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Thursday 11 June 2020

How much sodium is in our food?

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Today I have been learning about how much sodium is in our food. A teenager needs around 1500 mg of sodium per day. What are the health risks associated with eating too much sodium. Ham has the most salt.

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Tuesday 9 June 2020

Food Preservation

  1. Food preservation prevents the growth of microorganisms and it also introducing benign bacteria or fungi to the for

  1. We need 8,700 kilojoules that people require everyday 

  1. One way to preserve your food is to put it into a jar. Another way to store your food is to just put into the freezer or you

1.Freezing. Freezing your food is makes the food taste better and it wont go rotten

  1. Freeze Drying.

  1. Fermentation.

  1. Preserving in Salt and Sugar.

  1. Immersion in alcohol.

Fermentation
the chemical breakdown of a substance by bacteria, yeasts, or other microorganisms, typically involving effervescence and the giving off of heat.

Sugar and salt curing is often combined with smoking. Salt and sugar act to increase osmotic pressure destroying.

If foods are frozen at the peak of their quality, they emerge tasting better than foods frozen near the end of their freshness. So freeze items you won't use in the near future.

Freezing.
sooner rather than later. It's important to store all foods at 0° or lower in order to retain vitamin content, color, flavor, and texture
If foods are frozen at the peak of their quality, they emerge tasting better than foods frozen near the end of their freshness. So freeze items you won't use in the near future sooner rather than later. It's important to store all foods at 0° or lower in order to retain vitamin content, color, flavor, and texture





Monday 8 June 2020

Early Encounters In Aotearoa

Captain James Cook, English explorer - Stock Image - C044/9497 ...Hello welcome back to my blog.

Captian James Cook was the first European to Aotearoa, he arrived in 1642. He named the land Nova Zelander.

In 1642 Able Tasman was the second explorer the arrive in Aotearoa.

Te Paea was the chief navigator helping the explorers. Bringing with him, pigs, rats and diseases.

A gun is what they used to call a musket. The musket war ended in 1830.

The ratio of Maori to Pakeha in Aotearoa in 1840? was 40 Maori to 1 Pakeha.



Musket - Wikipedia

Adverbs

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Adverbs give the reader more detail about actions.

For example, Yesterday I walked to the dairy. I slowly walked to the red dairy. The cool bird sang a beautiful song. The funny singer was great

Friday 5 June 2020

Tangata Whenua

Questions:

Use the questions below to help guide your note-taking. You need to identify the key points from the video and write your own notes. You can rewatch the video if you need to.

Your notes will be used to help you write a summary of the video.

  1. Where did the Māori people arrive from?

            eastern Polynesia they came from Fiji, Samoa, cook island, Tonga

  1. How did they arrive in NZ? 

           They arrived on a Waka 


  1. What did they bring to aotearoa?
              Birds, fish and shellfish for the moari´s diet

  1. How did they get food?

          They hunted the Moa to get food and they did not know that the moas lay eggs once a year  

  1. Write 3 sentences about the Moriori people

They settled on the Chatham islands
They were passive
And they were Maori


  1. How did they prove that Māori and Moriori descended from the same people?

They checked out skeletons and DNA


  1. Explain how the Moa came to be extinct

They only laid one egg a year and the rats ate the eggs. Maori thought Moa would be like hens and lay lots of eggs.


  1. Why did Māori choose to settle in the places they did?
They could grow and catch food there, get water and keep warm.


  1. In your word bank, write the meaning of Whānau, Hapū and iwi

Family,  a group of your iwi,  your tribe/ancestors

  1. Explain the role of the rangatira - list at least 5 roles

They were chiefs, teachers, landowners, guardians of cultural treasures and leaders.

Crayfish

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For the last two weeks I have been researching about crayfish.
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Are lobster and crayfish the same thing?

The major difference between lobsters and crayfish.

How much are crayfish in NZ?

100 landing points throughout New Zealand, and around $80 per kilogram.

How big can a crayfish get?

Most adult crayfish are about 7.5 cm, The smallest is 2.5-cm-long. 

Facts about Crayfish

Crayfish are hard to see the hide so well they are camouflage.

They stay hidden during the day and hunt at night.

They live in freshwater, like streams, lakes and ponds and even in swamps.

You can get red, blue, withe or orange and black.



Spiny Lobster (Rock Lobster) Facts

Thursday 4 June 2020

Sugar

Hello welcome back to my blog.

We have been looking at a video about sugar.

Six is the maximum teaspoons of sugar we should have daily. Is it heather to eat a whole orange than to drink a glass of orange juice because the juice has 8 teaspoons. Lest 3 ways we can avoid eating too much sugar. one bad thing that can happen to our bodies if we eat too much sugar. Like diabetes.

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