Tech Reflection | Woodwork | Mr Grundy

Today we had our first session for Tech at Tamaki College. This term our instructor is Mr Grundy. Mr Grundy teaches wood works. Mr Grundy explained the base a wood design. Joint; a joint is what connects two pieces of wood as the base of the design. 

After looking at different examples of wood designs we drew 8 different wood designs that we would like to make. Mr Grundy showed us a M&M dispenser that was created by him and other students. After being showed the dispenser we all had many ideas of what we could make. Next week we are going to start creating our designs. 

Tech Reflection | Science | Ms Sharma

 LI: To identify the types of materials and uses of plastic. 

This week for tech we continued learning about plastic. During this session we learnt the different uses of plastic, the dangers, and some different materials made by plastic. There are some plastic that can't be recycled while others can. For our activity we had 13 facts, we had to read each of those facts and label them under; positive, negative and neutral. The label positive; was labelled for the facts of plastic that are good uses to the world. The label negative; was labelled for the facts that were about harmful uses of plastic. The neutral label; was a labelled for the facts that were good and bad, which basically means the fact praised the plastic but had a bad outcome. 

Food Tech | Pizza | Mrs Heka | TC

LI: To make a pizza. 

Today at food tech we followed a recipe making a beef and bbq pizza. This was the last session of food tech for the term as we are having 3-4 more sessions in term 3.  We started with getting our ingredients for our kitchens and separating the work load between the groups. For this session Liletina and I worked hard to make our pizzas. 

First I got 2 tortilla wraps as the base, 3/4 of cheese, 4 tblsp of pizza sauce for the base. I also got 1 tblsp of oil and some beef. Liletina had gotten out the 3 mushrooms, 1 carrot and onion. Using the vegetable peeler she peeled the carrots, after that she used the grater and grated the carrots. Next she peeled the onion and diced it, she then put the diced onions in the pan with oil. Lastly she chopped the mushrooms into thin  long pieces. Next we started cooking our Onion. 

On the stove we fried our onions until they were gold. After that I used the measuring spoons measuring 1 teaspoon of beef mince. After I made the circles of mince beef we started to make our pizza. Using the pizza sauce me and Liletina made our base on the tortilla. After that we added the grated carrots, mushrooms, and onions. We then added the cheese on the top and gave it to mrs heka to add the bbq sauce. Mrs heka than put the trays with pizza in an oven and we waited. While we waited we were cleaning up our workspaces and washing the dishes. 

We then could go into the lounge room and eat our food. The pizza was delicious!

Food Technology | Mrs Heka | Salad

LI: To create a chicken salad. 

Today the Yr 7 students of Panmure Bridge School had their 3rd tech session of the term. For this tech session we created a chicken salad. Since it is a cold weather we created a warm salad. In our salad we included: 

Rice

Red Cabbage

Carrots

Onion

Curry Powder

Sweet Corn + Beans

Chicken Breasts 

Oil

Since there was 3 people in our kitchen we all had a task to do. I grated and peeled the carrot, diced the onions and cut the red cabbage. Juel measured our wet ingredients while heavenly cut the chicken breasts into slices of our choice (not too big). After we prepared our ingredients we added the ingredients together one by one. After adding the ingredients together our food was ready. 

Food Technology | Mrs Heka | Hotcakes

LI: To learn how to follow a recipe making banana pikelets. 

Today was the Yr 7's second session at food tech. Juel and I both worked together making our food. The food we were making today was banana hotcakes/pikelets with blueberry sauce. Juel and I both followed Mrs Heka's insctructions throughout the session. 

Cooking the hotcakes:

First we got out our utensils and mixing bowls. In the large bowl we added 1 cup of flour and 1 tblsp of sugar. We split the workload between me and Juel. Juel had gotten 3/4 of milk and 1 or 2 eggs. I had gotten the flour  and 2 tblsp of butter. We first mixed together the milk and eggs. Then we added one mashed up banana and milk and eggs into the flour bowl making our batter. After preparing our batter we started on our blueberry sauce. Juel and I both took turns making our pancakes. We made 6 pancakes each. Then after we made our blueberry sauce and our hotcakes, Mrs Heka had added the blueberry sauce on our hotcakes with Vanilla Ice-Cream. 

Since me and Juel were the first people to finish, we helped out some people making their hotcakes and washing their dishes. 

Food Technology | Mrs Heka | TC

LI: To learn how to use a knife properly and safely.

Today was our first tech session at Tamaki College this term, our new tech teachers name is Mrs Heka. Mrs Heka is apart of the food department of technology. Today the yr 7s made colorful fruit jars/cups. During the session we learnt how to use a knife properly while cutting your fruits. We also talked about hygiene and why we have to be hygenic. 

Making the fruit jars:

We were split into groups of three, one person was assigned to wash the dishes and the other two were making the food. We first got out our measuring spoons and measuring cups. We had gotten one bowl of fruit for each group. In the bowl there were Kiwis, Oranges, and Grapes. Mrs Heka showed us how to cut the fruits properly.

Cutting an orange: To cut an orange you cut both the ends and lay the orange up flat. Then you cut the sides of the orange where the skin is. We started by cutting from where the white parts of the orange were and went down. Once we were finishing cutting our orange we find the lines on the side where the orange pieces are and cut them out one by one. Then we cut our orange pieces in half. 

Cutting a kiwi: To cut a kiwi we cut both of the ends of the kiwi, we then lay it up flat.  Then you cut the sides of the kiwi where the skin is going down. After removing the skin off the kiwi you cut the kiwi in pieces. You first cut the kiwi in half then cut those halves into half creating quaters. Then you cut them in half again making smaller pieces. 

After preparing our fruits we used our measuring spoons and cups to get one cup of yoghurt. Then we started on creating our fruit jars. We were customizing our cups with the fruits and yoghurt. We first added the fruot of our choice and then added a layer of yoghurt on top before adding another fruit. Each layer of fruit added we added a layer of yoghurt. 

Then when we were finish with our fruit jars we cleaned our area with spray and wipe. Then we were ready to eat. 

Tech Reflection | Robotics

LI: To make your mbots flash lights and make sounds.

This week for the Yr 7 session of tech we have continued with our robots. This session we focused on making our robot have lights and make sounds. Since I forgot my chromebook buddied up with Sulia. Me and her used mblock to create our algorithms for our robot. We could make our robot show different color lights, the lights me and sulia made it do were blue, red, purple, green and yellow. We could also make our robots have sounds, the sound we were trying to make was happy birthday. 

Tech Session | Mrs Ferguson | Robotics

LI: To learn about algorithms. 

Today we had our first ever tech session. We were working with Mrs Ferguson, who taught us about algorithms and robotics. She was our first rotation of the year. We used a google drawing to write down examples of algorithms. Algorithms are not just numbers, they are also instructions.