Making afghans

 Making afghans in cooking. 

Hello people today's post is about making afghans, for this we got choices on what we could make and me and my pair Jack choose afghans because it was the quickest one we could find and that we liked, so we choose that one. We had to make a list of the ingredients that we needed on a google doc.

Then the following week came and we got to make them, our cooking teacher Miss roads had the ingredients ready for us. We got to work, I did the wet ingredients and jack did the dry ingredients. So we completed both of them and combined them. When we added them we had to mix them together, once finished mixing them we had an afghan dough.

For more detailed instructions on what we actually did keep reading.

So first I creamed the butter with sugar which is mixing the butter and sugar together to make it smooth and creamy. Jack did the dry ingredient which was sifting the flour and cocoa into a bowl, then we added the dry ingredients to the creamed butter and sugar and then mixed which made it all into a dough we then made it into a decent-sized ball then put it into the oven on bake 180 Celsius. 

Make sure you actually preheat the oven to the temp I mentioned up top, they took like 15 minutes. We took them out of the oven and let them cool down we had the chocolate icing made already which I did with a little help from one of the helpers. But unfortunately, the afghans did not cool down quick enough so the icing melted a little and they were still quite soft so they fell apart easily.

Well, that's all for today scroll down to see the recipe we followed.

The recipe here is a more updated one and we did not use vanilla essence. 

https://www.chelsea.co.nz/browse-recipes/afghan-biscuits/

Types of goverments

 Kia ora people today's blog post is about the types of governments I and my friends have made a slide about some of the types of goverments here it is below:

Bye Bye From me for now (:

Rising water experiment

 Hello Everyone today's post is about our water experiment. 

First, you put some water in the plastic dish put the candle in the dish with water, and then light the candle on fire then put the cup over top.

The aim was: To see what happens to the water level when the candle is covered.

My Hypothesis that the plastic cup would set on fire which it did, only it happened with a little bit of help so in the end my Hypothesis was right(:

Results: The cup set on fire and smoked, and as soon as I put the cup over the candle it went out as it probably could not get any co2.

Conclusion: Well, in the end, the cup set on fire, the water stayed the same and the candle went out like a couple seconds after I put it ontop.     

This the full list of stuff you will need:

Fire.

Water

Tape for water(:

Plastic dish

Plastic cup

Teacher to Babysit you when you get the chance to handle fire and remember kids fire is dangerous(:

Crystalliation Blog/Chemistry

 Hi people today's post is about what we did last week in science which was making crystals with borax.

The aim of the experiment was to make crystals.

Method: Boil water in a beaker on a Gauze mat and Tripod over a Bunsen Burner. When boiled turn the gas off. Add spatula heaps of Borax, waiting for it to dissolve until adding more. When the solution is saturated, leave to cool with a pipe cleaner suspended in the beaker. 

Equipment: Beaker, borax, Heat mat, Tripod, Gauze mat, Bunsen Burner and pipe cleaner.

Conclusion: We disovolved the borax in the water, we made a concentrated solution. Useing crystallization we seprated the borax from the water.