Tag: Tech

25. Food Technology

Kia Ora, Reader! On week 1, Monday, we had Tech, like we always do every casual Monday afternoon, But it was different because it’s a new term which means we are in different technologies.

My group (Group 1) was assigned to Food Technology and we learnt all the basics of being in the kitchen. We wrote on paper to identify some of the pictures it had, being cooking skills, then the next paper we had to identify the accidents that happen (Like burns or slips). Then we learnt how to be safe when in the kitchen, here are the basics – Always wear short sleeves or roll your sleeves up so it doesn’t catch on fire, tie your hair back (If you have long hair), keep your hands clean (!), If you accidentally create a spill clean it up immediately before you slip, don’t mix water and boiling oil apparently that ignites a fire, then lastly If anything from you gets caught on fire, which are most likely to be your clothes or your hair, Stop what you’re doing and drop flat on the floor then roll, that’ll extinguish the fire.

Anyways, besides those, today we are going to make sushi, but we’re using chicken as an alternative to fish, since with fish we’re not very experienced with, which could potentially lead us to food poisoning if we used it!! (Unless you’re trained)  – Anyways, can’t wait, I’ll be there to update you!

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25. Technology Painting (2:1)

Kia ora, reader.

WALT: Recall what we’ve done at tech.

Yesterday on Monday, we were given our clay bowls made from last week Monday to paint. When we arrived, we did what we always do, like putting our bags aside, sitting by the tables and doing the roll call. Our teacher you may know her by now if you read my blog, Ms.Rodgers, had the tray with our clay creations on it. She then showed us examples on screen of what we’d like to paint our bowls into. There were various designs like, Fruits, Cultural patterns, Landscapes, animals, ECT.

I really liked the Idea of a watermelon, so I chose to paint my bowl so. With my design I wanted it to look a bit realistic, with that I added dark green stripes on the exterior similar to what a watermelon has on the outside, then red on the inside as the watermelons flesh, with a small black looking tear drops to recreate seeds. As we’re painting however, we had to blow dry the paint in between so that the paint doesn’t mix.

Once our creations were dry, we used mod podge I believe to coat around our project to protect it from water or something. Once we’ve coated the modpodge everywhere, we’ve set it aside back on the tray, then people volunteered to help blow dry the modpodge so we can bring our project home early. Now that our creations were dried (most of  them were) we took photos with it and put it in our bag to take home. After that we cleaned the classroom and went outside to do a prayer with the other groups and went home.

I believe that’s all, thank you for reading. 😁

25. Clay Making in Technology (SUPERFUN) (3)

Kia ora, Reader. This week on Monday during our technology class – DVC (Design Visual Communicate), we were using clay on the pottery wheel, and I’ll ensure you it was a fun experience.

When we arrived at our technology class, we put our bags aside then our teacher, Ms Rodgers, started the lesson with a roll call. After the roll call, she had thick oblongs of clay in a bag, then used a wire to slice the thick clay into fair square pieces. As she was slicing clay, she gave it to us to pass down the table until everyone received one.

Ms Rodger advanced to instruct us to flatten the clay. Then she used an empty jar to imprint onto the clay to create a circle with it. With the extra clay outside of the jar imprint however, she used it to go around the circle by flatting horizontally (Hopefully that makes sense). Then we had to smooth the inside and outside to create a bowl! Nonetheless, all of this was just a practice because after that, she asked who wanted to use the clay wheel by putting their hand up (almost everyone did except like a few).

Let me tell you about my experience with the Pottery Wheel – As I was observing another student using it, I knew it was their first time using it, but it looked like they got the hang of it quite easily, making me feel fairly better because I have to admit, I was scared using the machine at first because I didn’t want to mess things up. But when Ms Rodger was directing me, she made it look easy so I had hope.  As soon as I hopped on, it was really easy, maybe because Ms Rodger previously shaped a bowl for me to finish, but I had false nails on so I used my knuckles to sculpt it. My feedback on this experience, I would do it again without nails because my nails kinda ruined the thing.

Have you ever used a Pottery Wheel?

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