Technological practices

 LI: To use technological practices process to design a toy

For Mrs Fisi’iahi’s Inquiry lesson, we were focusing on the three last technological processes. They were: build, test and evaluate. We used the required materials in order to build the AUV rover. After this, we tested and compared each group’s rover to see which group was able to scramble across the floor the furthest. Evaluating our results was the last step. 

I found this activity interseting because we got to test diffeent variable on the rover to see which one was the best.

Exponents

 L.I to learn about exponents 

This week for maths we learn about exponents, exponents are the small number on the top right of an normal number that indicates how many times that mumbers has to bemultiplied by itself. Out task was to create a DLO explaining what an exponent it and give a example of it.

Soccer interschool

 L.I to represent Panmure Bridge School in interschool soccer

On Wednesday 19th of march Panmure Bridge School went to madills farm for interschool soccer. I was in the Year 7/8 team and our game was 15 minutes long, we had 5 games in total. The first game we played was against Stonefields, unfortunatly we lost this game 1-0. Our second game against glengrae we had a draw with 1 a piece. The third game that we played was against sylvia park school which we won 1-0. Our fifth and final game was against the other panmure bridge year 7/8 team whom we beat 3-1. Overall we won 3 games, had 1 draw, and 1 loss. We all really enjoyed this experience ant thank you to everybody that helped during the day.

Inquiry

 L.I to Identify, Investigate & Design a model of rover

The three technological practices were identify, investigate and design. When doing these technological practices, we need to make sure we are doing it properly for a proper trial and error project. Identify means to observe the opening problem. Investigating means to research how to solve the problem or research how to use materials for the model. Design means to draw or create a blueprint/sketch of your model. These three practices help you to build an end product of your model. Our group enjoyed looking into these practices and worked together as a group to come up with a design.

ASB Getwise

 L.I to be wise with your money

Today Marlon from ASB came to our school to teach us about how to be smarth with our money. One of the things he taught us was to stop think and make a good decision with our money either to spend it or save it. To practice this we played a game where we went on holiday to Fiji and we had $1800 to spent on our passport, plane ticket, accomidation,travel insurence, food and activities. Our passport was $200 and if we would purchase it later it would be $400, for our flight we had to chose from economy class or first class which was $300 more. Our options for accomodation were a 5 star hotel by the ocean (+ $100 if we wanted to pay fr the food or it would be double the costs) or a $200 budget hotel. After that we chose if we wanted travel insurence, our group did and it payed of when we got food poisoning and had to pay the hospital bills. Lastly we got to chose what activites, the choices were surfing for $100, snorkling for $200 and skydiving for $300, our group chose snorlking.

Settings

 LI: To use powerful words to describe a setting so that it paints a clear picture in the mind of the reader

This week for writing we looked into settings, The setting is a short description of a place which sets the scene and opens the door to begin the writing. Settings are important because it paints a clear picture in the readers head where the story is taking place. For our task we chose a picture and described it in ten words, after that we used as many of the ten words to write a short desctiption of that picture.

A Moment in time poem

 LI: To use the language features and structure of published poem to help use write our own poem.

We looked at the language features and structure of a poem called ‘A Moment in Time’ and used our experiences from camp to follow the structure and collaboratively create our own moment in time poem. To describe what we heard, what we saw, how we felt and what we wondered we used our senses, adjectives and adverbs.

Ajectives are words that describe a noun.

Adverbs are that modifies a verb.

Toys

 LI: To strengthen connections to technology

  This week we have been learning about the 6 processes of Technological Design and how each one is important in the process of designing a product. We are using the processes of technological practices to  design and build a rubber band- powered rover that can scramble across the floor. I found this interesting because we faced different challenges, for example what materials we could use to make our rover.