Health Taha Wairua

Taha wairua

in health we are learning about Taha wairua (spiritual well being). Spiritual Well Being is about the ability to experience and integrate meaning and purpose in life. Also being connected to family and having a set of values. connecting with others, feeling a sense of belonging and forgiveness. Spiritual Well Being can be described differently in many ways but generally relates to someone’s sense of purpose and self awareness to things. So this week we are focusing on kindness. we are doing a RAK ( random acts of kindness) for my RAK i will be helping teachers and also students with finishing school work. its important to show kindness to people especially someone having a bad day.

Home Economics

Scones

This week in Home Economics we learnt how to make scones. In our group we got all the ingredients and put them in a bowl. Using a sift to put our dry ingredients into the bowl while someone else was cutting the better into small cubes. After we rubbed the butter into our flour, baking power and salt using the fingertips until it resembles fine breadcrumbs. then we pour the milk in the center of the bowl and start making our dough  Everyone in our group participated in making the scones.

Ingredients

3 c plain flour 

6 t baking power 

 ¼ t salt

75g cold butter 

1 to 1 ¼  c milk

Method 

• Sift flour, baking power, and salt into a bowl 
• Cut butter in small cubes. Rub the butter into the flour , baking power and salt gently with fingertips until resembles fine breadcrumbs 
• Add milk gradually. Mix quickly with knife to form a soft dough (the amount of milk required depends on a number of factors)
• Lightly knead the scone dough a few times on tabletop
• Pace baking power on oven tray 
• Cut scone dough into 12 even sized pieces 
• Place scone onto the lined oven tray. Keep them quite close together towards centre of the tray 
• Brush with milk 
• Bake at 180c for about 10 minutes 

   Variations 

Cheese scones 

Add ¾ cup grated cheese, pinch of cayenne pepper to flour. 

Before baking top with a little cheese

Biomass Investigation

Investigation.

What is biomass?

Biomass gets its energy from the sun. All organic matter contains stored energy from the sun. During a process called photosynthesis, sunlight gives plants the energy they need to convert water and carbon dioxide into oxygen and sugars. 

What are the 5 types of biomass?

1.  Biogas and land Filling 
2.  Biofuels 
3.  Solid Waste 
4.  Ethanol
5. Biomass

What are three benefits of biomass?

1.   1 Renewable. We will always have the sources of biomass such as crops, manure and garbage.

2.  Carbon Neutral  is maybe the most important of the advantages of biomass energy.

3.     Cost-Effective. Energy harnessed from biomass is inexpensive compared to coal and oil.

What are three disadvantages of biomass?

1.   Biomass is always and widely available as a renewable source of energy. ...It is carbon neutral.

2. It reduces the over reliance on fossil fuels Is less expensive than fossil fuels.

3. Biomass production adds a revenue source for manufacturers.Less garbage in landfills.

Research the following types of Biomass.

You will need to:

Write a definition of each fuel.

Answer each question

• How is it made?
• It is made from organic like vegetable peelings scraps banana and even horse manure
• Where is it made? 
• Brazil,austria,united states  
• What countries use it?
• Kenya, Usa, Sweden, Kenya 

Place 1 images of fuel:

Biomass types.

Name: Agricultural Crops.

Definition: 

Agricultural crops such as silver grass and straw from cereal crops can be used as a fuel for production of heat. Herbaceous material has a different composition from wood and its burning must be handled differently from that of wood.

Research:

A crop is a plant or animal product that can be grown and harvested extensively for profit or subsistence Most crops are cultivated in agriculture or aquaculture. 

Uses:

Heating or electricity

Image:

What are its uses in the future?

By use, crops fall into six categories: food crops, for human consumption (e.g., wheat, potatoes) feed crops, for livestock consumption 

Name: Animal waste.

Definition:

Pig Manure, Horse Manure, Cow Manure

Research:

Discarded material from industries directly associated with the raising of animals, such as those wastes produced by livestock farming manure, milk, meat production.

