The piano

Where was the piano invented and by who?
The piano was invented by Bartolomeo Cristofori (1655-1731) of Italy.

What did the first piano look like


What is the difference between a piano and a keyboard
A 'piano' is an acoustic instrument with weighted keys whereas a 'keyboard' is an electric instrument (requiring a power source) with unweighted (lighter) keys than a piano.

What have you enjoyed about learning the piano/ keyboard what have you found challenging? 

I enjoyed learning about how to use your left hand and why and how it can become an important key in making the music have more flow, what I found challanging was trying to incorporate the left hand but also learning the songs.

Expansion and Contraction

 What is expansion, what causes it to happen
the action of becoming larger or more extensive.
 What is a contraction, what causes it to happen
the process of becoming smaller.
Hypothesis: I think when the metal gets hot and when the metals going hit the cold water it's going to implode.

Aim

• To observe contractions in gases

• Equipment
• Aluminum Can, scissor tongs, Bunsen Burner, heatproof mat, tripod, gauze mat, an open container of water

• Method
• Set up a Bunsen Burner underneath a tripod and gauze mat.
• Pour approximately 50-60 ml of water into the can. It should not be no more than ¼ full.
• Heat the can of water until steam is seen escaping from the top. 
• Carefully grip the can with the scissors tongs. Ensure you have a firm hold of the can before lifting it off the gauze mat. 
• Quickly, but very carefully, invert the can as you plunge it into a container of water. 

Results

While the Can was on the Bunsen Burner, it was heating up and it was getting hotter, once the can was getting hotter we could start seeing steam and the can started boiling. Then we had to transfer the can into the container with cold water and the can straight away decreased in size.

• Discussion
From the results we got from the experiment, the can decreased in size for our results. This was because when the can was being heated it was boiling up and you could see steam coming out of the can, and we know that when you want something to increase it's size we heat it, but our aim for this experiment was to see what will happen to the can if we putted it into a container with cold water after being heated up, and therefore the size of the can decreased because it got cooled down by cold water.

Black Death paragraph

In October 1347 trading ships from Genoa entered the harbor of Messina in Sicily.

The oars are dead and dying men, they have come from a black seaport in the Crimea.

The Genoese have a trading post there. The ships tie up at the wharves. Those men who

can still walk go ashore; they take the disease with them and the disease reaches

Marseilles in November 1347. By January 1348 it has gone to North Africa through

Tunis, westward from Marseilles to Spain and genoa and Venice in march it goes

northward up the rhone river to Avignon between February and May it gets to

Narbonne, Montpellier, Carcassonne, Toulouse, Rome, and Florence. Between

June and August, it gets to Bordeaux, Lyon, and Paris. It gets to Seville in July it

spreads to burgundy and Normandy. Then goes into southern England it gets to

bristol in July it grows from Italy into Switzerland and into Hungary.

In 1349 it goes from Paris to Picardy, Flanders and the low countries it reaches

Vienna in march it gets to London in January and Durham in June it goes from

England to Scotland and Ireland and Norway from there it goes to Sweden, Denmark,

Prussia, Iceland, and Greenland and then to northern Russia. It attacked Russia again

in 1351. Once the black death gets to a place it kills people for about six months and

then fades away, but in big cities, it dies down in winter and then comes back in spring

for six months it has gone from most of Europe by the middle of 1350. Plague comes

back many times over the next 350 although it is never as fierce again it is not until the

early 18th century that it seems to have gone for good but of course it hasn’t really.

To start with the black death had no name people called it the “Pestilence” or the

“great mortality” it has three forms-

In the mid-14-century a deadly bacterium spread across Europe, killing entire populations. During this devastating pandemic, the communities appointed so-called plague doctors, whose mission was to tend to the victims and diagnose their fate. To avoid spreading the disease they were quarantined for 40 days after seeing patients before they were let out to operate.

