I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 9 and in 2021 I will be a year 10. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
These are some of the lyrics from hey Jude sung by the Beatles -
Hey Jude, don't make it bad.
Take a sad song and make it better. Remember to let her into your heart, Then you can start to make it better.
Hey Jude, don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. The minute you let her under your skin, Then you begin to make it better.
And anytime you feel the pain, hey Jude, refrain, Don't carry the world upon your shoulders. For well you know that it's a fool who plays it cool By making his world a little colder.
As you can see by the lyrics it is about a heart break and they were trying to make a positive outlook on a sad situation. By writing a song about his heartbreak and saying to just let it go and not get down and out about it, but to be more positive about the situation.
The older generation didn't like the fact they were influencing relationships, but also sexualising them. But compared to the music back in their days it was more innocent and random. So when the Beatles started realising music it was a great shock to the world and the older generation, but to the younger generation it was soul grabbing and freeing for their body. It was a revolution for history, people were mesmerised by not just their songs but them as people too.
Aim - To test the pH of a range of household chemicals.
Equipment - A variety of household chemicals, spotting tile, red litmus paper, blue litmus paper, Universal indicator solution and safety glasses.
Method:
1 - Add a few drops of each chemical to a spot on your spotting tile if a substance tile. If a substance is solid or powdered you will need to mix it with.
2 - Test the chemicals with litmus papers blue and red.
3 - Test each chemical with a few drops of universal indicator.
Discussion:
When we used toilet cleaner with the blue litmus it turned the litmus red instead of blue, this shows us that toilet cleaner is an acid because red shows that its a acid because it is at the bottom of the ph scale also known as 1 . But when we used universal indicator it went yellow/orange which is just before green on the ph scale so this could be from 3-5.
When you test blue or red litmus paper it can only turn from an acid or base no in between so either blue or red. But if you were to use universal indicator it could go from any scale of the ph scale so it could be neutral or from anywhere between 1 - 14.
- You normally hear this song at ANZAC services, or war memorials/services.
Why is this song significant/important to New Zealand ?
- To remember those who fought for us in world war 1 or for those who fought for their countries all over the world for remembrance.
What is the history behind this song ? Why was it played ?
- This song was played when the soldiers were ordered to do something or if it was time to eat like dinner. But also it was a symbol/alarm or sign to say it was time to eat, sleep, wake up, fitness time and inspections etc.
What does this song represent ?
- It represents the soldiers that died for us and our country who fought for us even though they didn't stand a chance against them, but they still went and fought for our lives and country.
- Shading is a type of tone, because when you shade your work it gives you another tone towards your work so it adds a different texture to your work. Tone complements your work to then make it stand out more in your drawings.
How'd I use tone in my drawing ?
- I used tone in my drawing when I tried shading parts of my drawing to give it a different look and texture to make it look 3 dimensional in a way.
What do I want to improve on in my drawing ?
- I want to improve my shading and the way I use it and how I use it. But also the way I try make the drawing three dimensional by using shading and tone.
Here is my blog post about the slave trade triangle and my research I will be showing my work through a song that they used and my, my maps.
I chose the song - Wade in the water, Written by Harriet Tubman.
Meaning - Harriet Tubman wrote this song wade in the water to tell a story of how she helped the slaves escape from the southern states to the northern states. The lyric wade in the water is like the Africans/slaves when they went to the water to wash off the scent on themselves so the dogs couldn't smell them.
Who is Harriet Tubman - Harriet Tubman is the lady that helped at least 12 thousand Africans escape from the Southern slave states to the Northern free states. She used hidden underground rail roads to help them escape from the white men. Harriet Tubman was determined to do this after she found her way to escape and leave the slavery life she was living so she was determined to help others so she set herself a task and completed this task.
This is my my maps with all my mapping and working I have done on this topic -
1. Choose an atom to make (one between hydrogen and neon)
2. Work out how many protons, neutrons and electrons it has.
3. Assign protons and neutrons to a particular colour bead.
4. Get a ball of blue tac and stick the protons and neutrons to this to make your nucleus.
5.Cut out the appropriate electron shells and draw on the electrons with vivid.
6. Connect the nucleus and electron shells with a piece of string.
7. Create a label to go above the model so people know what you have created.
Results - Here is a picture of my model atom that I made.
Discussion -
An atomic and mass number is the numbers by the symbol. So the atomic number is the number that represents their place in the periodic table. Which is normally the number placed in the top left corner of the box . The mass number at the bottom of the box underneath the element which is made up by the protons, neutrons and electrons.
The element I chose was carbon it had 8 protons and 6 neutrons/electrons, and the mass number was 12.
Electron arrangement - On the first shell the maximum of electrons allowed are 2 electrons on the next shell the maximum is 8 shells and the third shell the maximum is 8 and so on. My element their was 2 on the first shell and 4 on the next shell because their were only 6 electrons.
2 interesting facts - Carbon gets its name from the Latin word carbo, which means coal in Latin.
3 Recalls - Lately in English we have been learning a new way to reflect our work, the reflection task is called 3 2 1 R I Q. I remember that 3 2 1 R I Q means 3 things we re call during the lesson thats what the 3 and R stand for. The two others are 2 insights and 1 question
2 Insights - We learn't how to use this in our blogs to reflect our work we have just learn't. But also helps us to give an easier way to reflect our work to our teacher. My question
1 Question - Why didn't we learn about this earlier ?
3 Recalls - Yesterday in English I remember getting these four words such as suspicion, fallacy, enigma and disappearance. We had to then search up the meanings to the ones we didn't know. Once we did that we then wrote a short story or paragraph with all four words in it.
2 insights - I learnt the definition of enigma and fallacy. We also learn't the different type of nouns like pro nouns, proper nouns, abstract nouns and so on.
1 Question - Why do we have different words for basically the same definition as another word?