Winter Learning Journey 2017

Summer Learning Journey 2016-2017

💡UV Lights 💡|| Extension

This term we learnt about UV Light and we built our own little UV sensor that tells how strong the UV light is from the sun. This presentation tells what UV light is.

🔬Genomics🧬 || smallest to largest

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1oXuhtOufvclHHWh9xvvtwEAj0xd58cDKZ3QAqMB2gF4/edit

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1u1tn6oC4tNn2gpw2PD_LbdBokHSxrFxzFTrlCeTm8YI/edit

Task description:

Today in room 4 we are doing genomics. In the first photo we had to rank the organisms from smallest to largest and in the 2nd photo we had to rank smallest to largest from dna,chromosomes, cells and an organism.

🧬Tracking My Learning🧬 || 🔬Genomics🔬

Last term we learnt about Genomics. Here are some of my information about genomics.

🧬Cheek cells🧬 || 🔬Genomics🔬

Today room 4 were taking a look at cheek cells. We wanted to see what our cheek cells looked like under a microscope. We are trying to see if we can spot some of the organelles we were learning about last term. The equipment we needed was a Popsicle stick, a slide, sodium chloride, and methylene blue (stain). We got into groups of 3 and I was in a group with Ayla and Makayla. One of us had to swab the Popsicle stick gently around the inside of their cheek. My group nominated Ayla to swab the Popsicle stick in her mouth. After she put her dead cells on the Popsicle stick she smeared the cells on the slide. We then put a tiny drop of sodium chloride on the slide where the dead cells were. After that step we put some methylene blue on top of the sodium chloride. We then went to lunch while the slide dried. After lunch we came into class and used the microscopes to see what the dead cells in our cheek look like. Aylas cheek cells just looked like little dots. 

🔬🧬Naomi || Genomics🧬🔬

 🔬🧬This term we have been learning about genomics. This term we learnt a lot about cells and genetics. We learnt about the organelles that live in a cell. This is my animation explaining the organelles in the cell, I did not get to animate the organelles because we spent most of our term learning about the cell than to draw them on the imac. So I just drew a normal cell and talked about each organelle. We also wrote down all our information in our Tracking my learning slides. Hope you enjoy!🧬🔬

If you didn't hear what I was saying in my animation here is a link to my script: LINK

And if you couldn't see the graphics in my video here is another version with no audio: LINK


LINK to presentation

Task description/explanation:
This term is all about living things and for inquiry we are learning about the origin of life, Organs in our body and cells. My animation for this term was supposed to be about the organelles in the cells and explaining how each organelle works in the cell. We spent most of our term learning about this that we didn't have that much time to draw it on the imacs. The video above was my attempt at showing/explaining what each organelle does. The presentation was just an addition to my animation showing what the organelles do in more depth.🧬🧬🔬🔬

Mammals

This weeks work is all about mammals and how they survive in the amazon rainforest. Our task is to understand what a mammal is and how it adapts to its surroundings. The walt for this weeks work is : Identify and paraphrase key ideas in a text. we have been doing that with the transcript and writing our notes onto the paper version. Hopefully you like my piece of work.

De extinction

This week we are learning about De-extinction. This week we were reading a text called "jurassic park for the birds" which is about De-extinction and trying to bring the passenger pigeon back to life. We understand now, what the 3 main ways of de-extinction is and how it is used.

MRS GREN

DISCLAIMER;
This is old work from week 2
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Task description:
This weeks reading work is about the 7 life processes (MRS GREN). First we had to watch the video then we had to take notes on the transcript, this time i took my notes on my chromebook and not paper. After that I had to create something to show MRS GREN I couldn't make a song or a rap so I just wrote a description of what I think MRS GREN is.

Scientific method

DISCLAIMER:
This is my reading work from week one I just forgot to post it on my blog.
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Task description:
This Task is about what is science and methods that scientist use to figure out something. We also had to watch the video and take some notes, There was a transcript to the video and we took notes on the paper transcript. After we finished our notes we had to create a way to show one the following: the scientific method, physical science, life science or earth science. I chose to create a poster for the scientific method, i did use photos from google but I did attribute them and you can click on the link here to see the poster: Link

Explanation of the origin of life

This is My explanation of what I think the origin of life is. The question we were all wondering was "can science explain the origin of life" and My answer was No. My answer is no because they still don't know, but maybe they will know later on. Scientists think that the first cell was made by a bunch of atoms accidentally connecting.  This was the video transcript that we had to read: Link

Making Kumara frittata

Today in cooking we are making a kumara frittata. I am partnered with my bestfriend AMELIA! it was quite simple actually.

