Food and nutrition class 2

class 2 we learned all the names of sugar so when we look on the ingredients list we now how much sugar is actually in the product we are buying.
We made power balls which is for if you don't have time to make something to eat before you leave , or you are going to go use a lot of energy, you can have all the things you need in a small ball(it is really good).
you can put honey, oats, dates, coconut, protein powder, ect, in it.
We also talked about our feast day we are going to have! we are going to do an indian theme. Its on my dads birthday so we are we are going to make a cachue chocolate cheese cakes.

Food and nutrition class

My sisters and I started a 4 week cooking session from our friend.(he is a nutritionist)

 The first class we made beet hummus and avocado spinach ginger sherbet.

We learned that different colors in foods means it has different vitamins and nutrients for different part of your body.

On this chart the foods on the outer edge you can cook with out taking out any nutrients, but the food closer to the middle you do not want to cook because it takes out all the nutrients. in the very middle it shows what colors have certain vitamins and what those vitamins are good for.

UBCO trip!

My perspective of the day   (Which was totally awesome!!!)

On April 19, my sister and i went to the UBCO campus with our co-op group.

First we went to the chemistry lab, and made elephant tooth paste. Then we popped balloons with gases in them like carbon dioxide, oxygen, hydrogen, ect. I held a broom with the hydrogen filled balloon on the end. My friend Morgan held a meter stick with a match on the end. The balloon popped and hit me in my face, it was really scary because when it popped it popped out flames. I was okay though.

After chemistry we went to the biology lab. There we learned about flat worms( planaria ).

We got to conduct our own experiments on the flat worms (no planaria where harmed in the experiments). In one of the experiments we did a control experiment ( control experiment is so you can compare what they do normally to what you changed ) then we put a peace of cow liver in the center of the dish.i found that it takes longer than 5 minuets for them to notice it. We also did an experiment where we covered half of the dish with aluminium foil so half was dark, then we put a lamp over it. I found that the flat worms went strait for the darkness. 

Then we had lunch and cupcakes. (yum!!) 

After that we got a tour of the campus.   

 Then we got to look at an electron scanning microscope. We saw a lady bug eye, a beetle foot and a bruised apple. The bruised apple had millions of bacteria living on it. We learned that there is to arms on bacteria that helps them move around in water. I also learned that a regular microscope has the resolution up to 100nm. A electron scanning microscope has a resolution 0.1nm. 

At the end we made ice cream out of liquid nitrogen. We learned that it is safer to not where gloves when handling liquid nitrogen. we also got touch it! we where not aloud to cup our hand because it pools and then starts burning your skin, but if you have the palm down and it spits it wont hurt.

After we eat the ice cream we poured the rest on the floor, and it made little liquid nitrogen orbs that if you touch them they split and dissolved. 

I had a super fun time at UBCO. 

Here is exactly what we did.

Chemistry Session approximately 1 hour

-overview of lab safety: glasses, fume hood, fire blanket, eye wash station, shower, close-toe shoes, long pants

-hypothesized about reactions of various gases (contained in balloons) to heat and oxygen

-discussed observations using knowledge of chemical make-up of the gases

-observed and participated in making of cold and hot packs by first keeping 2 chemicals separate and then combining them with a shaking motion as we do with store-bought packs (shaking breaks the barrier between the 2 chemicals, allowing them to combine and react, resulting in endo- or exo-thermic reactions

-elephant toothpaste demonstration: chemical reaction of a catalyst and hydrogen peroxide, resulting in an exothermic reaction

-slime: polymers (long chains of molecules) with ammonia added, resulting in a chemical reaction/connection

Biology Session approx. 1 hour

Focus: how to design an experiment using flatworms, including hypothesis, establishing a control, identifying variables (light, protein/food), recording observations, discussing results and considering the variables which may have affected their results

-brief discussion on possible uses of the study of simple invertebrates (genetics? cloning?)

Liquid Nitrogen Ice Cream

-learned of the unit Kelvin for absolute temperatures

-The secret to the creamy ice cream is all in the rapid freezing of the mixture. The liquid nitrogen causes the fat and the water particles to stay very small, giving the ice cream its creamy consistency.

Tour of Campus: what they viewed

-students studying for finals all over campus

-gymnasium (set up with desks and partitions for final exams)

-greenhouse

-lecture hall: students sat in seats; brief demonstration of how screens are used by professors to enlarge data; learned how students use a device to register attendance, answers to questions by teachers which get sent to each individual student's file

SEM (electron microscope)

-students were shown various items magnified to at least 1000x the university's usual microscopes

-learned some of the applications of being able to magnify to such a degree (eg. by engineering students)

this is the biology lab where we learned about flat worms.  

Making slime in the chemistry lab

In the chemistry lab, making a chemical reaction making the vile freeze to the wood plank

                     

                         

               In this picture and the next picture, my friends are conducting an experiment to see how the flat worms react to light an dark

                                                                    This is us in the lecture hall.

This is when we made ice cream out of liquid nitrogen. 

after we dumped the rest of the liquid nitrogen on the floor. It made little orbs that evaporated when you touched it.  

Technology Chain

Kelowna's Climate chart

Yearly

The yellow is the precipitation.
The green line is the low temperatures
The  red is the high temperatures

Floor Hockey Tournament

Floor hockey tournament 

On April 2, 2016 my sister and I participated in a floor hockey tournament at the rutland boys and girls club. We where on two different teems and we played agents each other in the finals (I won :) ). 

The first four games my team won all of them, then we made it to the semifinals,then the finals.

My team won a trophy and gold medals! My sisters team won silver medals, and all of the other teams won bronze medals. I also won a best sportsmanship award. There where 5 teams in the tournament, two rutland teams, two marten ave teams(thats the teams my sister and I are on), one more I don't know the name of. (All of the teams are from boys and girls clubs)