Hone Tuwhare – Google Vids

LI: To understand poetry can transform everyday life into something meaningful. Poets use various techniques to make this happen, creating specific feelings and moods for the reader.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In order to make images and record ourselves we used Adobe Express and Google Vids to help us for this task. Hone Tuwhare’s poem is about ‘Rain’, And Hone Tuwhare is a widely respected man for his speeches. To complete this assesment is to read and structure the words carefully in a similiar tone in addition to how he declares it.

I enjoyed this activity because I get to read Hone Tuwhare’s poem and structure an image using AI.

Malala Yousfzai – Canva Poster

 

This is a poster of Malala Yousafzai, she was a brave woman who protested against the Talibans who went against women to go to school and get educated, but she herself believed in both justice and equality. That day when she was about 16/15 years old, she was shot by the Taliban all because she supported girls to get educated. Gladly she recovered from her injury from a various amount of people supporting her all the way her surgery.

I enjoyed this activity because we get to make a poster about Malala Yousafzai.

Maths DLO – How to add fractions

For this task we learnt about adding fractions. In order to add them up properly we all keep the denominator the same and never add it up, the only thing that we will be adding is the numerator. You will also be requiring addition and multiplication to answer these questions.

I enjoyed this activity because we get to use a combination of addition and multiplication!

Tongan Language Week – Maths

For maths, my group and I structured word problems that has a connection with the Tongan Language Week. There are 7 slides and 10 questions in total to answer, and we make sure the questions are Tongan Language Week related. The following questions followed includes subtracting, addition, division and multiplication.

Something I found interesting about this task is how we decided to make up the questions using our knowledge.

Procedural Text

LI: To create a procedural text to tell someone how to do something using a  sequence of  steps, instructions or actions in a particular order.

The challenge was to work in our dinosaur research pair and create a prototype of our dinosaur’s skeleton and make the current skeleton of our dinosaur in order to record the steps to be followed. To structure it properly, we use a pencil, colouring paper, scissors, glue and a ruler. We use the ruler to check how many centimeters needed to build the prototype and the actual version of it.

I think this activity was very interesting because we get to follow the instructions made by ourselves to make the dinosaurs we found.

Once a Panther

LI: To identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

Our group read the text Once a Panther and asked to create a comic strip that represents a scene thats related  prejudice and justice. For this comic strip, my group suggested an idea that goes to be an older man and another member from the Polynesian Panthers having a conversation between justice and prejudice. Sharing our thinking is very important, and that is how this comic strip ended up this way, alongside the chatting bubbles and the people.

Something I found interesting about this challenge was how hard it actually was for me to think of the dialogue instead of how easy it was.

AI Movie

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

 

This is create challenge 2, the sources of the dinosaur AI movie I made is from hailuoai AI. Prompts are very important to use, which was also used to make the AI movie about the Stegosaurus and its natural habitat, this activity was very fun to do with my working buddy, but there was some mistakes made like for an example, not using prompts. That problem was fixed after realizing our mistakes and made the movie how it was in the video!

I enjoyed these challenges because I get to see the results of the animation after putting the prompts!

RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation


We read the text RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and created a DLO that explains both sides of perspectives and historical events. 

Something I found interesting about this text was how we mentioned about past, present and future.

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

For this activity, LS2 went to the musuem in order for us to finish our topic about volcanoes. When we entered the room for the topic, what each of us saw was a volcano themed room. One activity during that time was the backpack challenge, these were the items; toys, can of food, hole punch, torch, can opener, pan, gloves, a cat, muesli bar, cat food, goggles, bottle of water, tea towel, first aid kit, mask, colouring book and of course a backpack. We were split into two different teams and had 30 seconds to put all the things we required before the countdown ends. (For those items that are not in need, we leave them where they are and they stay.) After the end of the countdown the instructor will check our backpacks and what we put inside. Something I found interesting in the classroom time was that a lava bomb gets shot out in the air and starts spinning rapidly, making it twist and turn which does makes sense since it also soft.

Aside from that were the galleries, everyone took a walk around and saw some interesting things discovered in the museum, in sight were bones and skulls of animals, some of them nearly extinct and some gone, especially birds and other types of species which I found really interesting. The other gallery was the WW2 section, what I saw were old clothes and videos taken from the war, the audios revealed out from the clips show that it was not a good time to be living during the war alongside the explosions that could be heard from inside the television, videos have also proven enough how terrifying WW2 can be, and to think the people there had barely any place to rest for even a bit can be tiring and brutal.

 

Fossil Eggs

LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils

For this activity, my pair and I unboxed a fossil egg using clay. Inside the clay is a dinosaur fossil (The dinosaur we found will be taken care of and made sure it’s not lost.) After discovering our fossil, we used AI and Adobe Express to filter our dinosaur fossil and the picture in black and white as if we had discovered it in the 19th century pretending we were palaeontologists! The skeleton we found was a Stegosaurus and and a fact we found interesting about it was that it is the dumbest dinosaur according to researchers.

This task was fun because my partner and I worked together to discover a secret dinosaur inside an egg.