Tuesday 17 March 2020

Science Roadshow.


On Monday we all jumped on a bus and went to visit the Science Roadshow at Hokitika Primary School.  It was a wonderful experience with a show at the start and end of the visit and workstations in between where you could experience all sorts of scientific tasks and challenges.
One of the best workstations was the Wind Force workstation that looked at the force of the wind and friction.
The Boys seemed to really love the augers and conveyer belts where you had to get stainless steel ball bearings around the circuit.


Each workstation really made us think.  The Earthquake simulation showed us how buildings could be built to better handle earthquakes.

Friday 13 March 2020

Facts about the Coast to Coast



We have been discussing the difference between a fact and an opinion. We looked into the Coast to Coast Website and each of us found a fact and we made a slide to illustrate it. We hope you learn some new facts about this amazing South Island event.

Wednesday 4 March 2020

Bits and Pieces.

 
Getting into the Learn, Create, Share aspect of our work in our class and we have been looking at creating posters for our Kawa of Care principles.   We integrated our work with a bit of technology and looked at what we call a Design Process.   A Design Process, (DP), is a set of steps that help us to make sure we are creating 'Quality Projects.'   
For step one,  our 'Identified Need or Opportunity'. We wanted to take a very boring list of Kawa of Care bullet points and create interesting and professional looking posters.
We learnt that a Brief is like a list of what we wanted to achieve in our posters.  We wanted them to be bright and interesting and look professional.  We also wanted them to have the correct spelling and have some kind of hook to draw in peoples attention.   After we had finished our designs we went back to our brief to make sure we had achieved what we wanted to. (Evaluation).  We hope to get good at using a design process to create all of our work.  What do you think?