Tag: Inquiry

2 words 2 minutes

Today we used the ‘2 words 2 minute’ challenge to write a description about the ancient olympics. After talking about the things we knew about the ancient Greece olympics we then created a list of words that would help us write our description. We then chose the words ‘Greece’ and ‘athletes’ to help us think about what we were going to write about.

We then talked about our ideas with a partner, then we had 2 minutes to put those ideas into a sentence. After the time was up we had 2 minutes to reread what we had written and make changes if anything didn’t make sense or if we had words and punctuation in the wrong place. When we finished checking our sentences, we then had 3 more minutes to carry on with writing our descriptions.

This activity was very fun because writing is one of my favourite subject as well as how one of the rule encourage me to keep going which was ” don’t stress just guess” . 

Ancient Greek Olympic Research Challenge

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games

LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor

Our challenge was to work in our groups to carry out a mini collaborative inquiry into the ancient olympic games. We used our smart searching skills to help us answer the questions. Our group worked well as we have collabrated with each other aswell as helping out eachother to have a better understanding of what were learning about.

Something I found interesting was that the games were basically for young teenage women that were making their way into adulthood.

Portion Sizes

LI: to learn about portion sizes and healthy eating.

We learnt about healthy eating and portion size. As you can see from my DLO the catergories are Protein, Grains, Dairy, and Vegtables. Protein gives us energy, to keep our body strong. While grains provides fiber, vitamins, minerals and other nutrients, grains also provides lower risk of diabetes. Dairy provides protein, calcuim, B vitamins, and vitamin D, and lastly Vegtables provides important sources of many nutreins such as dietary fiber, folate, Vitamin A and C.

I enjoyed learning about portion sizes because it shows me how to balance how much food I should be eating.

 

Treaty Of Waitangi

LI: understand the Treaty Of Waitangi.

Our task was to research the treaty of Waitangi and the history before the treaty of Waitangi happened. First we learnt about the history of slavery and how it still existed when Te Tiriti o Waitangi, therefore Great Britain travelled to Aotearoa on ships with missionaries to spread Christianity across New Zealand. Then the British crown created laws for New Zealand that everybody had to follow. The British ruled over a large and powerful empire and wanted New Zealand to be a part of it too.

I found this task interesting and upsetting to because seeing picture of young people being in the slavery is upsetting but also finding information about how it was back in the days was interesting.

 

Leaders We Admire

Our task was to create a DLO about a leader we admire, and my group and I had to choose Rosa Parks because she stood her ground and sat in front of the bus which was supposed to be for people that are white. But instead she decided to sit in the front and not care about the rules because she thought that the rules were useless and not helpful.

I enjoyed this task because researching about Rosa Parks is really interesting and especially hearing about her story.

My Pepeha

LI : To write and say our pepeha.

To help us get to know eachother we have written our pepehas, Which this allows us to make connections and form friendship. A pepeha is telling people what culture you identify as or where in New Zealand your from. For example: I was mostly rasied in the Panmure while the other half of my family stayed around Otara. I found this activity very fun because I enjoyed helping others pronoucing their pepeha’s.

Equipment and Property

LI: Students will learn how to look after equipment and property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This week for PB4L we created a contract discussing about your Properties and belongings of why they are important and why they need to looked after. This contract is also about respecting your belongings. An example of this is showing respect to those properties they have lent you to use as they could trust you with their equipment which is important to follow these because it’s best to show other people that you can be trusted in borrowing their equipment and also being able to get your equipment back without any damages.

I found this activity entertaining because it tells me about how I can trust people with my properties which also teaches me how this can show an impact on not just you but that person’s family, however people will respect your properties if you respect their property the way you admire something.

Research about Scurvy

LI: To understand what a balanced diet looks like and why it is important for human health.

For our first Inquiry topic for Term 2 we did a study about what a scurvy is, how can people get affected, and what can we do to avoid it. We wrote did you know facts to help us be able to learn about scurvy such as, Did you know that scurvy could also cause a gum disease? Scurvy is caused by lack of Vitamin C for at least 3 months. I was mostly common for pirates

I found this activity interesting because I got to learn some facts and information about scurvy and what I can do to prevent it.

 

 

Moko Ika Hikuwaru

Moko Ika Hikuwaru is a taniwha that has 8 tails. We drew what we think it would look like without tracing or copying any other designs and we also used our own prior knowledge on what designs to draw for our taniwha. We made our taniwha have four flamming red eyes and a wrinkly body leading to his 8 tails.

I found this activity fun because I got to work one of the best aritst in class and used our imaginations to complete this task.

Kauri Dieback

LI: To gather statistics and protect the Kauri Tree from getting the Kauri Disease.

The following week after camp we did a research about the Kauri Dieback. Then we created a DLO about the Kauri Disease on how we can prevent it from destroying our nature. Though we can do things such as… to stop the disease from killing our tree. 

I found this activity interesting because I got to learn some facts I did not know about the Kauri Dieback and how it can kill Kauri trees.