Mary anning

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.


Trace fossils and normal fossils

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. 

What are Paleontologists


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.

Why does Maungarei sleep? Pourquoi story

Why does Maungarei sleep?

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.

Volcano Animation

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.

3 facts Mount Matavanu

 

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.

Diary WW1

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.

Samuel Marsden Podcast

This task was used with adobe express podcast. we used a Google docs and made a srpict for us to use while recording in the audio. The sripct had two diffrent chacters like Samuel Mardesn and the host. In the sripct we created question and answer them to reverned marsden.

Kuaka Infographic

LI: To create an infographic that tells others about the migration of the Kuaka

Something interesting I found out about the Kuaka was that unlike normal birds they don’t rest in water or eat in sea. From this DLO I can see what the Kuaka is that its unlike normal sea birds.