For inquiry this week we’ve learnt and discussed as a class how-to take notes like a caveman, why? because writing like a caveman can help us avoid copying down full sentences word for word, and to separate critical ideas from supporting details. For this task we needed to make a DLO that is able to explain to someone how to take notes like a caveman, take a look at our DLO and our examples for a deeper understanding!
LI: To evaluate peer pressure, digital interactions and social influences
We unpacked how in a world of followers and influencers, how we can stay the ‘Navigator’ of our own lives. We enjoyed this task because we found out so much about social influence and how it can affect people, it was also facinating to explain the differences between positive and negative influence talking about examples of each one.
LI: To understand what honouring the treaty means
We explored the ways we still honour the Treaty of Waitangi today. The Treaty of Waitangi is important because in 1840 it create a agreement and partnership between Maori and British. The British signed the Treaty of Waitangi with Māori chiefs. The British promised to protect Māori rights to their lands and treasures, while in return gaining the right to buy land. Today it is important because it is the treaty of New Zealand representing the releation ship between the Maori’s and British.
Something I found interesting was that the Henry Williams and his son Edward translated was able to write the English draft of the treaty into Māori overnight on 4 February.
I have used my imagination to think how this event took place (the singing of the treaty), adding speech bubbles and thought bubbles to respersent what I thought the People (Maori/British) that attended this event though and said. Take a look at the speech and thought bubbles to see what I have imagine how this event took place.
(Speach Bubles, respersent what is being said, Thought Bubbles respersent what they are thinking).
LI: To align financial literacy with careers choices
LI: To find out what job/careers are avaliable to you
First thing we needed to do was to complete a quest answering questions (78 questions) that asked how interested we were with the jobs on the screen. We needed to rate those jobs from not interested, neutral, fairly interested to very interested. After answering all 78 questions it will give us many jobs depending on what jobs we voted higher then, not interested.
For me it gave many choices like artist, landscaper, engineer but I chose chef because of my big passion for cooking.
Something I found interesting was that after answering the questions sometimes it will give you jobs that are really irrelevant to your liking.
LI: To explore how our ancestors measured time.
We needed to research and create a DLO that explains to someone about ancient timekeeping devices like the sundial, clepsydra (water clock) and hour glass (sand clock).
Somthing I learnt about each one, The first sundial was made around 3500 BC with examples, one of them being shadow clocks from Egypt Valley of Kings which was 5,500 years ago. The clepsydra is a time tool that was invented around the 1500 BC after it is improved by the greeks, but the oldest one found dated back between 1353 to 1391 BCE. The hour glass evolved from ancient sand clocks in the 14th century BCE, it was a key timekeeping device for navigators measuring time at sea when water and pendulum clocks were unreliable.
LI: To create a procedural text to tell someone how to do something using a sequence of steps, instructions or actions in a particular order.
Our challenge was to work in our dinosaur research pairs create a prototype of our dinosaur’s skeleton. The challenge was to make teh skeleton of our dinosaur and record the steps we followed. Once we had our first prototype we revised and adapted both the prototype and the instructions.
We used the language features found in a procedural text to help us write clear instructions so that another pair could follow our instructions and create our prototype.
LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.
Our challenge was to create a DLO that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Beachiosaurus.
Through out our research we have learnt many facts about the Brachiosaurus one of them being:
Something I found interesting was that the Brachiosaurus front legs where way bigger and stronger then its back legs which was the main support due to the ohw heavy the chest and the neck of the Brachiosaurus.
LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.
LI: To recognise different types of fossils and how they are formed.
For inquiry we are learning about dinosaurs, paleontologist and different types of fossils. We have learnt about body and trace fossils and something I have learnt about trace and body fossils that trace fossils are preserved remains of the ancient animal and its skeleton, these fossils help us learn what it was like over a 100 million years ago. Trace fossils are finds of life or animals which includes footprints,trails tooth marks and fossilised animals, droppings and other different finds.
Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century. Mary Anning did discover the first almost complete skeleton of a plesiosaur, a marine reptile, in 1823. She also nearly completed the ichthyosaur skeleton another marine reptile. Who was also knowned as on of the first paleontologist.