How to Make Pancakes By Tanisha

How To Make Pancakes

You will need:

2 bowls

Measuring cups

Measuring spoons

Whisk or spatula

Pan 

Cooking oil

1 1/2 cup flour

1 tbsp baking powder

2 tbsp sugar

3/4 tsp salt

1 egg

1.25 cup milk

2 tbsp melted butter

Honey or maple syrup(optional)

Bananas(optional)

Strawberry(optional)

Instructions

1. Firstly, get one of the bowls and mix all the dry ingredients.

2. Next, crack 1 egg and beat until it is lightly scrambled.

3. After that, mix in the melted butter and 1.25 cup of milk, then mix

4. Then pour the bowl with dry ingredients into the bowl with wet ingredients and mix until it is a batter consistency

5. Heat in a frying pan on medium heat. Cook pancakes until bubbles form on top, then flip and brown the other side.

6. Once cooked, you can decorate with things like maple syrup, bananas, strawberries and blueberries.

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WODB( which one doesn't belong) By Tanisha

This is my Christmas acrostic poem.enjoy!.

Christmas Acrostic Poem

Christmas ornaments decorate the lush, green tree beautifully

Happiness and joy fill people’s hearts with warmth

Reindeer obediently lead Santa’s sleigh with pride, gliding it through the air to deliver presents to the children of the world.

Icing on delectable cookies makes Santa jolly and plump.

Santa enjoys hearing the sweet sound of Christmas carols being sung by childrens choirs.  

Tree lights glow and flicker brightly, making houses look festive.

Mistletoe is hung lovingly on the doors of people’s houses to welcome guests.

A special time to appreciate family and friends 

Stockings are filled with treats and goodies for those who have been well behaved all year.

Water Density Tower

Rainbow Water Density Tower 

Aim - To observe how substances with different densities interact

Materials

Glasses - 1 per group

Food colouring (red, blue, green and yellow - you can make purple and orange by combining two colours)

Sugar or Salt (and measuring spoon)

Measuring cup - 1 per colour (you can have 6 colours to work with, or limit it to 4 colours)

Measuring syringes 

Water (warm water from a tap or kettle)

Plastic spoons to mix the sugar and food colouring in the water

Pots of water to rinse syringes between each colour

Plastic plates or trays to protect the table from sticky sugar water

Results

The colours were not mixing only when we first since we squeezed it in too fast. The second time we put the colours in carefully and it WORKED! The layers looked like a rainbow.

Steps

Firstly, get a jug of hot water and 4 measuring cups. Put 400mls of water into the measuring cup. In one measuring cup put 2 tablespoons of sugar. In the second measuring cup put in 4 tablespoons of sugar, in the next put in 6 tablespoons and lastly in the last cup put in 8 tablespoons of water. Stir them all up till they almost look like normal water. In each cup, we put some food colouring. In water with less sugar but more food colour and in cups that have more sugar pt in less food colouring. Lastly, take a syringe and fill it up to 20ml then carefully drop it in making sure to wash out the syringe before you use a different colour. 

Explanation

 All of the colours had different amounts of sugar, causing the colours to have different densities and refuse to mix together. Since it won’t mix it instead makes a tower of all the colours from the first colour(the one with the most density) to the last colour laying on the top( the one with lesser density )

The Ice Fishing Experiment

Ice Fishing 

http://www.sciencefun.org/kidszone/experiments/ice-fishing/

Aim/Purpose:

To see how salt can affect ice or react with ice

Materials 

1. Small paper cups, bowl or an ice cube tray
2. .Glass of water
3. String (yarn or kite string works great)
4. Small stick
5. Salt
   

Steps/Method:

1. Fill the cup or tray up with water and place it in the freezer.  You can also use ice cubes from your freezer and skip this step.
   
2. When the water is frozen, remove the ice from the cup or tray.
   
3. Put the ice in the glass or bowl of water. The cube will bob up and down in the water and then float on the top.
   
4. Place one end of the string from the fishing pole on top of the ice cube and sprinkle salt on the ice where the string is touching. Watch as the water melts slightly and refreezes.
   
