Earth Science - Our Changing Planet

Take a tour of some amazing Earth facts and concepts.

Take Notes - in your journal
and
Research the questions below 
then take part in a Kahoot Quiz at 10.10 am

The best information hunters will be the winners.

Plate Tectonics - This video shows how the solid crust of the Earth has moved over millions of years to form different continents.  See if you can spot the moment when Africa and South America split apart.

1. How old is the Earth?
2. How far is it to the centre of the Earth?
3. What are the four parts of the Earth as you go towards the centre?
4. How thick is the crust?
5. What is a subduction zone?
6. What is continental drift?
7. How much taller do the Himalayas get every year?
8. How deep is the Marianus Trench?
9. What is the Mid Atlantic Ridge?
10. What are the three main rock types?  Volcanic, M....  , Se....
11. How hot is it at the centre of the Earth?
12. How far is the Earth from the Sun?
13. What did they call the super-continent that existed when all the land was joined together?
14. Why do we get volcanoes near a subduction zone?
15. What is the core made of?
16. How long is a year?
17. What is a day?

Use your Google searching skills to find out as much as you can. 

Look carefully at the diagrams below - they might help too.

Check out these diagrams - Recreate one in your journal

Subduction Zone

Convergent Plates - Mountain Building

Divergent Plates

Sea floor spreading

Classification

Main Rock Types

Wonders of the World

Mt Everest

Watch this short video
Use a whole page in your learning journal to take notes about this great mountain
Include keywords, dates, people, measurements, 10 to 20 facts, pictures, diagrams, colour

Make your notes memorable.

QE II Gymnastics

Maori Alphabet Song

This song introduce the main letter combinations and the corresponding sounds they make in the Maori language.

Once you can sing along to this the challenge is to get faster and faster!

Days of the Week

This video introduces the maori words for the days of the week.

The video was created by a group of year 5/6 children.

Start thinking about making your own short language video.

What's next?
Could you make your own video to teach the maori days of the week?
Create a song and some pictures then do your video with puppet pals.

Maori Numbers

This video introduces the maori words for numbers.

This video was created by a group of primary school children.

Use this example to help you to start thinking about making your own short language video.

What next?
Create your own educational video to teach the numbers in maori to others.
Make up / create a song and make cool visual images to go with your video.
What about basing the counting on counting numbers of native animals?

The Making of New Zealand

Myths and legends are old stories that have been passed down from one generation to the next.  They are a way of explaining how things have come to be, why certain things happen or they give a reason why the people should behave in a certain way.  Many of these stories have a moral or a message for the new generation to learn.

How it all began.

Thinking and Questions

Haere Mai

This is a well known waiata that we will sing at our whole school assembly in week 2 of term 3.

Water Bottle Membranophone

Inspired by the Orchestra?

Science Stuff

If you want to have a go at making your own water bottle membranophone then take a look at these links.

Imagine

If we all made instruments we could make our own crazy orchestra and then write some music for us to play!

Instructions click here

PS. Here is that cool cello video if you want to watch it again.
These guys have so much energy!

We Will Remember Them

Watch this time-lapse video about World War I

Can you guess how we made this?

Bullying

Words and Actions Hurt

What's the message in this short film?

How did the girl react?

Passive, Agressive, Assertive?

What's the message in this short film?

What happened?

Passive, Agressive, Assertive?

Perception Test

We observe and perceive the world through our senses:

Sight, Hearing, Smell, Touch, Smell, Taste

But - do some of us have the ability to perceive more?

Check out this old video about the power of the mind and thought experiments.

This is not an awareness test it is an ESP test!

Volunteer  for the ESP test - you might just have ESP

Extra Sensory Perception

Click to link to the video

How many of us in Room 2 Have this power?

Your final test of ESP

What is the date today?

Contractions

Use a contraction in each of your spelling sentences today.

What's a contraction?

Contractions are easy to spot.  It's when two words have been stuck together and an apostrophe shows where some letters have been chopped out.

It's like a mark from an axe showing where the letters have been chopped away.

All Tied Up!

In this activity you were joined to another person in your group.
First you created a tangled knot by ducking under and going over the strings.
Then you had to untangle the mess you had made without talking.

How difficult was that?
What skills, ideas or qualities did you need to use to be successful in this activity?

Now take a look at this video.
What skills, ideas or qualities did the person need to use to create this invention?

Secret Words:

Patience, planning, try it out, learn by trying, determination, creative ideas, 

Skills Qualities Behaviours

What - Skills - Qualities or Behaviours...
did you need to use to be successful in these activities?

In a group of four list as many ideas as you can.

Now take look at these videos and see if you can add some more ideas to your list.
What - Skills - Qualities or Behaviours...
were required for success here?