

Hi! This week in cooking we baked cupcakes. It is our final week before we moved on to the next semester. For those reasons, we are being assessed by cooking on our own as a group to our specific recipe. My group was almost the same as usual but we have another person added to our group. We did the planning on Tuesday on who's gonna do which method. 

We were given a cupcake recipe for my group and for the others I think it was something like Anzac biscuits etc. To be more specific, my group had a Vanilla cupcake with plain frosting. As you probably may or may not know, I've done cupcakes before in Home Economics. The methods were completely the same. Here's a link to my other blog post on how to make it you haven't seen it yet. LINK

In my group, there were 5 people and they are Vann, Lars, Janel, Minseo and myself. Here's a picture of what the methods were:

Here's who's who were doing each method:

Vann - Vanilla Essence, Baking Powder - Method 3 - Method 10

Lars - Butter, Milk - Method 1 - Method 6 - 

Elisha Mae - Sugar - Method 2 - Method 8

Janel - Plain Flour - Method 4 - Method 7 - Method 11

Minseo - Eggs - Method 5 - Method 9 

Vann: Will get the 1 t Vanilla Essence and 2 t Baking Powder. He will also do both methods 3 and 10. 

Lars: Will get the butter and the milk. He will also do both method 1 and 6.

Elisha Mae: Will get the sugar, she will do method 2 and 8.

Janel: Will get the plain flour, she will do methods 4, 7, and 11. She will also help Minseo with the folding. 

Minseo: Will get the eggs and do method 5 as well as method 9 with Janel’s help. 

Estimated time is 30 minutes

In my opinion, honestly, our group was kinda chaotic and unclear. We would sometimes joke around etc
but we could also focus on some stuff. Some people like me were just on the side while others
do most of the work. I was not participating on everything because I'm scared at the fact that I might
get something wrong with the recipe/method. Like I said, I only picked it because I wanna try baking.
However, there are some room of improvement.

In our task, we are also asked to let someone taste the final product and record their comments about it. I gave mine to my mom and this is the rough translation she said. "The texture was a bit crispy but the flavoring is okay". I honestly relate to my mom about it. The texture was indeed crispy-ish. We kinda failed again at the creaming the butter part yet again. It had some lumps on the butter when the egg + vanilla essence.

Maybe it was maybe at the part where we were really unsure what to do with the 2 eggs. We started with one egg and mixed it with the creamed-butter+sugar+vannilla essence. It didn't really work very well and it ended up some lumps and the other egg didn't make a difference either. Well, maybe it made it worse because we beat that other egg instead which is unclever of us.

Maybe next time we'll both beat in the eggs and not just one.

What we could do next time is to ask the teacher if unsure or read carefully the recipe next time. Overall I think it was okay. It turned out okay except for the part where the cupcakes looked like it's a basic muffin instead. But the frosting I think mostly covered it so it doesn't look like it.

Bye have a nice day!~

Poster Facts - Hurumanu 6

Hello! Here's another second activity relating to Heroes and Villain in Power to the People which is Hurumanu 6. This is a second poster about Kim Jong-un but this time we have to pick at least 5 events from our timeline and create a poster about it. Here's mine :)

Here's another poster with no words.

Credits to the rightful owner =)

Bye! Have a nice day

Kim Jong-un Poster - Hurumanu 6

Hi! In Hurumanu 6, we moved on to Activity 2 which is to create a political poster of your chosen villain/heroes from the list. I'm still gonna do Kim Jong-un so here's a political poster about him and a quote underneath as well. I hope you like it.

Cow Eye Dissection - Hurumanu 5

Today in Hurumanu 5 last week, we began learning all about the parts of the eye. Such as Iris, Pupil, Cornea, Lens, Optic Nerve, and Retina. Today, we did an experiment and that is to the direction of Cow's eye.

Aim: Dissect a Cow's eye.

Equipment:

- Cow's preserved Eye

- Dissecting scissors 

- Gloves (optional)

- Newspaper

- Twicers

Before doing the experiment, you might wanna wear some gloves but that's totally optional. Also, make sure to put a newspaper across the table so it would not make a mess on the table.

Method:

1) Then we take a preserve cow's eye. Get your dissecting scissors and cut off any exes fat around the Cow's eye. 

2) Poke the corner of the eye and proceed to cut the whole Cornea. Be careful because the humour fluid inside would burst out. It should look something like this when you cut it off:

3) Next, emptied the eye and you should soon see the lens. A translucent squishy/sticky thing. If you take out the lens you will see the whole thing inside of the eye.

4) After that, cut off the whole thing in half and you should see some sort of colour blue inside.

Findings:

I and my team find it difficult to puncture the eye because it's squishy and slippery so we had to ask for some help. I find it oddly satisfying while doing the experiment. 

Conclusion:

Overall I think it was an odd experiment. It was sort of disgusting though but yeah it was an odd way of learning from the parts of the eyes visually.

Plot Story - Arts Kete

In Arts Kete, we began to plan the plot of our own story. We also started building up our characters that we are gonna use in our comic stories. In my case, my story is a bit complicated, but here's a brief explanation of my story plot. 

Credits to the rightful owner.

Basically, this is about some fictional character named Chi who is constantly getting bullied for having probably the only person that has glasses. This might seems odd but in her non-existent fictional world, having glasses is considered weird and odd. Devastated she feels, one day she decided to take off her glasses which her parents warned her not to do so because unusual might happen. 

Little did she know, a magical adventure was waiting for her. In this story, it involves a cat and a bear who are some side characters that help her throughout her journey. If you probably might have noticed already, the genre of my story is fantasy, adventure, and fictional. It is also inspired by an amazing anime movie called 'A Whiskey Away'. It's a lovely cute anime film that inspires me. 

Have a lovely day =)

Heroes VS Villains Timeline - Hurumanu 6

In Hurumanu 6, we began learning about different types of leaders that made an impact on history. They could be either Villains or Heroes. We had a bunch of lists to choose from and I chose Kim Jong-un. Kim Jong-un is the current supreme leader dictator of North Korea.

 

He is the successor of his father Kim Jong-il who was a former leader of North Korea. Apparently, I think he is a villain due to the dictatorship type of government they run under North Korean citizens. Anyways, after we research them, we put all the info into a timeline.

Here is my timeline I hope you like it!