Home Economics - Smoothies

 This week in Home Economics we had a fun foods lesson. We made Smoothies, except it was more a taste test and writing our opinions down.

There were 10 different smoothies / ice cream type things to try. Three store brought smoothies, one being up and two being simply squeezed smoothies.

My least favourite had to be the Basic Fuit smoothie, I didn't have more than a kitten lick worthy taste but it was sweet yet soggy fruit taste. 

Our group (Charlize, Evan and myself) made Banana smoothies. We used Banana (obviously), Milk,Yogurt, Honey, Vinilla Esscence, and Ice cubes.

Connected Creativites - Forensics A

Impressions - 
An impression is the marks left at or near the crime scene by the perpetrator*, vitim or suspects*.

Impressions can be bite marks, tire tracks, ballistics*, tool marks, fingerprints and so on. 
Some impressions could be faded and hard to see, but they are still vital to the crime scene and can help a great deal.

Footprint Analysis - 

Footprint analysis is the analysis of impressions left by shoes or feet. We can discover the shoe type and brand, the age, the height and walking style with this. Different types of shoe prints can be Line and Circle tracks that had dureability to them, the toe arched up. This generally means the wearer is on their toes and has probably worn them a good deal of times.

Everyone's feet are different, they could have flat feet, a high arch or normal arch, the marks could be smudged (possibly meaning the have a limp of sorts). 

Casting a footprint means carefully pouring casting mixture on the impression, waiting for it to dry before gently washing it off with water, revealing the full mark to then study it.

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Perpetrator - A person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act.

Suspects - Someone who may have caused the crime, or is thought to have had connections to it.

Ballistics - The study of bullets, their line of projectory.

Connected Creativites - Fairy tales and fables

Drawing to the end of Week One our class learnt more about Fairy Tales and Fables, doing that we learnt about The Brothers Grimm.

Quick Information- The Brothers Grimm are German Folklorists.

Home Economics - Fruit Crumble

 Fruit Crumble                             Serves  4   

½ c Flour                                                           

½ t Cinnamon                                              

½ c Brown Sugar (not packed)

65 g cold Butter (cut into small cubes)                                                                           

½ c Rolled Oats (Wholegrain oats)

1 – 2 medium sized Apples (preprepared)

1 D White Sugar                                

1 T Water

Method    

     * Preheat oven to Fan Bake 180°C).

1. Put flour, cinnamon and brown sugar into a medium bowl.

2. Rub butter lightly into the flour mixture.

3. Add rolled oats and mix with a fork.

4. Peel and quarter the apples. Cut core out and slice each quarter  into thin slices. (we used prepear apples)

5. Place into a greased pie dish.

6. Sprinkle with white sugar and water.

7. Spoon this mixture evenly over the apples to cover them.

8. Bake on Fan bake for 10 -15 min or until the edge is going brown.

Remember to prepare the crumble topping first before preparing the apples. 

Work quickly to lightly rub in butter so the mixture stays as cool as possible.

Place prepared apples in cold lightly salted water to stop it going brown. Drain well before putting the apple into the pie dish.

You can use other fruit: pears, fresh or frozen berries, peaches, cooked rhubarb etc.

Cooking times can sometimes vary from 15 -20+ minutes.

Allow the cooked Apple Crumble to sit for about 5-10 minutes before serving.

Serve with custard, yoghurt or ice cream. 

The uncooked crumble topping freezes well in a bag for later use.

Remember you can use stewed, tinned or frozen fruits.

Connected Creativites - Forensic Sciences (Group A)

 For all of this week we've been learning about Forensic Science and the scientists, the evidence they collect and so on.

After doing this research we had to made a DLO or some other form of presentation about this.

One thing I'm excited about learning about in this class is learning techniques to discover things, like brushing powder over fingerptints.

This is my DLO about Forensic Science (about what we've learned so far.

Connected Creativities - Fairytales and Fables

In fairy tales and fables we spent our first lesson learning about Myths, Legends, Fairy Tales and fables, and what the difference between them is.

A fable is a short story about morals, it has talking animals and inanimate objects, for example in the fable of the wolf and the Sheep, a wolf dressed in sheep's clothing was able to infiltrate the sheep's paddock. (Moral of the story is that appearances can be deceiving.)

Fairy tales are children's stories, a story with magical things like dragons, princesses, fae (another name for fairy) and centaurs (half horse and half human normally). Brothers Grimm story 'Cinderella' a fairy tale published in 1967, is a good example.

Legends are over exaggerated stories in short, they may carry the truth but still have falseness to them. Stories like the Lochness Monster, the Yeti, Bigfoot, and King Arthur are examples.

Myths are known as folklore genre, they concern the early history of the world, Greek Mythology is an example.