Samir@Hornby High School
I am a Year 8 student in the Uru Mānuka Cluster. This is a place where I will share my learning. Please note that some of it will not be complete, it will be my first drafts. Remember to be positive, thoughtful and helpful when you leave a comment.
Thursday, December 2, 2021
(Business & Enterprise)
Thursday, November 18, 2021
kiwi
Today I am going to tell you some facts about Kiwis
Kiwis is a flightless birds that has small wings but it cant fly . Kiwis have loose feathers that are more fur
then they are like Feathers .Kiwi is also the only bird in the world that has nostrils on the end of its beak
that's why this bird cant smells as good as the other birds in that can smell way better . It has marrow in its
bone just like us humans thats why Kiwis is more like a mammal then a bird because of the similarities of a
mammal. Female Kiwis are bigger then male kiwis. Kiwis main food is worms . Kiwi are omnivores which
means they both eat plants and animals . A Kiwi can live for 25 to 50 years in average . A kiwi lays out
really really big egg that is really huge compared to its body size witch cover 20 percent of its body which
is a lot bigger then it should be because a ostriches egg cover only 2 percent of its body . I hope you like
my blog about kiwi facts .
Friday, November 5, 2021
Long Fin Eeels
Today I will be tacking about a native eel called long-fin eel here are some facts about the long-fin eel. I chose the long-fin eel from this book if you want to read it Click here
There are 2 native eels in NZ long fin eel and the shortfin eels but I will
be telling you facts about the longfin eel longfin eels .They can live for
35 to 60 years for average but some can live a whopping 100 to more
years if it’s lucky. longfin eel can weigh up to 13 kg . A long fin eels
scientific name is Anguilla dieffenbachii which is a weird name for a
eel.The numbers of Long-fin eels is typical of what is happening to
populations of freshwater eels everywhere . Eel populations are being
less at an fast rate due to habitat loss and over fishing by humans .
That's why they are rare and not much long-fin eels left in the world .
Friday, October 29, 2021
Wetlands
Today I will be telling you a lot of facts about wetland in NZ I hope you learn something new with all the facts I have wrote in this blob for you .
Wetlands is a place that helps us reduce the impact of flooding because they can absorb a lot of rain water
and realise it .That stops the flooding impact by a lot . But sadly 90 percent of wetlands have been drained
or filled for 150 years .Over 50 percent of NZ fresh water wetlands are on private place in NZ. Their is
even a day for wetlands in NZ in in February 2 Wednesday . worlds wetlands day is a family fun day in
wetlands day we can learn a lot of facts about wetlands and ride fairs and food trucks other fun stuff you
can enjoy . In wetland their is a lot of endangered animals that live in wetlands like ducks birds and some
plants. i hope you learned a lot of things about wetlands .
Friday, September 17, 2021
Acids
Aim to make red cabbage PH indicator for use on different house hold chemicals
Red cabbage indicator experiment
materials
1 red cabbage
2 beaker
3 bunser burner
4 pipette
5 Sodium Hydroxide
6 Hydrochloric acid
7 Test Tubes
8 Paper towel
9 Test tube rack
10 Water
Steps
Chop up the red cabbage into small pieces. Place in a beaker and cover with a small amount of water.
Bring the solution to the boil using a bunsen burner and then turn off the heat. Let it sit to cool down.
Pour the cabbage water through a paper towel into a beaker. The dark purple liquid in the jar is the pH indicator liquid.
Suck up the indicator into a pipette.
Use the cabbage indicator to test the acidity of the different household liquids by slowly putting a drop at a time into the test tube.
Folk Tale
This week for reading we read a folk tale about honesty the story was called [ The Empty Pot ]
a fock tale is a story that has been told for a long long time and it has a morel or a lesson to teach students
or even adults to be honest or do the right thing .
The Empty Pot is a fock tale about telling the truth and being honest.The Empty Pot ping has to grow
a flower to win a contest to become the Emperor of China. When ping got his seed and planed it the
flower never grew even after a year of watered and planting it in a digger pot it still did not grew when it was time to show the flower every one had very
good flowers but Ping brought a empty pot . Ping told every one his flower did not grow every one
laffed but the Emperor said that he won and also that every ones flower was boiled so it could not grow
Ping was now the Emperor of China and lived happily ever after
Thursday, September 16, 2021
- Materials
- Red litmus paper
- Blue litmus paper
- Codium hydroxide
- Hydrochloride acid
- Pipette
- 4 Test tubes
- Steps
- Rip the litmus paper in half and put half in each test tuber .
- Add 3 drops of hydrochloric acid to the blur litmus paper in test tube 1
- Add 3 drops of hydroric acid to the red limus paper in test tube 2
- Add 3 drops of sodium hydroxide to the blue limus paper in test tube 3
- Add 3 drops of sodium hydroxide to the red litmus paper in test tube 4
Blue Litmus: no change it is an alkaline.
Blue Litmus : changes to red it is an acid.
Red Litmus: no change it is an acid.
Red litmus: changes to blue it is an alkaline.