Business and Enterprise

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post. For the past 4 weeks, we have been learning about business and enterprise and working towards making a profit on market day. We had a total of 4 weeks to prepare and learn about how to handle a business, make a profit and create sales. On Wednesday the 23rd of September, we had our official market day, where people from the community and other schools bought goods and services from our business. The next day, 24th September, we were given a task where we had to create a blog post about business, enterprise, and market day. For market day my group created Filipino delicacies, Coffee Jelly and Leche Flan. 

Business and Enterprise

Week 1: During the first week of Business and Enterprise, we were introduced to the topic and guest speakers told us about their business, how they work and how they managed to to get to where they are now. During our Wananga class, we learned more about the topic and got to create our groups. We only were allowed to have 4 people in our group and they each had a role. The CEO (Chief Executive Officer), Marketing Manager, Production Manager and Sales/Finance Manager. 

Week 2: During the second week we started on our business plans, and another round of guest speakers were introduced to us. Our group was split up and we were allocated a place where a guest speaker would talk about our role in the business. I was CEO so I had to be in a group with all the CEOs. We also started our Financial Report. We also did our letter of application to give to our teacher so that they can accept our company. 

Week 3: We started our poster for the front of our stall, we then started or marketing, like creating our logos, a slide presentation to be shown to the school and the community and lastly a poster for our stall. We did that for the rest of the week since our topic was food and our production starts on the fourth week. 

Week 4: Week 4 was the week of the market day, so we only had 2 days to fully create both of our products. On Monday we created our Jelly for our Coffee Jelly and on Tuesday we completed making the Leche Flan and Coffee Jelly. Then on Wednesday 23rd September, we had our Market day. 

Market Day

On the morning of the market day we all were busy trying to create our foods and set up our stalls outside this was between 8:40 to 9:30. At 10 we took out our products and displayed them on our table. Market Day officially started at 10:30 am, our stall had many people that bought coffee jelly and we had sold out of it really early, and near the middle of the market day we sold out our flans and people bought 2 flans with meringue for $2.00, which I thought was a very good deal. We also had a dj during market day, which I thought was very convenient. 

Renewable Energy

Aim: To make a solar-powered oven.

Materials: 

1.  Pizza Box
2.  Tin Foil
3.  Straw
4.  News Paper
5.  Cello Tape
6.  Black Paper or Black Plastic 
7.  Scissor
8. Vivid 
9. Ruler
10. Stick
11. Glad Wrap 
12. Chocolate Biscuit 
13. Marshmallow 

Steps:

1. Assemble a pizza box. 
2.   Cut out a square in the middle of the pizza box, make sure the square flips up as you open it.
3.   Wrap some tin foil around the square you cut out.
4.   Cello tape it to the square cut out.
5. Use some glad wrap on the other side of the cut our square to cover to the square. Make sure it is secured tightly with cello tape.
6.   Put some black plastic paper or black construction paper on the bottom half of the pizza box. Make sure it is cello taped securely.
7.   Then grab some newspaper and roll it up to make a square, use cello tape to attach the newspaper together.
8.  Place the square newspaper on the bottom of the pizza box, on the sides of the black paper.
9. Then grab some chocolate biscuits and marshmallow, put them into a plate.
10. Then place the plate inside the box.
11. Use a straw to hold up the square you cut out. 
12. Place it in front of a window or outside in the sun for the marshmallow and chocolate biscuits to melt. 

Decomposition

Aim: To learn about the rate that different materials decompose. 

Hypothesis: I think that bananas will decompose faster because the flesh will be exposed to air.

Materials:

1.   Bananas
2.   White Styrofoam
3.   Paper/Cardboard
4.   Bread
5.   Test Tube (X4)
6.   Test Tube Stand 
7.  Laboratory Rubber Stopper
8.   Water

Steps:

1.   Gather materials.
2.   Cut bananas, Stylophone cup, cardboard and bread into little pieces.
3.    Then put 4 test tubes into the test tube stand.
4.   Add the bananas, stylophone cup, cardboard and bread to each test tube.
5. Add water to the bread.
6.   Put in laboratory rubber stopper at the top of the test tube. 
7.   Wait for the change.
8.  

Findings:

TODAY	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Yellow
Paper	Brown
Stylophone cup	White
Bread	Brownish White

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3 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	Brown with Blue	The colour before what yellow now it is brown and blue.	It has a lot of mould on it and it is looking disgusting.
Paper	Brown	It is the same colour.
Stylophone cup	Whit	It is the same colour.
Bread	Blue With spots of black.	The colour was brownish-white now it is blue with black spots.	The bread now has a lot of moulds and all of the bread's moisture. It has a lot of black spots that look like mosquitos.

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5 weeks	Colour	Change	Observations
Banana	The colour is brown, black and a lot of blue.	The blue colour has increased but the yellow colour is still visible.	There is more mould in it and the moisture/water had gathered up in the bottom.
Paper	Brown	It is the same colour.
Stylophone cup	White	It is the same colour.
Bread	Black, brown, blue.	The brown has increased and it looks like vomit.	There is more mould and it looks like someone vomited in it. The water that was put in it had some mould floating above it.

  

Spring Learning Journey: Food l Activity 12

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post today I will be doing another activity for the spring learning journey. So for this activity, we have to create four maths problems using food. We had to think about using, fractions, multiplications, addition and subtraction. So I have created four problems, they are quite easy but some of them aren't. See if you can solve them! Unfortunately, I will only be solving one for you as it is quite hard. 

Answer: 1/2 

To solve this you first need to make the denominator of 1/3 (3) the same number as the denominator in 1/6. So what I did was I multiplied 3 by 2 and did the same thing with one. Then I added them together, 2/6 + 1/6= 3/6. Then I simplified it. 3/6 =  1/4 = 1/2