Food Technology @ Tamaki College

 LI: To learn how to make corn fritters.

This week at Tamaki College we made corn fritters with salad on the side with Mrs Heka. For this block we listened to Mrs Heka who gave us a set of instructions to help us create our dishes. To make these fritters I worked with Victoria.

First we got our ingredients and equipment. To make the batter for the fritters I got 2 eggs and 1/4 of a cup of milk which is known as wet ingredients, and Victoria got the dry ingredients which consisted of 1/3 of a cup of flour and 1/2 a tablespoon of baking powder. I then mixed the eggs and milk together and Victoria mixed the flour and baking powder. Then she got a can of corn kernels.  Victoria gradually added the dry ingredients to the wet ingredients making sure that the batter had a smooth consistency. After we mixed the batter we added the corn kernels. Before we started cooking we added oil to the pan. Mrs Heka came around and turned on our stove so we could then start cooking. While we were cooking we put some salad into our containers and added some dressing. We cooked our batter until it was a golden brown then placed it into our containers. To top it off we added a swirl of sweet chilli sauce.

When we finished cooking we started to wash our dishes and wipe the benches making sure our space was tidy for the next week. I really enjoyed the corn fritters and thought they were very delicious. I would definitely cook this when I have the ingredients. Next week for food tech we are making mac and cheese.

Tech at Tamaki College | Robotics

LI: To learn how to figure out the binary of numbers



This week for robotics we learnt about binary and decimal numbers. Binary and Decimal are different ways of counting. The bi in binary means something that involves with two things, the dec in decimal means it relates to something with ten. For this lesson we tried to figure out numbers with binary numbers, like for example 10 would be 01010 because the first column would be sixteen, eight, four, two then one. We also had a challenge to write our name but in binary numbers, and also write a message for someone to solve and also in binary. We learnt how to count in binary because computers count in the binary method but we are used to counting in Decimal, and since we were doing coding we might've not known why the computer was using random numbers. I found this lesson interesting because I never knew that the computers used a different counting methods than us and I learnt a new method.

Tech Reflection | Pewter Casting

This week for tech at Tamaki College, we carried on with our 16 designs for our 4 recipients. We made sure that we didn't have any skinny and detailed parts of our designs. After we completed finding designs for our recipients, we chose one designs we wanted to create for a recipient. We decided to chose a Micky mouse designs that wasn't too difficult. Once we chose a design, Mr Grundy printed it out, so we could create it. Mr Grundy showed us the first step, of how to carve out our designs, so we were ready for next week. 

Tech Reflection

This week at Tamaki College we did pewter casting with Mr Grundy. Today we finished our designs we would like to put on a necklace and the 4 recipients we would like to give the necklaces. If we chose any images that had skinny features or holes they could not be used since it is to hard to make. I have had a great time choosing designs for the necklaces.

Tech Reflection

This week was our first session of tech with Mr Grundy. Today we looked at pewter casting to make jewellery. First we planned our designs and who our recipients were. Mr Grundy showed us the steps of creating our designs, so we could have a clear understanding on how we make it. There were a few designs we were thinking of making. On a google doc, we wrote 4 recipients we would give our necklace to and some facts about what they like.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week for tech we were with Mr Krishna, we also played with the m-bots, which are robots that are controlled by coding. For the challenge today, we tried to make our m-bots go in a square. This process was very hard, but then it was challenging and fun at the same time. We used the codes to move our m-bots to make a square. Near the end I partnered up with Sakina, Miiana and Victoria, to test our codes that we made.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week was the last week of tech for term two. Today we started making our games that we planned out last week. We worked on our games for a couple of minutes and then we went on tinkercad. On tinkercad we tried making shapes and we had a challenge to try and create Mrs Anderson using the shapes. I enjoyed this week of tech and look forward to going back next term.

Tech at Tamaki College

This week in tech we did graphics with Miss Ferguson. First Miss Ferguson explained what we were going to do. After she explained what we were going to do we first started off by doing our task we had from last time we had graphics. After a few minutes of doing that Miss Ferguson taught us how 2 dimension and 3 dimension works. After we got taught how 2 and 3 dimension works we tried it out ourselves. The most basic 3 dimensional object I personally think is a square because it's basically 2 squares with lines but in 3 dimension it is a cube or box. During our process of drawing Miss Ferguson showed us how to shade in our shapes with pencils and coloring in pencils. I enjoyed my second week with Miss Ferguson and I am looking forward for next week.