Procedural Text

For our inquiry task, we did dinosaurs, we got into groups of two or three and then made dinosaurs out of paper, and we made our own instructions with paper and we had Coloured paper, glu, a pencil, and a ruler, also we made a proderul text to tell everyone what to do if they want to make a parasaurolophus dinosaur, i hope you like it.

Malala Yousafzai

Thank you

LI: To identify the main arguments Malala presents for education and peace.

For this task we have been handed in the challenge of making a poster on one of Malala Yousafzais key messages in her speech, when she made when she turnt 16 years of age. She was a protester that fought for woman’s justice to have the oppurtuntiy to be educated, and she also mentions is her speech the Taliban and the things in humanity that make it bad ! This included poverty, racism, social injustice, racial bias, gender bias and much more. She called upon the many leaders to change their political view, and thanking the people who were praying for her, and the ones that helped her recover from when she had got shot on the left side of her face. What I found interesting is that she did’nt let anything define her on what she is and didnt let anyone put her down !

AI Movie

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

For inquiry we had been researching about our chosen dinosaurs on what they look like, what their habitat was, what they ate, who their predators were, and how they protected themselves from those conniving predators. The dinosaur that I had been randomly given from an egg was an Ankylosaurus which was a friendly herbivore, who ate shrubs and lived near water sources, and in upland formations, but in this particular experiment to show our creative thinking skills we were handed in the challenge of creating an image of our dinosaur without typing its name in its prompt, the we had to get on to making our own AI movie ( 6 second ) about our dinosaurs, using the program https://hailuoai.video . I enjoyed this challenge because I had to make loads of test prompts trying to make it an Ankylosaurus, and most of them were funny results !

 

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

For our inquiry we had the topic of Volcanoes so went to the museum to put our topic to an end. When we went to the museum we had a space for learning and in that learning space we were having a reminder on what volcanoes worked like, we then had been challenged to organise the type of rock from the volcano in order, then we did a Backpack challenge where we had to pack all the necessary items into the bag within 30 seconds. The items were backpack toys can of food hole punch torch can opener pan gloves cat muesli bar cat food goggles bottle of water tea towel first aid kit mask and a colouring book .My group shoved everything but the cat because we ‘ forgot ‘ the cat and decided to take the cat food. Even we were walking around the different galleries going from WW2 to imaginarium, weird and wonderful and lastly NZ protests and politics, we were learning different things, and a fact that I found interesting was that whenever someone would spot an enemy, there would be a flagman giving a signal to the bell person, which then would ring the bell above to warn them ! What I learnt from the class time was that whenever there were volcanic bombs it was basically these big chunks of lava, ejecting in a high altitude and then coming down at great speed, twirling whilst its cooling down !

Paired Research Challenge

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 egg . My partner and I found the skeleton of a Parasaurolophus and we learnt some interesting facts about it. Something I learnt is that the Parasaurolophus are herbivores. Something I found interesting was that the Parasaurolophus was conered by a predator it would use its size to trample and stomp the predator.

Dinosaur eggs

LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils.

For our reasearches on our chosen dinosaur eggs, we got set a challenge and imagined that we were Mary annings, a paleontologist, had found some dinosaur eggs in the bushes, then ecavatng the rare phenomenon, and taking a photograph of these eggs. We opened them up and inside was our dinosaur that was now our new project so after opening them and taking that photograph, we used that photo graph and went onto Adobe Express to edited our image to what we thought it might’ve looked like in a old-fashioned picture type, after our reasearches on the different dinosaurs me and my group of three had found out we had a Parasaurolophus on the lose !  Something interesting we found out was that they are herbivores so they eat plants which was basically their surroundings and I found that interesting because I know they didnt go starving unless there was a predator on the loose. I enjoyed this task because we got to generate our image into a better photo, and opening the egg because it was fun opening it and imagining we were paleontologists.

Once a Panther

LI: To identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

 For our reading we read the text ‘ Once a Panther ‘ a graphic novel that narrates New Zealand’s history about the Polynesian Dawn Raids and how it looked, felt and probably sounded like when becoming a victim to these dawn raids ! After our concentrated reading and guided reading doc, we had been gifted the task of making our own comic strip, that illustrates another example of prejudice, racism or stereotypical behavior towards people, in this practice we learnt how to use dialogue speech bubbles properly ! What I found challenging about this challenge was trying to create my own, because I never really experienced any harsh racism comments, but it was interesting finding out peoples experience with racial behavior directed to themselves, or to one of their family members !

RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation 

For reading we read the text RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and after scanning through this important knowledge, we had been asked to create a DLO that goes through and discusses both perspectives of this event that had happened. What I found interesting was that they had mini pamphlets, that gave a brief expression of what your rights were ,which was very cool !

 

 

‘Shameful stain on NZ history’: Polynesian Panthers push for dawn raids apology

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation

For reading we were given the task to read a text explaining the polynesian dawn raids, and how it affected people. Then after reading the text we had to form a DLO about the provacation on , if the government of today ( 2021 ) apoligise for the mishaps of the government (1969). During this task we had a lot of reasons to think why and why they shouldn’t of had done this, but ultimatley we all came to the conclusion of agreeing on they should of apoligised because without the confirmation of their wrong doings, the next generation will probably carry on the generational trauma . Something I found interesting was that when Jacinda Aderm was apoligising they put a mat ontop of her head and it was lifted off, making it very interesting to watch because it was the first time I witnessed such a thing ! I really enjoyed this because we were learning about the past of NZ and acknowledging on what people have done to our culture and what they’re still doing.

 

 

What is a Paleontologist


 

For inquiry, we watched a video showing paleontologists digging for dinosaurs. We learned about what a paleontologist is and what they do. For this activity we were challenged to create a 50 word statement that tells us what paleontology is and what palaeontologists do on a DLO but the challenge was that we couldn’t use over or under 50 words. One fact we found interesting is that Mary Anning was the first ever palaeontologist to find a fossil or a paleontologist has to examine fossils to identify what type of fossils it is.