How they tried to cure it

They had tried to cure it by rubbing onions, chopping herbs, or cut up a snake and rub it

on the boils. pigeon and rubbing it on the infected body. They would also drink vinegar, eating crushed

minerals, arsenic, mercury, or ten years old treacle. They would sit close to a fire or in a sewer to drive

out the fever or fumigating their house.

Bubonic Plague

(most common type) Large lymph nodes or buboes

(black swellings about the size of an egg or an apple) erupt in the armpits and groin

oozing blood and pus. Boils cover the body and black blotches appear on the skin from

all the internal bleeding. There is a sudden fever, restlessness, confusion, and severe

pain. Death within five days

Pneumonic Plague

The infection spreads to the lungs causing pneumonia. Coughing expels millions of

contagious bacteria, sharp chest pain, contentious fever, heavy sweating, spitting out

blood, death within three days, or less.

Septicaemic Plague

Infection in the bloodstream, least common form of the disease. Most fatal,

sudden severe illness, chills, fever, headache, nausea, vomiting, delirium,

no time for other symptoms to develop, death within a few hours, or two days.

Inclusiveness

 In wananga, we have been learning about the topic  Inclusiveness. 

Inclusiveness means

According to Oxford Dictionary inclusiveness means; the practice or policy of including people who might otherwise be excluded or marginalized, such as those who have physical or mental disabilities and members of minority groups.

I don't think my thoughts have changed much, I think I understand being inclusive a little bit more but I feel like I already was inclusive so I didn't need much to change.

                      

Conduction

I science we have been learning about matter and what the keys are today we had to make a stop motion showing how conduction or convection works I chose to do conduction. Conduction is a process of when heat passes through an object and the particles bump into each other.

  

Explanation about the stop motion:

If you keep a metal spoon in a hot pot of something soon the entire spoon gets too hot to touch, and how I showed that was by putting the end of the spoon on top of the fire and with the paper clips it has "wax" on it to keep it put and while the spoon was heating up thus melting the wax and ending it with the paper clips falling; by keeping the spoon over the fire for a long time will lead to the whole spoon heating up.

Middle Ages

What was life like in the middle ages?

The majority of people living during the Middle Ages lived in the country and worked as farmers they were called peasants. Usually there was a local lord who lived in a large house called a manor, or a castle. Local peasants would work the land for the lord. The peasants were called the lord's "villeins", which was like a servant.

The peasants worked hard all year long. They grew crops such as barley, wheat, and oats. They also had

gardens where they grew vegetables and fruits. City life was very different from country life, but it wasn't

much easier. The cities were crowded and dirty. A lot of people worked as craftsmen and were members of

a guild. Young boys would serve as apprentices for seven years learning a craft. Other jobs in the city

included servants, merchants, bakers, doctors, and lawyers.

Life was different for the rich and poor. Rich people like the king & the queen lived in castles, ate lots of food and showered every day. The poor lived on farms and did not have enough food and hardly showered. This was important because this shows how classes were treated in life. The peasants were treated unequally  “He was a very considerable failure as a king”

Hannah HÖch

Hannah HÖch
Hannah Höch, née Anna Therese Johanne Höch, (born November 1, 1889	Hannah Höch was a German Dada artist known for her political photomontages. Made from newspaper clippings and found objects, her work often engaged with the early 20th-century ideal of the “New Woman”—one who challenged the traditional domestic role of females.	Höch’s bold collisions and combinations of fragments of widely circulated images connected her work to the world and captured the rebellious, critical spirit of the interwar period	Höch began her training in 1912 at the School of Applied Arts in Berlin-Charlottenburg, where she studied glass design with Harold Bengen until her work was interrupted by the outbreak of World War I.She went back to Berlin in 1915 and re enrolled at the School of Applied Arts, where she studied painting and graphic design	Höch and Hausmann cut, overlapped, and juxtaposed (usually) photographic fragments in disorienting but meaningful ways to reflect the confusion and chaos of the postwar era.
The artist is most commonly associated with her photomontage cut with a kitchen knife through a beer belly of the weimar republic (1919-1920) which critiqued the male-domnated political apparatus.