Making Salts ll

 Aim: To produce copper sulfate salt by reacting copper oxide with an acid.

Equipment: 

• Copper oxide powder
• Dilute (0.5 mol L-1)
• Sulfuric acid
• 50 mL measuring cylinder
• Two 100mL beakers
• Bunsen burner 
• Tripod
• gauze mat
• funnel
• filter paper
• thermometer
• spatula
• evaporating basin
• stirring rod

Method:

1. Add 20 ml of sulfuric acid to a 100 ml beaker. Heat the acid until it reaches 70oc. Turn off you Bunsen burner.
2. Once heated, use a spatula to add pea-sized portions of copper oxide to the beaker, Stir the mixture for 30 seconds.
3. Repeat step 2 until no more will dissolve. allow the beaker to cool.
4. Fold the filter paper and place it in the funnel. Place the filter funnel into the second beaker.
5. Make sure the beaker is cool enough to hold at the top. The content should still be hot. You may need your teacher to complete this step.
6. Gently swirl the content of the beaker to mix, and then pour into the filter paper in the funnel. Allow the filter through.
7. Rinse the beaker you used to heat the mixture previously, and place it back on top of your tripod filled with 50-60 ml of water. 
8. Place the evaporating basin on top of the beaker and carefully pour some of the solution from the beaker into the evaporating basin.
9. Gently heat the beaker until the solution in the evaporating basin has reduced by half.
10. Leave the evaporating basin to cool. Once cool, move the evaporating basin to a warm place where it will not be disturbed (i.e. a window-sill) and observe over the next few days. Blue copper sulfate crystals should form.

Observation:  We heat up the sulfuric acid before adding the copper oxide powder on it. Since the acid is hot it dissolves the powder pretty quickly. We waited for the powder to completely dissolve, after the powder completely dissolved we started to pour the solution into the filter paper. While doing this we saw how the color changes and there is some salt in it, and we put the solution that we made in one place and wait for it to produce a salt.

Word Equation: Copper Oxide + Sulfuric acid --------> Copper sulfate

Name of the reaction happening in method 2? Neutralization

           

Blog a Anti - Vietnam Song

 In social studies, we started our new topic. We will be looking and talking about the war that happened in Vietnam. Many people all over the world are against in it, even New Zealand. I will be looking to those songs that is written about the war and how bad this war happened. 

Tittle of the song: "Vietnam" by Jimmy Cliff

Hey, Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

Yesterday, I got a letter from my friend fighting in Vietnam
And this is what he had to say
"Tell all my friends that I'll be coming home soon
My time'll be up sometime in June
Don't forget", he said, "To tell my sweet Mary
Her golden lips are sweet as cherry"

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam

It was just the next day, his mother got a telegram
It was addressed from Vietnam
Now mistress Brown, she lives in the USA
And this is what she wrote and said
"Don't be alarmed", she told me the telegram said
"But mistress Brown, your son is dead"

And it came from Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam
Vietnam, Vietnam, hey, Vietnam
Somebody please stop that war now

Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Somebody please stop it

Vietnam, Vietnam, oh
Vietnam, Vietnam, oh oh, oh oh
Vietnam, hey, Vietnam, aha
Vietnam, oh oh, yeah

I wanna say now somebody stop that war
Vietnam, oh yeah, aha

What is the message of the song? The lyrics of this showing how the people dreaming to stop the war because they are loosing the men on their family. Also it is written to show and give support to those soldiers that are fighting to be able to give the country the peace. 

Making Salts Experiment

 Aim: To produce sodium chloride salt by carrying out a neutralisation reaction. 

Equipment: 

• 50mL and 200mL beakers
• Dilute HCI (hydrochloric acid)
• Dilute NaOH (sodium hydroxide)
• 25mL measuring cylinder
• Glass stirring rod.
• Spotting tile
• Universal indicator solution
• Tripod
• Gauze mat
• Bunsen burner
• Evaporating basin

Method: 

1. Using the measuring cylinder measure 10 ml of HCI and pour it into your 50 ml beaker. Add dilute NaOH a few drops at a time while stirring with the glass road.
2. Every 10-15 drops stop adding the NaOH and use the glass stirring rod to transfer a drop of the solution to a spotting tile. Test its pH using Universal indicator.
3. Keep adding NaOH and testing the solution by repeating step 2. As you get closer to neutral you may need to test the solution after every drop.
4. Pour the neutral solution into an evaporating basin and evaporate the water out of the solution using the equipment set up shown above.  

