For our school trip one of the activities we had was we had 30 seconds to decide what to pack if there was a volcanic eruption near us. I found our school trip really fun because we got to learn about the World War 2 and we got to see the wall of memorial ( The wall of remembrance) the items we had were :
LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation
For this task we were challenged to create a DLO explaing what happened during the dawn raids, My group created a DLO about the Polyneisian Panthers and the Dawn raids and our question was, should the Government of today (2021) have apologised for the dawn raids of yesterday (1970s)? The dawn raids of the 1970s involves several considerations. The prime minister was apologizing on the behalf of the government in 2021. An apology could acknowledge the pain that they have caused over the past years towards the Pacific community. The pakeha didn’t treat the Polynesian Panthers fairly throughout their entire lives, creating generational trauma for the youngs one to pass on when they are older. Our opinion was that the government of today (2021) should apologise for the past actions of the dawn raids from yesterday (1970) to insure no other public outcries occur and so no other families hold any grudges / anger. The dawn raids back then was unacceptable and caused generational trauma.
LI : To understand how scientist know so much about dinosaurs.
LI : To recognised different types of fossils and how they are found.
For Inquiry we have been learning about dinosaurs, before we created anything we got to watch and learn about the different dinosaurs that used to live on earth before we were even alive! We got to create our own egg made out of flour, salt and water that created a form of clay. Later on we created an egg made out of clay and added our dinosaur inside. We mixed up all the eggs and cracked them open to see what dinosaur you have, after opening the egg we researched what protection, diet, predator and habitat our dinosaur has. After learning about our dinosaur which was an Ankylosaurus we were challenged to create a DLO, Video or an Animation explaining their habitat, diet, predator and protection our dinosaur uses. As you can see we created a video explaining everything we needed to explain including the different body parts of the Anyklosauraus dinosaur. I found this interesting and entertaining because we got to learn about the many different things of Anyklosauraus and many other dinosaurs but did you know that Anyklosauraus could use its tail to defend itself from other predators!
For our inquiry learning this term we will be focusing on the age of dinosaurs and to kick start our learning journey for term 3, we got the chance to research about paleontoligists, on what they do and why these fossil finding scientists are so important to the next step into evolution, with a challenge of explaining using exactly 50 words , no more or less! During this process we also found out that Fossil findings are absolutely crucial to have the understanding of the history that makes the present and the future, because these fossils contain the DNA from extinct animals and other living organisms. Fossils are preserved underground by the amount of pressure it builds up over time therefore becoming a fossil, while paleontoligists do mainy focus on animal bones instead of microscopic, and other living organisms, its also very important to know that fossils arent just bones, but other things that had been preserved and stored underground for ages!
To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.
For inquiry we learned about dinosaurs, fossils and paleontologists. We were challenged to create a story about Mary Anning who is known as a famous fossil hunter and paleontologist in 1811. We went into partners and created a google vid that tells us about what happened and what she did during being a palaeontologist. Something I found interesting was Mary Anning was the only person who survived when the lightning struck, and when her father passed away and they were poor she started to sell her fossils she had found in cliffs and in the beaches in Lyme Regis in England to carry on her fathers career.
Just visualise that everywhere you look in any direction is jam-packed full of nature, there seems to be no end in sight, only plants, and exotic, strange, mysterious living organisms. Thump , thump, thump … there seems to be a big bellowing thing heading your way, making your way passed the muddy land, moments passed, then out of nowhere your survival instincts catches on… RUN. Your calves start aching your heavy heart hasn’t stopped pumping adrenaline, strangely you break a cold sweat then CHOMP! Well luckily that thing that had just ate you up is now underground, extinct and forever encased in mother nature’s arms, dating back into the ages of middle earth lived dinosaurs! These animals were part of the reptilian family and are presumed to be apex predators in the days, while also being named friendly giants for some of them being strictly herbivores, but then after the ‘ catastrophe ’ most of life vanished out of existence, leaving nothing but memory. Then Humanity started to take over and then we started discovering bones, patterns, strange dents in the surface of earth, most discoveries being Body fossil meaning that it were the leftovers of prehistoric animals, and if you look towards the image on the left it shows a picture of an animal’s skeleton cemented in the ground floor, this tells how might’ve the animal appeared to be with its features, structure, ect. In contrast to the picture on the right is showing rand streaks of lines into the ground, these are called ‘ Trace Fossils ’ where the animal had left either footprints, teeth marks and also unhatched eggs, these are utilised to help our further understanding on how they live and what they did on a daily basis of life in the Jurassic Period!
LI : How to divide decimal numbers, using algorithim
For our weeks learning towards math, we have been on the subject that focuses on decimal numbers using the four arithmetic operations, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. In these exact same order we had learnt to do each one of these, but with decimal numbers instead of the basic whole number things, not only did this whole week of the summary facing to decimal numbers teach us the operations to these, but this has also taught us to always put the numbers in their correct place holding value such as tenths, hundredths, thousandths, ect, while guiding us on to be more fast in our working with only a week and a half to learn all these equations!
For our learning we had been learning about decimals and we have been learning how to do the calculus of multiplying two decimal numbers together! During the process of this insight to these types of equations, we have now the knowledge on how the method works towards multiplying two decimal places together, which was very interesting on finding out because its very basic, being very similar of multiplying two whole numbers together. We also found out that this was a very curious journey of learning because for most of the equations we were solving, was that instead of multiplying it bigger than the original number it would go smaller than the original numbers!
LI : How to Subtract decimal numbers using algorithm.
For this Maths activity we took a step up from the last lesson and the step up it was to learn how to subtract two decimal numbers together ! This activity is also very similar to subtracting whole numbers, because all that there is to minusing decimal equations together is that all you have to do is add a decimal point, to the given equation! Something we also learnt during this lesson is that you always have to line up all your decimal points and when subtracting, and the number you can not divide get crossed off and gets replaced with a number in the front of that number, which you have to subtract one from the number in front of the number you have to divide.
LI : how to add decimal numbers using algorithm
For this math lesson we have been continuing on to learn about how to do basic math with decimals like addition, subtraction, ect, but in this particular lesson about decimals we started off with learning how to add decimals together. To also do this task you have to sort out the place values of each number from tens, ones, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, and more, while everytime you add the chosen numbers you have to always start from the number farthest to the right working your way up to the left. Another thing to remember when doing this maths calculation is to always carry the ones to the correct place holders and a very simple trick to do this is to make your working out very neat and tidy, so it will be easier to look at and figure it out. Something I found interesting was we learnt how to add numbers using decimal points, and we learnt a rule while adding decimal numbers is that you always have to line up the decimal points with each other.