Making Ginger Beer 🍠🍺

Aim:

I want to find out how to brew/make ginger beer.

Research:

Link

 

Fermentation

Results:

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It tasted really disgusting. It tasted sour at first but then it tasted bitter. It smelt like barf and rotten drinks. It look like lemonade but don't let it's looks deceive you. The sweet taste disappeared compared to before i left it out.

Discussion:

What is fermentation? 

Fermentation is like brewing. It's a process in which the sugar breakdown into alcohol. The yeast eats the sugar and releases carbon dioxide and alcohol.

What is the difference between beer, cider, wine, vodka and whiskey?

They all have different sources of sugars that get fermented. For example, cider's source of sugar is apple, vodka's source of sugar is potato.

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Reading plus

 Hello everyone.

Today we worked on our reading plus. I read about crystal caves and about cells in our body. I managed do get a combo but i got a bad score before.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Got a combo
What I found difficult today:	Answering correctly
What my goal is for next time:	Get higher scores

Thank you for reading this blog psot.

Reading Plus 📚➕

 

Hello everyone, today we had reading plus. I had a hard time focusing today because of how noisy are class were. I read a book about sugar and about how important hair is to some religions. 

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	My combo
What I found difficult today:	Focusing,
What my goal is for next time:	Get a combo

Thank you for reading this blog post. 

📚➕ Reading Plus😁

 Hello everyone.

Today we also did reading plus. I have been more focused lately and getting more combos than usual. I think my report will be the same as my recent report. I read a book about lions and a country which both got me a combo. Though sometimes I answer the questions wrong I still get a stable score.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	My combo and vocab
What I found difficult today:	Not daydreaming.
What my goal is for next time:	Finish level G

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Reading Plus Progress 📚➕

Hello, everyone today we did reading plus.

I finished a lot of combos lately but i have never got to blog about. I recently read about the forbidden city in China. The text talked about why it was called the forbidden city and how special it was. I also read a lot about science and astronomy.

Here is my report:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Venice
What went well today:	Combos
What I found difficult today:	Nothing much
What my goal is for next time:	Leveling up to H

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Red Cabbage Indicator

 Aim:

I want to find out how red cabbage can tell if a liquid is an acid or base.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Beaker
• Red Cabbage
• hydrochloric acid (the acid)
• sodium hydroxide ( the base)
• Something to mix with. (we used a dropper)
• Boiling water.
• Test tube. 

Instructions:

1. Get all your equipment
2. Wash your hands.
3. Pour boiling water into a big beaker.
4. Rip the red cabbage into little pieces.
5. Add the bits of red cabbage into the beaker.
6. Mix the red cabbage with the boiling water until it becomes a dark colour. (we used a dropper to mix it together)
7. After mixing, with a dropper, add about 10 drops of the red cabbage juice into each of the big test tubes.
8. Add 10 drops of the acid on one of the test tubes and add 10 of the base to the other test tube.
9. The test tube that has only acid on it and the test tube that only has the base in it are the full colours if you only add acid or base.
10. Experiment with the red cabbage, the acid and the base. Add as many drops to make different colours.

Results:

Discussion: 

What is an acid and a base? 

An acid is a substance that contains a lot of hydrogen ions. Hydrogen ions is when a hydrogen atom loses or gains an electron. A base is a substance that has a lot of hydroxide ions. Hydroxide ions is when oxygen and hydrogen atoms it is held together by one pair of electron. Acid can give protons to base. And base can accept protons given from the acid.

What do chemical indicators do?

Chemical indicators gives a visible sign to represent what substance it has. The visible sign is the liquid changing colours.

Making Sherbet🍧🍨🥄

Hello everyone. One tuesday we tried to make sherbet. Here is what we did:

Aim: 

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research:

How to make sherbet:

Sherbet

Method:

Equipment:

• Citric Acid
• Raro
• Baking Soda
• Tartaric acid
• Paper

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get all required equipments
3. Place the paper on your table.
4. In piles, separate the 3 powders
5. Using your popsicle stick, mix some of each powder.
6. Taste the sherbet.
7. IF there is to much baking soda, add more citric acid.
8. If there is too much citric acid, add more baking soda.
9. If the flavour tastes bitter and sour add more Raro to balance the taste.

Results:

It tasted sour at first but i liked it sour. I had more fizz in my sherbet than taste. I liked adding more raro than fizz so it tasted more like Raro than sherbet.

Discussion:

Why did the sherbet not foam on the paper but it did in your mouth? 

Citric acid and baking soda some atoms contained into these powders turn into carbon dioxide. As the gas escapes the sherbet starts to bubble up in water or your mouth.

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The foam was caused by the liquids in your mouth which reacted to the carbon dioxide mixed into sherbet.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Neutralization.

Clowns🤔🤡

 Hello everyone.

In drama we are learning about clowns. Clowns portray the acts of a day of a human's life but they purposely mess up. Clowning in drama is more of like comedy. Clowns will fool around with the audience, trip over, copy someone, act like a 'child', etc. Most clown also make a lot of white makeup and red lipstick marking of their lips and making a big smile. They wear oversized clothes and big shoes.

After researching about clowns we had to make our own clown.

My clowns name is Misery. My clown creeps up behind people and will play a creepy song with a flute.  Misery likes to walk with slow and big steps. She has red and black stripes on her collar and black and white stripes clothes. She wear purple lipstick and marks on her face like a sad face. My clowns' famous trick is juggling on a unicycle. My clowns voice sounds a very deep and goth voice.

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Blind Taste Testing Challenge 🙈 🍊🍇

Aim: 

I want to find out if food taste differently when you can't see or smell the food your eating.

Research:

Method:

Equipment:

• Blindfold
• Mystery Food
• Popsicle stick

Instruction:

1. Get all Equipment.
2. Wash hands.
3. Put on your blindfold.
4. With one hand pinch your nose.
5. With the other hand have your hand out and wait for the unknown food.
6. Get your food and eat it.
7. Unblock your nose and see if the tastes are different.

Results:

Unknown Food	Blindfold taste	without nose blocked	Food Guess
1	sweet	sweet	sugar
2	salty	I tasted it at the back of my tongue the most	salt
3	bitter	it taste bad bad bad bad bad bad	something bitter
4	lemon	sour, and sweet	citric acid
5	salty, bitter	pickle	pickle
6	crunchy, bitter	starch	raw potato
7	crunchy sweet	sweet	apple
8	sweet, crumbly	rotten	pear
9	feels like chalk	sweet, powdery	marsh mallow
10	taste like crisp	taste like pickle	burger ring
11	sour sweet yummy	orange	orange gummy lollie

Discussion:

How do you taste food? Your taste buds on your tongue are very small. some of your taste buds can only detect one kind of taste some taste buds can taste all kind of different taste.

What are the different taste? 

Sweet, sour, bitter, salty or uman which is like a meaty taste that you enjoy to eat. Like what you taste when you eat your favourite meal kind, of like tasting a juicy rich, flavour.