Science Badge - Task 6

Read about 5 different fish and make a presentation
I did this task at home and it was the last science badge task I could do at school. But while I was doing that I was doing two tasks at home. I was making a mobile with the small animals and insects in my garden. Watch bird eating patterns at home with food from my house and present it into a graph. This was a fairly easy task I just had to mostly research for this task and I find researching quite easy. I then just had to present it into a presentation on google slides. The 5 fish I chose were Clown Fish, Goldfish, Palette Surgeonfish, Chinook Salmon & Swordfish. I researched about each fish and put the info and links into a google document. I then analysed it and put it into google slides and edited it then showed it to Jess.

Science Badge - Task 5

Presentation To Conserve Rare Animals
This task only took me a few hours it was quite easy to research for this task because I just had to look on the department of conservation. I chose only animals from New Zealand I chose the Kiwi, The Maui Dolphin and The Kakapo. I put all my info on a google doc and summarized it into four google slides. I also added some pictures of the animals to give a visual representation. I then showed it to Jess and I earned two stars getting me to 10 stars! She then printed it out for my presentation on the display board.

Science Badge - Task 4 (At Home)

Make A Model Of How Maori Stored Their Food From Rodents
I did this task at home so that I could have 2 tasks on the go to get to 20 stars as soon as possible. This took me quite a long time taking me 3 afternoons to design, create and paint the Pataka (Storage House). I'm quite proud of it and so was Jess she was really impressed with it, all of the teachers were. First I had to research about what Maori used to store their food. But I had to find how they stored it from rodents. I found this quickly and put photos and info on a google doc and designed my Pataka according to that. I listed the materials I would need and after school went and bought them from $2 shop. The next day after school I started and I spent my whole afternoon creating the Pataka and it took me three afternoons. I finally finished the task and I took photos and showed it to Jess first and then on Monday 21st I showed her the real thing and I've set it up next to my presentation board.

Science Badge - Task 3

Slide Show About Where Snails Live In Our Garden
This task was a little bit harder because believe it or not it is quiet hard to find information about where snails live in our gardens. But I looked through a lot of websites and I finally found a website with the right info. I then put my info into the google doc and summarized it. I then put the info onto 3 google slides and showed it to Jess to gain 2 stars to my already 4 stars making it 6.

Science Badge - Task 2

Local Fish Life Cycle - Eel
This task took me about half an hour because all I had to do was research about an eels life cycle analyze the research and put my info into a life cycle for long-finned eels. I first did a sketch and then did a good copy and coloured it in in the appropriate colours. I was really proud of this life cycle cause I worked quite hard on it. We had to prepare for our presentation on Monday so we had to share one of our finished tasks with our science badge group and I chose to share this life cycle with group and they really enjoyed it. Jess really enjoyed it as well when I shared it with her to prove it for 2 stars.

Science Badge - Task 1

3 Extinct Animals Article
This was my first task for science badge it was a pretty easy one. I started off by choosing my 3 animals, I chose to do different animals from around the world. These animals are the Western Black Rhino, the Huia and the Tasmanian Tiger which are all famous animals of their countries. I researched about these three animals and how they became extinct. Researching was easy for me because I have been researching and analyzing for years now. After that I wrote and introduction and made a paragraph for each animal. I finished this task quickly and signed it off with Jess earning me 2 stars.

Weekly Reflection T3 W3 - Science Badge

For this term we had to start our science projects because last term we finished our immersions about natures energy, physical energy and chemical reactions. For this term we had three options on what we could do our project on. First the teachers talked about our three paths we could take for each type of science project. There were three options learn it, teach it and prove it. Prove it you can either do science badge or a science fair. Science badge is an online coarse in which you complete science based tasks to do with the theme that you pick. Each task has an amount of stars you can receive to complete a number of twenty stars to earn the science badge of that science theme. The science fair is where you choose to display your science experiment with others in a science fair. If you chose to participate in a teach it science project you would either make a YouTube video explaining how to create and experiment or you would teach a class in another learning common in the school. Learn it you just do a science experiment with a driving question and the scientific method. I chose to work on a science badge for science project. I've really enjoyed it so far since we haven't received the badges yet and the full list of tasks I just started on one of the tasks in the sample tasks. Which is to write and article about three extinct animals and why they went extinct. I've started off by researching about three animals from africa and how they went extinct. Now I'm starting to write my article and it's going really well.

Monday the 7th of August we received our science badges and tasks. We had already started some tasks from sample they gave us. I had started the task where we have to research about 3 extinct animals and write an article about those animals and how they became extinct. It was a pretty easy task but I did struggle with how I could write the article because I had never written one before. But I did quite well in writing my own article and I got two stars for completing this task. We have to complete the right amount of tasks to get 20 stars in total. I also completed two other tasks to make a life cycle of a local fish and to make a slide show on where snails live in your garden which means so far I have 6 stars. Right now I'm working on one task at home and one at school. The one task I'm working on at home is making a scale model of how Maori used to store their food from rodents.

Monday 14th of August this our  last week before our science fair next week on monday the 21st of August. This week we have to create our presentation and we have two options to do it digitally or on a science fair display board. I chose the display board because I felt I could express my creativity more on a display board. I started my display board a bit late this week because I couldn't find a box big enough at home but then my mum got me one from her work. So I spent my whole wednesday afternoon making my presentation for monday but on tuesday got Jess to print out all of finshed tasks so I could glue them onto my display board. I brought it to school on thursday and finished it off with some finishing touches like metallic pen etc. I also had to write my indavidual tasks process next to each task and glued it on. When I was finishing off my display board I signed off two of my finished tasks which were the Maori storage model and to make a presentation on conserving rare animals. So on thursday I signed the tasks off with Jess which meant I received 4 more stars getting me to 10 stars! I also had spins that day so I finished off my display board at end of the day.  

Weekly Reflection T3 W4 - Google Summit

On Friday the 11th of August us as a class attended the Google summit at Ormiston primary and junior collage. The Google Summit is an event where a whole lot of schools gather together a one school to run workshops for each other on their passions at their schools. But before we went to the Google summit we had to plan out our day and what sessions we would take during the day. The teachers suggested that we get into groups and choose our sessions so that we would have people that we could be with the whole day. So I got into a group with Mikayla, Keira and Maya C and we all got into a group and chose our sessions together. We couldn't just choose one workshop for one block we had to choose 3 options so that in case there were to many people in a workshop we would be able to go to another one.                                      
                                                                                                                 We chose these sessions:
We got to go on a bus to our destination which was in east Auckland which was really fun because I love going buses except this one was really noisey with all the kids yelling. We got there a bit late which meant that we missed out on the welcoming assembly but that meant we were first into our first workshops for the day. When we first got there they gave us pieces of card giving us access to the event. For our second workshop we took Lilly's complex character design. which I really enjoyed because I love doing art. I wish it was a lot longer though because most people didn't get to finish their characters which was really sad. And after that our final session we chose to participate in the green screen workshop which was great cause I never usually work with green screens. To end off the day we all
moved into the school auditorium for an end of day talk about the day.

Weekly Reflection T3 W3 - Korean

On Monday the 7th of July I had my first session of culture studies in Korean for term 3. I missed the last session of Korean because I was sick the whole week. But when I came to my first session of culture studies I got a warm welcome from our Korean teacher. We started with learning the simple Korean greetings. For our follow up from languages we had to practise the simple greetings for our next session next Monday (13th of August). I've been practising the simple greetings for korean so I can do well in the next week in our monday session.