Wednesday, May 27, 2015
Monday, May 25, 2015
Ideas for Journal Writing
IDEAS FOR JOURNAL WRITING: Listed are some specific ideas to write about. Most of them will mean doing some research and planning your ideas. Plan on spending at least 4 sessions on one piece of writing.
Explanation:
Rainforest's. Stream ecosystems. Ocean Ecosystems. The water cycle. A food web. How to decrease the amount of stuff you buy. Planned and perceived obsolescence. Microbeads. An endangered NZ species. Deforestation. Global warming.
Letters:
Arguments:
Explanation:
Rainforest's. Stream ecosystems. Ocean Ecosystems. The water cycle. A food web. How to decrease the amount of stuff you buy. Planned and perceived obsolescence. Microbeads. An endangered NZ species. Deforestation. Global warming.
Letters:
- A letter to a family member telling them about our theme of humans impact on ecosystems. Explain the different workshops you have attended and what you learnt.
- A letter to the editor of a newspaper about the amount of rubbish people throw away
- letter to the Prime Minister about why water bottles should be banned in NZ
Arguments:
- Why not to use plastic water bottles
- The importance of recycling
- The negatives of recycling
- Why rainforest's are so important
- Being a vegetarian
- Against testing products on Animals/ for testing products on Animals
- Factory farming of chickens
Poems
Consider writing a poem about conservation, saving our endangered animals, protecting our ecosystems.
Thursday, May 21, 2015
1.
SCIENCE QUIZ
1 1. What type of animal is an amphibian?
2 2. What is photosynthesis?
3. Name 3 allotropes of Carbon ( find out what an
allotrope is first!).
4 4.What is a comet?
5 5. When was Halley’s comet last seen in our skys?
6 6. What is the smallest bone in the human body?
7 7. What is the periodic table?
8 8. Name 2 ways to get rid of rubbish created by
humans.
9 9. What element is the building block of all life?
10. Name
2 layers of the rainforest
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
Monday, May 18, 2015
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Week 4 General Knowledge Quiz
General Knowledge Science Quiz
- Use any research materials to find the answers to these questions - mark Friday
- Work in a group with other students you have NOT worked with yet
- Record your answers in the back of your writing book
- Where would seagulls most typically be found?
- Canis Major is also known as what?
- What is Neptune’s main satellite?
- Do we have rapid eye movement when we sleep?
- What mechanical device allows the wheels of a vehicle to turn at different speeds when cornering?
- Which of these is NOT the natural habitat of the tiger? Sumatra, Russia, India, Africa.
- What type of being is a cicada?
- What name is given to a compound of carbon and hydrogen? Hydroxide, Hydroxyl or Hydrocarbon.
- What is the most common name for decompression sickness?
- ‘General Sherman’ in California, USA, is the name of a what?
- Absolute zero is at what temperature celsius?
- What is the most abundant element in the universe?
- What is most attracted by a magnet?
- What is a bergamot?
- Do pukeko eat shoots, leaves and grasses, or insects, spiders and worms?
- What colours are on a monarch chrysalis?
- Dichromacy is a form of what?
- What does a Mohs Scale measure?
- What is the third planet from the sun?
- Entomology is the study of what?
Sunday, May 3, 2015
Homework Week 3 & 4
Homework Week 3 & 4
LIVING MUSEUM
YOUR TASK:
1.
Investigate a person who was involved in WW1.
This person doesn’t have to be well known or famous ( thought they can be).
They could be a soldier, a medic, a resistance worker, a conscientious
objector, an inventor, a scientist, a politician etc.
2.
Create a fact file page from your research. You
will need to find out everything you can about them; their biographical
details, role in the war and any other intersting facts.
3.
Present orally at our ‘Living Museum’ day:
Friday the 15th May. You must be able to speak for 1 – 2 minutes
minimum.
4.
Costumes and props are encouraged.
NO POSTERS OR VISUAL
PRESENTATIONS. THIS IS AN ORAL PRESENTATION ONLY
Saturday, May 2, 2015
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