The ingredients are: Kumara , 3 eggs and 1 cup of milk.

The materials you will need is: A large mixing bowl , a whisk , a crater , a knife , a potato peeler and an oven.

• Firstly you would want to get the Kumara and peel the skin of the kumara and then crate the kumara on the crater.
• Then in another bowl, crack 3 eggs in the large bowl and add 1 cup of milk whilst whisking the eggs.
• Then you want to mix the crated kumara and the whisked eggs together and whisk more. 
• After mixing put the mixture in a baking tin then put it in the oven for about 20 minutes or more. If it has been 20 minutes and the frittata still does not look golden brown leave it in the oven until you think you should pull it out. After that Take it out and Enjoy what you have made!
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• This work is from 3 weeks ago but I didn't get around to posting it.

Cooking with Us

Today at Tech We made Chocolate Muffins! Today I am partnered with Amelia, it only took us half an hour to get everything done. The ingredients are:

1 1/2 cups of self rising flour

1/2 cup of sugar

1/4 cup of cocoa , 50g of chocolate chips

1/2 cup of oil

1/2 cup of milk and 1 egg

2 Tbs of yoghurt

1 tsp vanilla essence 

mix all together and pour 1 tbsp of muffin batter into the muffin tin. After all of the batter is in the tray Bake it in the oven at 180 degrees for about 15 mins. If the muffins aren't cooked by then leave it in the oven and keep an eye on it, use a fork or a skewer to poke in the middle. If any residue is on the skewer leave the muffins in the oven for a little bit longer. Take out of the oven and ENJOY!
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This is work from 2 weeks ago, I just didn't get around to posting it.

The tree of life!

This is the tree of life. We learnt that in 1835 Charles Darwin discovered that all living things are connected. Animals change over millions of years so they can survive.  Things at the bottom of the tree came before the things at the top.

cooking!

Today in Mrs Tuipulotu's Class we made Mini Quiches. In today's class I was partnered with Amelia! The recipe was pretty simple it only take 5 ingredients:

1 cup of milk
4 eggs
ham
cheese
and pastry

First we added the milk and the eggs in one bowl and we whisked it, then we had to dice the ham into tiny little pieces. Then we put the diced ham in a separate bowl with some cheese. Then we grabbed our muffin tray and pastry, we had to cut our pastry into circular pieces so that it would fit into our muffin tray. We then Poured our egg mixture into the muffin tray with and pastry and then we added son ham and cheese after that. We baked it in the oven at 180 degrees for about 10-15 minutes. Then we took it out and it was ready to enjoy!

Start of term 3!

Today is the first day of term 3! As the new term starts we have a new theme, and the theme for this term is "Something in the water". So we are learning about fish, science and living things. Room four has started our learning by figuring out what is alive and what are some things that show that and "object" is alive.

Scratch Animation

Task description: This is my animation of my learning this term, this terms theme is I like your Latitude. This theme is for us to learn about countries and continents. This is a little animation to show what I learnt but there is way more that we learnt.

Trying Empanada's

Today in room 4 we Tried Empanadas! What is that? Well it is a pastry pocket filled with meat. Empanadas are traditional to Argentina.the first time I saw the Empanadas it looked like a circular shaped sausage roll, and it also looked delicious and soft. As the scent hit my nose it smelt  Meaty and Savoury. The pastry was light and fluffy and the meat was like a like a sweet kind of spicy, Like sweet thai chili. I haven't tasted an Empanada before but I loved My first Empanada. If I were to rate this Empanada I would rate it a 10/10, P.S this Empanada was made by My wonderful teacher.

Europe and north america

There is a huge connection between Europe and north america. Today in room four home class we learnt about the differences between north america and Europe and we actually had some similarity as well. Some of the differences are with there landmarks and architectures. But we knew that there are a lot of similarity's because Europe colonized North america and now they both trade some of their brands, foods and businesses. We also noticed that america's original brands and fast foods has been spread around the world, like Mc Donald's and more.  So was it for today's lesson and I hope you enjoyed learning or checking out my post.