Ocean Destruction art

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! What have you been getting up to in lockdown? 

This week was the first full week of online school, Monday to Thursday we had Literacy and Maths meetings but today (Friday) we had no meeting and had the inquiry tasks to do. The task I chose to do today was the Sidewalk chalk art task, as you can probably tell this was not done on a sidewalk and done on a piece of paper the reasoning for this was just because the sidewalk was a bit too wet so I just drew it on a piece of paper. The drawing isn't the best but I think I did alright. Do you know what the meaning of the drawing is? Please leave me some feedback and maybe check out some of my other posts. Blog you later!

Lockdown Inquiry Task

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! How is your lockdown?

When we were put into lockdown Marshland School decided to do online school starting on Thursday. Yesterday was the first day and it went quite well. Today there were different tasks to do and this is one of them, the task was to pick an inquiry task off the site and complete it. The task I chose was about overfishing in NZ, this has information about what species are becoming endangered from overfishing as well as what NZ fisheries are doing to try and help with overfishing. Do you know what overfishing does to the animals? Do you know any other ways fisheries are trying to help? 

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Microplastics

 

                         

Kia Ora Bloggers! Do you know what microplastics are? 

Another task for the start of our inquiry this term was this task here, this task was to get into a group (mine was Molly, Sienna, and I) and we had to find the meaning of microplastics, get a fact about microplastics, and come up with some solutions for pollution in the ocean. This task was pretty fun and easy-ish to do, we got it done in one session. Can you come up with any solutions? Do you know any other facts? 

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Water Inquiry research

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! How was your week? 

For the start of term 3 inquiry, we have been researching a bunch of different things to do with water, our first task was to get into buddies and research 3 words that were listed on a slide, My buddy was Sienna and we chose the words, waterways, groundwater, and microplastics. After we research these 3 words we had to put the research we did onto a canva or other form of presentation and get it printed out to go on the wall. That was our last step for this task and then we were finished with the first task and moved on. I think that we had good research and made the canva look pretty good. Did you know what any of these words meant before seeing this? Did the slide help you understand the definitions? Please leave me some feedback and maybe check out one of my other posts. Blog with you later!

Minecraft Waterways

 

Kia Ora bloggers! How has term 3 been so far for you? 

This term the non-production group has started understanding this terms inquiry which is focussing on water, our first task was to get in buddies and research 3 words to do with waterways, catchment areas, and other water related things, I went with Sienna and the 3 words we chose were Microplastics, groundwater, and waterways. Once we had our 3 words researched we had to find a way to present our research, Sienna and I chose to do it on a canva with 4 different posters, one for each word along with a glossary for the other words to do with watersheds and catchment areas that had been included in the definitions. After this, we had finished our first task and moved onto our second task, this was to make a Minecraft world with a mountain, a river (preferably the waimak), a catchment area, village/town, the ocean (or a line saying that it is where the ocean is), and a way to get water that comes from the mountain, Sienna and I found a mountain leading to a river with a village next to it so we used this as our template for our watershed and just added a few things, we also had to put signs showing what everything was and then the last step was to take photos and put them onto a slide to show our work. I think that we did well at researching and making our world, it looked quite good and had good labeling.
Do you know what any of our 3 words mean? Do you know what a watershed is? Please leave me some feedback and maybe check out some of my other posts/ work. Blog you later! 

Matariki Kite Art

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! Do you know what Matariki celebrates? 
These past few weeks on Fridays we have been making some Matariki-themed kites. What we had to do for our design is a Taniwha in the middle and colorful background, I chose to do a simple Taniwha with the colors blue, (dark and light) Purple, Pink, and black for the eyes. Our task was to draw up a draft copy of what our design was going to be. After this, we had to get an A4 or A3 piece of paper and draw our kite size/ shape after this we had to fill in the taniwha with pastels and fill in the background with watercolor. 

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STEAM- Table Construction

 

Kia Ora Bloggers! How was your June 2021? 

This week for Wednesday we went back to doing S.T.E.A.M work (steam stands for science, technology, engineering, arts, and maths) Our task today was to construct a sturdy table/ tower that was at least 15cm above the table using 10 sheets of newspaper and 1m of tape, our goal by the end was to be able to hold at least 1 textbook for 3 seconds. We had 25 minutes to construct and 5 minutes before that to come up with a plan and ideas how we would make the tower. In my group of 5, we had the idea to have a base plate with 6 supports in the middle holding up another thick plate on top, this design was going well but then we ran out of time and tape, we hadn't finished but we had to just go with it, when we went up it all fell apart and all came crashing down we had 30 seconds to quickly reconstruct our tower and what we ended up putting all of the supports inside each other as they were all different sizes and then we had made a tube that was very thick and ended 1 book and then the second one held for about 1/3 seconds and then all fell down. 

I think that we had a good initial plan but our compromising was quite good and we're all proud of how much it held. What do you think of our design? Do you think that you could've come up with a better design? Please leave me some feedback and maybe check out some of my other posts. Blog you later!