- Pour 1 one cup of milk into a pot or microwaveable container
- Heat the milk in the microwave or on the stove until steaming
- Add 4 teaspoons of vinegar into a mug
- add the hot milk into the mug with the vinegar
- stir the mixture with a spoon
- stack 4 layers of paper towels on a safe surface to get damp
- scoop out the curds with a spoon and place them on the paper towels
- Fold the paper towels over the curds and press down to absorb the excess liquid
- knead all the curds together into a ball of dough
- colour , shape and mold the dough as you like
- you can colour the dough with food colouring
- you can add glitter to make your dough sparkle
- you can use cookie cutters to shape your dough
- or you can sculpt it with your hands
I am a Year 7 student in the Uru Mānuka Cluster. This is a place where I will share my learning. Please note that some of it will not be complete, it will be my first drafts. Remember to be positive, thoughtful and helpful when you leave me a comment.
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Milk Plastic
Thursday, June 24, 2021
Rainbow paper
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Aim :To separate colours by using the process of chromatography
Definition :Chromatography is a method of separating out materials from a mixture using liquid
Materials:
1.Boiling tube
2.Filter Paper
3.Water based felt
4.Water
5.Scissors
6.Test Tube stand
7. Ruler
8. pencil
Process :
- Cut your piece of paper with scissors
- Rule a line 1 cm from the bottom of the paper strip
- Put 8 ml of water in boiling tube
- Draw 2 colored pen dots on the line
- Drop the paper strip into the boiling and once it is touching the water at the bottom you can crease the top of the paper over
- Watch and take two photos then observe the chromatography
- the tendency of a liquid in a capillary tube or absorbent material to rise or fall as a result of surface tension.
- a piece of porous paper for filtering liquids, used especially in chemical processes and coffee-making.
Thursday, June 10, 2021
Gummy Bears Osmosis
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Aim :
To find out what happens to gummy bears when we put them in different liquids
Predictions :
I think that the gummy bears will grow in the liquids
Method :
Equipment
- Three solutions - water sugar and salt
- 4 gummy bears of the same colour
- 2 Petri dishes
- Marker pen
- Electronic balance
- Measuring cylinder
- Beaker
- Get your equipment
- Label Petri Dishes DRY ,WATER ,SALT WATER ,SUGAR WATER
- Weigh the gummy bears and record their weight on the Petri dish
- Add 40mls of solution to the Petri dishes
Solvent | dry | Wet | Weight changed |
Dry | 2.45 | 2.32 | Down |
Sugar water | 2.36 | 2.91 | Up |
Salt water | 2.35 | 2.74 | Up |
Friday, June 4, 2021
Hand on fire !
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AIM : To safely light my hands of fire ,
4 thing you need to safely do this activity
- Keeping your hands up high , not low
- Goggles
- Keeping your hair back
- listening to the teacher
- Detergent
- Safety glasses
- Lighter
- Gas
- Tray
- Hose
- Collect your equipment
- Put some water in the tray
- Squirt some detergent
- Put on some safety glasses
- Tie any hair back
- Take off any jewelry
- Wet your hands wrists and arms
- Bubble the gas into the water
- Scoop the bubbles but not the water
- Hold the bubbles in front of your face with your arms locked