Identify, Investigate & Design

 L.I to use technological practice process to design a toy.

Our focus for this week in inquiry is to create a summary on the following, Identity, Investigate & design. All of these technological practices will help us design our very own rover toy. In our groups we all contributed to summarise the following. Identifying, is finding what the problem is, and how it can be resolved. Investigating 

Mood Board

 LI: to create a board of ideas that can help us create our own rover

Our focus for inquiry is Toys and machines. this also connects to the Mars landing, which was helped by these rovers seen above. The mars landing rovers were created to help investigate a planet that has not been searched. This mood board is to help us have an idea of what we are making by looking at different pictures and putting them onto a mood board., we are rubber band powered rovers.

We enjoyed this task because it helped us to have a good understanding of what we are making and how  we can make them successful.

Inquiry

LI: To decide which political party will get your vote by making an informed choice

This week we decided which political party I would vote for I read a summary of the policies each party wants to introduce should they win the election and the right to form a government to run NZ. Doing this allowed me to make an informed decision.

If I was 18 I would vote for National because they have caring for animals.This means if Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi .Won the election in my electorate Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi would be our member of parliament and Jacinda Ardern ardern would become the Prime Minister.

Tell us something you found interesting and why.

Making Connections to problem solving

LI: To explore problem solving

Today we had bad connection to the internet, instead of using the internet we went old school and used paper. We made Tangrams from a piece of A4 paper and a pair of scissors. We didn't read our instructions this time as we had to listen carefully to each step. A Tangram is a square cut into seven pieces which can be arranged to make other shapes.  Did you know it is an ancient Chinese puzzle? The hardest part was to make a square with all the 7 shapes. We had to problem solve to put the shapes together to make the different animals.  We collaborated very well together.

Matariki Stars

L.I: To explain what is Margarita is and why we celebrate it.                                                                                                                                                                                                           This DLO shows what is Matariki and information about matariki. We used our searching skills to find these interesting facts and information.  This DLO will help me and others that don’t know what is matariki and information about matariki.

Matariki Harvesting Birds

L.I: To use our knowledge and find three interesting information and fact about these matariki harvesting harvesting birds. 

                                                

This DLO shows interesting facts and information about 3 matariki harvesting birds. I worked with my group to find these interesting facts and information.  The three matariki harvesting birds we picked a Tui, Huia and Kereru. 

Persicope

LI: To explain how a Periscope work.

Mr Johnston came and taught us what Persicopes are, how they are used and who uses them. We found out that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection. That means if the light hits the mirror at a 45 degree it reflect the light back at 45 degree. It was fun doing this activity.

Light Facts

LI: to share 5 facts about light that we find interesting.

We worked collaboratively to create a DLO that shows facts about light. One fact that interests me is did you know that the most common light is white light. White light is the only light that is visible to the eye. White light is also made up of the colours of the rainbow because white light is made of the rainbow.

Kahoot | History of rugby.

LI: apply inquiry, literacy and numeracy skills to learn about the RWC.

In this extra literacy task we could either pick to make a kahoot or an animation based around the
rugby world cup and rugby history. e.g Where would the next rugby world cup be held?
It was an option to use a true or false question or/and multiple answers on a kahoot. Unfortunately
we couldn't make it public because we are students so we just took a screenshot them.

Jig saw

We had to make a jig saw about all the planets in our solar systems. Then you have to put on lots of facts. 

Hauora | Inquiry

LI:to learn the 4 dimensions of Hauora. 
This week we are learning more about hauora and the 4 dimensions of hauora. They are Social well being, Physical well being, Spiritual well being and Mental/Emotional well being. We had to make a poster, skit, movie/film and animation using one of the 4 dimensions.

Social well being is our relations ships that we can have with other people in different ways. We can have relationships with family, friends, Pets and others. Physical well being is about your body. Spiritual well being is about your beliefs and self worth. Mental/Emotional well being is how you control your emotions and feelings. Its the way we think as we grow up. 

Hauora

For Inquiry our task was to pick something that  has for thing on it,But my group did a chair and each leg was the four dimensions, Social well being, Physical well being, Mental well being,Spiritual well being, then we had another task where we had to get a partner, my partner was David . Then we had to put all the white boxes in the box in the middle then me and my partner had to think where to put it, then we had to make our own one.

Inquiry

This week for inquiry we talked about Poetry, Poems have rhyme and some done have rhyme theirs different kind of poems, A poem is a piece of writing in which the words are chosen, Rhymes are words that sound similar to each other when you say or hear them

Inquiry

LI: Identify characteristics of being a good citizen

Identify characteristics of having a healthy/non healthy relationship

This week we did 2 pallets, And we also had to make a poster on Good and Bad things about teamwork. Then we did a body outline about good thing inside the body and bad things outside the outline.

keeping our Safe

LI: Was to Learn safety situations

This week for Inquiry We learned about Personal Strengths, I like playing sports, What i Don't like is being bullied,The thing that makes me angry is when my brother trips me up,When i am happy i Just go for a walk to the park, The 3 touches are Confusing touch,Happy touch,Touch that hurts. 
Types of Touches  Safety cards   

Nelson Mandela

LI: To learn about Nelson Mandela.
This week for inquiry we had to make a slide presentation and we had to pick a protester. My group picked Nelson Mandela because we think that he was a brave person to stand up for the black community also the other protesters like martin luther king Jr. So we had to find what was his hobby what did he like when was he born and where. So we had to find out what he was fighting for which was for the black community to be treated the same.

Nelson mandela

Notes  This week we had to make a google doc with notes about what we found out about Nelson Mandela.  We picked Nelson Mandela because most of the people in my group looked up to him for the great things he did

Trench Warfare

LI : To talk about trench warefare.
Today I did trench warefare.The task was not hard and tock a while to do it.The task also had us write four things into the boxes.Were talked about the things inside the trenchs and the life of it.We also had to watch videos of the life of it and we had to also read about the life of it in a website.We learnt lots about the trenchs we did not know.The task overall was not hard but it tock a while to do.

max gimblett

L.I to show what WW1 events happened.
For Armistice day we had to make a copy of this slide and find information about the poppy, last post and the the fallen ode. The videos are about what the topic is on the slide. We had learnt and searched on google What is the last post. Today we had to get into different partners and we had to watch different videos and we had to write information about what the fallen is it is a poem and of remembrance and we also learnt about that last post In army traditions the bugle call is what signifies the end of the day's activities and is played at military funerals and acts of remembrance. The poem was created by Robert Grave.

M . A .I. N

LI: Was to learn about Main

This week for Inquiry me and my partner Made this. It is Could M . A . I . N. It is stuff including World War 1 MAIN stands for Militarism , Alliances ,  Imperialism  , Nationalism. Then we had to go to the floor then we had to say what dose MAIN mean.