Observation: During the experiment we made a lot of different colors by trying to make a green. After we put our solution on the heat it turns out like a salt. It took a lot of time for us to get to the point that we already made green. I enjoyed this experiment because I've learned how to maintain the acid and the base to make green.

1. Write a word equation for this reaction.  HCI + NaOH ------> NaCl + H20
2. What is the name of the reaction happening in step 1?  Neutralization
3. What is the name of the process you carried out in step 4? It's called " Evaporation".
   

Wananga Reflection

This week we have been doing some activities about self - esteem. I decided to search up a poetry that I can use for my reflection this week. The poem that I chose is also about confidence and comparing to others.  This poem that I choose is telling that you should't compare yourself to others because they are not you and you are not them. It's also saying that we are all different in our own way, they might be good at something but there is somethings that we can do that they can't. For me, I think this poem is very helpful to give those teenagers a lot of confidence and to help them to have a strong self-esteem. I can tell that this is meaningful because as you read it you can already know that you can learned some lesson from it. 

Narrative Opening - English

 In English, we are still continuing our creative writing: The Narrative. We are doing different tasks for each activity, I just finished the show and didn't tell the task, now I am doing the Narrative opening. Narrative Opening is a technique that you can use to hook your readers attention by making the opening really interesting and make them feel curious about your writing. In this task we need to do 3-5 narrative openings, I decided to do 3 since I still need to do the other tasks. I enjoyed this because it challenged me and I've learned a lot while doing this task but I'm not sure if I did it right. 

This is my work:

                                                      Narrative Opening # 1

Hugging my knees, trying to keep myself warm. Smiling to those people walking passed as I got my phone out to check the time but my smile faded as I saw my background on my phone. I took a deep breath and put my phone back in my pocket. But someone caught my attention, widening my eyes as I realized taking my phone out and yes, it's him.

Narrative Opening # 2

Sneaking and hiding trying my best to avoid those suspicious stares. Sweats starts to drip all over my body as I get closer to the exit. I started to close my eyes and take the last step and leave the store without feeling guilty at all.

                                                     Narrative Opening # 3

Crying, shouting, those are the sounds I can hear around me. Firefighters trying to stop the fire as I stand there comforting my sobbing mother. A tear escaped my eyes as I saw the firefighters bringing someone's body from the burning house. As they get closer, realization hits me, there he is the most important person to me. 

The Beatles tour in NZ - Perspectives Blog

In social studies, we have been learning and talking about The Beatles tour in New Zealand. After our lesson about their music we moved on to our next task. Since we are talking about their in New Zealand, this blogpost is perspectives of their tour here. Perspective is about viewpoint or what someone thinks about an event. The Beatles tour in New Zealand can be good and bad in many different ways, also some people are against it. This blogpost will be showing why some people and against it and why it is good for some of them.

This is the link to my map: My Map

Against (Negative)

• Some people are against in this event because of The Beatles attitude towards some of their fan. They are making some rude comments about sexual of waving fans.
• A lot of fans hurt themselves and risking their lives just to see The Beatles.
• The Beatles disrespecting the Maori culture. 
• Fans climbing on the hotel of the Beatles and not obeying the police rules.
• One girl slashed her wrist because The Beatles refused an introduction from her. 
• The concert didn't go well because of how the fans behaving and it didn't went as they planned.

For (Positive)

• They did their traditional greeting which is the "Haka" they are doing this to greet someone or to those people that is important. 
• A lot of people thinks that their tour is life changing  because of their influence in New Zealand. 

                

The Beatles Song - Social Studies

In social studies, we started our new topic. This blogpost is mostly about "The Beatles", I will be analyzing one of their song. We need to choose 1 one their song that we will be analyzing, we can choose any of their song but since I didn't know any of their song so I just picked the one that our teachers recommend to us. 

What is the title of the song?

                                                     " She Loves You" by The Beatles

Lyrics: She Loves You

What the song about? 

This song was written by two of the members of The Beatles which is John Lennon and Paul McCartney. They said the this song is about the boy who thinks and he thought that he lost the girl who loves him but he found out that the girl is still in love with him. 

How different does it sound to music from the 1940's? 

This group become famous before and even now. They influence a lot of people back then in many different ways. Some people starts to copy some of their look like hairstyles and fashion, they also influenced a lot of people with their dance moves. The Beatles is still one of the most popular band in the world until now and we can still see some people who still got those things that they got from them.