LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils.
Our challenge was to become a palaeontologist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Tyranasourus rex. Did you know that the Tyranasourus rex means the “three horned face”.
LI: To Imply and justify an opinion
We explored what a provocation is and why it is important to have an informed opinion when sharing our perspectives. Our provocation was ‘Should Matariki be a public holiday?’
In the past starting around 1970’s the politicians and immigrant officials were running out of money, they would’ve had to take the polynesians and pacifica people out of their homes if they had no identical proof and sent them to a country in the islands, this caused a public outcry and the Polynesians they formed group of people that protested against the dawn raids, their name was the polynesian panthers and this went on for a while, the polynesian’s did dawn raids on the politicians around 3am 2 hours before the real dawn raids started.
In our opinion we agreed that it was a good option because of them apologizing behalf of the government it shows they acknowledge the past and they understand that it was a stain on the history of NZ and how they didn’t treat the pacifica right throughout their life and that it was wrong for yesterdays (1970’s) government to have create these dawn raids.
LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.
Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century.
Mary anning was born into a poor family, doubt that she still became one of the most well known Paleontologist world wide, she learnt about fossils and she found her first fossil when she was 12 and that was how she started her career, she sadly died at 1847 and was born at 1799 and the most recent fossil she found before her death was a Plesiosaurus and she was around her 20s.
Mary Anning was a little girl when she found her fossil which was a ichthyosaur where she found it 1811. Mary anning career was being a paleontologist. Her father and her found various types of fossils and she would’ve put them in the museum and would let people study them.
Fossils she found were Trace fossils are fossils are fossils that are the trails or footprints of the animals, what they ate and trails of the these prehistoric animals which is how paleontologists learn what were the dinosaurs diets. The normal fossils are the fossils of these ancient animals and it shows the history and the dinosaurs that ruled the lands then.
LI: How to recognize different types of fossils and how they are formed.
Paleontologists are scientists who study fossils and they preserve these remains of ancient plants and animals. They dig fossils from the ground, examine them, and figure out what life was like millions of years ago. Their work helps us understand Earth’s history and how living things have changed and adapted over time, then Paleontologists present these fossils into museums so that everyone can study these fossils.
Trace fossils are fossils are fossils that are the trails or footprints of the animals, what they ate and trails of the these prehistoric animals which is how paleontologists learn what were the dinosaurs diets. The normal fossils are the fossils of these ancient animals and it shows the history and the dinosaurs that ruled the lands then.
Paleontologists are scientists who study fossils and they preserve these remains of ancient plants and animals. They dig fossils from the ground, examine them, and figure out what life was like millions of years ago. Their work helps us understand Earth’s history and how living things have changed over time.
We were tasked to make a DLO about Whakaari and the nickname for this is the White Islands, the incident involing Whakaari which killed 22 people and 25 survivors being paied 10 million each in total and 47 people in total went to the islands.
It is told that long ago once there were guardians and their ancestors of the land and one of them were Maungarei, the humans would take strolls walks and even build on her, that started the roaming on Maungarei making her annoyed, she felt disrespected and thought the humans weren’t grateful for her protection, she got furious and explode in fury being woken from her slumber so she made war against the humans erupting into a fiery volcano destroying everything throughout and making her rage was so bad that she was was swallowing houses, people and villages and it developed a dark smokescreen of death.
But slowly she became lonely and after a long time no one was around. People never walked on her, talked to her or even cared. she became lonely… her whanau never cared and so she stopped erupting and instead became from a fighter to a peaceful watcher scanning over everyone. They started to have talks, chatting, kids curious, and people still wondering the “Mystery” of why Maungarei erupted and stopped and became a peaceful observer, she was peaceful with the humans now and allowed her to be woken and when she was she would’ve chatted with the humans.
So people were no longer afraid, and scared so they all flourished and lived in harmony, and no one would be afraid of Maungarei. She swore that she would never erupt and will only peacefully gaze over the humans making sure everyone is safe and watching the kids playing and slowly watching people evolve and learn more and create more technology as she keeps her calm temper to herself.
LI: To Understand how a volcano erupts.
This week we were tasked to make a volcano eruption animation and how it works.
First we made a slide and traced or made our own volcano and used various types of shapes and colours to make the volcano, lava and smoke and other things.
Then we made the animation with lava flows and the earthquakes and the the lava flowing to the magma chamber and applying pressure to it then making a big explosion.
And finaly we made the final project and polishing it and fixing up then blogged what i’ve made.
This week we were tasked to make a imformational google vid about facts 3 about Mount Matavanu.
First we were given a google doc about living on a lava flow. We skimmed and scanned through the story .
Then in separate groups we answered the following questions using information from the text and commenting on the questions to answer them.
Lastly we made a google video for 3 facts about Mount Matavanu and recorded our voices on a script to make the final project.
We have been looking at the events that took place at ANZAC Cove on 25 April 1915, during WW1. Many of our NZ soldiers were wounded or killed in action. We looked at videos of life in the trenches, explored the Walking with ANZACs site and read Hami Grace’s diary. Doing this helped us put our own diary entries together.
We used Google Vids to record our diary entries. I enjoyed using this as it allowed me to learn how to use Google Vids and mostly how to make a podcast on Google Vids.
Something I found interesting about this task was that we could add our own custom music.