Tag: Inquiry

Our challenge was to be palaeontologists which are people who study ancient life by examining fossils.  We then used Adobe express to add and reimage in order to make it more realistic to what a real egg might look like. After that we add things that related to our dinosaur like the habitats to create our image.  My partner and I found the skeleton of a Brachiosaurus, the name Brachiosaurus means “arm Lizard” in Greek.

This Task was fun because we got to use AI to make our own images.

This week Panmure Bridge School took a trip to the Auckland War Memorial Museum to finish off our learning about volcanoes. We visited the WW1 section, the hall of memories, and lastly we visited the dinosaurs.

First, I arrived with my class to the side entrance of the museum, it had a big circular mat for our school to sit in. We sat down and one of the guides spoke to the class below us about the class (will be talking about that later on). But as the guide stopped talking we walked to the hall of memories, it was a big cream colored hall that consists of all the names of the fallen ANZAC soilders that didn’t return. But the most intresting thing to me was a big book I closed in a big glass case, It was a big book of names which from distance looks about 16 cm thick. Someone also changes the page every day.

Next, we sat back down for morning tea. After that, we walked to the WW1 section, It had guns and artifacts from the war. Our teacher, Miss Andersons husband actually used one of the guns that were showcased in the section. Known as the 25-Pounder. After that I wrote in a book that wach group was given at the start of the trip. My task was to draw an image of a intresting artifact. Then we arrived back to the mat to eat lunch.

For the last part of our trip, I explored the dinosaur and a class about volcano.  First came the dinosaurs, me and my group had a task to draw a dinosaur and its habitat. I also explored a bit with my friend, we saw the extinct bird the Moa, and even massive eggs. We went back to be guided to the class. It had a red light and a hyper-realistic mini volcano. They showed us rocks and we were even given a challenge to pick out of a couple items if a eruption was to happen.

our challenge today was to make a DLO about your dinosaur and about it’s habitat diet how it protect it salf and how it hunt’s my dinosaur was a pachycphalosaurus you can tell by look at my DLO

LI: Learning of what a paleontologist is and what they do.

For this task we were challenged to write a 50 word summary that tells us what a paleontologist is and what they do. We also included a statement that tells us why fossil finds are important and how the ages of yesterday inform us of the modern day.

LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.

Before we take part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century.

Something I learnt was that she was famous for finding the complete body fossil of the Icthyosaurus. I found this activity fun as we can learn more about dinosaurs and the findings of Mary Anning.