Term 2 & 3 Highlights!

Meet The Kakapo!

Walt: evaluate information in a text

Task Description:
This week focused on Kakapo. Kakapo are very special in New Zealand as their really rare. One of our tasks we had to follow to complete this weeks task was to make a information web based on Kakapo. I choose four categories to write about. Protection, What's on the menu, growing up, and habitat. Both growing up and what's on the menu are all similar subjects all based on food and feeding. Hopefully this information web can give you enough information to inform you about how these birds live. 

Closer Look: Link Here!

What's Inside A Cell?

Walt: To create a poster based on what's inside a cell.

Disclaimer:
This is last weeks inquiry work.
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Task Description: 
Last week we focused on what's inside a cell. Week had to create a poster about everything that was inside a cell. Which is a Nucleus, Ribosomes, Lysosomes, Membrane, Cytoplasm, and Mitochondria. Our task was to buddy up with someone then find enough information about each thing inside a cell.

Nerve Cells!

Walt: To understand what nerve cells are.

Task Description:
This week we focused on nerve cells for genomic. Our task this week was to watch a couple of videos based on nerve cells. Once we understood what nerve cells were we got to opportunity to buddy up with someone ( Calais. ) and work on creating a poster to inform others what nerve cells are. Here i'm sharing with yous all a hopefully informative poster based on nerve cells I created with my buddy Calais. Learning about nerve cells and how they are all connected was really simple. Do you understand?

Calais Blog: Here! 
Closer Look: Here! 

What Is Blood?

Walt: To understand what is blood.

Task Description:
This week we are focusing on blood cells. Our task was to first watch few videos based on what is blood to help us understand what blood cells are. After we were able to create a poster or presentation explaining what blood cells are, and here it is! I worked with a buddy ( Calais. ) to complete this task. We got as much information as we needed to inform others.

Calais Blog: Here! 

Closer look: Here!

Should Everyone Learn More Than One Language!?

Kia Orana, Talofa Lava, Kia Ora, Hello, Bon Jour, and Ni Hao! Did you understand what I just said? If not then maybe if everyone learns more than one language we can create more population! And understand more words in different languages to relate to others.

Creating Projects:Have you ever came upon an amazing looking project but! It's in a different language? It sucks yeah I know, but how can we prevent this annoying accident? Well if everyone learns and understands a new language maybe this accident would not happen as often. This way gives others more of an opportunity to explore a project of yours and clearly understand it to share with others.

Making stronger connections:Mandarin Chinese, English and Hindustani are the top three most spoken languages in the world! There is a 50 percent chance you will come upon one person speaking either one of these languages. But to avoid this awkward situation may be learning one more language can be more beneficial.

Job opportunities:Having the ability to speak and understand two languages gives you more of an advantage towards job seeking. Communication in workplaces is extremely important, especially if you working at an international office who are considering bilingual as a high priority.

Learning more than one language can give you more of an advantage towards international projects, making stronger connections and job seeking. Maybe you should try this out?

Leilani - TRACKING MY-OUR LEARNING

Task Description: 

This week we are learning about octopuses, This is what I have caught up on so far. Today we watched a few video's to help us know more about there sea creatures. 

Zebrafish!!

Walt: To understand Zebrafish. 

Disclaimer:
This work is a week old.
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Task Description:
Last week for science we were focusing on Zebrafish, why? Well since Zebrafish has close cells as humans we wanted to look further into Zebrafish. From this task I have learn't that Zebrafish has similar cells in their pancreas as humans, which makes us similar to Zebrafish more than Monkeys.

De-Extinction!

Bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile

Science. Scientists. De-extinction. How can these all lead to “ Oh let’s bring back extinct species! “ I really have no clue! All though extinct species may be cool but where are they going to live? What are they going to eat? Who is going to look after them? Well! This article will inform YOU why we SHOULDN'T bring back extinct species.

Health:

There is a down side about de-extinction! Extinct animals can carry retroviruses, which can lead to a massive breakout around the world. Usually cells convert DNA to RNA, ( a ribonucleic acid is a polymeric molecule. ) but! With retroviruses the process goes backwards. RNA to DNA, crazy right! Viruses can move at a fast pace, even faster than thought. Especially if these viruses are fast at reproducing. Now this is a reason why extinct species shouldn’t be brought back to life.

Environment:

More than 99 percent of the 8.7 million species have all died out, crazy right! Well this must mean each species has died at different times, and after those times our earth has had a huge change effect. Which must mean all food and environment must have changed and so those species wouldn’t be used to the new food and environment. So how can they live? Well I'm not sure either! I guess de-extinction isn’t a good idea after all…

Animal Welfare:

Scientists can use species for a solely human purpose, they have the ability to harm those species, not a great plan at all. If we decided to bring back extinct species, there shouldn’t be any harm towards them because these species are not bought to be studied but brought back to enjoy life. 

