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Monday, 5 September 2016

Sustainability garden

Aim:
I want to find out how to grow a sustainable garden?

Thing I need to consider:
  • Can plants grow in different weathers? Yes because it depends on the thing your planting. 
  • How can keep bugs away?
  • How can I water my plants in the holidays?
  • How long does it take to grow?
  • How long harvested?
  • How much vegetable and fruit can I plant?
Research:
I would like to grow
Pea's
Basil


Method:
Cut
http://greenroofgrowers.blogspot.co.nz/2012/06/spriky-and-2-liter-sip-comic.html
Pet control:

Equipment: 
Shovel
Pea and basil seeds
Bottles
Soil
Instructions:

  1. Pull out the weeds.
  2. Dig up the ground.



Monday, 15 August 2016

Making Biltong/Beef Jerky

Aim: I want to find out how to make Biltong/Beef jerky.

Equipment: 
Knife
salt
2 pounds thinly sliced raw beef/steak
string,
3/4 cup Soy sauce
1 Tsp paprika
1 Tsp honey
2 tsp black pepper
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp red pepper flakes
bowl
1 tsp onion powder
Method:
How to make it:

  1. Gather soy sauce,paprika,honey,black pepper,red pepper flakes,garlic powder,onion powder in a bowl.
  2. Add your meat to the bowl until it turns into coat beef completely.
  3. Cover the bowl overnight so it can marinate.
  4. The next day you preheat the oven to 175 degrees.
  5. Then transfer the beef on to a dry paper towl.
  6. Then place your beef with the dry paper towl in the oven.
  7. leave it there until it is leathery. 





Results: What does it smell like? It smelled like cat food
What did it taste like? I tasted like cat food
What does it look like? a leathery beef and 1 month old dry beef.

Explanation: 
What does salt do to the meat?
The salt made the meat not have any mold,to suck up the juice that can kill bacteria.


Thursday, 4 August 2016

Mouldy Bread Experiment

LO: To find out about mould and what condition mould grows in.


  1. We took a piece of bread.
  2. We gave the bread a condition eg. Whiteboard,Eczema,Doormat.
  3. We added moist paper towel and sealed in a bag.
My hypothesis was:
Whiteboard: Dust and maybe even nothing except a bit of mould, this was the result

Eczema: Maybe different type of mould colours,this was the result
Doormat: It's maybe going to have hair on it,this was the final result



              

Monday, 25 July 2016

Ginger Beer Recipe

Aim:
I want to find out how to make Ginger Beer.

Equipment: 
Water,lemon juice,Ginger,Sugar,Yeast,Ginger root,a bottle.

Method:
                                             Combined it in the jar:
1) Get 600ml of water you can chooses between cold or room temp.
2) Add 1 tsp of yeast in your water.
3) Add water half way in your smashing bowl all so add your ginger root then smash in your bowl.
4)4 tsp sugar
5) Juice 2 lemons and it to your mixer.
6) Then stir.

Result:









What is the stuff at the bottom?
When you look at the bottom their should be brown stuff at the bottom but I was to late but,The brown stuff at the bottom is sugar and yeast mixed together.

What does it taste like?
When I tasted it,it taste like sour vinegar I say you should add more sugar and water to it because it will taste funny.

What will happen when you shake it?
When you shake it all the yeast and sugar comes up.

What does it smell like?
It smells like old juice in a bottle and it smells like ginger.

Discussion:
What is yeast? Yeast is a type of ingredient that you put in your food.
What does yeast do to the ginger beer? It made carbide oxide lose it's gas.
What are good thing you put yeast in? Bread,Ginger beer.
What are bad things you put yeast in? Fizzy drinks.
What are interesting question to ask?
How many days till it goes flat?
How many years or day until it turns in bad drinks?


Tuesday, 5 July 2016

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Monday, 20 June 2016

Who made the first pillow

Who made the first pillow

Ancient  Egyptian people
They also made pillows to keep away the trouble bugs and pest that will chip into there ear or there face and there hair etc.At first they made it with hared metals.
The Chinese people first made a pillow out of bamboo,porcelain,stone,bronze and jade.
They made it out of these materials because it made the brain cure from sickness.
The Greek first stuffed it with wool,straw,feathers.
Each other culture made there own type of pillows.
Some pillows were made out of wood and leather.
The Chinese put decorations on there pillows.
Pillows help pregnant women calm down.
Pillows keep changing every year.
People when they are buying a pillow they care about if it makes them sleep better and also cover there ears other people just care about how soft it is.
Some Americans have three or two on there beds.
The pillow is made for keeping your head warm..well some pillows.
The Persian made there pillows with goatskin.
Heaps of countries were complaining about their head and their back because they felt pain in those spots.


Monday, 2 May 2016

How the Earth was made

Youtube clip on How the Earth was made


  • North Caledonia  their is a medior place .


  • the sun is surrounded by cloud of gas.

  • it colded down to made rock.
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  • the little partials started to stick together
  • it contad s the cloud thing
  • gavity 


  • it melt
  • rado eliments
  • 2000 dc
  • crust
  • 4.5 billion years ago the Earth was about to be what your see here now
  • 2 million years 
  • 1998
  • the Ocean tast like table slat
  • The medois they then swet thew the lava and that is how the water was made I think.
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  • amino acids 

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