Week 7 – Term 4 – Restoring the whenua

  • In week 6 we went around the school and made a map. The map was a lay out of the whole school and then we
  • had to found 13 different types of native plants and put a little pieces on the map we made and where we found the native plant.

 

  • Then we got to research about one Native tree and put it on the a slide show and I did the Totara tree.

“Escape from Reality” – Deep Learning Inquiry Project Planning

Our learning goals for this inquiry project have been chosen by the group, in discussion with our teacher.

 

ENGLISH LEARNING GOAL(S):

Processes and strategies: Students will integrate sources of information, processes, and strategies purposefully and confidently to identify, form, and express increasingly sophisticated ideas.

SOCIAL SCIENCES LEARNING GOAL(S):

We will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to understand how:

  • People define and seek human rights

DEEP LEARNING COMPETENCY GOALS:

  • Character:Positive Attitude to life and active learner
  • Collaboration: Working together as a team.
  • communication : Voice and identity to express and advance humanity.
  • Creativity: Explore and express creative ideas and approaches.
  • Critical thinking: Making connections and identifying patterns.

citizenship:

  1. What is the BIG ISSUE OR QUESTION you would like to learn more about, draw attention to, and find ways of publicising or solving?
    Tell a trusted adult or friend about what is happening and don’t let the bully’s words control how you see yourself. If someone is bullying you through messages, block them and report their account so they cannot continue. Remember, you are not alone – speaking up is not weak, it is protecting yourself and others. Surround yourself with people who support you and make you feel safe.

  2. Rationale/Purpose – Your motivation?  Why is this important? How does your project interact or benefit your community? What is your purpose? 

Our Project is about awareness and being aware about bullying and cyber bullying.

 

  1. How will you learn? What are you doing/ exploring/ researching? What kinds of resources might you need? 

We are learning about cyberbully and what not to do when someone is bullying you online and you should just leave it and block them and if they talk to you in real life just do the same and ignore them.

  1. Sharing/Audience: At this stage, what do you think your product will be, and how will you present your project? Ideas show an awareness of a range of dimensions or viewpoints throughout the characters. By using these processes and strategies when listening, reading, or viewing, students will show an understanding of how texts are shaped for different purposes and audiences.


Link your original purpose or intention to your audience.  How you communicate will depend on your purpose and audience.

Restoring the whenua – Week 4 – Term 4

  • Week 4 on Thursday we talked to Whaea Di about planting native trees and she talked about how many they have planting this year. She also talked about how they had a little party for the farmers that gave some of there land for Energise Otaki and she talked about some Native tree and we have to researched about one of them and presented it to the class
  • Lenore came on Friday and talked about  Trap NZ and bird watching and we went out side and watching some birds and she showed us the App you can use to track the Traps and you can also use the App for counting all of the different birds you see. We also show Whaea Lenore our research about wild Animals Me and Amelia researched about wild dogs 

 

  • In week 4 our class started researching  about different things that live in Freshwater 

Restoring the whenua Week 3 – Term 4

Reflection on what we did in week 3:

  • We went to Haruatai and tested the water.We got put into some little groups one group was testing the depth and The other ones were testing the
  • pH level
  • Temperature
  • Flow
  • Clarity

 

  • Then we made a slide show about different predators in NZ Me and Amelia made a slide show about wild dogs and  Researched a lot of different things about wild dogs.
  • Wild dogs slide show

Restoring the Whenua term 4 week 3

Native Trees :

In week 2 our class went to Haruatai on Friday. We got put into two groups and the bigger group went and help and  plant some Native trees with whaea Helen. The other group went with whaea Lyndsay and helped weed all of the other trees and talked about what are weed and what are plants.

Energise Otaki:

We made a presentation about Energise Otaki and we got put in groups and then we presented it to the class and talked about the topic we were given my group talk about Eco corridors and Carbon and Native Trees.

Eco corridors

Close viewing Assessment – Ready Player One

We are learning to show understanding of visual texts through close viewing, using supporting evidence.

 

  1. Steven Spielberg used the techniques of where Acting,Camera shot,Lighting and Sound and if the movie didn’t have any of these it would of been a pretty boring movie the movie without acting is not really a movie and if the lighting wasn’t good that would just look very bad and if there was no sound then you would get really bored and stop watching it. <list your four techniques again> in this sequence from Ready Player One to <summarise the effects of the four techniques you have discussed above>.
  2. In this film unit I have learned all of the camera shots and the CAMEL techniques
  3. One thing I found interesting was the Camera shot like when the camera followed the players

Restoring the Whenua week 1 term 4

In week one we got to talk to some people lady Diane she was talking to us about making Otaki a CO free and talking about different types of trees and ways to help grow them and we did some research in groups of 3 on different things that can help the Whenua grow and show it to the class.

our research.

Their was another lady who came in and her name is Lenore she came and talked about Trap NZ. She showed us all the different animals that they are trying to take out of NZ because they are killing all of our native animals . She also show us how to set up a trap and she said that cats are the top killer out of all of the animals so she said if you have a cat it’s good if you can leave them inside at night time.

 

On the first week back we did some data collecting and we all put our data on one google sheet and made a copy and then made some graphs and named 3 things that you could see on the graphs and then make a sentence and write about the data we have on out graphs.

Graphs

Restoring the whenua week 7

Week 7

At the start of week 7 we did some vocabulary  and research 4 words that we had to pick from the list of words then we did the When,Who,What and How  then we answered them and made a sentence with all of them and put them into a  Google sheet.

On Friday we went over to the Maara Kai and help clean up the Maara Kai and I thought it was very fun and different for some people and we got put into some groups and we all did different thing to help the people clean up the garden .