The Black Death Timeline - Social Studies

Due to the lock down of the Coronavirus and us working from home, I have been focusing on my Social Studies Timeline. We went through a slide about the black death, epidemics, together with the class and then read page 4 off epidemics through time book and made our timelines. We had to chose ten years and disasters off the book and then think 4 of our own including the Covid-19 and add it to our timeline. Here is my timeline:

Timeline:

Epidemics book:

A Well Known New Zealander - Lorde

This is a blog post about a Well known Zealander, Lorde the famous Singer. I am doing this for one of the blogging choices activities that my teacher has assigned for us to do during the 4 weeks of isolation of the Coronavirus. I have chosen to present this on a google drawing and made a poster about her and shared some facts about how she is popular and what she has succeeded in life.

Here is my poster:     

9/11 Attack - Social Studies

A few weeks back in Social Studies, we focused on another topic called 9/11 Attack as well. We did some research on what happened, Where is happened,  How many people died, what the times were when it happened and etc. We also made a timeline table with all the information in it and watched a video of the chaos.

Timeline:

8:46am	Attacked flight 4.070 mph Strikes top north tower
9:03am	Hijackers united airlines flight strikes into WTC’s South tower
9:59am	South tower collapses
10:28am	The world trade center north tower collapses
5:20pm	Trade center collapses
7:45pm	78 officers lost, 200 firefighters suspected dead
10:56pm	They guessed that 200 dead and  25,000 injured
11:00pm	2,996 were confirmed dead and over 25,000 people were confirmed injured

Pompeii: The Lost City - Social Studies

A few weeks back in Social Studies, we have been focusing on one of the topics called Pompeii, The Lost City. We did some research on what happened, Where is happened, What caused it, How many people died and etc. We also had to create a Article about it and add all of our information we found off the internet.

Here is my Article:

WHAT HAPPENED…

Mount Vesuvius, a volcano near the Bay of Naples in Italy, has erupted more
than 50 times. It's the most famous eruption took place on August 24 79 CE,
when the volcano buried the ancient roman city of pompeii under a thick carpet
of volcanic ash.

Two Thousand people died and the city was abandoned for almost as many years. 

Pompeii was impacted by causing earthquakes and tsunami from the volcano,
which also helped destroy the environment in Pompeii.
The damage caused by the volcano also had long term effects on
neighboring cities such as Herculaneum, Stabiae and Torre Annunziata. 

People eventually left Pompeii in different directions.  

Map of Pompeii:

Picture of Pompeii after the chaos:

Separating a Mixture using Evaporation

Aim: Trying to Separate the Solute from the Solvent / making crystals
Hypothesis: I have no idea what I thought was going to happen 

Equipment: Copper sulfate solution, 250mL Beaker, heat proof mat, Evaporating Basin, Element.

Method:
1. Set up element
2. Add 100mL of hot water to the beaker and place on the element.
3. Add copper sulfate to the evaporating basin until it is quarter full.
4. Carefully, place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker.
5. Turn on the element to 8
6. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming.
7. Turn off the element - careful not to touch as it will be hot for a long time.

Observation: I saw the liquids steaming up and the copper sulfate solution starting to loosen up. After a few minutes, the copper sulfate solution started getting hard and also started to look a bit like a crystal but in one whole. 

Conclusion: I didn't have a Hypothesis but i'm pretty sure it was false.

Evaluation: Yes I enjoyed doing this experiment even though I came in class a bit late. I enjoyed it because it was interesting to see the copper sulfate solution dissolved at the end and kinda turning out to look like a crystal. Overall it was good and would want to do it again.

Chromatography - Science

Aim: To Separate the different pigments from ink using Chromatography

Hypothesis: What I think would happen once my colours are blending together, the outcome will straight away form into a darker colour.

Equipment: Felt Tip Pen, Filter Paper Strips, Test Tube, Measuring Cylinder, Pencil.

Method:

1. Draw a line across the filter paper in pencil, 5cm from the bottom.
2. Draw a coloured dot in the centre of the line.
3. Measure out 10mL of water and place in the test tube.
4. Place in the filter paper in the test tube and fold over the side. Make sure the pencil line is not in the water.
5. Wait for 5 minutes and observe the results.



Observation: The results of the two colours blending together, it came to be successful. The black didn't stay as its colour it changed into multiple colours such as pink, light blue, orange, yellow, etc. My other colour which was dark blue actually went into a light blue instead of getting dark.

Conclusion: No my hypothesis wasn't right.

Zombie Apocalypse Posters - Social Studies

A few weeks ago at the start of the year in Social Studies, we were talking about Zombie Apocalypse and visualizing ourselves if we were in Zombie Apocalypse in real life. We watched a small scene of the walking dead just for us to brain storm before doing any work and then we had a look at the 31 survival rules for us to know how to survive in a Zombie Apocalypse. Here is one of my posters:

 

Social Studies - Rats and Mice

Where did this happen?
Australia

How did this happen?
Rainfall, Produced a lot of crops

How much offspring can 2 mice parents make?
2000 a month / 100 million a year

How much wheat did they eat?
 500,000 tonnes

How did they killed them?
Poison / 1080

How many died?
100 million


Second Questions:

Where is this happening?
Karni Mata temple / India

Why is this happening?
Reincarnation, God Protecting

What special treatments do the rats get?
Worship them, Eat first, Treated like celebrities, Can't kill them 

Social Studies - Alaskan Tsunami Graph

In Social Studies we have been focusing on a topic called Alaskan Tsunami. We had to create a graph of different famous land mark heights and also watched a short video/ trailer of a movie, of a Tsunami.
Here is my Graph:

My understanding of Fake Friends vs Real Friends

On Tuesday in Health, we have been learning/researching about Fake Friends vs Real Friends. We wrote some of our own opinions on a slide shared with the rest of the class, about what are fake friends and what are real friends.

My understanding of what are fake friends and real friends are is that friends don't always stick together for the rest of their life and eternity and that not every friendship is perfect.
Here are some of my opinions and the link to the slide:
Real Friends/Fake friends

Fake Friends:	Real Friends:
Fake friends don't accept you for who you are	Real friends appreciate for who you are
Fake friends would always try to put you down and use you for popularity	Real friends be honest with each other and never lie
Fake friends only come to you when they need something	Real friends care about you and never talk behind each others back

Athletics Reflection - P.E Training

Today I will be writing about what we have been doing in P.E, Athletics training.  We did some training on High jump, Long Jump, Shot put, Discus and sprints for us to train for Athletics day on Thursday. We also did some training for 100m, 200m, 400m, 15,000m sprints and recorded our results on a document.

One of the events that I think I have improved on was my sprints because my first result I got was 10.38m which was pretty good for my first run but thought I could do better, then later on during more training I improved and got 9.25m.

What I learned:
I learned some new techniques on how to throw a discus and a shot put because last year I was struggling on how to throw both of them, but now i'm happy that I know now. 

These are the results I got for each of the events I did:

	Before	After
Shot put	5  5.10	9.40
Discus	12.20  12.50	9.80
Long Jump	2.40  2.60	3.00
High Jump	n/a	n/a
Sprints	10.38	9.25  19.46mph
Long Distance	N/A	N/A

I really enjoyed practicing for athletics and surprised with the results that I got, especially for sprints and shotput.