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Task Description:

To create a persuasive writing. Based on bringing back extinct species is not worthwhile at all. This piece of writing is helping others understand why I don't support de-extinction, do you support de-extinction? 

De-Extinction!

Walt: Discuss and justify an opinion on a topic. 

Task Description:
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This week's task was based around de-extinction, how can scientists bring extinct species back? Well this weeks tasks answered our answers all about de-extinction.
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Our steps:
Our first task was to read our text and highlight the key words so we could understand our text for this week. After we were able to understand our text this week we had to answer at set of questions, each based on de-extinction. After each question was answered we got the opportunity to create a poster based on one of the three main categorises. I choose cloning to share with others, as for cloning I choose a very popular species that was the first mammal to be cloned!

Mathematics - Area

Walt: Find the Area and perimeter of shapes. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on area and perimeter for mathematics. But this week we got given two different presentations to complete. The first was perimeter and the second was area! This task was about area that was extremely fun. I haven't completed this presentation but I wanted to share my results with you all.

What's Alive? ( Create Task. )

Walt: Identify key information in a text.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing the 7 life processes. One of our task was to create a poster,rap, or a song based around what we know about the 7 life processes. I choose a poster and had to write about what each letter in the phrase " Mrs Gren. " means. This task was extremely fun as I got to teach different people the 7 life processes! 

If you want a closer look click here! Link: 

Life Processes!

Walt: Identify key information in a text. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on the life processes. This task included understanding the phrase " Mrs Gren. " , completing various tasks, identifying key information in a text to complete our work this week. My highlight from this task was I got to understand and learn about the different life processes and how I could know if a object was non living or living.

What Is The Perimeter!?

Walt: Find the area and perimeter of shapes. 

Task Description:
Today we focused on perimeter! Our task was too understand what perimeter is and to answer multiple questions so our teacher can know if we understand how to do perimeter or not. 

I really enjoyed this weeks work as it was simple and easy to complete! 

M&M Craziness!

Walt: Write for a specific audience 

Have you ever tried to break a guinness world record? Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani attempt to break ONE guinness world record! They tried to eat 21 M&M in one minute, but! There’s a twist, they had to be blindfolded while eating M&M with chopsticks! Crazy right.

The four girls tried multiple strategies to eat 21 M&M in one minute. But how did they get to this stage? Mrs Tapuke ( a loving teacher. ) provided the materials the group needed to complete this record. These materials included a large pack of tasty M&M , a few chopsticks, bowls and of course blindfolds.

All four girls had a bubbly emotion as they prepared and practiced to break a guinness world record. Each girl had a chopstick and tried their best to eat as much M&M’s as they can WITHOUT a blindfold. As time went by the challenged had begun! Delijah ate 12 M&M’s with a blindfold! Their top record! This was their highest record of eating the most M&M’s.

Pisirina, Eden, Delijah, and Leilani all enjoyed attempting to break a guinness world record. Each one of them enjoyed working as a team and getting the opportunity to eat tasty M&M to break guinness world record.

Would you try this challenge?

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

Walt: discuss and justify our opinion on a topic. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. For reading our task was to understand our text this week and answer and hand full of questions and complete some tasks. I enjoyed this weeks work because I got to learn about GPGP.  

Great Pacific Garbage Patch!

Our task was to read a a story about GPGP ( Great Pacific Garbage Patch. ) Once we got the opportunity to read the story we had to highlight key information.

Link to story:
Link to note grid:
Link to summary: 

Once we had highlighted all of the key information we took each words and noted them all down. After we took our notes onto this grid we had to create a summary about our notes we took. 

Plastic Free July - Full Presentation!

Walt: for a specific purpose. 

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on finding a specific purpose for a topic that our teacher gave us. This week's topic is about Plastic Free July. Our task was to find key information about create and create a detailed poster about the information that we already found. 

Biography - Greta Thunberg!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing.

Task Description:
This week we have been focusing on using graphic organisers. This is to help us in the future to write each one of our paragraphs make sense. Graphic organisers are helpful so we understand what to write in each paragraph. The first graphic organiser we had to create was about Greta Thunberg, and the second graphic organiser we had to create about was a famous person or someone we admire. This task I found fun and easy as I knew that this would be helpful for future time. 

Graphic Organiser - Jungkook!

Walt: Use a graphic organiser to plan our writing. 

Task Description: 
This week we are focusing on using graphic organiser to organiser our writing. Once we created a graphic organiser about Greta Thuberg we were able to create a graphic organiser about a famous person we admire or someone we admire. This graphic organiser is all about Jungkook!