Uses:

 planting

Image:

What are its use in the future?

Animal manure, such as chicken manure and cow dung, has been used for centuries as a fertilizer for farming. It can improve the soil structure aggregation so that the soil holds more nutrients.

Name: Bio-gas and Landfill gas

 Definition:

Ethanol 

Methanol

Methane

Research:

Landfills for municipal solid waste can be a source of energy. Anaerobic bacteria that can live without the presence of free oxygen living in landfills decompose organic waste to produce a gas called biogas Landfill biogas. 

   

Uses:

Vehicle cooking

Image:

Name: Solid waste

Definition:

Solid waste means any garbage, refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or air pollution control facility and other discarded materials including solid, liquid.

Research:

Combustion is the burning of biomass in air. It is used over a wide range of commercial and industrial combustion plant outputs to convert the chemical energy stored in the solid waste into either heat or electricity.

Image:

Name: Alcohol Fuel

Definition:

Ethanol fuel is ethyl alcohol, the same type of alcohol found in alcoholic beverages, used as fuel.

Research:

Alcohols have been used as a fuel. The first four aliphatic alcohols (methanol,ethanol, propanol, and butanol) are of interest as fuels because they can be synthesized chemically or biologically

Uses:

Alcohol fuel used as fuel It is most often used as a motor fuel, mainly as a biofuel additive for gasoline.

Image:

Solar energy

Solar Energy

Catching the sun movie

Materials:

1.  heat lamp
2.  5 cups
3.  water 
4.  2 sheets of white paper
5.  1 sheet of black paper
6. tin foil
7. thermometer

Steps

1. get into a group
2. fill 4 cups with water 
3. place your 4 cups in the middle of your paper 
4. use your heat lamp to heat the water 
5. wait till a time then measure the water                                                                                                                                      

Time + temperature	Cup 1 White paper	Cup 2 White paper+ plastic.	Cup 3 Black paper	Cup 4 Tinfoil cup
0	12	12	12	12
15 minutes	15	14	20	20
30 minutes	15	13	19	19
45 minutes	17	19	22	22

Findings:

Cup 1 was on white paper. It was 12 degrees at the start then it went to 17 degrees at the end.

cup 2 was on white paper+ plastic and started of on 12 and ended on 19

cup 3 started on 12 and then at the end it was on 22

cup 4  was the same as cup 3 it started on 12 and ended on 22 

Conclusion:

i found out that the sun heated the water better on black paper 

the same as the water on tinfoil. 

TODAY YOU WILL BE INVESTIGATING THE EFFECTS THAT CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ON THE WATER CYCLE.

1. Using your SOLO hexagons poster write a paragraph about the different aspects of climate change.
2. Write about the following Climate Change concepts:

You can do these by powerpoint, embedding a movie , on your blog, on a doc or any other form of presentation. It is up to you.

ACIDIFICATION: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO THE ACIDIFICATION OF OUR OCEANS?

Ocean acidification refers to decreasing levels of PH in the ocean, which makes the sea more acidic. It is the long-term change in seawater chemistry due to the absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Roughly 30 percent of human-made CO2 is absorbed by the oceans.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

DEFORESTATION: HOW DOES DEFORESTATION AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

Deforestation is the second leading cause of global warming and produces about 24% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Scientist say that deforestation in tropical rainforests adds more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere 

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

ICE CAP MELT: HOW DOES ICE CAP MELT AFFECT CLIMATE CHANGE?

When the climate changes enough to warm the Arctic and to melt sea ice, the polar regions have less of a reflective surface. More heat is absorbed, which causes more
melting, which amplifies the warming.

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.

WATER VAPOUR: HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE CONTRIBUTE TO WATER VAPOUR AND EVAPORATION?

Increased water vapour content in the atmosphere is referred to as a feedback process. Warmer air is able to hold more moisture. As the climate warms, air temperatures rise, more evaporation from water sources and land occurs,

Picture:

Diagram of how it affects the water cycle.