Stick man On The Move

Hello Readers,

I have found this great new app that allows me to make awesome animation, It can be found on any laptop and I would recommend using this - Stop motion animator.  I have made an awesome video with my friend Monet , be sure to check out her blog!

I hope you enjoy this stop motion animation as much as I enjoyed making it!
Be sure to put in the comments your thoughts and to give suggestions.
Have you ever made an animation?

Thanks,
Lily

Physiological Fun!

Physiological Fun

Hello readers,

In school we have been researching science and Mackenzie

and I have chosen the topic of which age group has the best

\ health and fitness ability.  We were to research the experiment then

carry it out and display our findings on a science board in the most creative

way possible. This is our finished science board:

I think that if I were to do this again then I would try and perform

the experiment earlier so I could add some extra aspects to the

board and the experiment such as:  Lung capacity, and taste test, as

well as making our board look even better than before. Have you ever

done an experiment similar to this before? If so what were your results?

 Please state your thoughts in the comments below!

Thank you for reading,

Lily.

Hello again,

In school we have been learning about science and have carried out an experiment that we perform, research and display on a board. I asked the question of what question has the best health and fitness ability and I have written an explanation on this topic. I hope you enjoy! Please feel welcome to leave your thoughts in the comments below.

What age group has the best health and physical ability?

All vital organs lose some function over time of aging.  

Here, we are looking at our eyes for sight, Our ears for

sound and our heart for walking around every day.  

What happens as you age?

Eyeball:

The things to look out for with the aging eyeball

is mainly looking at the lens, this will become more

stiff, so harder to see objects from a close proximity.  

Ear:

Tiny cells in your ear are part of what helps you

hear things.  As we get older these hair cells may

get damaged or die, making it harder to hear higher pitches.

Heart:

As you age, so do your blood vessels, making

them less flexible and so less easy to pump the blood round

your body, making your heart work faster.  You can also have

a fatty plaque growing inside of your arteries which

will slowly block them up with time.

Cells are the basic building block of tissue.

 As we age the cells get bigger with us, when they get

bigger it is harder for them to divide and multiply.  

This increases the growth of fatty substances around the

organs like lipofuscin. This fat growth causes the

organs and vessels to become more stiff and rigid.  

The main cause of this is an unhealthy diet,

this encourages the fat to grow and covers the organs.

With the possibility of resulting in:

Illness

A need for Medications

Significant life changes such as difficulty of walking, and getting out of the house.

sudden increased physical demands of the body, such as a change in activity, like, the reduction of physical activities that may take away your breath quickly.

When these organs are pushed to the limit

different ages may react differently or have different

results of the peak of their health.  Because of aging,

the cells and tissue are worn and with aging cause the

organ to lose function and not work as well as the younger

organs seen in younger beings.

Materials

If you decide to try out our experiment for yourself here is what you might need to get started;

Eye test paper

A meter ruler

Phone (Hearing app)

Fitbit

Paper and pens to write names and results.

Where Does Chocolate Come From?

Hello,

In literacy we have been focusing on writing explanations, you may have already seen my one about the tea bag explanation, I have done another one, for younger audiences, on where chocolate comes from.  Hope You enjoy!

Making chocolate in a complex routine that needs to be finished to perfection.  If one the steps goes wrong, it will have a snowball effect on the other steps.  Chocolate is made for the benefit of humans to eat and make profit on.

The first step to making a perfect bar of chocolate is breaking the beans and splitting the insides into groups.

Once extracted from the pod the beans are covered in leaves for 5-7 days.  After this you leave them in the sun for 6 days. 

Next, they get moved to the collection center, where they are weighed and checked for quality before being placed into bags and of to the cocoa factory to be processed.

At the cocoa factory the beans are sorted, cleaned, dried and broken into nibs.  These are roasted into liquid mass, called cocoa liquid.  This is then compressed into cocoa butter and cocoa powder.

Now, it can be proceeded into making the chocolate bar, the ingredients include:

Cocoa liquor, cocoa powder, cocoa butter, sugar and milk.  It now goes into a kneading process called conching for a smooth texture and the snap that you get when you bite into it.  Other ingredients are added to make the different flavors before being delivered in either liquid form, blocks, or drops to the customers of the world.

Here is a diagram I made to go with it:





I hope you enjoyed my explanation.  The next time you bite into a bar of chocolate will you know how it is made?  Reply in the comments!

Burning Down!

Hello readers, 

In school we have been doing science experiments to gain knowledge on science terms and to learn how to make graphs and other presentations to show our results.  In literacy we have done an experiment and written an explanation of the science behind it. 

Here's my explanation of the Tea Bag Rocket:

Tea Rocket Explanation

Launching an empty tea bag shows the power of density differences and combining gasses.  

While this experiment is cool to do it also has some amazing science behind it.

For this experiment you need a tea bag (with string), foil, and a lighter.

Cut the teabag at the top and empty the contents.

 Stand the bag up on the foil, it should look like a cylinder shape:

Carefully grab the lighter and light each side of the top of the cylinder.  The fire and the hot air will burn down the cylinder and collide with the cold air, the

different molecules hitting each other, causing it to fly up with the combining cold air going into the tube and the hot air from the flame.  The rapid speed of the molecules hitting each other causes the carbon (the burning tea bag) to fly up.

This traps the air inside the cylinder, it is now becoming lighter than the air

itself.  When the fire reaches the bottom if flies up into the air creating the magical effect of levitation.

I think that next time I would focus on the science behind it more than the method but I like the way I did the diagrams. I have learnt about the different gasses and I am very interested to learn more. Would you like to do this experiment? What do you think I could do better? Please reply in the comments

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