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Tuesday, March 19, 2019

1tsp of powdered drink crystals (eg refresh)
1/4 tsp citric acid
1/4 tsp tartaric acid
1/4 tsp -baking soda.
Put all ingredients into a zip lock bag, stir, and enjoy.
Sherbet

Taste
like raro and icing sugar 
Colour
pink and white

Here are some examples of everyday kitchen white powders.

Flour

Cornflour

Sugar

Salt

Baking Soda

Baking Powder

Icing Sugar

Tartaric Acid

Citric Acid

Gluten Free flour

Materials

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Upload a photo of each powder.

1.  Cornflour
2.  Baking Soda
3.  Salt
4. Sugar 

On the black cardboard using a microscope you need to record what you see. You will be given a small amount of 4 white powders on your cardboard. Look at them under your microscope and record what you see. 
Do not mix the powders or taste the powders.

Findings:



Sugar
Salt
Baking Soda
Cornflour
Appearance
one of the sugars looks like burnt toffee and the other 2 looks like just wet sugarlooks like egg whites and egg yolks looks like egg whites and egg yolks just rolls of the top of it
Texture
wet and grainyreally fine grainy texturereally fine grainy texturereally fine grainy texture
Smell
like rotten fish
viniger
and nothing
real salty fishlike rotten fishviniger
and nothing
like rotten fishviniger
and nothing
Iodine
it spreeds out and goes a really dark brownsokes in to the salt and starts to desolveit spreeds out and goes a really dark brownsokes in to the salt and starts to desolve
Water
starts to desolvs
and spreed out 
desolvs desolvs turns into ubleek
Vinegar
the same thing as the sugar desolvsdesolvs turns into ubleek

Write a paragraph about your findings.
the iodine and the iodine the iodine rolled of the top of the cornflour the same with the water and the vineger.
the sugar and the water and viniger made a pouder consistensy and the iodine made it brown.
and the baking soda fizzed up alot with all of it.



Friday, March 15, 2019

Wet Land

Common wetland plants in NZ

Name
Image
Purpose
EG: Swamp weed
  1. Food for fish and birds
  2. Home for fish and birds
  3. Cleans the water
Bullrush
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  1.  homes for fish
  2. birds can use if for nest
Harakeke
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  1. you can make baskets to hold things
  2. to make rope
Raupo
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  1. used for weeding 
  2. you can make cakes from it
Toitoi
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  1. used to make baskets 
  2. mats 

Common animals, insects, birds you may find in a NZ wetland.

Name
Image
Food
Duck
  1. corn
  2. greens
  3. oats
Frog
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  1. meat
  2. incects
  3. flys
Butterfly
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  1. bread
  2. nectar
  3. flowers
  4. tree sape
  5. polin 
  6. rotten fruit
  7. soadiums from salt and sweat
Grey Heron
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  1. fish
  2. small mamilas
  3. insects
  4. anfibians
Dragonfly
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  1. insects
  2. flys
  3. grains
  4. mayflys
  5. mescitos
  6. butterflys
  7. bees
  8. moths
Fish
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  1. warms
  2. shrimps
  3. frozen foods
  4. per paketed food


Wednesday, March 6, 2019

Plum picking

Today we went to the back of the compost area.Went to the plum tree and started picking all the plums we got the plums to make some plum jam to sell the our staff members and our parents we are selling them to make some money to buy seeds for our new garden.