William Shakespeare

WilliamShakespeare by Michelle Arama

We are learning about William Shakespeare. We learning about it because he is an excellent writer and is still remembered today. We learnt it by reading info sheets about his biography.

Country living is good for young people.

Success in sports is all about winning

Cave Art Painting

What am I learning?
We are comparing modern technology to olden 'tech'. Like how cave men drew and the evolution of weapons and tools. From rocks to stone axes. Like nower days we have a wide variety of options on how to draw/ paint etc a masterpiece but then they used sticks and coloured liquids to draw on the environment around them.

How does this work show my learning?
It shows my learning because we actually made cave art, using their techniques. Its much easier using your hands.

What am I wondering?
How did they come up with the idea to draw their lives? How did they make the dye?

How can I use this learning?
I can use this learning to help me with future cave art drawings and by learning about cave art it has given me a better understanding on how cave men used it.

Mackenzie Poltergeist in Greyfriars

This is a very unusual topic about haunting's from a tormentor of 18,000 Presbyterian Covenant rebels who disobeyed the king. Sir George Mackenzie was appointed by the king to prosecute those that refused to swear allegiance to the king. So he tortured and imprisoned his prosecutors in a section of the Greyfriars courtyard, known as the Covenant's prison. His victims named him 'Bluidy Mackenzie'. For 300 years, both victims and tormentor rested in an uneasy peace, just feet from each other. And, then one dark and stormy night in 1998, a homeless man, possibly wanting shelter from the rain or looking for something valuable to steal, broke into the ‘Black Mausoleum’, a vaulted and well fortified tomb, the final resting place of the infamous ‘Bluidy MacKensie’. The vagrant ransacked the tomb, smashing caskets on every level until he came to one which held the body of Bluidy MacKensie himself. While trying to pry open the casket, a large hole opened up in the floor under his feet, dropping the man into a chamber below. The pit was filled with the remains of plague victims, dumped into the hole and covered over during plague days as a quick way to dispose of bodies. Confronted by the remains and stench of still rotting flesh, the homeless man ran screaming hysterically from the mausoleum into the night, never to be heard from again. The next day, another passerby looking through the iron gates of MacKenzie’s tomb was (in her own words) “blasted back off it’s steps by a cold force.” Sometime later, another woman was found near the tomb’s entrance lying unconscious and her neck covered with bruises as if someone had tried to choke the life from her. Once these stories of the macabre hit the internet, the legend of the Mackenzie Poltergeist in Greyfriars was born and lit up the area like wildfire attracting ghost hunters and macabre seekers from every corner of the earth. Since 1998, when Mackenzie’s casket was first defiled, over 500 ghostly attacks have been reported by those visiting the tomb, many of these injuries documented with photographs.Today, many people believe this graveyard is haunted by the Mackenzie Poltergeist, a malevolent spirit who’s hatred lives on from beyond the grave. Is Mackenzie causing havoc among those that try to disturb his final resting place?

Testing for Carbon Dioxide Gas

Aim: To show that carbon dioxide gas is produced when a metal carbonate reacts with acid
Equipment: Two boiling tubes, Delivery tube and bung, Bunsen burner, test tube rack, wooden splint, acid, metal carbonate, test tube tongs, safety glasses


Method: 

1. Light your Bunsen burner
2. Ass a 'pea-sized' amount of metal carbonate into one of the boiling tubes.
3. place the boiling tube into a test tube rack. Ensure you have the bung and delivery tube ready
4. Add 5 mL of acid to the boiling tube and quickly insert the bung and delivery tube into the mouth of the boiling tube.
5. Holding the other boiling tube with your tongs, capture the gas produced as shown in the diagram below.
6. When you think the tube is full, your lab partner should light a wooden splint
7. Carefully remove the boiling tube from under the delivery tube, taking care to keep it facing upright
8. Insert the burning splint into the mouth of the test tube.

Observations:

We observed it becoming extinguished. CO2 was present as well. We did another experiment too. The outcome of this one was that the solution turned from colorless to cloudy. CO2 was present in this experiment as well

Hokey Pokey experiment

How to make Hokey Pokey

What you need:
50g sugar, 1 table of water, 2 tablespoons of golden syrup, 1 teaspoon of bicarbonate soda

Method:

1. Put the ingredients except for the bicarbonate of soda in a saucepan and place on low heat.
2. Stir until all the sugar has dissolved. Raise the heat slightly so that it bubbles, and stir occasionally until you cannot feel any sugar at the bottom of the pan.
3. Take off the heat
4. Add bicarbonate of soda and stir
5. Watch what happens - it should all froth up with bubbles in a pan
6. Pour out into your tinfoil sheet
7. Allow cooling

Observations:

OURS DIDN'T WORK PROPERLY!