Blind Taste-Test

In Science we are doing a blind taste-test. The aim is to taste foods that are bitter, sour or salty. There are foods listed from A to I. The equipment we used was, blindfold glasses so we could see what we were having, recording chart to record what we tasted, and ice cream sticks to have the stuff on. We did this in pears. One person leaded and gave the other person the items to eat. The other person tried to tell the other person on what they thought the taste was and they also tried to guess what it was. Here is the method and my chart.

1. Get a buddy

2. Choose who is gonna be blind folded

3. Help the blind folded person around and use a ice cream stick to give them the things they have to taste

(Make sure you record what they think it is and what the taste is.)

4. Do the same but change the person around

Stick draw research

 In Hur1 someone picked out a stick and then we had do to some research about it. This one was Natural Disasters. We chose one of four options. We chose the White Islands. I learnt how many people were hurt and how they recovoured. Here is the slide.

Bluetooth Speaker. Woodtech.

In Woodtech we have been making bluetooth speakers. We had the make these out of wood and a homemade circuit. Here are the steps that I took to make it.

1. Mark the holes for the nails to go in

2. Drill them out on the drill press, glue then nail the sides together

3. Paint your box

4. Glue mesh, solder the speakers to their wires and glue them in

5. Solder the resister to the short leg of the Led and otherside of the resister to the red wire of the battery pack

6. Solder an extra wire to the battery pack and the switch. The middle bit of the switch not the sides

7. Connect all the things to the chip to make sure it works (Remember batterys)

8. If it works stick the switch and the led through the holes you made and glue them in place and after glue the battery pack to the otherside of the box

9. Plug in the chip and close the box. You are basically done.

Standing up for our rights

Today in Hurumanu we are writing down words and then writing their meaning. Learning Outcome: Demonstrate how social messages and stereotypes can affect feelings of self-worth.

Discrimination: The act of treating some people unfairly because of prejudice.

Prejudice: An opinion formed without knowing all the facts.

Stereotypes: A standardised and oversimplified and inaccurate conception held by many people.

Protest: An objection of complaint. To express objection to or disagreement with, in a planned, organized way.

Social messaging: Passing of a message/idea from Person to Person in a community

The Dawn Raids:

-What happened?

Police went house to house checking to see if they actually belong in New Zealand.

-How did stereotyping and social messaging play a role in this incident?

It's cause people thought that black people were bad and overstayers so they blamed them for the reason they didn't have jobs. The black people would get raided in the middle of the night and forced them to show their passports or reasons why they should stay or should be there and if they didn't have a reason they would be diported this lead to the Polynesian Panthers to react on the situation and that made New Zealand a better place. This was because they told the govourment that it was terrible that they were doing what they were doing.