Black death

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Which century was the black death and what countries were affected: 

The black death was in the middle century and people from all over the world were affected. The countries affected the most was Asia, UK, England, Egypt. 

Who were the most affected people: People who couldn't stay healthy and had a poor immune system.

How where the body buried: They would be in dug a grave and covered with a small layer of dirt then after a week more would be added.

What were the symptoms: Boils that would turn black. Cold, bold poison.

Death was almost certain within the first week, people were in pain, tired, weak, dizzy.

Types of plauge:

Bubonic: Black boils around the body.

Pneumonic: lunge infection.

Septicemic: blood infection.

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EOTC Reflection

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Today in class we had the task to write a reflection about our three EOTC days. The days were: Jelly park, Adrenalin forest, and a city visit.

We have questions to answer about what we learnt and enjoyed: 

Here is my answers:

What was the best day in my opinion? I liked the first day when we went to Adrenalin Forest. Why? I enjoyed it because we did heaps and it was fun to see how high I could go and test my limits.

Was there something challenging: Yes I found some of the obstacles at Adrenalin Forest hard to do when I'm high off the ground. I also found the learning how to use the equipment correctly at different places doing different activities.

If we were to do these days again, what activities would I want to try? I would like to keep the three which were: Adrenalin forest, jelly park, and our trip to the city. If I could do other things they would be mega air, mountain biking and swimming.

What did I learn: I learnt that our city is filled with loads of interesting things and that the places we have been to are fun. We also had to find heaps of different facts about Christchurch and the city we live in. 

Thank for reading this EOTC week was really fun.

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BST Loan flowchart

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Today in class for business studies we had to make a flowchart about loans and things that go with the decision of getting a loan. This is a fun flowchart to show some of the decisions of getting a loan. This does not cover all individual loans. This covers loans in general.

Here is my flowchart:

I think I did well and this could help make the decision of getting a loan for some people.

It shows some main decisions people have to make. This had heaps on information to cover than main idea of getting a loan out while not covering any individual loan. Next time I would make them show different types of loans.

Did this help you make the decision of getting a loan?

I managed to get this information from myself on what I learnt in class. I did well and enjoyed maing this flowchart.

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Water safety

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Today in class we did some independent eoct task to help us learn more about where we are going.

 The task I choose was to do with water safety and what people should do to stay safe around any bodys of water, at the pool or at the beach. Here are some water safety tips:

 

Hope this helps you learn about what to do to stay safe around water.

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Distillation Experiment

 Today we are doing a distillation experiment:

What evaporation is: evaporation is when a liquid is heated up and turning to gas by gaining energy and moving faster.

What is condensing: When a gas cools down and losses energy and then starts to become a liquid from the particles moving closer together.

Aim: To separate a solution (coke/coke zero) to form a solid and a liquid.

Hypothesis: We are going to end up with both solid and liquid. The solid is going to have all the color from the drink and the liquid will be clear because the solid is taken out.  I think that both liquids will be the same for both drinks because it will lose the solids added to both of them. In the regular coke I think the sugar will stay as a solid while most of the other products in the solution will be a liquid. In the coke zero I think instead of sugar thee sweetener will stay solid.

Equipment: Bunsen burner, coke/coke zero, flask, tripod, heat mat, beaker

Method: 

1. Set up the equipment

2. add 50mls of your liquid to a flask

3. Light your Bunsen burner open your air hole and put under the tripod.

4. heat up until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off Bunsen burner.

Observation: 

The coke boiled under the heat and the liquid evaporated. We caught the liquid and it was clear while the solid stayed in the flask. The solid that was left was sugar. The sugar in the coke zero was like a small brown sludge like the regular coke but looked at look more like dust.

Conclusion:

My hypothesis was correct at the liquid went clear and the sweetener stayed solid. The heat made the drink to boil then we found a way to catch the evaporated liquid so that we now had to things separate apart from each other. The liquid evaporated and the when the solid stayed into the flask. The coke had more sugar because their was more solids compared to coke zero. The liquid we catch by condensing the steam and cooling it back down again.

