week 2

Today we were asked to tell you what a schooner looks like. The schooner usually has four sails; it has a long deck and at the front of the ship, there is a pole holding the sails. It looks like you can fit a lot of people on it but I'm not really sure. It's quite big in size and looks like you can fit lots of luggage on it. The one thing I wonder is if the ship has an underneath area.

pontoon bridges

floats or shallow-draft boats to support a continuous deck for pedestrian and vehicle travel.Floating bridges were historically constructed using wood. Pontoons were formed by simply lashing several barrels together, by rafts of timbers, or by using boats.

energy transformation

when energy is passed  from one type to another  

there are 8 types of energy 

1. kinetic - moving 

2. chemical potential - found in chemicals 

3.heat -produced by the movement of particles 

4.light - from x-ray to visible light 

5.gravitational -found in oobjects high 

6.elastic potential -

7.electrical- 

8.sound- 

how to make it 

1. cut the base out of a cup 

2 . stretch a balloon 

3. 1/2 way  down neck cut the balloon  

Pita Pockets

Pita Pockets

I was in a team of 3 and I was the Team leader. I had to make sure the other students
collected the right ingredients and followed my instructions. I grated the cheese,
cut up the ham and washed the lettuce. One of the students is dairy free so she
didn't have cheese or sauce. I was pleased with how my Pita pocket turned out and
it tasted delicious. I would like to make it at home.
I  dried the dishes and wiped down the bench and table. I helped another student put things away. 
Even though I was very busy I enjoyed being the team leader. 

• 1 Pita Bread per person 

• Lettuce

• Cheese - grated

• Tomato - sliced or diced

• Carrot - grated 

• Cucumber - sliced

• Red Onion - rings or finely chopped

• Other vegetables: Celery, Capsicum, tinned Beetroot etc

• Sauces – Choice of Tomato, BBQ, Mayo, Hummus, Sweet Chilli

• Ham or Cooked Chicken Breast 

Method

1. Prepare the vegetables and meat as required

2. Place pita bread in microwave for 20 seconds (optional)

3. Cut open the pita bread along the crease to make an opening

4. Fill pita pockets with required fillings and sauces

5. Serve

my Strengths

 my strengths  

OUR POLICIES

this is my POLICIES 

1. Be able to have a driver's license at 13  if you are sensible
   I  have to walk a lot and I wish I had a car. I’m actually pretty good at driving. It’ll save me from taking the bus all the time and I won’t get run over.
   
   

2.  Legalize weed. It helps with stress and it’s not that harmful. People will smoke it anyway even if it’s illegal so you should just make it legal. It would also be safer for people if it was legal. If people grow their own they know where it’s coming from. 
   
   

3. We should not have a four day work week . People will get stressed because you’re doing so much work in a day. It will be hard to hangout with friends after school.
   
   

4.  School uniforms should be cheaper. They are really expensive. People would have more money for food and paying bills.

The Design Process/ home economics

 the design process

We made pancakes for our Home Economics assessment. 

Miss Birth was our stakeholder. We asked her what she liked & disliked. We wrote a shopping list and found out the pricing on the Pak n save website.

Our group did a time management plan for our recipe making.

This is a recipe that we are using. ( Makes 3 pancakes) 

Sunday pancakes.

1 cup Self Raising Flour

2 Tbsp White Sugar

½ tsp finely grated lemon zest (optional)

1 cup  Milk (or Soy/Rice milk)

1 egg, lightly beaten

30g Butter, melted (or margarine)

To serve:

2 bananas, sliced

1 punnet blueberries (or frozen berries defrosted)

Flavoured Syrup - Butterscotch, Caramel, Vanilla, Maple or Honey Maple.

Method:

1. Sift the Self Raising Flour and Sugar into a bowl. 

2. Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients. 

3.  Add the lemon zest, Milk, egg and melted butter/margarine and whisk to combine. 

4. Heat a large non-stick frying pan over medium low heat and grease lightly with butter or oil.

5. For each pancake, place 2 tablespoons of batter into the pan. 

Cook for 2 minutes or until bubbles form on the surface. 

Turn and cook for a further 1 to 2 minutes or until the pancakes are cooked through.

Here is the original recipe:

Pancakes

my photos

 

Evaluation

This is the feedback  we got from Miss Birch. 

Kineka and Candesse and Chloe 

 

Thanks for the delicious pancakes last week, it was such a sweet surprise!

 

I loved the colours of the toppings - the vibrant rich colours of the fruit contrasted nicely against the soft white cream. 

 

The pancakes were delicious and the batter was very smooth. I liked the overall presentation !