Category: Hanga | Create

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

We were given 2 create challenges to help us show our learning in creative and fun ways. Create Challenge 1:Use ADOBE Express to generate an image about each dinosaur on your completed sheet. You can not use their name – only the facts you have gathered. Create Challenge 2: Use https://hailuoai.video to create AI films showing 3 of your dinosaurs in their natural habitat.I enjoyed these challenges because i got to explore how to use AI to crteate a video.

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. I think this activity was fun because I got to explain how to make a dinosaur out of paper.

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

We read the text RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and asked to create a DLO that explores and discusses both perspectives of this historical event in our groups.Something I found interesting about this text was i never thought that New Zealand could be this racism.

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

who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Brachiosaurus. Add an interesting fact about your dinosaur here. This task was fun because of the suspence of not knowing what dino was in the egg.

  For this task some people from LS2 Got to choose what task to do if you didn’t go swimming and i was one of those people. And the task i chose was to make a panda reasearch you could also choose to pick a partner so i chose my friend. Me and my friend decided to do Habitat, Diet and appearance and by the time we finished our class came back from swimming.

LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.

LI: To recognise different types of fossils and how they are formed.

Our challenge was to create a Google Draw that shows clearly labelled  examples of each fossil type.

Something I found interesting was how much paleontologist’s take as much interest in dinosaur diets as they do.

LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story

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.

Something I learnt was that paleontologist’s are very important to getting us closer to knowing what life was like all those years ago.

S2 made a podcast about Samuel Marsden and about what he saw while he was sailing

down the tamaki river. We had 4 people be the host and ask Samuel Marsden the question. The types of questions we asked was was he scared when he sailed down the river or perhaps proud. And in the first verse the host are claimed as time travelers and we brang back Samuel Marsden from 1820. This task was a little hard because my group wouldn’t focus but we eventually got it.