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My discovery topic: Steroids and performance enhancing drugs

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Recently in class for health we were given the chance to research something we actually want to learn about. The task we were required to do was to pick a topic and research about it, turn it into a DLO and post it onto our blog.

Here is what we did:

First we had to pick a topic that we want to learn about. Our group choose to learn about steroid and performance enhancing drugs and the affect it has on athletes that choose to use these drugs. After this we had to pick 5 big questions that would be answered during our presentation. They were out of three difficulty level and we choose the hardest of the three level which was legend.

Once we had our five big questions we got to work on research information about are topic to answer these question so that we have our questions answered for when we put the information into a presentation.

We fill our planing sheet with the information we need and this is where most of the work took place. Here is our planing sheet:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3bzeghYdOrBSbdMvfXLxTE0aMYI1m_b4f_kSSipHJ0/edit?usp=sharing

We put all the information we learnt during the research periods we had and learnt heaps about the topic which is perfect for the next bit of work we had to do which was to actually make the presentation of our work.

Steroids and sports enhancing drugs

I have also added three useful strategies to help cope with this problem of steroids performance enhancing drugs. these strategies are useful for people so that they can get back to a good well-being.

Reflection:

It was challenging when we had to pick our five big questions because I had to take a long think on what questions would be best for us to answer in our research.

I did well on my presentation because we found a way to take the information gathered and to make it easy to understand while still making it so people can learn something from this task.

Next time I would probably find more information to add and make the strategies better/ find different ones.

Overall our group did really well and I enjoyed learning about this topic with my teammate. We both got our fair share of work done and worked together while producing a high level and quality of work. Our work was something that we both thought we did well on and something we both liked to research.

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Same water bathing

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Today in class we were given the task to make a poster on something that happened in the middle ages.

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What life was like in the middle ages

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Back then it looks like the peasants are doing all the work while they get non of the rewards and they

have nothing and are looked down on.

The kings owned everything and were above the law.

The lords were rich and would often look down on the peasants.

Knights fight for the people above them.

1. What percentage of babies died in their first year?  20% of all babies died in their

first year of life.

2. What was the life expectancy for an ordinary person? They were expected to live up

to 40 years of age.

3. What were the standards of cleanliness like? Explain. There were no rubbish collections

and no sewerage, so rubbish and human waste were thrown into the streets. Because of this, rats

were a problem, and fleas were often found in people's clothing and beds.  

4. Why were there so few trained doctors? 

5. How did doctors work out what was wrong with their patients? 

6. Give TWO ways that a medieval hospital was different to a modern hospital. 

Paragraph:

What was torture like in medieval times? Surprisingly there are over one hundred methods that were used in medieval times. Things like burning people alive and squashing people’s fingers are both examples are of torture methods. Back in medieval times, there was no regulation so if you were stealing you could have the same punishments as a murderer. People would get injured and some don’t come out alive. This is what medieval torture like in the middle ages.

 

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Budgeting a social event

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Recently we have been learning about budgeting and how much things cost.

The task we were given was to plain a social or sports event.

We choose a social event with a budget of $5000.

House party

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Lighting, Music, and Security

LED strip lights $75 K-mart

No security

Speaker and Spotify premium

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Food n drink

Just Juice tropical fruit QTY 50: $199.5

Coke QTY 50: $124.5

Sour patch kids: Pak n save  $900

Food n drink total: $1224

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Pizza:

Pizza hut: Total: $1325.5

Big new yorker:25 $325

Big BBQ bacon:25 $325

Mega meat lovers:25 $400

Triple meat n cheese:25 $275.5

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Transport: 

Party bus limousine: $420 to location 

Party bus limousine: $420 from location 

Total: $840

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Entertainment:

2x Nintendo switch: $1078

2x ps5:1298

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Overall total spnet: $4948

Surplus: $52

I think we worked good and got the task gone with information and correct cost and prices. We also research about what is needed to have a fun and enjoyable party that you could have at your house for as little as $4948 so if you had $5000 you would have $52 spare. We could of made a $0 party too but we wanted it to be entertainment.

Would you come to our party if you had the chance?

