SKittle Colours

 Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when you put skittles in water.

Method:

Equipment

• 8x SKITTLES
• warm water
• beaker
• petri dish
• paper towel

Instructions

1. get your equipment
2. put the skittles into the Petri dish
3. spread them around the sides
4. clean the beaker and dry it
5. gently pour the water into the middle of the Petri dish
6. observe how the skittles react.
   
   
   

This was a very fun experiment all in all.

Results: the skittles leaked their colours into the middle of the petri dish as soon as the water was tipped into it, and the only colour left in them was at the top where they could not be submerged by the water. That's called diffusion. As a result, most of them appeared to take a crystallised form. But, the reason the colours didn't MIX while they were taking the travels to the middle of the dish is because of something called water stratification.   That is the reason. The reason that the bottom half of the skittles will appear crystallised is because of the skittle's coating (called Shellac) being ripped off the lolly by the water along with the colour. It will also feel bumpy as it takes on the form. (don't take that the wrong way please. if you do that's not my fault)

The water also tasted very sugary because of all the colour of the skittles going into the water, obviously, and the colours have sugar in them. That's my explanation.

Well, I don't know what else to say, apart from this MAY have been the most enjoyable experiment I've done yet. Maybe apart from the edible slime one, but as I'm writing this I don't know.

I hope you enjoyed reading this longer than average blog and I'll see y'all next week probably. 

published at 1:43am NZST

How to be Normal text answers

 In our reading group, my group was assigned a text where we had to read it and complete the answers.

How To Be Normal text - ANSWERS.

Charley smacked into Michaela’s desk. (Michaela is a protagonist)

The main purpose of this paragraph is to set the scene and immerse the reader into the story, and what this paragraph tells us about Charley is that she’s a person that is trying to detach herself from habits she does not like.   (Charley is the main character)               

The impression that the author gives about Charley is that she appears to be a very isolated and secretive person.

I think that Charley is angry with Amy because Amy had no right to enter the situation. (Amy is another protagonist that comes into the story about halfway through)

Angry, secretive, isolated, introvert

Definitions of screeches, apologise, and introvert

Screeches: a verb used to describe a loud sound that car tires often make when locking up the tires or drifting around a corner. (TCS DRIFT) 

Apologise: a word used to describe saying “sorry” to someone.

Introvert: someone that gets energy from being by themselves, and doesn’t rather company.

Putting three versions of They into the story.

They’re at the park.

The tornado is over there!

No, it’s their turn.

I think we were assigned this work because our main topic for this Hurumanu is outstanding, and Amy was sort of being an outstander. That’s the best I can think of.

Adjectives work:

Apologetic

Drifting

Careful

Busy

Bright

Calm

Blue

Perfect

Huge

Fantastic

Those are all adjectives that are in the story.

edible slime

 I want to find out how to make edible slime without getting poisoned. Here's a video I found on how to do it with certain recipes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2Zh0YCr81Y

Method:

Equipment

bowl

spoon

marshmallows

cornflower

Instructions

put around 15-40 marshmallows inside a bowl or paper cup and put them in the microwave for 30 seconds

get them out after 30 seconds and start stirring and mixing the marshmallows together until they're kind of like goo

add two tbsp of cornflour and mix it into the marshmallow-y goo

if you would like to change the colour of the slime, add a tsp of food colouring

start kneading the marshmallow goo

make it into a ball

make it into whatever shape you want and now you can eat it! :D

published at 4:45pm NZST

FINISHING RESULT: 

Gummy Bear Osmosis :)

Aim: 

I want to find out what happens when gummy bears are put in liquids.

Method:

Equipment:

Salt water aka Sodium Chloride (NA on the periodic table of elements) 

Normal water aka H2O 

Sugar water aka Sucrose aka Sugar Cane 

SOUR HARIBO GUMMY BEARS HAYEEEEEE (or any gummy bears)

Two Petri dishes      

Marken pen

Electronic Scales

Safety glasses

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Get your equipment   
2. Wear safety glasses
3. Get your marker pen, and write your name and the conditions, AND the weight of gummy bears.
4. Do the experiment yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Finishing results: 

Without Difference:

With Difference:

My sugar gummy gained the most weight out of the two. WHY? Because the gummy bear, before the sucrose was added into the Petri dish, had a low concentration of water to begin with. Then, when the sucrose was added, the small holes in the gummy did not allow large amounts of sugar molecules into the gummy bear, only a few could enter at a time, but the little water molecules could enter large amounts at a time, so over the night a lot of water molecules got in, and only a small amount of sugar molecules entered the gummy. It only really TASTED like sugar was in it because the colour of the gummy bear (red) had dissolved into the sucrose and the gummy was in the sucrose for the night. And the dry gummy only gained a little bit because of the dust that built up on the surface of it.