The Christchurch Earthquake

Predictions-

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know is that it happend in 2011! But i'm sure I'll find more stuff about it!

What do I think I will find out about this disaster?

I think I will find some intresting things that happended in the disaster!

                                                  Task 2 - Read and Research                                             

1. Why do you think there was no loss of life in the September earthquake?

People got into a safe place before the earthquake

2. How mant people were injured in the February Earthquake 

at least 46 people were reported injured. 

3. Explain liquefaction in your own words

Something that is procressing a thing, espisically a gas or liqud

4. How many people died when the CTV building collapsed

 115 people died when the CTV building collapsed.

5. List three words that are synoyms of the word 'huge'

Colossal, Enormous, Monstrous

Video one 

The video is blocked sadly sorry! :(

Video two

This video is also blocked sorry!

                         The last thing we had to do again is a venngage! :)

                                                                  

Hope you all liked my new post!  I learnt a lot of new things! I hope you all know a lot about it now. Have a great day! :D

Equipment for Science

 Beaker,

What is a beaker used for? A beaker is a glass cylindrical container. It is used for in the chemistry lab for mixing, heating, and stirring liquids. 

Test tube tongs,

It is a Beaker tongs are used for carrying beakers, evaporating dishes or flasks. Test tube holders are used for lifting, carrying or heating test tubes. 

Test tube rack 

Lighting a Bunsen Burner

1.  Get heating equipment.
2. Wear your safety goggles.                          Lighting a Bunsen Burner
3. Put heat mat on the bench.
4. Connect the hose to the gas tap.
5. Turn the collar to close the air hole.
6. Light the match or the lighter.
7. Turn on the gas. 
8. Turn the collar to open to the air hole.

Hands on Fire Science Experiment

Aim: 

I want to safely light my hands on fire. 

Method: 

Equipment 

• Detergent
• Lighter 
• Safety Glasses
• Gas
• Tray
• Hose     

Instructions

         1. Collect your equipment 

         2. Put some water into the tray.

         3. Squirt some detergent into the tray.

         4. Put on safety glasses.

         5. Tie up long hair.

         6. Take off any jewellery 

         7.  Wet you hands, wrist and arms. 

         8. Bubble the gas into the water.

         9. Scoop the bubbles but not the water.

       10. Hold the bubbles in front of your face with your arms locked.

                            

11. Light the bubbles on fire with the lighter.

12. To rid of the fire, go into the iron-man pose.

 

Results:  

Gummy Bear Osmosis!

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens to Gummy bears when we put them into different liquids.

Prediction: 

I think that the gummy bears will grow 2x bigger in the liquids.

Method:

Equipment

•   Three solutions - water, sugar and salt 
•   Four Gummy bears of the same colour
•   Two Petri Dishes
•   Marker pen
•   Electronic Balance  
•   Measuring cylinder  
•   Beaker

Instructions 

1.  Get your equipment
2. Label Petri dishes with dry, water, salt water, sugar water 
3. Weigh the gummy bears and record their weight on the petri dish.
4.  Add 40ml of solution into the petri dish. 

Results: 

Before:

After:

Ginger Beer!

Aim: I want know how to make ginger beer.

Research:

How to make the ginger beer

Video on how to make ginger make:

Method:

Equipment:

• A cup
• yeast
• sugar
• Tea spoon
• A popsicle stick to stir
• Luke water 
• Ginger
• Lemon Juice

Results:

The taste had a strong taste and had a bitter taste on my tonuge.  

                                                                

Making Sherbert!

 Aim: I want to find out how to make sherbert! 

Research:

Video on how to make it!

Method:

Equipment: 

• Cup
• Baking powder
• Citric Acid
• Sugar ( Raro )
• Popsicle stick
• Teaspoon

Intrucstions: 

1. Get your equipment
2.  Add a teaspoon of Raro into the cup.
3. Add half a teaspoon of baking powder
4. Add half a teaspoon of citirc acid into the cup.
5. Mix the powder with the popsicle stick.
6. Taste the powder and adjust the flavor as necessary.

Resluts:

The powder was foamy and sour. The sourness had a bitter taste. Carborn dixoide was made to make it foamy.

Dissucusion:

What was the chemical reaction? 

Citirc acid + Sodium bicarbonate = carbon dioxide

The Pike River Mine Explosion.

 Predictions-

What do I think I know about this disaster?

I think there was a explosion ripped through the remote Pike River Mine. Thats all I know so far!

What do I think I will know about this disaster? 

I think i'll just find some intresing facts! 

                                                                   Task 2 - Read and research                                                      

1. Where is the pike River mine?

Pike river is near a place called Moonlight Tops hut. But pike river mine is loacted in the Paparoa Range on the West coast of the South island. 

2. When did mining at the Pike River mine begin?

At 3:44 PM on November 19th 2010.

3. How many men were inside the mine when the explosion occurred?

31 miners were deep underground when there was a massive methane explosion.

4. How many men escaped?

Only two named Daniel Rockhouse and Russell Smith survived, stumbling up from two kilometres underground.

5. Why were robots sent into the mine?

So for the robots to look for more survivors but they couldn't get far.

6. What decision did Jacinda Ardern make and announce in 2019?

Jacinda Ardern ( Prime Minister ) promised to unseal and re-enter the mine, and send in a team to see what they could find.

I couldn't find any intresting facts sorry but I you like you can always find out about the pike river mine in these two videos!

