Plate tectonics

 Hello bloggers,

We did an experiment to learn about plate tectonics and how the movement of the plates help shape New Zealand. I learned how the shapes move and how earthquakes happen. It happens by the plates moving by either divergence, convergence or transform. Here are some photos from my experiment. Can you guess what we used for magma?

Science 1 Science: Me and my DNA

Kia Ora whanua,

This term for science we are learning all about how the human body works and how special we all are. We are also trying to learn how to think and act more like a scientist. So, Miss Fletcher asked us to look at our faces in the mirror and write down notes about what we look like. The information had to be precise and clear so that when someone read it, it would help them find the person it described quickly. It was a bit like being a detective. You had to look and notice things carefully.

Miss Fletcher said that what we look like depends on our mother and father. Making a new human is a bit like making a cake.  You get some ingredients from your mum and some from your dad. The ingredients are called DNA. Everybody’s cake is different to everyone else’s. 

Miss Fletcher said the person with the most efficient description was Andrew J as he wrote: My hair is 1cm long all over. He is the only student in Team Moana with a haircut like that so he was able to be identified very easily. You can read my description below. The sentences highlighted in blue are the ones that Miss Fletcher said were not precise and clear enough. 

Science fair

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My whole school had a science fair. The whole school had a groups of 3 or 4 to work on their science experiments this term. When the day came the whole school had to show everyone their science experiments in scientific language. The whole school had a board to show the rest of the school and I will show you my one soon. My science fair was a Tornado in a jar experiment. The people in my group were Denym, Ricci - Lee, Steive - Ray and me.  Here is my science fair board.......

 Here is a link to my teams science fair slide..... Science fair slide

Understanding the two kinds of Motion

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We have been reading lots of texts about understanding the two kinds of motion. Then, we have to find the main ideas and key words in the texts and put them on a DLO in an organised way. Here is the one I did about the two kinds of motion. Hope you like it.

Forces and Motion

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We have been reading lots of texts about forces. Then, we have to find the main ideas and key words in the texts and put them on a DLO in an organised way. Here is the one I did about Forces and Motion.I have put some images to go with my key ideas. Hope you like it.

What is a force?

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For the past few weeks  we have been learning about forces. I did a Google Drawing of what is a force. My teacher, Mrs B helped me with this Google Drawing. Here is my DLO. Enjoy.

Is Earth like a hard - boiled egg?

We are learning about what the Earth is like on the outside and the inside. We used hard-boiled eggs as mini-models for the earth. We got to design our own continents and islands on the outside of the egg shell. At the end of the experiment we got to eat the egg!

Here is a link to the science experiment report we wrote with the teacher at the end of our experiment