Tag: inquiry

A Walk Through Time X Polynesian Panthers

LI: To explore a moment in time (history) and create a diorama to capture events all in one scene.

For today’s Inquiry activity was quite a activity to attend, it took me and my class almost a whole 2 weeks to finish off. What we did for this week’s Inquiry activity was to research about a historical world event, make a DLO about it, create a Diorama of the scene that has taken place in the chosen event, (3D Design Scene), create a google vid to use as an explanation, in order to present our presentations playing it for the audience to listen, not read.

I enjoyed this historical activity with my class, because learning and analyzing the previous events we have went through, I was even surprised that there were so many different events, like the 9-11, Polynesian Panthers, Apollo the 13th, The Titanic, Mike Tyson, Origin Story of Maui, and many other events.

Museum DLO

LI: To create a DLO of what knowledge we have learnt from the trip to the Auckland Museum

For today’s Inquiry learning activity, our class learnt a large amount of knowledge from exploring 3 cases from the past, by paying a visit and exploring in the museum. The 3 cases we learnt from is the ANZAC Soldiers/World War 2, Volcanoes and Dinosaurs. What I learnt from the ANZAC section is that in 4 battles the ANZAC Soldiers had used this specific weapon named the “25 pounder field gun”. What I have learnt from the volcanoes section, is 6 specific types of rocks that can be created by volcanic eruptions, which could also help us by using that material for construction sites. Lastly, what I have learnt from the dinosaur/fossils section is that I learnt many things about the popular dinosaurs, but what I was surprised from the dinosaur/fossils section is that I learnt that the Ornithopods generations took place in the late 144 million years ago. After when our class came back from the museum trip, we decided to create DLO’s for the activity in order to blog it. Above here is a picture of my DLO.

I found this activity very historically interesting and fun because of learning many things from the past, and that I wish could explore more in the museum.

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

Today’s inquiry learning activity took place at a trip to the Auckland Museum. The reason was because we were learning about making wise choices when a volcanic eruption happens. The main point of the challenge was that, me and my group had 30 seconds to pack everything that we would need in order to survive a volcanic eruption. The items that were there to pack were, toys, can of food, hole punch, torch, can opener,  pan, gloves, cat, muesli bar, cat food, goggles, bottle of water, tea towel, first aid kit, mask and colouring book. The goal was to evacute safely along with the items we need, and to survive the volcanic eruption in 30 seconds.

I found this activity pretty challenging and interesting because when me and my group attended this challenge, we practically packed every single item that was there.

AI Movie [Dinosaur Knowledge & Paired Research]

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways.

For today’s inquiry learning activity, our class was given instructions for 2 challenges to create and show our knowledge that we have learnt about dinosaurs. Me and my group of classmates decided to group up, in order to attend these 2 challenges. First we used a AI to generate images, information, and research about pterodactyls for the challenge, we decided to use pterodactyls as our chosen dinosaur because in the previous activity, we opened a dinosaur egg, then discovered and researched about the dinosaur we found, which was a pterodactyl. Then we came up with a brilliant idea, by using the AI to generate a storybook along with a voice over in order to create a type of movie/storybook. After that, me and my group starting on making a presentation along with adding a link connected to the voiced over storybook. My backup plan if my storybook idea doesn’t work, is that I can just add a generated AI Movie which is sadly 6 seconds long.

I found these challenges challenging and interesting because of putting our knowledge to the test by putting our knowledge in fun and creative ways.

Dinosaur eggs

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

For today’s Inquiry learning activity, we were given instructions for a challenge. The challenge was to become paleontologists, who had discovered a mysterious trace of dinosaur bones, skulls and most likely eggs. The main point of the challenge was to use my imagination by using Adobe Express to re-make a picture of the dinosaur egg I have broke open, to transform the background of the image into a more realistic image, for eg: My image that I have created looks like the image was taken in the 90’s or 80’s. Me and my group of classmates found a skeleton of a mysterious dinosaur, but we got a shocking surprise that we had to swap with a skeleton of a pterodactyl. 1 fact that we learnt is that, the pterodactyl may look toothless but in it’s olden days, the pterodactyls had about 90 teeth.

I found this activity interesting for researching about a specific extincted animal.

The Story of Mary Anning

LI: to tell Mary Anning’s story of our choice.

For today’s Inquiry learning activity, our class learnt about paleontology. We already learnt about paleontology but our next task we were given was to research about this paleontologist named “Mary Anning”. The point of our task was to tell her story of our choice. She eventually had a story, since there is actually a person named Mary Anning, [I thought it was a fiction character because we were shown a fiction picture of Mary Anning]. Above here is a picture of my group’s DLO.

I found this activity was interesting because of learning about a famous paleontologist.

Paleontology DLO

LI: to create a DLO that shows clearly labelled examples of each fossil type.

For today’s Inquiry learning activity we created DLO’s about Paleontology. The other day we learnt about the purpose and who exactly are paleontologists, by researching the information. Now that we know all about them our task was to create DLO’s about type of fossils. My 2 fossils that I chose to analyze and research about is the Triceratops, and the Tyrannosaurus rex, which first I used my smart searching skills to search for the images, attached with attributions [source of each image], and also along with plenty of information about each of their habitats, appearances, label/name, and many other things about them. Above here is a picture of my Paleontology DLO.

I found this activity very interesting because of learning about fossils and its species.

Paleontology

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

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

For today’s Inquiry learning activity, we learnt about paleontologists. A paleontologist is a person that studys fossils. The purpose is that they search and follow the little bits of the fossil’s trace, and when they find fossils, they collect it, study it, and also to anaylze what type of fossil. The activity was to get into a group of 4, figure out about paleontologists, and make a 50 word statement, (my group included a image with its attribution just in case). Above is a picture of me and my group’s 50 word statement and our image with it’s attribution.

Matariki 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.

Impact of Volcanoes

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)”