Video one 

Video two

Last but not least we always have to do a venngage or canva/picto chart! But I did venngage because i'm more used to using it! Once again we had to do facts on venngage and how it happened (etc) or you could create a timeline!

Anyways here is mine! :)

What is a Base?

 Acid had Hydrogen in it.

The strength of acid is measured on the pH scale. 

It goes from 0 to 14. 

0-1 is Red 

2-3 is Orange

4-6 Yellow

7 Green

8-10 Blue

11-12 Indigo 

13-14 Violet

A base is the opposite chemical to an acid.

A base contains hydroxide (OH)

An acid and a base NEUTRALISE each other and make water. 

    

The Erebus Plane Crash.

 Predictions- 

What do I think I know about this disaster? 

All I know is that it occurred on November 28th 1979! And apprently there were no surviors!  

What do I think I will find about this disaster?

I wanna know how it happened because I don't actually know! 

Task 2- Read and rescearch

1. Where was the Flight 901 heading, and where was it planning to land?

Air New Zealand Flight 901 left auckland for a trip to Antractica. They were to fly over several islands, see McMurdo Staion and Scott base, and land in Christchurch after covering over 8,600 kilometres and flying for 11 hours.

2. What were the names of the pilot and co-pilot of flight 901?

Caption Jim Collins and co-pilot First officer Greg Cassin.

3. Why did the pilot ask to descend to 450 metres?

At 12:45 PM, the caption gained permission to descend to 450 metres, so his passengers could have a better view of the surroundings.

4. What reasons are given in the passage for why the crash occurred?

After an hour of radio silence, search planes were sent out but the wreckage wasn't spotted until after midnight. 

5. What time did the crash occurr?  

It happened at 12:49 PM.

Video one

Notes-

- Air New Zealand flight 901 crashed into mount erebus on ross island Antartica on November 28th 1979

- A mcdonnell douglas dc-10 carrying 257 passengers and crew dissapeared whilst on a sightseeing trip to the southern icy continent

- The aftermath of the crash was steeped in controversy and suspected corruption 

- The event on occasion is still talked about to this day 

- The continent of antartica is a vast icy dessert 

- Air New Zealand themselfs had said that the minimum altutide here was six thousand feet  

- The white of the ground and the white of the sky can blend causing spatial disorientation to pilots

Video two

This video is blocked for me so I couldn't find any notes from this sorry!

Last thing we had to do again was a venngage of the disaster! 

Here is mine! :) 

Hope you all enjoyed my post! Is there anything you know about this disaster that I didn't say? Other than that have a nice day! :)

Red Cabbage Indicator!

 Aim: I want to find out how to tell if something is an acid.

Method:

Equipment

• Beaker
• Red cabbage
• Boiling water
• Test tubes
• Acid + Hydroxide
• Dropper

Intrusctions:

1. Gather your equipment
2. Get the red cabbage and shred them apart
3. Put the shreded cabbage in the beaker
4. Put the boilling water in the shreded cabbage.
5. On one side of the test tube pour 2cm of hydroxide and the pour the other side of the test tube with Hydrochloric acid.
6. Then use the dropper to suck up the cabbage water
7. Then drop the tinted water into any tube 
8. Then try sucking up the acids into different tubes and see what colours you can make!
9. Some of the colours should be: yellow, dark green, ( or just any green ) purple, blue, pink, or mulitcolour! 

Results: 

With using the dropper and putting different acids into each other they turned all cool colours :)

Photo! (not mine): 

The Wahine.

Predictions-

What do I think I know about this disaster?

All I know for know is that the interisland ferry wahine struck the Barrett Reef in Welligton Harbour and overturned! How scary would that be!

What do I think I will find out about this disaster? 

I think I will find out good infomation like about on how the boat sank because I don't actually know on how the whole thing worked! 

                                                              Task 2 - Read and Reasearch

                                                                                                                                                                               1. What weather condtions casued the Wahine disaster?

The boat was casued by a fierce storm stirred by Tropical Cyclone Giselle.

2. Where was the Wahine travelling?

The Wahine began transporting for day and overnight trips between New Zealand's inter-island route between the ports of Welligton and Lyttelon in 1966.

3. How many lifeboats were able to reach land?

At 1:30 PM the abandon ship order was given but only four lifeboats could be launched, one of the lifeboats was immediatley sinking. So only three lifeboats reached!

4. What were passengers forced to do once the lifeboats were full?

When the three lifeboats reached to land the rest of the passngers were forced to jump into the sea and swim to shore. 

5. Why were rescuers unable to get to the shore?   

The rescue teams couldn't get through slips that blocked the roads so some people died on the shore. 

6. How many people died in the Wahine Disaster?

 A total of 51 people did die on board. 

Notes- 

Video one:

-566 passngers and 110 crew were safe

- Fourty six bodies have been found and only six were missing

-  Searching for missing bodies is to continue for the next two days at least, and mountian clubs have been asked to help tomorrow and on Saturday and possibly Sunday to!

- The ship was carrying 68 cars and 25 tons of general cargo and had 144 mail aboard 

- Skin divers went out to the wreck today to have a good look at the ship and they have found that there's no sign of surviors aboard the Wahine

- 106 people were orignally sent to hospital but many have been discharged, one small boy is in a serious condition.

Video two: 

This video is actually blocked for me so I can't find any notes for this video sorry! 

Venngage 

The last thing we do is a venngage about the what happened and some facts about it or you could do a timeline about it!

Here is mine! :)

 

Hope you all liked my post! What's something you found intresing about the Wahine disaster! I hope you all have a good day!! :)