Making Ginger Beer

 Aim:

I want to find out how to brew ( make ) ginger beer.

Research: YouTube; 1. What is alcohol or how to brew alcohol? 2. How to brew Ginger Beer?

3. Science of Fermentation?

(Also just letting you guys know, YouTube is not letting me put the video in probably so I will have to put links instead. )                     

Research:

Link thing

 Ginger ( Quarantine Activity )

 Fermentation

Method:

Equipment:

• Ginger ( source of sugar )
• Warm water
• Yeast
• cup
• spoon

Instructions:

1. Wash your hands
2. Get the equipment
3. put one table spoon of ginger in the cup
4. add one teaspoon of yeast
5. Mix it all together
6. leave it to ferment for one week
7. after one week, taste it                                                                                                              

Results:

As you can see, I made it, we had to taste a little then put it on the window and then taste it after one week and taste it entirely, everyone said their ones tastes disgusting but I think mine tastes really good!

What is fermentation--->

Fermentation is a chemical change that happens in vegetable and animal substances. For thousands of years people have used fermentation to make bread, wine, beer, cheese, and other foods. The enzymes break down food into chemicals. When bakers add yeast to bread dough, the yeast breaks down the sugars in the dough. 

 ( OTHER WAY TO SAY IT: Fermentation is a process that involves the breakdown of carbs by bacteria and yeast. It results in a distinctive tart flavor and is used to make foods like yogurt, cheese, and sauerkraut.

REAL RESULTS AFTER A WEEK:

I didn't taste it because mine smelt so bad, like barf but way stronger, and had these white stuff inside, but from the smell I almost threw up, Mr tasted mine and he almost threw up. Plus it looked horrible. It was honestly disgusting.

 :( yuck...

 

readingplus.34

 Hi everyone!

I went pretty good today, I just did my reading and just doing some of my vocabulary so maybe I will level up soon!, here is the rest of my reading plus progress:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Amanda.
What went well today:	I finish two combos in a row!
What I found difficult today:	Nothing
What my goal is for next time:	Level up in vocabulary also

:)

Readingplus.33

Kia ora everybody!

So I did level up today which I am really proud of, now I just need to get my vocabulary in the same level as my reading cause why not, here is the rest of my progress:

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Amanda.
What went well today:	I did level up
What I found difficult today:	Nothing
What my goal is for next time:	Level up in vocabulary

😃!!

Readingplus.32

 Kia ora.

As you know, I am almost to the end of level F ! I have one more book to read and I will level up, wish me luck: 

Reading Plus Progress Report
My name:	Amanda.
What went well today:	One more story and I level up
What I found difficult today:	Nothing much
What my goal is for next time:	Level up.

BYE 😄 !

Art catchup

 Hello readers 😀 !

So this week me and my art class have been working on poster design analysis, we have been searching up good posters and terrible posters by there text, colour, etc...   Miss said we could choose if we wanted to buddy up with someone or do it by your self and I ended up with Jordan.

Me and Jordan searched up bad posters first, we didn't find what miss was looking for, so sadly we didn't win the challenge to the person who finds the worst poster had gotten a juicie, here is our slide:

It is not the best and I do know that me and Jordan could had found more bad looking posters but either way I think we still did pretty good on the good posters!

Next week i think we will be making our own posters but I am not sure still, i think we had to do this so we could see what was bad on a poster and what was good on a poster. We also had to write beside the poster we choose on the slide and write about what was wrong about it or what was good about it.

That is all and stay tuned to what we will be doing next in art! 😀

Red cabbage undicator

 Aim: I want to find out how red cabbage can tell if a liquid is an acid or a base.

Research: 1x YouTube video about Red Cabbage Indicators.

           

Method:

Equipment: 

• Acid was hydrochloride Acid
• Base was Sodium hydroxide 
• Water
• Cup/beaker
• Test tube 
• Dropper 
• Red cabbage

Instructions: 

1. Wash your hands
2. Grab your equipment
3. Put water into the beaker
4. Cut the cabbage in little pieces and put it in the beaker with the water in it & mix the water with cabbage until its dark
5. Grab the water colour of the cabbage beaker with the dropper and put some in each Test tube and you should count how many drops you put
6. Get the Sodium Acid and Base acid 
7. Put one of the acids or both in the test tubes and you should count how many drops you put in
8. And make colours with the acids and cabbage water!
9. Quest: Try to put more than 1 colour in a test tube without them mixing
10. Now make your adventure of colours 😃

Results:     The colours went to dark to slowly light, the most surprising colour was yellow and when you could put another layer on a colour.           

