Science post #4 (Biological drawing rules)

In science, there are specific rules as to how to draw something and how it should be drawn, and how it should not be drawn, I will give you these few rules that I've learned on how to make a science drawing perfect.

What to do

1.When you are drawing a scientific drawing, its bets to take up the whole page and not just half of it.
2. Make sure that your drawings are fully connected, like when you draw a circle there is always that one line that's in the circle. That can't be there it had to be a full round circle.
3. Don't add details only add the important things, the details don't matter.
4. Make sure your labels are connected to what you are labelling.
5. Make sure you give your project the right name, if it's a cell name the cells name, don't call a cell a bug.

6. Give the right magnification, if it's 10x 40 then you don't stick 10x 40 you stick what it equals so if it was 10x 40 it would be 400 magnification 

What not to do

1. Don't use only half of the page

2. Make sure labels are not crossing over each other

3. Do not doddle on your work.

4. if your drawing has a mouth in it don't draw around the mouth, give the mouth and opening.

5. Don't add detail, only add the important things
6. give the right name for the title.

and here are a few others

Draw what you see and not what you expect to see
Use a pencil not a pen (You can't erase mistakes with a pen)

Science post #3 (how to set up a onion skin slide)

On the 3rd to last day of the term, we used the microscopes but instead of having everything ready for us. We had to make the cell ourself, we were given a piece of onion a slide to pick the onion on and a small clear pice to stick on the onion piece and we were also given Iodine.

Step 1 - First, you had to get the piece of onion and grab the end and pull a thin piece of the option, then you need to lay it on the clear Slide.

Step 2 - For step 2 you need to grab the iodine and stick a small drop of iodine on the onion

step 3 - put the small clear piece of glass on top of the iodine and onion that lays on the slide

CONGRATS YOU CREATED YOUR FIRST SLIDE, the slide is clear rectangle thing, its made of glass so don't break it.

But then we have to set it up on the microscope.

to set it up I'll take you step through step

Step 1  - Set up the microscope, make sure to hold the microscope by the neck and base (Go to blog post #2 to see the parts of the microscope)

Step 2  - once you've set up the microscope grab your slide and gently place it on the base of the microscope

Step 3 - move the 2 clips on the side of the base where you slide is and move them onto to the slide so your slide doesn't move around while you're looking at your cell.

Step 4 - Look into the eyepiece to see the cells and what you made with onion, iodine and a slide.

In the eyepiece the onion will be a light shade, that is so you can see the cells within the onion.

Science post #2 (Parts of the microscope)

In science since we were learning about cells, we needed to use microscopes to look at the cells within the thing we were looking at.
In this blog post, I will tell you the parts and the functions of it.

Eyepiece - The eyePiece is what you look through to see the cell

Neck The neck is the bone structure of the eyepiece

Objective lens - is for different magnifications on how close or far you are from the cell (Yellow is M range it is 10X, Red is small and is 4X and blue is large which makes it 40X magnification) 

Stage - The stage is what is occupying your cell

Stage clip - The stage clip holds your cell in place so it doesn't move around while you look at it.

Light source - The light source is necessary so you can see the cell

Switch - The switch is to turn on the microscope

Base - The base is the bottom part of the microscope

Course knob - The course knobs allows you to move the stage up and down in big movements

Fine knob - The Fine knobs allows you to move the stage up and down in smaller movements

science post #1

In Science this term we first started off with Food and Digestion
This topic was basically relating to how the body works and the nutrients we need to stay alive and how they react with different foods <-- (Wasn't here for the experiment)

After that topic came Cell work our last topic of the term
For cells, we learnt about plant cells and animal cells and what is inside them and the difference of them.

Plant Cell - A plant cell has all the organelles, unlike the animal cell. The plant cell has a Large Vacuole a cell wall a cell membrane, Chloroplast and cytoplasm and lastly a nucleus

While an Animal cell has

Animal cell - A animal cell has a cell membrane a cytoplasm and a nucleus but no chloroplast, cell wall or large vacuole.

another difference between animal and plant cells is that plant cells are a square or rectangle shape and an animal cell can be any shape as unlike the plant cell the animal cell has bones which helps form its body.

The function of these organelles all have their purpose and what they are

Large Vacuole - The large vacuole is only found in the plant cell and its job is to store the food it collects within the large vacuole
Cell Wall -  The cell wall can be found in a plant cell, it helps structure the cell as a plant cell does not have bones unlike the anime cell
Cell Membrane - A cell wall within the cell of both animal and plant which allows some things in and out while it blocks other unnecessary things out.

