Chelsea Bremner - Wananga Task

Chelsea Bremner -

 Chelsea Bremner is teaching intermediate students at Hornby High School in Western Christchurch, but her school's rugby team joined with two others - Hamilton and Riccarton - to make up the Southern Side. Shes coaching alongside her Canterbury Teammate Cassie Siataga. 

Main Points about Chelsea Bremner - From the Article:

• Chelsea Bremner is a Teacher at High School.
• Before Chelsea Bremner became a superstar at Rugby, she first used to play netball.
• Four years ago when she began to play Rugby, she first played for Lincoln University.  
• Last year she won the Fiao'o Fa'amausili Medal for FPC player of the year and was rewarded with a Black Ferns contract.
• Chelsea Bremner also coached School teams around Christchurch.
• She really enjoys and loves being outside on the Rugby field.

Chelsea Bremner is......

1. Brave
2. Strong
3. Happy person
4. Caring person
5. Kind
6. Respectful
7. Helpful
8. A Good Teacher and Coach

How she is a good role model in any way:

Chelsea Bremner is a good role model for the country, and that is because she represents the Country/New Zealand and always commits to her Rugby.

Also she is a good role model for the Intermediate school she teaches at, which is Hornby High School. In my opinion, I think that she is a good role model for our school because she always show's leadership, by always helping kids about Rugby and teaching them special techniques players use in Rugby, also she is always committed into all the sports we do at school. Another reason she is a good role model at Hornby High, is because she is always active at all times, even when she is busy, she still is committed into anything, and that shows the school/community/Country/World that she is a good role model.

My own Question for Chelsea Bremner:

How do you feel about making these big teams, and being apart of the teams to represent who you are and where you come from???

Answer:)

Condensation

 Condensation:

Filtration - Solid + Liquid

Evaporation - Liquid (Solid dissolved in liquid) - Solid..

Distraction - Liquid (Solid dissolved in liquid) = Gas - liquid 

                                                                                      - Solid

What is:

1. Evaporation - heating a liquid, turns to a gas.
2. Condensation - cooling down a gas, turns into a liquid.

Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation. 

Equipment:

• A solution of salt water
• Conical Flask
• Heat proof mat
• A delivery tube
• Bunsen burner
• Tripod
• Gauze mat
• Retort stand
• Boss head
• Clamp
• Boiling tube

Method:

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram
2. Add approximately 50ml of saltwater to your conical flask
3. Light your Bunsen burner. Open the air hole and gently push the Bunsen burner under the tripod.

Hypothesis:  

In my opinion, I think that when we heat the Coke Zero, there will be no solid left after it has been heated, but with the Original Coke, I think that after it has been heated, there will be still sugar left behind.

Notes:

• Somewhere near the beginning of the experiment, I think the first few minutes, our group began to notice that at sometimes, there were small bubbles that would occur a few times.
• After a little while, our group could see that the Coke, began to Evaporate.
• After we experienced the Evaporation, we seen that the Gas started to condensation and it turned into liquid.
• After we had completed the experiment, there was only a thick layer of sugar, coloured black.

Conclusion:

All that was left behind from the Original Coke, was a large amount of dissolved sugar, and in the Coke Zero, there was less amount of dissolved sugar, than the Original Coke, and adaptive.  

Pacific Series 2k20 - Malie's Under 13s

Every year on November, we have Pacific Series, which is a Pacific Nation tournament, where all Pacific Nations play against each other in a game of Rugby League also, this Tournament was a 2 day tournament. All of our Pacific teams that were playing, we all had our own grades, and the grades were from grades ones to Mens grade. I was in Grade 13s and I played for the South Island Malie's team, also known as Samoa. 

As you can tell by the title of 'Pacific Series', there are only Pacific Nation teams who were allowed to play, but this year was different. Teams from different cities in New Zealand, were allowed to enter the competition, mainly teams from the South Island, but only that, but their were also Rugby clubs who entered the competition aswell. 

The usual teams were Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, Cook Island and The Kiwi's, and the new teams that joined were Timaru, West Coast, Linwood Bulls, also a team from Auckland well known as the Auckland Warriors. 

The tournament was held at Hoon Hay Park Christchurch, in New Zealand. 

This year, our Malie's 13s team, had trained really hard, and were committed into this interesting tournament. In our 13s grade, we faced 3 challenging teams, which were Timaru, West Coast Legends, and The Auckland Warriors. We played the 3 teams on Friday, and played all three of them again on Saturday, so in total, there were basically 6 games, and out of those 6 games, we managed to win 4 games, and lose 2 against the West Coast team. 

Our Siva Tau was lead by a young leader Gafatasi, a good mate of mine.

Separating a Mixture using Evaporation

 Aim: to separate a solution in to a solvent and solute using evaporation.

Equipment:

1. Copper Sulphate solution
2. 250ml Beaker
3. Heat proof mat
4. Evaporating basin
5. Element

Method: 

• Set up element 
• Add 100ml of hot water to the beaker and place on the element.
• Add copper sulphate to the Evaporating basin until it is a quarter full.
• Carefully, place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker. 
• Turn on the element to 3.
• Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated and crystals of solute are forming.
• Turn off the element, be careful not to touch, as it will be hot for a long time.

Observations:

Well the water is boiling, I can see the steam exiting out of the Beaker, also, I can see the thick bubbles, boiling inside the Beaker, and the condensation dripping one by one from the roof of the Beaker.

Discussion: 

The water that was boiling inside the Beaker, turned into crystal, because the liquid had solid in it, and then the liquid evaporated, which leaves behind crystals.

