Over the term in art we’ve been working on mixed media artwork. I really enjoyed this unit and found it at the right level for me.

We then made cardboard sculptures to stick our mixed media artworks on. We sketched it a few times on different kinds of paper and with different angles before deciding on a layout to stick the artwork on.

After, we took a few photos in a white box so we could see how it looked through a camera, mine is below!!

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today I will be telling you how and about to avoid conflicts in friendships we won’t be covering verbal and physical problems

with verbal confrontations it’s easier resolve or negotiate it may take you a little bit but for example if you get in a confrontation with friend about a game or just hatching between each other it is easy and to resolve and your way ounce of it there is no need to become physical or hurt each other it may hurt your feelings but they can always Be  solved.

With physical confrontations is a bit different because they can end up very dangerous and hurtful most physical confrontations start out with verbal arguments and it doesn’t get beta so then it ends up becoming physical with physical it is a lot more harder to forgive and and solve the problems quite a lot of friendships can be ruined with physical violence sometimes you need to go through quite a lot of counselling or trust help to resolve the friendship

Good Afternoon everyone, today we’re learning about ways to avoid conflict in friendships because some people in my school have dramas in their friendships and can’t fix it easily. I will be talking about ways to avoid conflict in friendships and talk about different ways.

There are different ways to avoid conflict in friendships. There are negative and positive ways, but positive ways are better than negative ones because it builds more trust and intimacy towards friendships. Allowing them to communicate openly and solve the problem easily, unlike negative ones. Negative ones are all about swearing, pushing anger and something else that doesn’t lead to communicating.

Ways to avoid conflict in friendships:

• Talk things out
• Don’t blackmail them
• Use “I” Statements for example: “I felt hurt when I was left out”
• Always listen to them when they’re talking to you
• Respect their opinions and just be respectful
• Talk accountability
• Don’t make issues over something very small

Yo, ya-hello yodellers! For our final weeks of this term, our mini subject has been Space. As we know, we live in a Solar System which consists of 8 planets. The aim of this experiment was to learn about planets and their order, which was Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Here is the experiment/diagram.

Our method: Me and Marinelle worked together to create this MASTERPIECE. I worked on the drawing and colouring (and a bit of taping. Marinelle created the labels (shout out for the fonts!) and did most of the string and tape placement. We used digital references.

The smallest planet in this solar system is Mercury, whilst the biggest is Jupiter. This Solar System (our solar system in general)  is also located within the Milky Way Galaxy. However, there is more in space other than our Solar System and planets, such as asteroids, stars, comets, moons, and universes!

Conclusion: Yes! I am really proud on how it turned out high-key and it’s (almost) how I visioned it in my head. Marinelle also did a really good job on the fonts to be real! It isn’t entirely realistic as Saturn should be a bit bigger..which is what I would do differently, but other than that, really fantastic.

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Aim

for science we have been creating the solar system inside a cardboard box for science. We had to make labels drawings and hang them from the box, we had to go in groups of 2-3 so Me and my friends Olivia and Kate worked together to make it. The point was to know the order of the solar system and their colours and shapes. 

Method

First we grabbed all our supplies including A cardboard box, markers, paper, scissors, tape and string. Me Kate and Olivia had our own roles on what we were doing I coloured in all the planets and cut some of them out, Olivia taped the planets and labels to the string and stuck them to the cardboard box, and Kate drew the planets. 

Results

This is how our solar system box:

 Discussion

I put the planets in the order mercury Venus earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune. The smallest planet in the solar system is Mercury and the biggest planet is Jupiter. The name of the galaxy we are living in is the milky way galaxy. Other than planets in space there are astroids, stars moons. 

Conclusion

The solar system we made worked perfectly the handwriting of the labels were amazing ( thanks Olivia ) and the colouring I did was actually good, Kate did an amazing job on the drawings too. I would not do anything differently since my group did really well.

Thank you for reading my blog, Have a good day!