Sources:

pak n save, noel leeming, google, k mart, JB-HI-FI.

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Evaporation Experiment

Aim: To separate a mixture using evaporation.

Hypothesis: I think that the copper sulfate will stay into the beacon while the water will evaporate out of the mixture. The heat will make most of the liquid leave and the color of the mixture will get darker and will be a dark blue. What will happen is that the solute will separate from the liquid solution and solvent.

Equipment: Copper sulfate solution, 250ml, 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 3.

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 will be hot for a long time.

Observations: What I saw first is that the water starts to boil the solution starts to steam. The solution starts to separate and the mixture is evaporating. The mixture now becomes crystals.

 

Conclusion: My hypthesis was correct but their was crystals that occurred after the liquid was evaporated.

Discussion: The water separated and the copper sulfate is now crystals. The heat separated to the mixture and the water is now being left behind from the water boiling and evaporating the solute is staying and the solvent is separating and the solution is now just the solute.

Evaluation: The experiment was interesting as it was cool to see how the solution starts to separate and how the crystals where left from the copper sulfate.

Budget meal

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Today in class we had to make a meal to feed four for $20. Here is what Nathan and I made.

It is a pasta dish with bacon, broccoli and coli-flour. The pasta will be covered with basil pesto as a sauce.

Here is the cost and the products you need:

Bacon: Pak n Save: Pams Streaky Bacon 250g

$4 99

Pasta: PaknsaveValue Dry Penne Pasta 500g $0.94

Pams Broccoli & Cauliflower Mixed Veggies 650g: $3.99

Mediterranean Basil Pesto & Cashews & Parmesan Chunky Dip 135g: $3.89

Total: $13.81

This was a really cheap and easy to find prices. I can guarantee this is a good meal.

This was a fun task that I think I did really well on. This was easy to do and a quick and entertaining task.

What would you change in this dish?

Prices from Pak'n'Save

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Dilution Experiment

 Definition of dilution: Making something less concentrated. There will be less particles in the liquid.

Concentration: How strong something is.

Aim: To make a dilution series to investigate concentration.

Hypothesis: I think that the first test tube will have the most dilute liquid because it would have more added to it in the start.

Equipment: A potassium permanganate crystal, six large test tubes, tweezers, a plastic transfer pipette, a test tube rack, 10mL measuring cylinder.

What did we do: 

1. We put 10ml of water into the first test tubes.

2. Fill the other test tubes with 5ml of water.

3. Put one permanganate crystal into the first test tube.

4. Mix the permanganate in the 10mls of water.

5. Transfer 5mls of water from the first test tube to the second and mix.

6. Move the mixture from the 2nd to 3rd and repeat with the rest.

Was my hypothesis right: Yes it was becasue over time the mixture was more watery and watered down. This makes it more dilute. and the first one was the least dilute.

How do I know how this happen: This happens by the mixture overtime become more dilute as it was moved more into more water.

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Filtration Experiment

 Aim: To separate mixture we have made using filtration.

Hypothesis: If we try and filter a only liquid mixture then nothing much would happen. When we mix them they will change to a blue tint colored. The mixture would go through the filter with nothing else happening. The things we are mixing in copper sulfate which is blue and sodium carbonate which is clear. I think it will go pale blue because one of the liquids is different and colored. Since they are both liquids they will not split and both go through the filter.

Equipment:

Sodium carbonate

Copper sulfate

Conical flask

Stirring Rod

200mL Beaker

Funnel

Filter paper

Method:

1. Pour approximately 50mL of copper sulfate solution into a beaker.

2. Add the same volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate. 

3. Watch demo then fold filter paper to fit inside the funnel

4. Place the funnel with the filter paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask. 

5. Stir the mixture in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel. 

6. Observe what happened.

Observation: When we mixed the the copper sulfate and sodium carbonate the mixture flips and is now copper carbonate and sodium sulfate. Because of this happening the copper carbonate now is insoluble and wont dissolve making it a solid that wont dissolve. Since we now have a solid in a mixture some part of it wont go through the filter making it clear in the beacon after the blue is filtered out.

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