What is NFT?

This is what I learnt about Cryptocurrency for the past few weeks of our passion project. 

ESOL - Reflection Term 3

This term in my ESOL class, we have done lots of different work such as essays, reading test blogs and many more. The work I enjoyed the most was reading a written text and answering it. I liked it because it was about ice creams and ice cream are my favourite desserts, I learnt the history, taste and what it looked like when it was invented. I was proud at my work because I had a chance to learn the history of ice creams and improved my reading skills. The thing I could do better next term is to read more text or book that I like or passionate about so I can improve my reading to the next level.

Passion Projects - Cryptocurrency

 Last week we started on our Passion Projects, the passion project I choose is Cryptocurrency  because I wanted to learn how to invest and earn money. On our first period we learnt what cryptocurrency means, cyrpto wallet, block chain and what is Bitcoin. Also Mr. Stock told us that he will teach us how to make a crypto wallet so we can store our online money if we start making money, i'm really looking forward to learn the basics of cryptocurrency so I can start making money in the future.

Rubbish in Otautahi

 We should work on improving how we are using our bins, we should reduce what goes to our red bins and balance the other two bins. We should put recyclable plastics like plastic bottles to the right bin because when it gets into the ocean marine animals mistaken it as a food and they end up dying, plastics take about 500-600 years to break down and it also has chemicals in it. 

Researchers proven that whales, fish and other marine life that ending up to shore are cause by litter, about 8.3 million tons of rubbish are discarded in the sea yearly, also every square kilometre has more than 4 billions of microfibers. Microfibers are so small that it can even fit in fish scales.

News Article - Eastern Pacific Problem

Hi, Today in our social studies we are writing  news article outlining the problem in the Eastern Pacific Ocean.  

The problem in Eastern Pacific is debris trapped in the Great pacific Garbage Patch and it is harmful to the marine life. It is harmful to the marine life because when marine animals think it's a food they will eat it and plastics take about 500+ years to breakdown, it will stay in their stomach and make them suffer until they die, also plastics contain chemicals.

Plastics dump are becoming more and more problem, lots of whales are and getting end up on shores with full of plastics in their body. Whale  when they go up to the fertilises phytoplankton when they go sea surface, phytoplankton are very important because it absorbs carbon dioxide and tuns it into oxygen, also it's 4x more than Amazon Rain forest can produce.

How do the plastics get trapped in the Pacific garbage path?

Plastics litter get through the water ways and getting end up to the ocean, then gets through the ocean current and that leads to the garbage patch.

Action	Cause	Effect
Daily use of Plastic	Plastic stacking up	Waste and can bring problem to the environment.
Littering	People are to lazy, bins too far away.	Rubbish getting through the water ways and ending up to the ocean.
Tons of rubbish going into the oceans	Not a lot of bins around.	Animals dying, because they think its a food.
Companies selling zero-waste products
Provide an example of GOVERNMENT CONTROL Banning plastics bags  More rubbish bins around		Less problem for the environment and less animals dying.

Lime Water Test / Unfinished Work

Testing for Carbon Dioxide Gas

Aim: To shows that carbon dioxide gas is produced when when a metal carbonate reacts with acid.

Equipment: Two boiling tube, delivery tube and bung, Bunsen burner, test tube rack, wooden splint, a bottle of acid, small amount of metal carbonate, test tube tongs, safety glasses.

Method: 

1. Light your Bunsen burner.

2. Add a 'pea-sized' amount of the metal carbonate into one of the boiling tubes.

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Testing for the Presence of Oxygen

 Aim: To carry out a test for the presence of oxygen gas.

Equipment: A pea-sized amount of manganese dioxide, boiling tube, bottle of hydrogen peroxide, safety glasses, wooden splint, Bunsen burner and a test tube rack.

Method:

1.  Light your Bunsen burner.

2.  Add the manganese dioxide to the boiling tube and place it in your test tube rack.

3.  Add 2ml of hydrogen peroxide.

4. Light  a splint and let it burn for a while.

5. Blow the splint out and insert the glowing embers into the mouth of the boiling tube.

Observation: When we inserted the splint embers into the boiling tube it re-light the splint. It re-light because there was oxygen being produced by hydrogen peroxide and manganese peroxide.