Anzac Biscuits

Today in cooking we got split into groups and were given different recipes of cooking goods, My group had consisted of Emily, Kahciar, Bradyn while we made some delicious Anzac biscuits. We would have worked better but in the end, but everyone did do their assigned jobs, it ended really well and we ended up with some beautifully select Anzac biscuits.

Anzac Biscuits

1/2 cups of Edmonds standard plain flour

1/2 cup sugar

2/3 cup coconut 

3/4  cup rolled oats

50 g butter 

1 Tablespoon golden syrup

1/2 teaspoon Edmonds baking soda

2 tablespoons boiling water


Method

Pre-heat your oven on 180 bake. Mix together the flour, sugar, coconut, and rolled oats. Melt the butter and golden syrup together in a small bowl. Dissolve the baking soda in the boiling water and add it to butter and golden syrup. Fold the butter mixture into the dry ingredients until it is combined. Roll the mix into medium-sized balls and fit them on a lined tray 4x3. place them in the oven for about 12-15 minutes or until it turns a golden brown color.

TASTE EVALUATION  

They had a nice crunchy outside while the inside was soft and chewy. The outside had this sugary coating while the inside had this chewy mix between a sweet coconut and the bitterness of the rolled oats. Overall it tasted amazing and had a great texture. When they cooled down they still have around the same taste but the biscuits were cruncher and colder. They still have an amazing sugary coating and chewy inside. Best ANZAC Biscuit 

ever!

Stake Holder Opinion

"It as a really nice flavour and texture, on the inside as well and the coconut gives it a nice kick to it as well with the oats.'

Summary 

Overall the biscuits turned out really well and it exceeded my expectations and along will my fellow peers; Although my group could have worked and communicated better I was still glad we managed to get our biscuits looking delightful and tasting delightful.

Distillation

Today in Chemicals we did an experiment on distillation. Distillation is an experiment used to show the process of condensation.  In this experiment, we're using different types of cokes like normal ones and zero ones. 

Separating a mixture using Distillation
Aim: To separate a solute from a solvent in a solution using distillation.
Hypothesis: I think that Coca-Cola will stay the same, and Zero will just be partly changed. 
Equipment: A solution of different types of cokes, conical flask, heatproof mat, a delivery tube, and bung, Bunsen Burner, tripod, gauze mat, retort stand, boss head, and clamp, boiling tube. 

Method:

1. Set up the equipment as shown in the diagram.
2. Add approximately 50mL of coke to your conical flask. 
3. Start the element.
4. Heat the solution until most of the solvent has been evaporated. Turn off the element.  

First, we had set up the equipment we needed. Our group used the Coca-Cola Zero. 

Images:

Observation: First the Coke was still and it was just heating up, then it just started to form little bubbles, then it started to bubble up a lot, then it looked like clear water was being sucked by the delivering tube into the conical flask. 

Discussion: In the conical flask that had the coke in it, at the bottom there were some dried sugar left (it isn't a burn mark because if we heat it up it would form bubbles), When we heated the Coca-Cola, it evaporated and it got trapped which separated it, then we used ice to cool it down. I saw steam because it was heating. Our flask had less sugar left over compared to the other group that had the original Coca-Cola that had sugar in it.

But then there was a clear liquid that has been sucked by the delivering tube and I think that it the condensation from the Coca-Cola, I guess there's only one way to find that out, is to look on the ingredients on the Coca Cola bottle. 

Conclusion: This experiment was very interesting and shocking, because I've always thought that the Zero Coca-cola had no sugar in it because it say on the label of the bottle, then doing this experiment shows that there was actually a decent amount of sugar left at the bottom of the flask. 

Blues Research : Historical Conext

In music class, we had to get into groups of four and we got to choose a genre of music we wanted to research my group and I decided to do blues, We were also given the options of what to search about the music genres e.x musical instruments they use. I had chosen the Historical Context meaning I had researched who had started the blues genre and where it had all began.  

Empathy

How I showed Empathy

How I showed empathy was when my friend was in a really bad state where their mind couldn't focus so I decided that I needed to try and distract them from their bad thoughts.

Why I think it's important to be an empathetic person 

Empathy is important because it helps us understand how others are feeling so we can

respond appropriately to the situation. Empathy also helps us to communicate our ideas in

a way that makes sense to others, and it helps us.

Dilution Experiment

On Monday my class and I got to do an experiment including diluting the chemical potassium permanganate, we have been learning about concentration and dilution so we did an experiment to see the result in front of us and understand what it looks like.