Chloroplast - The Chloroplast can only be found in the plant cell and it absorbs the sunlight and uses that in conjunction with water and carbon dioxide gas to produce food for the plant

Cytoplasm - The Cytoplasm is the jelly-like liquid within the body of an animal and plant cell

Nucleus - A Nucleus is a form of a circle which holds the DNA of the creature or plant within it

Sir Edmund Hillary (Social Studies)

In Social studies we started learning about money and its value, so we were given a task just like all our other topics, the one I picked was to pick one of the people of the New Zealand dollar Note and research how they made it to the dollar Note, I picked Sir Edmund Hillary on the $5 Note.

Here is my final result.

Classroom layout (Math)

This week we had just moved into our new classrooms, D, B, P and old T block shall be removed and with them being removed we have gained new classrooms altogether, we now have an R, M and new T block in our school.

Yesterday we had our first class of Math in T8, when our math class used to be in D4.

So since its a whole new building with a whole new layout, we were given a task to pick a layout of the class with the resources that we have.

So we started a design process.

Brief:

find a new layout for the classroom with the resources we have

Research:

A classroom layout can be anything, it could be a row of tables in a line while the board and teachers desk is up the front or something else completely, though having a row of desks in a straight line seems boring and plain.

so I looked up some layouts of classrooms.

(Here are a few ideas)

Then after we came up with our design we had to come up with a few ideas for how we wanted the final layout to look.

the idea we came up with was this: 

The idea we were getting at was that when we were doing work we would be able to see the TV and the whiteboard at the same time instead of turning our body around to see the whiteboard or TV.

With 3 tables at the front on each side and a gap with 2 tables in the middle behind that are 4 tables on each side and the 2 tables on the sides will have 1 table in front of them and the 2 tables at the back are the High Tables.

Then next to the tables on the left will be the computers.

What we don't like about this design is that the people at the computers may not be able to see the whiteboard, but only be able to see the TV.

Our second idea has a small change.

What we like about our second idea is that its tidy and its spacious so there is room for everyone to move around easily, which helps a lot with walking in and out of the classroom. Even if it was a little change and we only changed the position of the whiteboard and the position of the TV.

What we didn't really like about this idea was that people would have to turn around completely if they would want to see the whiteboard (Computer people)

Where our first idea you didn't really need to turn much and the people at the tables could easily turn their head without hurting them neck to look at the whiteboard and TV whereas in this one people as the tables have to like turn their whole body to look at the TV...

So our final idea turned out just to be our first Idea

And to make it a lot better I wanna hear what you think about our design and if you think something should change?

Work from home (Art)

Steak/Beef? sandwich

Last week for our practical on Thursday we made steak sandwichs but instead of steak we used beef, the bread was small buns with oats on them.

In my sandwich, I had mayo, Sauce, lettuce, beef (Chopped up) along with a bit of cheese

As always when we work in a kitchen in a group of 4 we must work together meaning we need to take turns doing something in the kitchen.

What I thought about our teamwork last week was good, we all got to do something, I grated some cheese, got the lettuce and dried some of the dishes and stuck the rest away.

The tasting of our food - I loved it, I don't really eat oated bread but I really enjoyed making and eating the sandwich as it had a different outcome I thought it would have.

For an instant, I couldn't really taste the oats which helped a lot and it also made the food better as I know even if I couldn't taste it I was still getting something good in me.

And overall I give the result of everything together including teamwork and food taste a 9

Benefits and disadvantages of money (Social studies)

In Social studies yesterday we started a topic based on money, we got into either a pair or a group and stuck in a bubble what is money and gave our idea's of what we thought money was, after we did that we were given a task to complete which gave us 2 choices 1 was to create a mindmap and show us what money is, it's uses and how it's changed over time and the second option was to make a T Chart and give the benefits and disadvantages of money, I did option 2.

What did I learn about the benefits and Disadvantages of money?
Well For the benefits you can buy the stuff you really need, like Food, Clothes and BedWear and you also need it to pay for your rents.
And the disadvantages is that sometimes people will scam you for something you won't online for money, People will use lots of money on stuff they don't need leaving what they really need with no money meaning they'll have no money left to get what they really need as they used it for something else.

Money controls people it takes over people's lives, people think that all they need is money and that it can find happiness, I mean it makes you happy but not the right happy, the real happiness is finding your true love, money just makes you happy for a while but then it ends, like the true happiness love is lasting for more than the happiness you get form money.

trigonometry layout

In Maths we're learning how to find the sides of Angels of a right angle triangle using trigonometry, And to use trigonometry right we had to use the right layout given to us.

