November 15, 2007
Chromatography
Today Mr Worthy (A fictional teacher from Sandon High school) was arrested for forging a check worth £60,000 when it was only worth £6,000. I M Loaded, the check payer, was furious! We found out that Mr Worthy forged the check by using chromatography. Chromatography is where you put a small dot of a pen onto a strip of paper, and dip that into the water, just below the dot, but the paper must still be in the water. I enjoyed this part of the day because we got to accuse Mr Worthy of stealing £54,000.
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November 15, 2007
Hi, My name is Zena. In this blog I am going to write about my day so far at the clc and all the activities we did today. Today at the clc we did many things such as we did a sheet on our planets we found out interesting facts and learned the differences between friction , weight and mass. We also were trying to figure out if there was any life on mars , we looked at a picture of the planet mars that had been taken off a satellite and there was a face so we suggest that there could of possibly had been life on mars .The next thing we did was we had to find out which teacher had forged cheque out of our teachers at Sandon High .We did this by using Chromatography .We later found out that it was Mr.Worthy had forged the cheque. Then we had a break where we were looking at pictures of some people who visited CLC in primary school, it was very funny to see how much they had changed. Following this we then did a photo movie. We used a programme called photostory .We added all the photos we had taken in the earlier activities, then added writing onto the photos, explaining what we were doing in the picture.We then could change the effects and added recordings to the photo movie, and if we had any more time we could add music while the photo movie was playing. It was lots of fun viewing everyone’s photo story as well as your own . The next activity we had a science quiz to complete with all our group. We each had a vote pad and had to press whichever answer we thought were correct . It was funny to find out who got answers wrong and what they pressed. We beat the other group because our team group won a complete total 13 (four times) and the other group only three. After we did the science quiz we went and visited the music studios They were brill. They had all the latest expensive technology and ace instruments these were drums, guitars, keyboards etc..I think this activity was the best so far. I have really enjoyed today and I would want to come and visit again!
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November 15, 2007
This morning we did an experiment at Longton C.L.C . We at to find out which teacher changed the cheque from £6,000 to £60,000. We had 5 pens and 5 test tubes as there were 5 suspects of doing it. We added water to each test tube and then put a dot on every paper with the 5 different pens. We then checked all 5 papers and looked carefully to see which one was the same as the paper which had been done before, with the pen which had been used for the cheque. The teacher who changed the cheque was Mr Worthy. I thought that this experiment was quite good, as i liked looking at the different colours on the paper. Then we went next door and made a photo story on the experiment which we had done before.
We added text sound and photo’s which we had took in our experiment before with a digital camera. I thought this activity was better than the one i had done before. I thought this because i enjoyed using the computer.
After we had done that activity we then went on to our next activity. We were on the voting pads and did a science quiz. This was quite good as well but could of been better if we saw our own overall result.
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November 15, 2007
Today in the first project we did chromatography and we had to find out who had forged a fake check from a very generous person called Mr I M Loaded it originally said £6,000 but one of the teachers had changed the check so it said £60,000. In the end we found out that Mr Worthy had changed the check.Then we changed projects and we learned about gravity, space, mass, forces and things like that.
Then we had dinner, and I had fun with tim on the computers then we had a tour round the recording studio it was quite good because our studio at our school is quite small and rubbish, then we created these blogs and went home.I think the best part of the day was having dinner and the part where we learned about space n stuff.
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November 15, 2007
This morning at the clc (computer learning centre) on the 15th of November we did some investigations. The first investigation was the one with the cheque. for that we had to find out which science teacher made the cheque from 6,000 to 60,000. there was 5 pens and 5 test tubes. we added water to the test tubs , and we made a mark on the paper with each of the pens . we then put it into the test tubes to see which teacher did the forgery . i found this quite good because it was fun. the teacher who had made the forgery was Mr Worthey. it was a good start to the day. we also took photographs which we needed for later 0n.
The second thing that we did was when we was looking at mass, weight and friction. we were loking at a power point presentation in all of these things. it was great because the photos and slides were brilliant. we had to write our interpretation of what they meant . i learn lots of things from that presentation
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November 15, 2007
Today we went to Longton CLC; we did Chromatography, the Magic Planet, Vote Pads, and Photostory and then filled in the blogs. I enjoyed the chromatography the most, because we also got to take photos and later put them into the photostory and create a video with text, images, motions, music and also we could record our own speech explaining about the pictures and what we did. Today was really good and I learned loads and was able to try out loads of different things, hopefully we would be able to do this again in future lessons at school.
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November 15, 2007
This morning at the CLC we did many things in such a short space of time. Firstly we did a chromatography experiment; this was based on a cheque. We had to find out which suspect had forged the cheque. We had to take five pieces of paper and put a dot at the end of each piece of paper with five different pens. We had to put each piece of paper into a test tube filled with water, but we didn’t put the whole piece in we just had to make sure the end was touching the water. The paper soaked up the water and the ink of the pen trawled up the paper as if by magic. In the end everyone found out who committed the crime. It was Mr Worthy! Next we did about magic planets, this included mass, weight and friction. We watched a video about mars and other things. Then on the computer we had to write down 3 points about mass, weight and friction, everyone wrote something down. We were asked questions about what we saw on the PowerPoint and only a few people dared to answer =) loll. This session went quick because it was fun and I learned allot out of it. I now have my own work about mass, weight and friction. The teacher made everyone laugh because he kept saying every time you hear the mc Donald’s theme think mass!! It was really funny. After break we played a quiz on these like machine things. We had 20 questions to answer and they were all based on science. Every question had an answer which were ladled either A, B, C or D. Everyone had to answer or there mark would be lost. We had to press an answer then press enter you could see how many people had answered at the top of the page. Then the teacher showed us how many people answered with thaw wrong answer and how many people got it right (most of us got it right anyway). The next session we had to make a movie using photo story. On the computers we used a program called photo story. We added all the pictures we took in the day. We had to put them on the movie and we could add all different effects to the pictures. After we had to add text on to the picture about what we were doing in the photos. Once we had done that we had to record us speaking about what was going on in the photo. Once we had finished that we had to make some music to add to the movie and then it was finished. We could watch the photos and we saved them so they will always be there. It was really fun! The next thing we did was writing this blog. I had to write about what we had done today. It’s been GREAT and FUN!!!!!!!!!! It took me along time to write it because I could not think of what to write in the whole blog. Oops. I enjoyed today and will definitely come again and again and again. =) LOL From x!x Hollie x!x
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