Provocation: Watch this Space

During today's extension lesson Miss West gave us all a scenario about Earth becoming uninhabitable in 12 months. We had to think about what and how we would do thing to leave the planet as soon as possible. On each slide was a question we had all answered in our own ways with the knowledge we have. The different colours represent a different person's answer. If you're looking for my answers they're in light purple with black highlights. 

On the last slide is our different project ideas. Me and Aye wanted to do theories on Mars and Earth, and possibly our own theory on what would happen to Earth if we were to leave.

Watch This Space

Earlier this afternoon, we did learn't a little bit about the science of how Earth formulated. We first wrote the things we already knew about Earth before watching the video -on the last slide- to add to the list of things we didn't know before. To be honest most of the things included in the video were things I already knew, so this was just like a reminder for me.

Immersion Assembly - Term 2

We're back to school for Term 2, and we started it with an amazing Immersion Assembly! The teachers themselves produced the plays, slides and videos they presented. Everything each Team's teachers presented revolved around the topic of space, since this term's topic is 'Watch this space'. 

Team 5's teacher's put on an interesting and informative play. They based it on 'the magic school bus' and went to a few planets. Each planet they visited they told us a few facts too, like Jupiter has 79 moons or Mercury is the hottest planet. Some of the facts they told I already knew but it was a good little refresher. In fact I'm honestly quite intrigued and excited to learn about this! :) 

The other team's also have interesting things to learn about I hope they enjoy it. I can't forget about the teacher's too, they all did a good job with their little performances.  

Streets for Everyone - Final design process

 Today's focus in extension was our final design. For me and Kiarah the final design process didn't take to long. I'd say it's because of how we worked together, combining our ideas with Toby and Bahv's. Our original idea was to make 'join the dots' more interesting, but instead we came up with a whole new idea. 

The new idea is like a puzzle. We've decided to call it the Kiwiana puzzle. Since it’s called the Kiwiana Puzzle, we got Kiwiana things and made the outline. Since it’s only the outline we put everything on-top of eachother. There were three categories, General, Sport and food. The pictures won’t be in color so it can be simple and a bit hard. I hope you enjoy our idea!

Thinking Critically Online

We did some Cybersmart today on how to spot fake news. Watching the video (which is on slide 2) helped with the work. This is like a recap for us year 8's, because we did this last year. It was a simple but helpful task. :)

 

My Cultural Patterns

 I'm half Samoan and half African, so I chose two patterns instead of just one. The reason I've chosen this blue pattern is because it reminds me of a beautiful dress my mum made me, with a similar pattern and colour.

I don't know much about the African culture, but I really liked this pattern. The orange and red colours remind me of the dirt in Africa. I also really liked the shapes, it's not just lines but more like dots and dashes.

Streets for everyone project

This term for extension we've been working on a big project called Streets for everyone. We've been work with people of The Open Fort (Toby and Bahv), to help with the project. The reason we are doing this project is to make the streets we live on more safe and fun.

We are in different group and doing different things. I'm in a group with Valessa and Kiarah (you should check out their blogs). In our group are main idea is connect the dots. The slides below show how we've extended the simple activity into multiple ideas. 

Next week we hope to install some of our work onto the streets. It's been a lot of fun working with Open fort on the project along with my team mates, Valessa and Kiarah.

Here are a few photos we took on our walk around the neighbourhood, (there was a video I wanted to add but I can't so enjoy the photos).