Blind Taste Testing

 Aim:

I want to find out how we taste food.

Research:

If you look at your tongue in the mirror, you can see it's covered in little bumps. And in those bumps are taste buds. When you put something in your mouth, they send a message to your brain to give you information about whether the food is salty, sweet, sour, bitter or umami (a meaty, savoury taste) Back of the tongue extra sensitive and bitter just in case you taste something poisonous 

So, technically speaking, spiciness is not a taste because it is not produced by taste buds and the nerve that carries the "spicy" signals to the brain is the trigeminal nerve

Method:

Equipment -

• Unknown food
• Blindfold
• Person With A Tongue

Instructions :

1. Get your equipment
2. Put your blindfold on 
3. Block your nose 
4. Put the food in your mouth and taste it
5. Describe how it taste
6. Release your nose and describe it

Result: 

#1 it felt wet and taste sweet and crunchie and juicy - Apple

#2 No flavor at the start then when I unblocked my nose it taste bitter & sweet at the same time - Onion

#3 Wet no flavour at the start, plain with a bit of a bitter flavour - Potato

#4 Tasted like pineapple but was actually a lemon, sweet at first - Sugar Lolly

#5 It's sweet but you can feel the salt - Lime Flavour Sour Lolly

#6 Sweet, same taste through out - Sugar

#7 Salty, same taste through out - Salt

#8 Powdery & Salt - Baking Power

#9 Sour & Bitter at the same time with a sweet after taste - Citrus 

 Acid

#10 Powdery & Sour - All of those mixed together

Conclusion:

My conclusion is that you can taste better when you can breath...

Thank you, see you next time!

Vocabulary Word Search

 Hey Everyone,

Welcome back to my Blog, this week in Hurumanu 3 we learnt about disasters and did stuff based around vocabulary. We had to make a Kahoot or a crossword or anything but you had to know what the word means.

Vocabulary/Meaning

Disaster - A sudden accident or a natural catastrophe

Destruction -  A action causing so much damage that something no longer exists

Damage - A harm or injury

Lahar - Mud flow on a side of a volcano

Heroism - Courageous behaviour

Bravery - Not showing fear

Wreckage - What is left after something is ruined or destroyed

Aftershock - A small disaster that follows a larger one

I chose a Word Search, here it is...

  

Thank you for reading my Blog Post today,

Did you find any of my words?

See you next time and tell me in the comments if you found any words.

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Sir Edmund Hillary

 Hey Everyone,

Welcome back to my blog, today in Hurumanu 1 I had to make a word cloud using words that had to do with Sir Edmund Hillary and Mt Everest.

Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the 2 first people to make it to the top of Mt Everest, it took them seven weeks to make it, they got to the top at 11:30 a.m on May 29th 1953. 

Anyways here is my Word Cloud...

We also had to make a Screencastify describing the ways to climb up Mt Everest, I did this with Sophie!

Thank you for reading my Blog,

If you had the chance would you climb Mt Everest?

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Term 2 Shaping Up

 Hey Everyone,

Welcome back to my Blog, this term we had Hurumanu 3 / Shaping Up, we learnt about Reflection, Rotation, Translation, Enlargement & Shapes.

Reflection is when you flip an Original Shape. Rotation is when you turn 90 degrees ( A quarter turn. ) Translation is when you slide the shape across, the shape stays the same though. Enlargement is making the shape bigger or doubling the sides by two. We also learnt about Faces, Sides & Vertices.

Here are some examples...

Shapes Google Drawing,

Transformation ( Reflection, Translation, Rotation. )

Enlargement

I drew this

And used shapes to make this

Thank you for reading this Blog Post, I hope you learnt something new today,

Do you like learning about shapes? 

See you next time, Goodbye!