I am a student at in Uru Mānuka. In 2020 I was a year 9 and in 2021 I will be a year 10. This is a place where I will be able to share my learning with you. Please note....some work won't be edited - just my first drafts, so there may be some surface errors. I would love your feedback, comments, thoughts and ideas.
Wednesday, 24 February 2021
Reflection section
Music through time (Spiritual song)
Slaves back in the day use to sing spiritual songs for house praises and they also used it for when people would die. Slaves became very religious people, church people so when they would sing they would add some bible verses to the songs they were singing. The way they would sing is that they would get into a group they would have bush meetings and there would be one leader who would sing while the others hum along. After the leader finish saying something the group would sing along with her, also when singing the song they would also do dances and sometimes they would enter ecstatic trance.
They were used for:
- Uplift slaves.
- Give them hope.
- Church, funerals and if allowed weddings.
- Relay secret messages to help them escape, like wade in you water.
Harriet Tubman used the song Wade in the water to tell escaping slaves to get off the trail and into the water to make sure the dogs slave catchers used couldn't sniff out their trail. People walking through water did not leave a scent trail that dogs could follow. Read the words of "Wade in the Water."
Thursday, 18 February 2021
Model Atom
Aim: To make a model atom
Method:
- Choose an atom to make ( one between Hydrogen and Neon)
- Work out how many protons, neutrons and electrons it has.
- Assign protons and neutrons to a particular color bead.
- Get a ball blue tac and stick the protons and neutrons to this to make your nucleus.
- Cut out the appropriate electron shells and draw on the electrons with vivid.
- Connect the nucleus and electron shells and draw on the electrons with vivid.
- Create a label to go above the model so people know what you have created.

Tuesday, 1 December 2020
Health (Binge Drinking)
Monday, 23 November 2020
Condensation (Science)
Filtration: Solid + Liquid >
Evaporation: Liquid ( solid dissolved in liquid) > gas > solid
Distillation: Liquid ( solid dissolved in liquid) > gas > liquid solid
What is :
Evaporation: heating liquid, turns to a gas so we can separate a solution, by evaporating away the solvent to leave a solute (solid).
Condensation: cooling down a gas, turn into a liquid it is a reverse of evaporation where liquid water becomes a vapour.
Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation.
Equipment: A solution of saltwater, conical flask, heatproof mat, a delivery tube and bung, Bunsen burner, tripod, gauze mat, retort stand, boss head, and clamp, boiling tube
Method:
- Set up equipment as shown in the diagram.
- Add approximately 50 ml of saltwater to your conical flask.
- Light your Bunsen burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under tripod.
- Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off your Bunsen burner.
Notes:
- So for the first few minutes there were small bubbles that would occur a few times.
- After awhile the coke started to evaporate.
- The gas started to condensation and turned into liquid.
- Now the coke is changing from coke to water the more the liquid starts evaporate because after the gas starts to condensation and turn into liquid.
- After it is all finish there is only a thick layer of sugar that is black, there are also some of the colour and adaptive.

