Science Expo 2016!

The name of my experiment was "Ocean Care, with your hair!" My aim was to determine wether human and animal hair are efficient oil absorbers. So basically what I did was see which hair type would absorb the most oil, I used Natural/untreated human hair, Dyed/treated human hair and animal hair. In the end Natural hair absorbed the most oil, it absorbed 20ml of the 25ml of oil that was put into the glass, more than it did when I tested it. 

I have no idea what kind of experiment to do but I knew I didn't want to do something to simple. I found this experiment after about 1 hour of searching. It turns out that two boys did this experiment in 2009 and won silver at science fair.

I chose this experiment as I knew that this could help the oceans if this method of absorbing oil is used in the future.

I chose to work on my own as I didn't want to have to make time to see my partner. Working by yourself isn't that difficult, you just need to spend more time practicing it, I suggest you try going by yourself. 

I left the hair types for much longer than I should've, I was supposed to only leave it in for 5 minutes. I left it in for 10-15 minutes. In the end it worked out as all the hair types absorbed more oil than they did when I tested it at home. The judge for our class was Mrs Jones, she was very nice. She didn't ask me any questions as she said I had answered all her questions in my presentation. If I can give you some advice, I advise you to answer any questions that she may ask you in your presentation and don't forget to add some extra info if you can.

My experiment went well but I forget to say some words at times.

I was extremely happy with my poster, I thought it was neat and simple.

I was very nervous on the Expo Day but I still carried on.

Thanks for reading!

Dr. Donut

What is the stop-motion all about?

To learn to work together and learn about all the painting techniques. We also learned to try something new.

Why did you create your character?

We wanted to create something that looked cute and quite tasty. We also wanted a character that could live in our Candy Land that we made. We wanted a character that looked cute but in the inside he is very evil. We thought Dr. Donut was the perfect character to create.

Would you change anything about it? Why?

I would not allow sweets or any kind of food to be allowed on the set. We had sweets on our poster and within a couple of days they had been broken off.

What has been the highlight been of this project so far?

My highlight has was when me and Michael were actually creating our character. We first made the brown clay into a donut shape. We then mixed red and white to make a pink colour then we used the pink colour as our icing. We used many colours to make small sprinkles on the donut. We also made a mouth, a hat and two cute eyes.

What are your frustrations?

It was very annoying when we had to redo certain parts of our film because you could see our hands in the shot.

Living Green

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My Goals

MY 2016 GOALS!

Why is it important?

Goals are important, as it is good to challenge yourself to achieve things. Goals help you to become a confident person. Goals make you try your hardest and teach you to not rely on others as much. If you aim at nothing you'll hit it every time. But you can not set goals which you can not reach, even though you challenge yourself, its not always the good idea.

Whats a SMARRT goal?

Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Reviewable Timely

A smart goal is a goal that is not vague you can achieve.

Examples

SMARRT GOAL:

I would like to make the 1st team softball this year!

SILLY GOAL:

I want to do better in maths!

My Goals for 2016:

1. Make the 1st team for hockey!

2. To try and come in the top 3 for all of my hurdle races!

Thanks!