Discussion:        Q1: What is an Acid and a Base-------------------

      HARDER EXPLANATION: An acid–base reaction is a chemical reaction that occurs between an acid and a base. It can be used to determine pH. 

EASIER EXPLANATION: An acid is a substance that can donate a hydrogen ion (H⁺) to another substance. ... A strong acid will be able to let go of many or all of their hydrogen ions while a weak acid will hold onto some of their ions. Because acids donate hydrogen ions, all acids must have hydrogen in them.

  

                           Q2 :   What do chemical indicators do----------

 Chemical indicators are used to monitor whether the parameters to achieve sterilization have been met for a specific sterilization process.

                           Q3 : An ion is a special type of atom or molecule that has an electric charge. A hydrogen ion, then, is one that has a tiny electrical charge. Every substance in the universe is made up of hundreds and thousands of tiny atoms, molecules and ions. When a large number of those are hydrogen ions, the substance is acidic

   

                         

Readingplus.31.

 Hey readers, sorry I haven't done the blog post in a while but I was sick last time we had reading plus last week but don't worry i did catch up:

Making Sherbet

 Aim:

I want to find out how to make sherbet.

Research: How to make sherbet video & The science behind sherbet:

                 

                                                     How to make Sherbet video---------------

The science behind sherbet-----------

Method:

Equipment

• Popsicle stick
• Citric Acid
• Raro
• Baking soda
• Paper

Instructions

1. Get your Equipment
2. Wash your hands
3. put the paper on your table
4. get a pile of the three powders
5. Using your Popsicle stick mix some of each powder
6. Taste the sherbet
7. if there is too much baking soda, add more citric acid
8. if there is to much citric acid, add more baking soda
9. to improve the flavour add more Raro

Results:

I wasn't here but my friends said that it tasted okay, she sent me a photo from the day though!  :) 😃

Discussion: 

Why did the sherbet not foam on the paper but it did in your mouth?

What was the chemical reaction in the sherbet?

The fizzing sensation experienced when eating sherbet is a result of the chemical reaction between the citric acid and sodium bicarbonate. This reaction also produces small bubbles of carbon dioxide but only when the dry ingredients are wet by saliva in the mouth.

What type of chemical reaction is this?

Naturalisation

readingplus.31

Here is my readingplus progress:

Blind Taste Testing 👅

 Aim: I want to find out if food tastes differently when you can see or smell.

Research:  Doing disgusting food tasting-------how do you taste food?  🍰

                                                          FUNNY:

SCIENCE:

Method:

Equipment:

1. Unknown food MYSTERY.
2. Blindfold.
3. Popsicle stick.

Instructions:

• Get all of the equipment required.
• Wash your hands.
• Put on your mask over your eyes.
• Block your nose from smelling the food you'll get.
• Put your hands out to collect the food.
• Eat the food.
• Unblock your nose and guess what you ate.

Results:

                                                        sugar FIRST:

                                            salt  SECOND:

baking soda THIRD:

 

Now we will be starting the blindfolded:

It was a pickle FIRST:

It was a potato SECOND:

It was a apple THIRD:

It was a pear FOURTH:

It was marshmallows 5TH:

It was burger rings 4TH:

It was candy 5TH:

Here is the other side of the results:

First taste	Last taste	Food guess
Sweet	Sweet	Sugar
Salty	Sour	Salt
Biter	Biter	Icing sugar
Slimey	Good and tasty	Pickle
with like dirt in it	Hard like an apple	I don't know.
Sweet and fruity	crunchy	apple
Hard and sweet	slimy	Kiwi
Hard and chewy	Chewy	Stale Marsh mellows
Yummy	Yummy	Burger rings
Sweet	Coke flavour	Candy

                                                                   Discussion:

                                                       How do you taste food?:

 taste buds pick up clues about how a food tastes and sends messages about it to your brain along special wires called nerves. To taste something properly, you need to chew food into small pieces and to have a lot of drool, or saliva. This help the flavour molecules (also known as “tastants”) reach your taste buds.

                                                       What are different tastes?:

               Sweet, sour,fruity,slimy,Chewy,Biter,Salty,savoury,meaty,cool,hot,

                              Where are the different taste buds on your tounge?                         Each person has between 5,000 and 10,000 taste buds, most of which are located in papillae — the small rounded bumps on the upper surface of the tongue. Taste buds are also scattered across the roof of the mouth and the back of the throat.