Pineapple Fava Beans- Includes a fun prototype in a cool presentation!

Fava Beans

Hey peeps! It's Mikayla back at it again with another blog, for this blog I will be explaining and showing you a slideshow on a presentation my group and I have created together, I will also tell you the experience during the time we had to create this.

 For a couple of weeks now, my group and I have been doing a collaboration on How to create a new way to produce Fava Beans and make them more presentable.  This was the challenge my group had chosen. Our ideas have been put together in a Google presentation and in the presentation includes fun facts and a cool Tinkercad draft!




The websites we chose to create our prototype on was Tinkercad, it is a very cool website which lets you create 3D drawings or crafts, you can even make a 3D human skull! It is also a very easy way to present your ideas and prototypes to your classmates and friends! Also, it is very easy to use so you don't have to worry about how long it will take you, I suggest you use this if you ever want or need to create a model/design.

In the process of creating and producing a new way to sell our product, I have learned a lot about businesses and more so, Fava Beans, I have also liked the process of creating this product with my group and I liked finding new facts and ideas about Fava Beans. 

Something I disliked was when we were coming up with different ideas and then having to keep changing our product, and we had to change our enablers a couple of times, but in the end, we figured it all out, worked together as a team and presented as a team.

During this process, I gained knowledge of fava beans and I found out different types of websites you could use to create a prototype, or to present a presentation! I also gained more knowledge on how to produce a product and how can we fix something to make it appealing to an audience!

Māori Poi and Māori Weaving

Māori Poi

Poi is used in traditional dances for the woman, it involves swinging them around whilst moving your arms along with the music. Poi can be made out of different types of materials, some to weigh one end down, some to tie the plait together and some to make the poi and plait connect.

Poi originated in New Zealand from the Māori people, and poi is still to this day very popular and still gets made even in schools. Poi is usually performed by the woman but it is said that when it was first created men had used poi to help strengthen their wrists and so their movements were better for fighting, hunting, and usage of weapons, but there is no true evidence to support this theory.

Poi was originally and commonly made from harakeke (Flax) and raupō. They would strip the harakeke to get small strips and to get muka, which was then twisted and plaited together for the string of the poi, that was ensured that it was strong enough not to break and then they would tie a knot at the end of the rope.

Another type of materials poi was sometimes made of was Poi tāniko a different type of plant, the outer shell was made out of woven muka using a pattern from fishing nets, they sometimes included strands that were dyed yellow.

In the process of making and researching this, I have learned a lot about poi and the history behind it, I also learnt what poi was originally made out of.

Health and Safety- Home Economics

Here are 2 practicals my class has done

One we had done was chicken stir-fry

Hygiene safety means to- Be clean and tidy so nothing you eat has dirt on.

-Tie hair back
-Wipe the table down
-Wash hands
-Not to sneeze or cough on anything

Bacteria-
The conditions that bacteria need to survive
- They need warmth
- They need time
- They need food or dirt
- They need Moisture



Here is a diagram of a thermometer and what temperatures these types of things need or are use too. 
 

!SCONES!

Last Friday me and my partner had made Cheese scones for a task,

What I need to improve on is probably being able to work together as a team than taking over, and that is quite what i'm use to doing. I also need to improve on being patient and wait for our food to cook, rather than just taking it out.

In this task I mostly liked kneading the dough and collecting the ingredients.

Something I learn't was how to actually make scones.

Here are the ingredients on how to make scones.

3 cups plain flour

6 teaspoons Baking Powder

¼ teaspoon salt

75g butter

1 to 1 ½ cups milk

Here is a photo of a word art I have done on this topic.

Here is a table of where you organize your foods.

Fridge	Freezer	Cupboard
2-4, 2-3 days when open	-18, stored 3-6 months	Room temp, Airtight containers when open
Milk	Bread	Canned food
Butter	Ice cream	Biscuits
Eggs	Meat	Packet pasta
Yogurt	Ice blocks	Spread
Fruit	Dough	Packet of chips
Vegetable	Read to cook meals	Oils
Sauces	Chicken	Sauces
Drinks	Frozen vegetables and fruit	potatoes

I wonder 4...

I wonder

What do I wonder?
I wonder who was the first person to die by the electric chair?

The first person who was executed by an electrical chair was named William Francis Kemmler, he was convicted of murdering his wife (Matilda "Tilly" Ziegler) on March 29, 1889. He had murdered her with a hatchet. He was tried and convicted of murder on May 10, 1889, and on May 13 he was sentenced to death. January 1 of that year, New York had instituted death by electrocution. William's lawyers later replied that electrocution was too harsh of a death penalty and some even said after it was done, it would have been getting executed by a hatchet and that, that was worse than getting hung. But some say that before William had died, he was calm and didn't resist once. Apparently, he himself sat on the chair but got told to get back up so they could cut holes in his suit. His last words were said to be by witnesses "Gentleman, I wish you all good luck. I believe I am going to a better place, and I am ready to go."  They then set it up and William spoke again saying, "Take it easy and do it properly, I'm in no hurry." Durston replied "Goodbye, William.