Genetic disease

 For the past three weeks I have been working on a genetic disease to present in front of my class and the disease I spoke about was Adrenoleukkodystrophy of ALD for short. The disease I spoke is special in some way to me because and couple of my cousins come from a long line of people with this disease and just like their cousins they got it as well but luckily for them they have lived past the life expectancy. The hardest part was collecting information and adding it to a slide but the easiest part for me was when I presented in front of the class, even though I was nervous I feel like I did a good job after all. 

Send it challenge

 Today in Science we made a catapulte to launch a pingpong ball to see who would win the challenge. Doing this activity tested my creativity skills so much I almost gave up but me and my team pushed through the hard part and got it done even though we probably got the least furtherest out of all the other teams. The hard part was creating the catapult because we had a few trials and errors and it was hard to make a catapult with the materials that was given to us which was ice block sticks, rubber bands, a cup, a spoon and paper clips. The easy part was testing the launcher before the challenge because we had a few laughs, laughing at how far ours went. If I was to change something I would change the design and idea of our catapult to send the ball further. 

Does the colour of food effect whether we can identify the flavour?

For the past week or 2 we have been researching for a science fair topic to work on The topic that I have chosen for the science fair is, DOES THE COLOUR OF FOOD AFFECT WHETHER OR NOT WE CAN IDENTIFY THE FLAVOURS? We havent finished our research but there is a way to test if the coulour of food effects our liking of food, for instance we can make a blueberry muffin and colour it orange or make purple banana muffins or green white chocolate. So there are possible ways to test the liking of a certain coloured foods.  

We are going to be planning out our equipment for our baking process which we will be doing next week Monday.

SPCA

 In science we had to choose animal welfare to research about and so I chose the SPCA which is short for Society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. 

PLANTS AND PHOTOSYNTHESIS

"Kia ora"

for the past three weeks we have been learning about 'plants and photosynthesis'. Here is the summary of what I have learnt so far.