Evaluation:

I enjoyed doing this experiment with my group. What I enjoyed about this experiment, was watching the water boiling, and the condensation dripping from the top of the Beaker. Next time, I will not face my back against the Beaker, for safety, and also not putting my hand inside the Beaker.

Metaphor, Simile, Personification....

Metaphor, Simile, Personification

Simile:

A simile is a figure of speech that compares two different things in an interesting way.

Metaphor:

A metaphor is also a figure of speech that directly compares to one thing by mentioning another. It may provide clarity to identify hidden sameness between two ideas. Metaphors are often compared with other types of figurative language, and such as antithesis, hyperbole, metonymy, and simile.

Personification:

Personification is giving a  non-human object human characteristics.

Hyperbole:

Hyperbole is an exaggerated claim that emphasises that point.

M&Ms

Q1. 

• The M&Ms are not peoples but they are made to look like humans. They look like humans because they have been edited with eyes, eyebrows, legs, mouths, and hands. Also they are edited to look like humans, so that people will think they are real humans, and which will also draw their attention to buy their product.

• M&M in advertisements, are made to make us feel sorry about them.

• In an M&M advertisement, the ads are also made to look like a movie and an action film.

Q2.

All forms of personification draw on anthropomorphism, the propensity to attribute human characteristics to objects. Such personification, when embedded in an ad, appears to lead to more positive emotions, more positive attributions of brand personality, and greater brand liking.

• Personification Paragraphs -

Personification is giving a  non-human object human characteristics. (Examples of an ad that uses similes)

• Lightning danced across the sky. 

• The wind howled in the night.

• The car complained as the key was roughly turned in its ignition.

• Rita heard the last piece of pie calling her name.

In real life, the m&ms do not have any personal/human features, but in the ads, they are given, Arms, Eyes - Eyebrows, a mouth, and legs. The reason why the advertisers used personification is because they express their emotions, but we understand their emotions because they are humans in the ad, and we all have the same emotions.

Similes

A simile is a figure of speech that directly compares two things. Similes differ from metaphors by highlighting the similarities between two things using words such as like, as, or than, while metaphors create an understood contrast. You'll even find that similes have been used in popular ads and company slogans over the years, such as Chevrolet Built Like A Rock. Doritos Tastes Like Awesome Feels. State Farm Like A Good Neighbour. In the advertising world, a simile is an excellent way to communicate symbolic ideas. The advertising taglines witness a comparison between two clearly different things by the usage of such words as, like, as - so, as, if, etc.

Logos slogans -

Logos and slogans are another technique that is often used in advertising. Logos are symbols that represent the product of the company. Also Logos for advertising, is the effective technique that aims to convince an audience. For an example of a logo, when you drive into KFC, you can see a huge sign of a man painted red, black and white, which represents the company. They use these colours for reasons. They used the red colour to make people feel positive. Also, they used the colour black in the sign, for power and strength. Thirdly, they used the colour white for pureness, for the food they sell. 

Advertising slogans are short phrases used in advertising campaigns to generate advertising and unite a company’s marketing strategy. Also, these phrases are mainly used to attract the viewers attention. 

Slogans are catchy phrases that used to attract people, and remind  them of the product. (For an example) The Nike slogan is “Just do it” and when it is seen on an ad, people would already know that the product they see is presented by the Nike Company, because they have memorised the company's slogan.

Dilution Series experiment

 Aim - To make a dilution series to investigate concentration 

Equipment:

• A potassium permanganate crystal
• Six large test tubes 
• Tweezers
• A plastic transfer pipette 
• A test tube rack
• A 10ml measuring cylinder

Hypothesis: That test tube 6 will be the most dilution and the 1st test tube will be the most concentration.

Method - What to do for the experiment

1. Place the six tubes in a test tube rack. Label the rack with numbers 1 - 6.
2. Using the measuring cylinder, fill the first tube with 10 ml of water, secondly, with the rest of the other tubes, pour in 5 ml of water in each of the remaining tubes.
3.  Using your tweezers, add a single crystal of potassium permanganate to test tube 1.
4. Gently shake the test tube until the crystal has dissolved.
5. Using the transfer pipette, carefully remove exactly 5 ml from test tube 1 and pour it into test tube 2.
6. Rinse the transfer pipette thoroughly to ensure that no purple solution remains.
7. Gently shake test tube 2 and repeat the transfer process, transferring exactly 5 ml of the solution from test tube 2 to test tube 3. 
8. Rinse the pipette again and repeat the transfer process for test tubes 4, 5 and six.

P.E Volleyball

 Today we managed to try out Volleyball in the gym, with two classes. We were given a choice, to pick as many players as we wanted in our teams. 

Today I focused on learning more techniques on how to serve the ball from the correct position, and how to hit over properly. Also, I managed to learn how to time my spikes in the game. Thirdly, I practices on my settings and managed to set quite a few plays in the game.

Filtration experience

Today in chemistry, we did an experiment on Filtration. Filtration is - Separating different sized particles out of mixture. 

 Aim - Our aim for today's experiment is to make a mixture, and then separate the two chemicals, through filtration. 

Equipment's that were included in the experiment:

• Glasses for safety
• 200ml beaker to pour in the copper sulphate
• Stirring rod to stir the two chemicals together
• Funnel to transport the liquid into the beaker
• Conical flusk 
• Filter paper
• Copper sulphate

Method:

1. Pour approximately 50ml of copper sulphate solution into a beaker.
2. Add some volume of sodium carbonate solution. A reaction will happen, you should see a cloudy blue precipitate form. Called copper carbonate.
3. Watch demo, then fold the filter paper inside the funnel.
4. Place the funnel paper inside of it, into the mouth of a conical flask
5. Stir the mixture  in the beaker, then carefully pour it into the funnel.