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.
Our challenge was to create a 50 word statement that tells us what paleontology is and what palaontologists do.
We found out that paleontologists preserve ancient plants.
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.
LI: To Understand how a volcano erupts
This week for Inquiry I created a showcase about an animation of a volcano. We did this task in groups and showed how the volcano erupted.
First we watched a YouTube video on how the tectonic plates reacted during an explosion, and how the lava makes its way up. The cause of an eruption is like a volcano doing a big burp.
Next we started the animations. The animations showed how the tectonic plates merge together and blow up making the lava its way up.
Lastly, I finished my task and blogged about what I did.
I enjoyed learning about how the volcano erupts.
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.
Me and LS2 walked along the Tamaki river. I enjoyed the fact that we got to walk to Point england and play.
This image shows that this was a learning thing and also something fun.
I mapped a Kuaka birds migratory flight path. I used my smart searching skills to find where the Kuaka stops and refuels
We made a dot to dot connection about Kuaka. We needed to find two words that correlated and we found information that made sense with those two words.
Something our group found intereesting is that they can fly from NZ to Alaska because that is a very far distance to fly.