Experiments 1：Glucose Test

Objective: To detect the presence of reducing sugars in food samples.

Required Equipment:

– Test tube rack for safe placement of test tubes.

– Safety goggles for eye protection.

– Heater for heating water and testing chemicals.

Experiment 2: Starch Test

Objective: To detect the presence of complex carbohydrates (especially starch) in food samples.

Experiment 3: Carbohydrate Test

Objective: To differentiate between monosaccharides (glucose) and complex sugars, or to identify general carbohydrates.

Experiment 4: Fat Test

Objective: To detect the presence of lipids.

1.What is a food group?

A food group refers to the classification of the main nutrients contained in food, typically including carbohydrates, proteins, fats, vitamins, and minerals. These are substances essential for maintaining human life activities, growth, development, and health.

2.Why is a control group (water) needed?

In testing experiments, distilled water is typically used as a negative control group. Water contains no nutrients, and its use proves that the reagents themselves do not change color spontaneously. A positive result (color change) is indeed caused by nutrients in the food, thus eliminating false positive errors caused by experimental procedures or reagent contamination.

3.Can food contain multiple food groups?

Yes, most natural foods are not single-component foods, but rather comprise multiple food groups. For example, milk contains abundant protein, fat, and carbohydrates (lactose); meat contains not only protein but also a certain amount of fat. Therefore, the same food may show positive results for multiple tests in different experiments.

Aim: What is the purpose of the experiment? Why are we doing it? The purpose of this experiment is to learn about aerodynamics and design a bottle rocket.

Equipment: What did you use for your experiment? 1 L&P bottle (1.5 litre), Coloured paper (we used blue and yellow), cardboard, scissors, glue stick, tape and a pen (to decorate your rocket).

Method: How we made our bottle rocket

1- Get a 1.5 litre bottle to use as the bottle part of the bottle rocket.

2- Once you have your bottle, wrap the bottle in coloured paper and tape it around. (You don’t have to do this but my group did and we wrapped it in green coloured paper)

3- Then we decorated our bottle rocket.

4- Grab the cardboard and cut 3 triangles the sames size (this is for the wings)

5- Once you have cut the wings, cut the same sizes on coloured paper. This will cover the cardboard wings in the blue coloured paper.

6- Once the wings and the coloured paper triangles are cut, glue the paper onto the cardboard wings.

7- Tape the wings onto your rocket

8- Ta da! You have made your bottle rocket (the way we did)

Results: We launched our rocket 2 times. The first time it actually worked really well, we had water in it on this launch. On our 2nd launch we had no water in it, it went basically nowhere. This shows that the better result was when the bottle rocket was filled with water.

Discussion:

1. We put 1/4 water in the rocket

2. We tipped half  the water out

3. No water

We manipulated the rocket in the three ways above.

How did the rocket perform under each of the 3 ways? Putting 1/4 water in the rocket- The bottle rocket launched well and ended a further distance away, this was our first launch. We tipped half the water out- My group didn’t tip half the water out, we did it with 1/4 water and no water. I am not sure how that went. No water- this was by far the worst launch. We put absolutely no water in the bottle and it hardly went anywhere, it basically just fell on the ground.

Why was the water necessary? The water was necessary because it gave us the best result and also has pressure when the air was being pumped which caused good results.

How does this relate to forces and motion? Use words like weight, force, gravity, pressure, opposite forces, aerodynamics, unbalanced/balanced forces. The bottle rocket relates to forces and motion by using forces and motion. The water made the bottle rockets have more weight and created a force when being launched. The bottle rocket flew in the air and then hit the ground, this shows gravity. The bottle rocket (filled with water) and the launcher had, when the bottle rocket was being pumped there was pressure. Both launches that my group did were different. One launched very far and the other went not so far, this experiment is related to forces and motion.

Conclusion: Overall this experiment went well and was fun. I enjoyed making the bottle rockets with my group and seeing it fly. In our group was Lana, Nahvarna, Bettina and me (Lucy).