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. 

Trashing our Planet | Social Studies

 Today I am going to make a new blog-post about what we are learning in my social studies. So far we have been learning about the ocean plastic pollution, we looked at Happy broadcast which is a news channel that only has positive news. We watched a few videos about people telling us what is happening in the ocean and we answered some questions about it. 

What does plastic pollution do to our ocean? Plastics are bringing more problems to the ocean and for the marine life, plastics take 500 or more years to break down. Also plastics breakdown to small-tiny pieces called micro-plastics. Micro plastics is bad and dangerous because of the chemicals in it and if it is ingested by a marine animals it can block digestive tracts.

How can we help?/What is something you could do to reduce what goes in your red bins? To reduce what goes in your red bins you should put the right trash in the right bins, recyclable items should go to yellow bin, food compost should go in the green bin and non recyclable or organic goes in the red bin.

Metals and Oxygen

 Last week we did we did another experiment it was about making a metal oxide and Today I will be talking about it.

Aim: To make a metal oxide and observe the difference in properties of the product commpared to the reactants.

Equipment: A piece of magnesium, Bunsen burner, safety glasses and metal scissor tongs.

Method:

1. Light your Bunsen burner.

2. Hold your piece of magnesium in the scissor tongs. Ensure you are holding onto the very tip of the              magnesium.

3.  Place the other end of the magnesium into the Bunsen flame ( at the top of the blue flame).

4.  When the magnesium begins to burn,  do not look directly at it, as the light emitted can permanently           damage your eyes.

Observations: The magnesium got very bright when it was burning and became like a powder/ash when it stopped.

Metal Reaction

 Today in our Science class we did an experiment about metal and how it reacts to acid. 

Equipment:

• Test tube
• Boiling tube
• Piece of Metal / Magnesium
• Acid 
• Wooden splint 
• Bunsen Burner 

The first thing we did was to put 2ml of acid in our test tube, then we dropped a piece of magnesium in the test tube ad covered it with the boiling tube to trap the gas being produced. After a minute we burned our wooden splint and took the boiling tube filled with gas and we sticked the burning splint inside and it pop.

Live Aid | Bob Geldof & Midge Ure

In the 1970's Bob Geldof was a Irish singer-songwritter and political activist and also the lead singer of the Boomtown Rats. Their most famous song was "I don't like Mondays realeased in 1979. Bob Geldof was famous for statating the reason for joining a pop band. Bob Geldof was widely recognised for his activism, especially anti-poverty efforts concerning Africa.

Midge Ure was a  Scottish singer involved in several bands, also he was the the frontman for Ultravox. Together with Bob geldof in 1984 they wrote a song called "Do They don't know it's Christmas". This song was a major success around the world, reaching number one in thirteen other countries outside the UK. 

Why did they write Do they know it's Christmas? They wrote this song to raise charity to provide money for the famine relief and also to fund raise for the Ebola crisis in West Africa.    

Acid Rain Expirement

 What is acid rain?

Acid rain, or acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation with acidic components, such as sulfuric or nitric acid that fall to the ground from the atmosphere in wet or dry forms. This can include rain, snow, fog, hail or even dust that is acidic.

What is our Aim?

Our aim will be to observe effects of Acid Rain.

Hypothesis

Petal, Calcium carbonate, Apple, Universal Indicator, Bromothymol Blue.

Method: 

In a petri dish place items around the edge. Wet dry ingredients with drop of water. in the middle put a weight boat. 

Add a spatula of Sodium sulfate to weight boat, and 5 drops of Sulfuric Acid.

Observation:

The Bromothymol turned yellow, the Universal Indicator turned red, some part of Calcium Carbonate were wet, I'm not sure what happened to the petal and but it kinda turned into a darker colour.

Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon

Today we are learning a song that John Lennon sang to stop the war in Vietnam. A lot people were against this war that people protested to stop the war. People were saying "Leave Vietnam alone" and they said the war was useless soldiers dying for nothing, they were also spreading awareness about peace and trying to stop the war going on Vietnam because they see no point. When the war was happening John Lennon wanted peace so he wrote a song called "Give Peace a Chance". John Lennon was protesting with people who where against the war. This song was played at a concert called Woodstock, there were half a million came, most of them were protesters that want Peace.

Significance of WW1 - The Last Post

When do you hear this song? It is played on Remembrance Day, on ANZAC Day, sounded at the sited of memorials in the United States, and serves as the background song at the funerals and memorials of those lost in service to their country worldwide. Every ANZAC day they they will play this song while people are having a moment of silence.

Why is this song significant/important to New Zealand? This is important to New Zealand because they sent soldiers to fight along with the British Empire.

What is the History behind the Last post - Why was it played and when? It is played to military funerals and commemorative services as a final farewell and symbolises that the duty of the dead is over and that they can rest in peace. 

The Last Post Song

My Map

Reflection W6 Athletics

Last week we had Athletics, My house was Tieke, we had to wear our house colours. There were tree kahuis Mohua was yellow, Riro-riro was blue and Tieke is red. I played only on social because I was to lazy to go competitive. The activities I did were high jump, long jump and discus. The thing I enjoyed the most was high jump, because I got over 1.3m, I didn´t know I can jump that high but I´m proud that I did it. After the athletics was finish Mr. Hilliard announced which kahui came first, second and third. I think came first Mohua, And came Tieke second and Riro-riro was last. I didn know what kahui came first because I wasn´t paying attention, the only thin I heard was second place is Tieke.

Reflection W4

Hi, Today I will be talking about how the book I read last week. It was about a dragon who was in a cave with piles of gold coins and treasures. I forgot the title but I still remember what happened. So the dragon was hiding in his cave and he has a mysterious clock. He didn't know much about that clock but he've been keeping track of the time. Once a year a villager comes to the dragon and offers something like food. A villager came in his cave and saw the dragon holding the mysterious clock, The villager told the dragon that there is someone who knows about that clock. The dragon told the villager to tell the person who knows about the clock to come in and explain it. The dragon said he will wait outside his cave until dawn. After the villager got out. The dragon wanted to breath fire to the clock but he was afraid that he might break it. A day later the villager didn't came back and the dragon saw a big thing flying in the sky he thought it was a dragon. Hi didn't want to know the clock anymore because he thought he was wasting his time so he flew to the same direction where he saw a dragon like.

Examining the Cover

 Hi, Today in our English I will be guessing what I think about the new book that we are reading. 

- How do you think this story will be written? I thinks it will be written as a thirds person.

- Why do you think the story is entitled as it is? I think its called unwind because its a dystopia world and a character is trying to bring back the real world with peace

- Where do you think the story will take place? I think it will be an dystopian world.

- What time period do you think the story is set in? Not sure

Music Through Time

Last week in our Social Studies we've studying about slavery. We made our work in a thing called My maps. 

Spirituals is a type of religious song, They sang it and they also dance when all the slaves gather in one place. Spirituals song help slaves uplift slaves, give them hope, church, funerals, and wedding if allowed. It also hid secret message to help them escape. 

Harriet Tubman is an ex-slave famous for helping thousands of slave escape. Harriet Tubman used song to send to send messages to slaves, Harriet Tubman used Wade in the Water help slave escapes trough the underground rail road. The song had hidden meanings like were better to wade in the water so slave catchers and dogs could not sniff them out. 

Link to the song: Wade in the Water

Link to the map I made: My maps

ESOL

 I choose Lazy for my second L because sometime when I get tired of something I get lazy, I often get told off for being lazy and not doing house work. Sometime even In school I get lazy, when a teacher set us work I don finish it on time.

I choose Naughty for my N because I often get in trouble in class for not doing something or do crazy stuff that gets me in trouble. Also when my friend when my friends talking seriously and I talk about nonsense stuff like spiderman killed batman.