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Tuesday, 9 November 2021

HHS 2021

At Hornby high before the first day you have a short period of time (between 1-2 hours) where you get to meet your form/wananga teacher. "Whats a wananga teacher?" you might be asking, well, a wananga teacher is the teacher you spend 7 hours a week with doing things about wellbeing.

What about the other 5 hours of the day? We have different teachers doing either  hurumanu or other activities (P.E, Japenese, Maori, woodtech, etc).  Hurumanu classes are your normal run of the mill subjects (Literacy, maths, etc)

Hornby high can be fun with the many opportunities people get in school, things like Cantamath (A math competetion I recently participated in), Air velocity (A car race where you build the car you race in), Epro8 (A engenering competition).
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Thursday, 28 October 2021

Chilli tasting


Video(s) that contains 

Funny aspects

Chili eating compilation

Facts about chili

Explains SHU

Food Theory 'Beat the Heat'


5 Facts about chilli

1. The scovile heat unit scale (SHU) was invented in 1912 by pharacist Wilbur scovile in an attempt to find a heat producing ointment.

2.The burning sensation is mainly caused by the chemical capsaicin. Capsaicin is found in tiny glands in the chilis placenta, when you eat a chili the capsaisin is released into your saliva and then binds to TRPC1 recepotors in out mouth and tounge.

3.Chillis are considered a fruit, they are consideered a fruit because they are a member of the nightshade (Solanaceac) family and they are related to tomatos, cherrys and eggplants.

4.Some chillis are used in different medical things like nasel spray and dermal patches.

5.Only mammals are sensitive to the chemical capsaicin making it so fish arnt effected by chilli peppers.


Hypothisis
I think by drinking milk it will remove the heat because it has a chemical in it that binds to capsasin reducing the heat.

Method

Equipment

  • Hot Chilli sauce
  • popsicle stick/tooth pick
  • Drinks- soda, water, milk
  • Timer

Instructions
  1. Get your equipment ready
  2. get a drop of hot sauce on your toothpick/popsicle stick
  3. lick the hot chilli sauce
  4. start the timer
  5. after 2 mins, drink your drink
  6. after 5 mins, how hot is your mouth
  7. repeat the experiment but with a different drink
Results
How hot was the chilli after 2 mins
5/10 (water) (Tane)
7/10 (coke) (Tane)
3/10 (milk) ( Me)

how hot was the chilli after you drank your liquid (Coke, Milk or water)
2/10(water) (Tane)
4/10(coke) (Tane)
0/10(milk)(Me)

How hot was it after another 3 mins (after you drank your liquid)
2/10 (water)(Tane)
 2/10(Coke)(Tane)
 0/10 (Milk)(Me)

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Tuesday, 26 October 2021

Persuasive writing (Fireworks ahould be banned)

Hello everyone,

For the first week of term in writing we were working on our persuasive writing skills, we were told to write about wether we thought firework should be banned or not. I worked with Isabella to make this peice of writing about why we belive fire works should be banned.

Fireworks should be banned



Do you like fireworks?

Well here are our reasons why we believe, you shouldn't use them


Although fireworks are in fact very pretty and can bring others closer it does pose a hazard when it comes to flammability since it releases sparks of fire from the gunpowder that if it’s around grass if there's enough of it can set the ground aflame. Since most people don’t keep water or a fire extinguisher around them while doing this it can be deadly.


Secondly, fireworks contain materials that are able to be used in other circumstances and can be useful (like different chemicals). If we use these in fireworks we could run out of the things used to make them when we need them in different situations. They also tend to cost a lot of money which can be used for other, more important things. Considering in this day and age everything is getting more expensive (which will include fireworks) putting that money into a bank account to save it would be much better in the long run.


Thirdly, fireworks tend to be loud, really loud. Loud noises tend to be bad for animals and can send them into shock, hurting them and maybe even killing them. Different animals can be useful in terms of nature and to society so if they die that would be very bad.


Thus we believe that fireworks should be banned












Wednesday, 20 October 2021

Bacteria

 Equipment

1. Agar dish

2. Cotton bud swab

3. vivid pen


Method

1. Collect the bacteria on a wet cotton bud swab from taps, keyboards, desks or anything that has bacteria on it

2.divide the agar in half by drawing a line on the lid

3.wipe swab into agar solution

4. put the petri dish into the incubator for a week to allow the bacteria to grow

5.draw and label a bacteria 

6.draw and label a scientific diagram of the experiment

S.P.I.L.E.S

Hello everyone, welcome to my blog

Today in one of our classes we were told to use SPILES (Social, physical, intellectual, likes, emotional, success)to tell people what we did during the hollidays. Here is what I came up with.


Social:My cousin and aunt came down from Wellington and I hung out with them. We went bowling, laser strike and we even went to hanmer springs.

Physical:I scootered to my holiday program and to the bus stop every day.
Intellectual:I read a few books and did math equations when I was bored.
Likes:I enjoyed hanging out with my cousin because we are very similar and get along well.

Emotional:Most of my holidays I was fine though there were some parts where I felt stressed, anxious and sad.

Success:I started learning Japanese again and I know a few basic phrases now.











Thursday, 30 September 2021

Hokey Pokey

 ingredients

  • 4 tbsp Sugar
  • 2 tbsp Golden syryp
  • 1 heaped tsp baking soda
  • Pot
  • Tablespoon and teaspoon
  • Bunsen burner
  • Paper cups

Method
  1. put 4 tbsp of sugar and 2 tbsp of golden syrup  into a saucepan/pot and melt it.
  2. bring to the boil and simmer gently for 5 minutes
  3. add baking soda and stir vigrously
  4. put the hokey pokey on a peice of baking paper to cool
Explination
Why do we stir it?
We stir it to stop the sugar from burning, the movement keeps all the sugar at the same temprature stopping it from burning.
explain why the hokey pokey rises and bubbles?
The hokey pokey rises and bubbles because of the gas the baking soda creates.

Thursday, 23 September 2021

Neutralisation

Today in science class we tried to make the colours in the rainbow using a universal indicator, hydrocloric acid and sodium hydroxide. here is what happened

Matterials
  • 2 pipetts
  • Hydrocloric acid
  • Sodium hydroxide
  • Test tube rack
  • Test tubes
  • Neutraliser

Method
  1. Take a test tube rack with 1 boiling tube at each end of the rack and 4 test tubes.
  2. Quarter fill  the boiling tube at one end with Sodium hydroxide
  3. Quarter fill  the boiling tube at one end with Hydrocloric acid
  4. fill each test tube with 5 drops of univeral indicator 
  5. using the pipettes slowly drop in different amounts of sodium hydroxide and hydrocloric acid into the indicator to make each colour
  6. make sure you dont mix the pipettes
We managed to get every colour apart from yellow