Aim: To understand what dilution does and how it works

Method: We had gotten our rack and we placed six test tubes and started putting water in each individual tubes and placed 5mil into each tube beside one the one that we left we had poured 10mil into it. We had then gone to our teacher so they could put the potassium permanganate. We then gently placed the test tube in the small rack and began stirring the mixture until it became a beautiful dark purple. Our teacher then explained that we had to take 5mil out of the 10mil tube and place it in the 5mil ones but we had to keep taking from the one we had originally placed the mixture in, so our result would look like a transparent pink.

Equipment:
Test Tube Rack
6x Test Tubes
Pipette
Potassium permanganate crystal 
Tweezers
10mL measuring cylinder

Results:

Discussion:

As you can see in the photo the color purple gets lighter and lighter as it goes past each test tube. That is because the last few test tubes had more water which means that there was the least amount of potassium permanganate.  

The test tube that is light purple has least potassium permanganate, most water, which means 

most dilute =least concentrated

Therefore the dark purple test tube has the most amount of potassium permanganate, least amount of water which means 

most concentrated = least dilute. 

9/11 Time line

Have you ever heard of 9/11? What is 9/11?

The September 11 or 9/11 attacks were a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed in 2001 by 19 terrorists associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda. It was the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S soil; nearly 3,000 people were killed.  

Who planned the September 11 attacks?

Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is considered the mastermind of the attacks, though Khalid Sheihk Mohammed was the operational planner. Mohammed came up with the innovation of using hijacked planes to attack the United States, and al-Qaeda provided the personnel, money, and logistical support to execute the mission

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Mohammed Atta was selected to head the mission. He and 18 other terrorists, most of whom were from Saudi Arabia, established themselves in the United States, where some received flight training. All 19 hijackers died in the attacks, bin Laden was killed by the U.S forces in 2011, and Mohammed was then captured in 2003. 

On the morning of September 11th, 2001, started off like any other usual day. The Twin towers stood tall in the Financial District, as they had for more than 30 years.

Why do I think 9/11 was chaotic?

I think it is very chaotic because it was not an accident everything was planned out, not just the fact that the Twin Towers were destroyed but some people decided to jump out of the buildings *commit suicide* because they thought that would be better than burning alive is more chaotic,

Timeline of 9/11 below:

Photo's of 9/11

Fwd: Chocolate Chip Cookies

Today in foods we got to make the magnificent chocolate chip cookies, it was quite an experience I would have never really thought that making such a famous cookie could be so hard, nonetheless, my group and I toughed through it and actually had fun, the cookie's had such an exquisite smell it was really breathtaking. 

Ingredients
100g butter 
1/2 cup Chelsea White sugar
1/2 cup Chelsea Brown sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla essence
1 1/2 cups flour
pinch of salt
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 cups of chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS - MADE SIMPLE

We started off by turning our oven to 180 on bake. We then got our mise en place done (Finished getting our ingredients and putting them in order). After that, we softened our butter and added the sugars as well as the vanilla. Once that was creamed together, we added our egg and whipped it until it was incorporated into the mixture. When the wet ingredients were together we mixed all of our dry ingredients (flour, salt, baking powder, and chocolate chips) into a separate bowl to make sure everything would be incorporated at the same time. After that, we mixed the dry ingredients into the wet mixture making sure nit to River mix because that would activate the gluten. When we mixed it we got a tray and lined it with baking paper so the cookies don't stick to the tray. We rolled the cookies into medium-sized balls and placed them down so they don't touch when they spread out while cooking. Then you put them into the oven on the top shelf and cook for about 8 - 10 minutes.

     

            

P.E Weekly blog post Week 7

This week in P.E we have been given the opportunity to manage our own P.E time, we've been given a variety of choices by the teacher such as Table tennis, Juggling, Just Dance, Basketball. On Tuesday I did Table Tennis and Juggling. For Table Tennis we had the tables set up towards the wall so we can practice serving the table tennis balls and trying to get at least 10 accurate hits. 

One of the techniques I learnt was to let the ball hit the table first before hitting it, or else your opponent will get a point. 

For Juggling I started off by trying to juggle two balls in one hand, personally I think it was very hard because I had to focus on two balls at one. 

I learnt to throw the second ball once the other has been released. 

On Wednesday, I tried out Just dance with other students. I think we did very well because we were all focusing and we were doing the right thing even when there was no teacher, we were also committed and overall having fun!