Natural disaster reasearch - tsunami

LI: to identify what a tsunami's are 

For our research challenge I researched about natural disasters we had lots of choices to choose from and I chose to research about tsunami becuase it is something that is most likely yo happen because we are closer to water. I have included  the question that we had to include and add the answers and what we think we can do differently or better next time this could happen. 

Making images relate to the text

 LI: To create a DLO that explains why it is important to have images the connected to you information.

This week for cyber-smart I created a DLO that showcases good and bad examples of why it is important to use images that related to your information. This can be very important in making presentations or posters so that the images makes more scene and easier to understand when using the right image but if you are using a images that is irrelevant to the topic that this can confuse or could lead the reader of topic and will not get you message across. 

Excellence and Innovation Care award | Personal Passion

 LI: To create a DLO the shows our personal passion

This DLO is showcasing what my personal passion is my passion is cooking becoming a chef and to create lots of new dishes and exotic foods. One thing that I have found interesting was that my passion tends to change a lot sometimes but cooking has never changed for me.

Excellence and Innovation Care award | Goal setting

 LI: To set goals for this term

For this task for the Excellence and innovation task I had to come up with some goals that I can work on and try to achieve this term, I came up with 6 different goals that I want to try and achieve by the end of this term. The thing I found most interesting was that some of these goals I have already been working on and trying to complete from the start.

Excellence and Innovation Care award | 3 Novels

 LI: to read 3 novels this term.

For this excellence and innovation activity I chose to read 3 books this term the 3 books that I read are Matilda, Counting by 7s and the magicians nephew. In this presentation I have listed the Title of the book the author and the illustrator of the book and also a quick explanation of what the book is about. 

Excellence and Innovation Care award | Valerie Adams

 LI: To create a DLO of a New Zealander who has shown excellence and innovation in there life 

For my care awards I chose this task to research a New Zealander who has shown excellence and innovations in there life. I made a poster that explained who she is and how she shows excellence and innovation in her life and in the sports the she plays.

Excellence and Innovation Care award | Quotes

 LI: To create a DLO that has 3 inspirational quotes that can inspire people.

For my care award activity I worked on my excellence and innovation care awards. The first task I chose was to get 3 quotes that can inspire people I worked collaboratively with Fau to create this DLO. The 3 people we chose are Nelson Mandela, Malala Yousafzai and Will Smith. We also included our thought and what we think about what this quote means to us.

Scale drawing

 LI: to learn how to scale draw with Mrs Kirkpatrick 

This week Mrs Kirkpatrick came into our class and she taught us how to scale draw, this linked into maths becuase we learnt about X axis and Y axis and we used multiplication skills to enlarge our grid and measurements.  the first step to start our scale drawing was to find the horizontal center of our piece of small paper and draw a line down the middle and second step was to find our vertical center then draw a line down the middle, we then had to measure line that are spaced out my 1cm we had to create those line horizontal and vertical to great our grid.

We then had to count the squares from the top of the paper and count the squares on the side of the paper. we then had to multiply the amount of squares we had to get our area to create the larger grid we had to then draw lines spaced out by 2cm in both direction horizontal and vertical once we did that we could start drawing our character.

Life Education

LI: To learn how to takes care of our bodies physically and mentally.

This week we had Life education with Nicole, we had 2 sessions with Nicole. The first session we had was about the four walls  of Hauora the health belief that is unique to New Zealand. We watched a video that explained what happens when one of the walls fall down, we used a jenga tower to show what will happen when some of the blocks are taken out. We then talked about how this can effect us when one of the walls fall down.  If the mental/emotional wall as fallen then we could feel sad and not talk to anyone and distance yourself then it could effect the other walls. We also talked about upstanders and bystanders, upstanders are people who stand up for what they believe in. bystanders are people who listen and are the opposite of a upstander. We also talked about how upstanders can help us feel better.

Session 2

We talked about drugs and how to keep our bodies healthy. We talked how takeing drugs can effect the way we think and can loose some brain cells. then we compared the effects of a vape and a cigarette, we learnt that the vape puts the miucuse from the vape into our lungs and smoking can hurt our lungs and make them turn black.

Science Main ideas

LI: to find the most vital ideas from the information to help us answer the question “What is science?”.

This DLO is identifying the ideas of science which we have learnt from the information we have gained. To find the vital information, we negotiated by collaborating and communicating with our team. We shared our opinions and ideas, we took notes and from them we selected and rejected information to get to our final conclusion. 

For us the 3 main vital ideas are:

Science is the discovery of What, Why, and How events happen

The three main branches of science are Physics, Chemistry, and Biology

There are two main categories of science, and they are Basic and Applied Science

Science summary

LI: to summarise the information.

This DLO is highlighting our summary about what we know about science. In our groups, we have been sharing our ideas on posted notes and found the key words which we then wrote a summary about what science is. To then create a summary about the topic. We needed to skim and scan for key vocabulary to create this DLO. We also had to join our ideas together to create a more efficient idea.

We used our new question dice to help us construct some questions we want to find more about. The three questions we made using the dices were:

When did science start?

How will science progress in the future?

Who was the first scientist