Vegetarian Sushi

Vegetarian Sushi

Practical Week 5

Teamwork Aspects

Tasks: The task was to make vegetarian sushi

Skills Within Team: My group is good at communicating with each other. Each person in my
group had certain things they were good at. Taking turns with rolling our sushi as well as
cleaning up.

Improvements: Work faster

Time Management: We managed our time okay but it would have been better if we worked at a
faster pace.

Product/Outcome: It turned out good and tasted good.

Feedback: The turnout was good but could have been a bit better.

Taste/Texture: It was good

Next steps for own learning: Work at a faster pace

Fish and Chips

Fish and Chips

Practical Week 4

Teamwork Aspects

Tasks: The task was to make fish and chips

Skills Within Team: My group is good at communicating with each other. Each person in my
group had certain things they were good at.

Improvements: A few improvements for our team would be to read the recipe more carefully.

Time Management: We managed our time very well and kept within the time frame.

Product/Outcome: I think it looked okay.

Feedback: Have a cardboard cone for the food instead of a paper one.

Taste/Texture: The chips had a good taste but with a bit more time in the oven it would have
been better.

Next steps for own learning: Measure accurately

Technology and Change

For the past few weeks in Social Studies, we have been looking at the positive and negative aspects of technology change. We have also been looking at the history of cellphones. Our teacher decided that we should time how long we use some sort of device over the weekend and these were the results. The highest time was 43 hours whereas the lowest time was 5 hours. There were 23 people in total. Throughout our class the most used device was a phone and the least used was an iPad/tablet. The first graph shows the number of time people used their device and the second is which device was used the most.

We also made a timeline of the evolution of cell phones. From 1973 to 2017.

Essay

PEOPLE SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO MARRY THE SAME
GENDER

Do you think people should be criticised based on their sexuality?

In my opinion people are who they are and can love who they want without being judged about it. Other people shouldn’t have a say, they shouldn’t be criticised and they are good influences. 

Other people shouldn’t have a say about someone else's sexuality. Could you imagine just for a minute if you had other people having a say in your relationship whilst not knowing them. A group of young men began harassing them (Chris and Melania Geymonat) when they discovered the women were a couple, asking them to kiss while making sexual gestures.Same sex couples are being harassed by people they don’t even know because they date the same gender. 

Throughout the years same gender couples are being criticised for being true to themselves. Same sex couples shouldn't be criticised. Laws worldwide which discriminates against same sex couples on the basis of who they love should stop. Someone shouldn't be judged for being true to them self and being who they really are.

Influence, which means the capacity to have an effect on the character, development, or behavior of someone or something, or the effect itself. There aren't always going to be negatives about same sex couples, there are going to be positives about it even if you don't want to believe it. First of all, the impact on same sex couples and their families has been positive and profound. 

People should be able to love whoever they want and be with them without being criticised based on their sexuality. "Same-sex couples are not asking for special treatment. They are asking for equal treatment. They are asking to be accountable, as a couple, in a community".    - Bishop Gregory Rickel
"Being gay is not a crime and it is not a sin. Stop using God to justify your prejudice. Religion is about loving one another. You're just looking for an excuse to hate".
                                                                                                            - Nihaan Singh Rajput
The only way we can accomplish this is by taking charge and speaking out to help give same sex couples get the rights they definitely deserve!

Careers Research

In Social Studies we have been learning about careers to help us in our future lives. 

This topic was given to us by our teacher and ended up with a random job. We have to work out our money, housing and transport. We got the option to either live by ourselves or to have a flatmate.

My job was an Human Resources Adviser

Aboriginal Boomerang Art

Boomerang Art

For the past few weeks in social studies, we have been learning about Indigenous Australians and the meanings behind their art. Boomerangs had originally originated from Europe. The reason for the artwork was because they had no written language so they told their cultural stories through this in which was portrayed by symbols and icons. Eventually, the artist decided to eliminate the sacred elements and abstracted the designs into dots to conceal their sacred designs which they used in the ceremony. Below is what the design of my boomerang looks like.

The blue spears represent hunting, red dots represent the food, green represents nature and yellow represents a star. The story behind this means hunting for food in nature under the sun.

THROWING BOOMERANGS

Artwork

1) Why do we look at street art? Why do we stop when we see it? What is our
reaction?
I think that we look at street art because we find it interesting and appealing. The different types

of style and use of colour is probably one of the main things that make us stop to look at it.
Sometimes you don’t seem to have a reaction but other times you’re thinking wow this is good.

2) Why do we need and use visual symbols around us?

We need/use these because for some people they use it to represent their culture. They also
communicate more than words.

3) What are examples of common visual symbols in our environment?