5. After about 10 seconds, carefully lift the ice cube out of the water with the fishing pole. You caught a fish (ice)!
   

My results:

Salt - The string stuck really well to the ice and pulled the ice cubes up out of the water

Sugar - The string didn’t stick to the ice cubes and none of them were pulled up out of the water.  Some people started to see the ice cubes stick - but it then failed after that.

Flour - THe ice didn’t stick to the string at all 

Pepper - The ice didn’t stick to the string at all 

More salt than normal - The ice still got picked up by the string

Changing the variables

Don’t wet the string before hand 

Use only a little salt

Using lots of salt 

Try to catch the ice using sugar instead of salt 

Try to catch the ice using pepper instead of salt

Try to catch the ice using flour instead of salt

Change the time period that you wait before trying to pick up the string.

Explanation - Why does it work?

Ordinary water freezes at 0% celsius. When you add salt to water it lowers the freezing temperature. The salt you sprinkle on the ice cube lowers its freezing temperature and, since the ice cube can’t get any colder than it already is, it starts to melt. A little pool of water flows over the ice and the string sinks into it. As the ice cube melts, It weakens the salt/water mixture in the little pool; the freezing point goes back up again. The ice refreezes and traps the string.  

Resources:

https://littlebinsforlittlehands.com/ice-fishing-winter-science/

https://raisinglifelonglearners.com/fishing-for-ice-science-experiment/

https://sites.google.com/site/sciencekiddoexperiments/fishing-for-ice

https://www.sciencekiddo.com/salt-melts-ice-experiment/

https://www.adabofgluewilldo.com/ice-fishing-science-experiment/

https://www.rookieparenting.com/why-does-salt-melt-ice-freezing-point-experiment/

https://whatsubstancemeltsicefastest.weebly.com/about.htmla

Water Filter Experiment

 Water Filter Experiment 

Aim/ Purpose - 

To filter or clean water using a number of materials 

How to clean/filter water - making it clean

Materials -

Sand, 

gravel, 

activated charcoal, 

cotton wool, 

plastic bottles cut in half,

bucket of dirty water (can make the water dirty with soil or whatever from outside)

Predictions - What is going to work best?  What steps/process and in what order - why?

Cotton wool at the bottom - It will absorb the smaller dirt particles from the dirty water

2nd layer up - gravel - The gravel will grab onto the dirty parts and the clean water will drip off the gravel through the gaps.

Second Layer Up  - Charcoal - The second smallest material, can absorb the things not cleared by the bigger materials.

Third Layer Up - Sand - Turns hard when it’s wet - Take all the bigger dirt particles 

Top layer - Gravel - All the hugest dirt particles out first.  

Method/Steps:

Firstly we put 3 cotton balls in the top half of the cup. 

Then we put a sprinkle of charcoal on top of the cotton balls. 

After that, we put in  a few spoons of sand

Lastly, we put in some gravel

Explanation - How did it work?

The gravel takes all the large pieces out of the water

Then the sand to take and pieces that have passed the gravel and the sand hardens.

The charcoal absorbs tiny particles of dirt and other things

The cotton wool holds everything from falling through

Why is it important for cities/towns etc to purify and clean the water before it gets to peoples’ homes?

In New Zealand’s cities and towns, clean water is transported straight into our homes instead of going to other places before getting to other peoples houses. We have water systems in place to make sure it is safe for drinking, and to manage what happens. It helps stop the causes of illnesses and catches types of bacterias and algae.

https://science.lovetoknow.com/science-fair-projects/homemade-water-filter-science-project

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPP_Yn2w2Sk&t=157s

https://www.homesciencetools.com/article/water-filtration-science-project/

https://childsci.org/water-filtration/

https://raisinglifelonglearners.com/sand-filter-activity/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Df12osqZfQ0