Day: June 25, 2025

LI: to identify Matariki as the Maori New Year and explain its cultural importance.

LI: Explain how the rising of Matariki signaled a time of celebration, reflection, and preparation.

LI: Create a piece of work that expresses their understanding of the significance of the Matariki stars.

For this week’s Inquiry activity, me and my group (Me, Haloti & Jeremiah) decided to make a presentation all about Matariki, (including the stars). We were given instructions that we have specific questions and missions to complete about the meaning of Matariki, it’s importance, it’s celebrations, it’s past, including us making designs about Matariki. Above here is a peak of our Matariki Presentation.

I found this activity interesing as it was quite a mystery, especially using our research to look at Matariki’s history.

LI: to discuss the impact of volcanoes on the enviroment & human communities.

For this week’s inquiry activity, we decided to research about the impact of specific volcanoes. The volcano that me and my group (Me, CJ, River & Taisorn) chose was called “Whakaari White Island”. We used our smart researching skills to look at several links and gathering information about many things about it like it’s name, location, age, type, along with 2 interesting fact about’s Whakaari White Island’s volcanic eruption. Then after that, me and my group decided to add all of the information that we gathered, all inside 1 DLO, including some attributed images. After that, when we finished, we discussed that we would decorate it. 1 interesting fact: The Whakaari White Island’s volcano is a phreatomagmatic type, because it’s eruption has eliminated exactly 22 people, which their bodies were eventually washed out in the wild sea.

I enjoyed this extremely interesting and fun activity because of learning a new word: “Phreatomagmatic, (in volcanic terms, it means that it is 1 of the deadliest volcanoes ever witnessed)”