Antarctica

Antarctica

Fossils of plants and ancient dinosaurs found in Antarctica show the continent once had a warm climate.  Trees and plants grew there before the land drifted towarss the frozen south pole.  This took millions of years.

Now Antarctica is the world's most windiest and coldest region with ice 5kg thick in parts.  Some recorded wind speeds are over 300 km/h stronger than most cyclones.

Thousands of beautiful sea and penguins feed in the oceans around Antarctica but no land animals live on the continent.  We can see only tiny insects and not one green tree.

Only scientists and other workers live in this huge area of land.  Each year thousands of tourists visit the warmer parts in planes or ships.  We hope they don't spoil this  large part of the world.

Science Presentation

Here is a short presentation on most of the science equipments I learnt in my science class. I have learnt a lot of new things and new skills from my different teachers.

Panmure Bridge

Here is a Google draw based on the first Panmure bridge that was built and about the Panmure bridge that we use now.  Back then it was interesting when they first had the the first swing bridge.  It was very good because farmers could get their milk and crops across on time and they did not have to paddle to get across.  The bridge that we use now is very helpful for people like Mrs Anderson because she does not have to paddle to get to Panmure she could just drive over the without even paying.

6 Hats Current Events

Here is my groups 6 hats that we worked colabritevly to finish it and from doing this activity we learnt a lot of fact and acknowledge every information.

Weathering and Erosion

Here is a presentation on weathering and erosion. Here it tells you everything on what erosion is and what are the different types are there. This was our colabretive presentation and I worked with Candice and Leila to complete it.

Water Cycle Comment

Here is a comment that was posted by Anonymous and I would like to thank who every this was for the friendly comment, and we had a lot of fun doing the activity and learnt something new.

Tiger Poster

Here is my poster on my Tigers homework and I've found some interesting facts and hopefully you learn from it to. I decided to make a poster on Tigers because I got into learning about animals.

The Rock Cycle

Here is my rock cycle that I did with Kyra and this was part of the race that we did with the water cycle.  I hope that you have learnt something from this like we have.

River Safety Brochure

Here is my river safety brochure and in this little brochure it tells you everything you should know about river safety.  My classroom started doing this brochure because we have the pool at our school and we are enjoying our free swims.

KWL Volcano

Here is my KWL on our topic for this term and if you don't know K stands for what you know, W stands for what you want to learn and L stands for what you have learnt.

Map Of New Zealand

Here is my map of New Zealand and for this activity we had to find where Mt Tongariro, Mt Pihanga and so on.

Volcano Presentatiom

Here is my working collabritivly volcano presentation. I have worked really hard with my group and also learnt something from it, and hopefully you learnt something to.

Shared Volcano Presentation

Here is my shared volcano presentation that I have worked with Leila and Candice. We have worked really hard on this and found really fun facts to go with it. In this presentation you will see that we have done our own slide and that will shw you that we worked collaborative to finish this of. I hope you learnt something from this and leave a comment.

Sugata Mitra Information Report

Agents of Change can make a difference in children’s education

Sir Sugata Mitra was the first ever to introduce technology to places where they don’t have running water, electricity and many more, his experiment was about the hole in the wall.  So he decided to stick a computer in the wall, and when the children saw this they started playing around with it and as soon as they got used to it, they started teaching each others.  This experiment has helped a lot of kids learn English and explore something that they've never explored before.

Sugata Mitra’s vision was to make changes in children's lives and move them up to the next level in their learning, and therefore he is now known as an agent of change because of what he did.  He has achieved his vision by sticking a computer in a wall and called it “ a hole in the wall.”   Later on as people got used to these kind of technology he stuck one in the middle of a village, and it started becoming useful to families.

The effect on the village is that they could speak English and has definitely moved them up to the next level with their English.  A lot of these children learnt English without a teacher, but worked collaboratively together.

Sir Sugata Mitra replace teachers with computers and made it better for the children to learn and work clabretivly, but they didn't work all by themselves they would go on Skype everyday and talk to nannies in England.  They don’t tell them what to do they encourage, and support them, and they are known as nanny clouds.

Sir Sugata Mitra has changed a lot of children's lives and introduced technology to places where they didn't have any, and is now known as an agent of change.  People have experience his work and learnt a lot of new things and hopefully it will encourage more kids into learning.

Howick Historical Village

Lst week on Thurseday we had a school trip and it wasa the Howick Historical Village and here is a short presentation on what we did and what I learnt and opefully you learnt something too from reading this.

Howick Historical Village

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Yesterday the senior schools made their way to How Historical Village. We went there because this term we studied about the 1900 school and what it would be like, and here is a short video of our exploring.

Matariki Presentation

Here is a shot slide show on Matariki and facts about it and added some images that to match the facts I've got.

Treaty of Waitangi

 

 This is my Popplet of the Treaty of Waitangi. It tells you what happened around the time the Treaty was signed.

Vietnam War Timeline

 

 This is my Vietnam timeline and it is all about what happened how it started and when it ended. I hope you enjoy it and leave a comment.