Here is how to find the angels of a right-angle triangle and how to lay it out

Step (1) - Draw the diagram and label it.
Once you've finished your diagram move onto step (2)

Step (2) Lay (write) out what you're given
Write the HYP and OPP or if the 12 is in place of the ADJ then the OPP is the ADJ and you'd right it as HYP =  and ADJ =

Step (3) Write out your commentary on how you're going to solve it.
Once you've written your commentary move onto step (4)

Step (4)

Write it out (Press into your calculator what your Opp-Hyp or ADJ for me its 12 over 17 so I press in 12 divided by 17 to get my answer.

Step (4.5)
Then write out another commentary
(Couldn't get the photo in so I'll write out what I stuck)
Commentary - To change the decimal into a Degree we need to use Sin-1

Step (5)
Once you've written out your commentary you need to press shift on your calculator and press sin because it is a valid part of the process of finding out your answer, to find your answer all you need to do its press Shift then sin and put in what you got from your first try mine was 0.7 so I would press shift then sin to get sin-1 and then put in 0.7 and then enter to get my answer.

In the end it should look a bit like this.

Missing letter writing (English Matrix)

There once lived a mythical creature which took the form of a toad, This Mythical creature was able to wield a sword one that could rip into space and time itself. When you look at a Toad you see beauty but this wasn’t the real form of the toad, the real form of the toad was a unicorn. One whose main and tail was as shiny as a pastel pencil, and a coat which was as white as the snow that fell down from the sky on a cold afternoon.

Weekly goals (English)

So last week I wasn't at school on Monday or Tuesday but I was here the rest of the week which left me good enough time to get some Matrix done, I didn't manage to get 3 done, but I managed to get 2 done, by the end of the week.

This week I know what I'm going to do so It will much easier because last week I only did what I knew I could finish within the week.

so this week hopefully I can get 3 done so I can feel more accomplished in my work

Video Game gone Rouge (English Matrix Task)

Questions we were given to answer for this task.

1. Who is the character?
2. Were they a good guy or a bad guy?
3. Where did they come from?
4. What happened?
5. How has it changed them?
6. Who is telling your story?

Life after Technology (English Matrix writing task)

2046 30th November

It’s been 26 years since a mysterious acid had wiped out half of the earth. Along with half of the population also went the technology, This acid had an unknown effect on the technology deeming it useless.

Where I am… I don’t know anymore, everything has been covered in moss and the buildings no longer stand. Whatever this city was called before the acid struck is no more. We have to little food supply and there are hardly any shops left that contain food. All the food that was in the shops were melted by this acid, the remaining food we had were all foods that we had on us at the time when the Acid came. And besides, not many people want to eat anymore, the food is dry and tasteless that it barely has any filling to it anymore.

We have no idea what this monstrous thing is but it reacts like acid so it’s what we all begun to call it.

There is little medicine for the sick and because of that we’ve lost 20 people to this acid, there is not much we can do really. When someone gets sick we leave them behind knowing that there was nothing left to give them.

The air is polluted its toxic to the human lungs leaving us wearing masks 24/7, This mask covers our face and nose leaving the sense of smell useless now, many people have not been able to hold the pressure of living like this and had rid themselves of this world. And If anyone wanted to touch something gloves must always be worn, everything you touch is toxic just like the air.

We learnt that the hard way. The only way to touch something is to wear these special gloves that only so many people managed to get from the government when the acid had first struck.

Somedays I would hope to wake up to hear birds singing and chirping but no living animal has been seen or heard since the disaster had struck earth.

All living life had been destroyed. Earth is no longer the paradise we all hoped for. There is no sitting around anymore and being lazy, its either continue to walk on this path of life or die as this acid is always moving and NEVER stops.

No one is safe anymore.

Spaghetti + Meatballs

Last week on Thursday I was finally present and got to make food with everyone else.

Last week we made Meatballs with Spaghetti.

Our sources were already ready for us which was great as we only had limited time to do everything before period 4 ended.

Our teamwork overall was great, Everyone did something, I did the drying of the dishes and I also helped roll up the meatballs before they were stuck in the oven for cooking, What I liked about our teamwork was that there was always someone free to go over if the teacher asked for one person from a group to come over to her so she could show us what to do next.

For serving our food we were given small white bowls.

-Food taste-

Overall I was pleased with the food because even if it had stuff in it I probably wouldn't stick in Spaghetti it still tasted amazing. the meatballs were something new for me as the normal meatballs I would have would just be meat, while the foods we made had meat and bread and pretty sure something else but I forgot.

I was very happy with the result.