Tag: Inquiry

Tree Octopus

LI: To carry out a guided reasearch process. 

This task had many lessons, but that will be disclosed later on in this post. But for this task we carried out reaserch on the North-West Pacific Tree Octopus which you can also call Octopus Paxarbolis. This is a octopus that navigates in rainforests, using the powerful suckers located across their tentacales.

More information will be shown in the DLO which will be by the end.

For now, lets focus on those ‘lessons’ that I was talking of in the start. The truth is, this “Tree Octopus” is actually a internet hoax, which means its actually fictional. Yes you heard right, this is a made up sea creature that has websites of websites of information located all across the internet.

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.

 

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.

 

 

Volcano Animation

Li: To understand how a volcano erupts.

 

This week for Inquiry I created a Google slide to showcase a volcano eruption as a animation.

First, I found myself a group from 2 – 4 people (2), I figured out how it erupts through scientific videos on youtube. The tectonic plates hit creating a reaction from the magma stored in the earth.

Next, I started by adding a cone to simulate a volcano and added smoke partials, and orange and red shapes to create lava.

Lastly, I finished the task and bloged my work.

Time Traveller’s Podcast ft Samuel Marsdon

For Literacy we have been using our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden had we had the chance to meet him and talk to him. This was a fun activity because we took on the roles of Samuel Marsden and the Time Traveller’s Podcast team. It was like we experienced actually meeting him.

We learned that when you are recording a podcast expression is everything! It makes what we have to say more engaging.

 

Photo Story

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling

This week Panmure Bridge went for a walk to Pt England Reserve. To show what we did we created a photo collage in time order.

First, I downloaded 10 images to show what we did inside of a time order. It was a image of LS2 crossing Dunkirk Road.

Next, I put all of them inside of the slides. I made the time order go from left to right.

After that, I faced my first problem, I didn’t have enough space to fit the images. I had to make them very small which didn’t look very well.

Lastly, I bloged this task.

 

A Moment In Time

LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time

This week after camp LS2 made a poem describing what they felt during one of the task.

First, I downloaded a image of the activity I wanted to write a poem about. (Raft Building) I mostly focused on the weather and water during the poem.

Next, I thought about some rhymes adding it into the poem, such as, amazed and phased, and blow and flow.

Lastly, I designed the background and image, font, and colours.

Samuel Marsdon

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find out who Samuel Marsden was and what he is known for.

In LS2 I created a Google slide about Samuel Marsdon.

First I went through a timeline created by my teacher, Miss Anderson, it was what he had gone through during his life. He was also the first known missionary to enter New Zealand.

 

Next I added the information on to the slides that I had created just before. I decorated the first couple slides and then added some more for further information.

Lastly I added some facts that I had researched on websites across google, such as how he died, and how many kids he had (8). I also fixed some grammar issues.

I enjoyed this task due to it being a light and easy task. I need to improve at my grammar (, . “) I found writing easy.