Turbo The Dog

This week for My Summer Learning Journey I have learnt about a amputee dog, due to that I have added some prostectics to help the dog walk again.

I first watched a video about “Turbo The Dog” who was born without his 2 front legs. I then saw that the dog was apart of the chihuahua breed. I looked for a simple image of that breed to start the task.

I found a simple clipart photot and began tracing everything but the front two legs (Later on I will add the prostectics). When I was finished tracing the tail, body, face, back legs, and details I then used some creativity to think of what prosthetics would be most effective.

Then I thought and thought and thought… until, I remembered these robot dogs that you could buy in real life. They use a metal leg that replicates a dogs, including joints, a battery, and stable feet plant at the bottom for the dog to stand.

I added the image and traced it, matching the body of the dog. I then finished my task and bloged it.

This is the final project, I hope you enjoyed this Summer Learning Blog post, and the finished results.

Legs Tally – Step it Up

This week for The Summer Learning Journey, I have done the step it up from the “legs tally” task.

This time for this task, instead of using mathematics questions to teach me about the centipede it gave me a text about the centipede to find facts off for my task.

It gave me pretty much everything about a centipede is inside of that task, and something that was really easy was that the questions were in order from the information being in the start of the text to the last part of the task.

For the last part of this task I just answered the rest of the questions and just bloged my task.

Legs Tally – Kick Start

LI: Learn more about centipedes.

This week on The Summer Learning Journey I have finished a template about the centipedes.

It used math to explain the body nof the centipede, but a fact that I found out on the next task was that centipedes don’t actually have 100 legs normaly,  but actually 30 on the regular.

It asked me questions like, “How many pairs would a centipede have if it had 100 legs”.  The next question used fractions using fractions like 1/5 of 100 to 1/2 of 40.

This task on the summer Learning journey really taught me some things about the centipedes anatomy and also using fun mathematical ways to teach me about the centipede.

Art In The Web

LI: Make a spiderweb and explain how spiders create them.

I have created a drawn spiderweb with a pencil and paper whilst explaining how they are created by spiders for my Summer Learning Journey task.

Let’s state how they start the web creation, they first create liquid protein silk. It is then dried by the air creating a strong sticky silk thread. They make what they call a “bridge web” used as the base.

It is then ‘anchored’ to whatever they are connected to for the wind to not deform it. Then the web that creates the beautiful design is added with the silk making Y shaped spikes in-between the lines. Used for catching insects making the big gaps little holes.

The web is now finished and is now in full effect for bugs and catching the eyes of humans.

Diarama – Pele

This week in LS2 I have created an diarama of a legendary football player, Pele. I chose this moment in history due to the legacy he had on brasillian football and the astonishing record he holds which is three world cups.

Pele grew up in the poor streets of Bauru in Sao Paulo, Brasil. He would play with makeshift balls using fruits, taped up peices of plastic, and even just rocks. Unfortunately, when he was just a kid his friend died after a failed robbery as a kid for money. After an unexpected landslide when hiding in the jungle.

He then made his debut for Santos FC at 15 years later just to win the world cup for Brazil 2 years later at 17 years of age. H replayed for Santos for most of his career then moving to the New York Cosmos when his legendary career was a coming to an end.

Sadly Pele passed away on December 29th 2022 at 82 years of age after dying of natural causes.

Museum Trip

This week Panmure Bridge School took a trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum to finish off our learning about volcanoes. We visited the WW1 section, the hall of memories, and lastly we visited the dinosaurs.

First, I arrived with my class to the side entrance of the museum, it had a big circular mat for our school to sit in. We sat down and one of the guides spoke to the class below us about the class (will be talking about that later on). But as the guide stopped talking we walked to the hall of memories, it was a big cream colored hall that consists of all the names of the fallen ANZAC soilders that didn’t return. But the most intresting thing to me was a big book I closed in a big glass case, It was a big book of names which from distance looks about 16 cm thick. Someone also changes the page every day.

 

Next, we sat back down for morning tea. After that, we walked to the WW1 section, It had guns and artifacts from the war. Our teacher, Miss Andersons husband actually used one of the guns that were showcased in the section. Known as the 25-Pounder. After that I wrote in a book that wach group was given at the start of the trip. My task was to draw an image of a intresting artifact. Then we arrived back to the mat to eat lunch.

 

For the last part of our trip, I explored the dinosaur and a class about volcano.  First came the dinosaurs, me and my group had a task to draw a dinosaur and its habitat. I also explored a bit with my friend, we saw the extinct bird the Moa, and even massive eggs. We went back to be guided to the class. It had a red light and a hyper-realistic mini volcano. They showed us rocks and we were even given a challenge to pick out of a couple items if a eruption was to happen.

 

Shamefully Stain On New Zealand History

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation.

This week for Reading I created a DLO of two opinions, I used a story that me and my class read together in groups,

First, I read the story with my group. The story is about the dawn raids and how much of a mark of racisim and trauma it left on Pacific Islanders.

After that I completed the slides of the week (Kupu O Te Wiki), I then created a DLO showing two sides of the opinions. The agree had a valid answer whilst the disagree had a less valid answer due to both me and my partner agreeing with the questions.

Lastly I bloged my task.

The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation: I read a text about the Polynesian Panthers (old activist group during the 70s fighting against the racist government) It allowed us to learn the harsh reality of racisim and helped us form an opinion.

First, I read the text, it was very descriptive on the dark times of racisim in New Zealand. It described the emotions and the effects of it. That helped us devolep a strong feeling towards racisim helping us evaluate (forming an opinion).

For the next part of my task, I created a DLO showcasing on how some people could disagree and how some could agree. I created this by using an venn diagram.

Lastly I bloged my task.

 

 

AI Movie

LI: Use AI to create a movie about an extinct dinosaur. Consisit of the habitats, diet, predators, and protection. This week for Inquiry I created an AI movie about a dinosaur known as the Pachycephalasauras.

I started my task with using notes from a previous reasearch project I had made the day before. I used them to make the AI start the video in time order, I made the notes in time order on purpose. It started with the habitat (where the din0saur lives) I asked the AI to create a video of the Pachysauras to walk through the habitats they live in.

Next, I asked for another video, as the AI I use is only capable of creating 6 second videos without pro. I asked for a video of the dinosaur eating some plants for the diet, as the Pachysauras is a herbivor. It gave me a very realistic video due to the prompt.

For the last part of my blog I created a final video of the Pachysauras fighting off potential threats with the skull of it. (My dinosaur is known for headbutting)

Paired Reasearch Challenge

LI: Reasearch about your dinosaur you were given with a partner using multiple questions. (Habitat, Diet, Predators, and Protection). This week for Inquiry I made a reasearch project about the Pachycephalosauras dinosaur (Packysauras for short).

First, I found myself a buddy and were given an egg that was hatched, we used the fossil to identify the dinosaur. We discovered that the dinosaur was known as the “Pachycephalasauras”. It was a herbivor dinosaur that stood around 6 ft (200cm). It was known for being the dinosaur with the hardest head, they used their thick 10 inch skull to headbutt predators.

 

Next, we sorted out the other questions, such as their habitat and fun facts about them. They lived and adapted to a lot of lands, grassland, desert, forests, and jungles. They were very adventureus creatures. The fun facts were facts such as the original name, and when it lived and died.

 

For the last part of our task, we blogged and created the dinosaur with origami skills, but that blog is for another day.