Group Inquiries - Solar System

Define the Solar System

Describe the Solar System




Explain Why it is called the Solar System?

Create your own solar system
Predict what would happen to our solar system if there was no sun?
Generalise the importance of the Sun

Group Inquiries - Atmosphere

Define: What is the Atmosphere?

Describe: The 5 layers of the atmosphere.



Compare and Contrast: 2 different layers.

Group Inquires - Biosphere

Biosphere:

Define: What is the Biosphere?
Classify: Living/ Non- living

Group Inquires - Hydrosphere

Hydrosphere:

Define: What is a hydrosphere.
Sequence: The Water Cycle, make sure you use the words Condensation, Evaporation and precipitation.

Biosphere:

Cause and Effects of Earthquakes and Volcanoes

Earthquakes and volcanoes are both Geological events. 

Choose to investigate the cause and effects of either earthquakes or Volcanoes.


Write down what causes them and then their effects.






Choose the app you would like to present your work on.

What causes Earthquakes?

This morning New Zealand experienced a huge earthquake.  Our thoughts are with the people in the South Island and Wellington.

What causes earthquakes?




How to keep safe in an Earthquake!

DURING AN EARTHQUAKE

• If you are inside a building, move no more than a few steps, drop, cover and hold. Stay indoors till the shaking stops and you are sure it is safe to exit. In most buildings in New Zealand you are safer if you stay where you are until the shaking stops.
• If you are in an elevator, drop, cover and hold. When the shaking stops, try and get out at the nearest floor if you can safely do so.
• If you are outdoors when the shaking starts, move no more than a few steps away from buildings, trees, streetlights, and power lines, then Drop, Cover and Hold.
• If you are at the beach or near the coast, drop, cover and hold then move to higher ground immediately in case a tsunami follows the quake.
• If you are driving, pull over to a clear location, stop and stay there with your seatbelt fastened until the shaking stops. Once the shaking stops, proceed with caution and avoid bridges or ramps that might have been damaged.
• If you are in a mountainous area or near unstable slopes or cliffs, be alert for falling debris or landslides.

Here is Room 8 practising how to be safe in an earthquake:

Drop, Cover and Hold

W.A.L.T: Sequence the Rock Cycle

Choose a partner to work with and then decide on an app to show how rocks are made in a Rock Cycle.

Design a rock cycle showing how the 3 types of rocks are made and then label your diagram using these labels in the correct places. You can also make your own labels if you decide to.



Magma ( hot melted rock), deep under ground cools down and crystallises making igneous rock.


Igneous rock erodes by wind, water or other forces into sediment ( small particles of rock). These small particles are deposited in layers which eventually become sedimentary rock. 


Some sedimentary rock is pushed deep under ground, where they are exposed to heat and pressure transforming them into metamorphic rock. 


Check on the blog for examples of the Rock Cycle.

Museum Trip

Geosphere - Rocks

Rocks are part of the Geosphere.

See if you can Identify the 3 different types of rocks, how they are formed and some examples of each type of rock.

Use these clips  to help you.

Systems - Many Parts Make A Whole

Our Science Inquiry topic is all about the parts that make up our planet; the geosphere, atmostphere, hydrosphere and biosphere.

This clip introduces us to the geosphere and biosphere.




This clip introduces us to the atmosphere and hydrosphere

W.A.L.T: Identify and explain goods and services

Today we learnt what are goods and services. We watched this clip which explains what goods and services are.


We had to identify and explain what is a good or service and why. The explaining gets us to relational.

Our next step is to create our own service that we could provide.

Money Matters - Budgeting Game

Here is a fun budgeting game you can play.

Party Time

The Story of Money

We have been looking at the story of money. We sequenced how money has changed over time.

The Story of New Zealand's money

New Zealand has new monitory notes. This website tells you about the different features and meanings of the different images on our notes.  It's interesting to find out about something we use everyday.
Brighter Money

W.A.L.T: Make change happen

Today we put an M and M inside some water to see what would happen?  First we predicted what we thought would happen.

As soon as we put the M and M in the water, the water changed colour to the colour of the M and M.

As we observed the colour came off and the M and M turned all white.  After  a few minutes it turned brown.

Then something really exciting happened! The M came off and floated to the top. We wonder why that happened?

The colour from the M and M went into the water. The colour went in as a solid and changed into a liquid. 

Did it change from a solid to a liquid because it dissolved? Why didn't the M dissolve?

3 States of Matter

We have been learning about the 3 states of Matter. Check out this Youtube clip about Solids, liquids and gases.

Science in a Van

Science in a Van was so cool!! We learnt a lot and had some fun at the same time. Check out some pictures:

Science in a Van

Change Experiment

On Friday the Year 3's and 4's began an experiment to see if different objects would change over time if they were buried in the ground. We buried things such as - a plastic bag, gladwrap, an apple, a sandwich, a juice box and tinfoil. In week 10 we will dig them up again to see if the objects have changed in any way. What do you think will happen to the objects?? Write a comment with what your prediction.

Change Experiment

What if there was no St Johns?

Room 8 asked the question: What if there was no St Johns? To answer the question we had to first find out what St Johns does, what role to they have in our community and what would happen if they weren't there.

St Johns Visit

Today the Year 4 classes had a visit from St John. They learnt how to make 111 calls correctly, how to wrap a bleeding cut and learnt even more about what St John do for us in the community. Room 8: What did you learn? Have you practised your phone number and address?

Remember to keep bringing in old toys and books so we can sell them to raise money for St Johns.