What lives in the sea? A Squid

Mrs Snow taught us how to dissect a squid and make observations like a scientist would. We were also curious and came up with lots of wonderings.

So Many Concept Activities!

Over the last few days the students enjoyed a range of activities based around dinosaurs, deep sea, space and volcanoes. The idea is to spark curiosity and help us create questions to inquire into. There is literally too many to list but here are a few photographed below. 

The students visited a website and sketched some crazy looking deep sea creatures. They then added the creature to the zone it belonged to. 

During this activity the students were moving coloured water with sand in jars to help them understand how the sea works. 

Students added their questions about dinosaurs to a dinosaur and are now painting it. 

We are taking a scientific approach to our learning and we have identified the skills of a scientist. Luckily, we found a scientist to draw around to help us display the skills.

We are trying different science experiments to help us understand things. We are also practicing our scientific skills. We observed what happened when we mixed bicarbonate soda and vinegar to create a reaction and recreate a volcano erupting.

Concept Groups - Deep Sea, Space, Volcanoes and Dinosaurs

Pounamu have split into groups to explore 'Undiscovered.' The students decided on four areas they were particularly interested in and have created lots of questions they want to answer. 

As scientists, we have begun to explore some of these questions. As you can see, there is a wide range of approaches to each area of study. The 'dinosaur' group spoke to T-Rex for some of their answers and the volcanoes group went off to discover more about the 'eruption cloud.' They couldn't believe how many volcanoes there were in the North Island and how devastating the ash cloud can be. The deep sea group were exploring the different types of oceans and the space group were outside getting a sense of scale of the Solar System. There was an incredible amount of learning going on! :) I wonder where this will take us?