Tag: Inquiry

Ancient Greek Olympic Research Challenge

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Ancient Olympic games

LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor

Our challenge was to work in our groups to carry out a mini collaborative inquiry into the ancient olympic games. We used our smart searching skills to help us answer the questions. Our group worked really well, we collaborated as a team, we communicated so we could exchanging each other helpful ideas and advices, including everyone so that no one felt excluded, we ensured that each member had a specific task to complete so there was no passengers. Something I found interesting was that unfortunetaly, we already know that women’s were not allowed to participate in the Ancient Greek Olympics, as I continue to learn more about this, I found out that they also had a women only competition called the Heraean Games!

I found this activity interesting because I learnt the history about the Ancient Greek Olympics.

Modern Olympics Research Challenge

LI: To use our smart searching skills to help us explore the Modern Olympic games
LI: To work collaboratively in groups as an active participant and contributor

For this task, we learnt the history about the Modern Olympics. We used our smart searching skills to help us gain information about the Modern Olympics. Ever since Pierre de Coubertin had brought the Olympics back, many improvements has happened. Now, everyone, including women’s were allowed to participate. There are National teams that compete against each other, more events were introduced, and even sports were added into the Olympics. The values they hold include friendship, respect and excellence. Something I found interesting is that they had to removed Pankration from how deadly and violent it was.

I found this activity interesting and helpful because we had to learn the history about the Modern Olympics and we had to use our smart searching skills to find some informations about it.

2 Words 2 Minutes

Today, we played a game called the ‘2 words 2 minute’, it was a challenge, were you had two words and write a story or a description about it in two minutes that relates to those words. There were also 3 rules in the game which were, Don’t stress just guess, Write as fast as you can and Make sure it makes sense. We had to write a description about the Ancient Olympics. We had a conversation with a partners to revised the stuff we knew about the Ancient Olympics. After that, we created a list of words (vocabulary) that would help us write our description. The two words we chose were”Greece” and “athletes”, its to help us think about what we were going to write.

We talked about ideas with a partner, then we had 2 minutes to put those ideas into sentences. After the time was up, we had 2 minutes to reread what we had written, we fixed the sentences that didn’t make sense or if we had words and punctuation in the wrong place. When we finished checking, we had 2 more minutes to carry on writing our descriptions. Lastly, we counted how many words we wrote in 2-4 minutes.

This activity was really enjoyable and helpful because this help us add new words into our vocabulary.

Building a Catapult

LI: Practical build challenge to design and create a new newspaper model of a catapult.

For this week, we were creating a catapult. A catapult is a simple machine that was used to launch heavy objects at enemies with great force. These machines are used for militaries, battles or war. There are 3 main catapults, they are Trechubet, Mangonel, and Ballista. We had to be creative and build a catapult with newspaper and tape. Our catapult was inspired by the Mangonel. After we completed it, we tested out how far it could launch.

I found this activity enjoyable because it was fun how we using out creativity to build our catapults.

Taniwha Name

LI: Understand how culture connects with your name.

For this activity, we had to create a Taniwha Name. Therefore, we basically had to make our name blend into the Taniwha. First, we made a draft on our name on a paper. I made my Taniwha a different colour other than green because the colour green was the most common colour in Taniwha and I wanted to make different. The colour I chose were red, yellow, and blue. I also tried blending in my name, by using the eyes as an “i” and used the “n” as the nose.

I found this activity fun because this could help me with my creativity in Art.

Treaty of Waitangi

LI: To explain what The Treaty of Waitangi is and why is it important to the people in Aotearoa.

For this task, we had to research about the Treaty of Waitangi and the reason why it’s important to New Zealand. The Treaty of Waitangi is an agreement between the Maori Chiefs and the British. There is also the three P’s, Protection, Partnership and Participation. We also looked at the Art of the Treaty from the 80s. We then read a book called “Te Tiriti o Waitangi” which is made by Ross Calman, Mark Derby, and Toby Morris. We thought of reason why the Treaty was important to this country, New Zealand.

I found this activity interesting because there was some intriguing facts and informations about the Treaty.

My Pepeha

LI: To write and say our Pepeha.

A Pepeha is introducing yourself in Maori. You introduce others who you are by sharing people, who your grandparents are, where they are from, and what year they came to New Zealand. For example, my ancestors are from Tonga, Ha’apai, my grandparents are Sela and Alamoti, and my ancestors came to New Zealand in the year, 1950. Writing a Pepeha could help us get to know more about each other, when getting to know others is helpful because it could help us strengthen our connections with others, create a sense of trust and make new friends.

I found this activity helpful because this could help us know more about each other and form friendships.

Māori Enterprise

LI: To explore early Maori enterprise in Aotearoa.

This week for inquiry we learnt about the Māori enterprise and how people had done trading’s in the 19 century. People had done trading’s in the 19 century by settling in areas with good access to resources. Some of the rescores going fishing, growing crops and collected resources. By doing this people would have access to trade things with something with equal or better value.

I found this activity interesting because I was able to learn how the Maori people would exchange their stuff for a better value.

Pablo Picasso Who am I?

LI: To use our smart searching skills for research.

For this inquiry, our topic researching about the famous artist Pablo Picasso. By using our smart researching skill we used the knowledge on the internet to create a DLO on personal information about him. Something I found interesting about Picasso was that he express his mood with his art and his painting style changes again and again throughout his life. For an example: His friend died, he felt very sad and spent years painting sad pictures with shades of blue.

I found this activity interesting because I found interesting informations about Pablo Picasso and what he has been through in his life.

Treaty of Waitangi

LI: To explore the world in 1840 and the art of the Treaty.

This week we looked at the what the world was like in 1840. Did you know in 1840, the Cunard Line took passengers accross the Atlantic from Britain to America using power of steam? After this we identified some of the key people and their role in the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. I found it interesting that when Henry Williams and his son, Edward had to translate English to Maori. We then used the information from both of these activities to help us read a painting of the day the treaty was signed. We used our knowledge to infer what the artist Marcus King might have wanted us to think was happening. 

I found this really interesting because the painting helped me tell what happened on the day the Treaty was signed so it could strengthen my inferring skills.