Thursday, 31 July 2014

Melbourne Museum History Excursion

Yesterday, we visited the Melbourne Museum, especially to see the "First Peoples" Exhibition in the Bunjilaka Cultural Centre http://museumvictoria.com.au/bunjilaka/visiting/first-peoples/
Cam showed us how to use the app, Book Creator, on the mini iPads that we shared and Bernard guided us around this new (but permanent) exhibition. Along the way, we took photos and interviewed each other with a variety of materials that explained the early history of a land we know as Australia.

What was good about using iPads and Book Creator at the Museum?
  • It’s like writing facts down, but it stays as a movie on the iPad – Cooper
  • Mini iPads are good because it’s like making a movie and learning new things – Sienna
  • Mini iPads are good to use because you don’t have to video and you won’t lose what you created – Natasha
  • It was good because you could do voice messages and take photos. It was a good place because there was a man talking and lots of good things to take photos of. It was good because we haven’t used mini iPads before and they trusted us not to break them – Jenny
  • I think Book Creator is good because you don’t just take photos of things, you describe them – Jake
  • It wasn’t just getting to learn about the museum, but we also got to learn about using iPad minis and Book Creator
  • This was a good learning opportunity for Middle S – Jacob
  • We were learning when Bernard was telling us information and we were learning about Aboriginal History – Natalia
  • We got to learn a new app which is good because we got to explore more and have more fun – Molly
  • It made it easier because I didn’t have to write – Riley
  • I liked the Book Creator because we were having fun, but at the same time we were practising photography – Jamie
  • It was good to use the app because it was easier to take pics of what we were learning, instead of writing it down – Adol

Here are the movies we made...

  



















Friday, 18 July 2014

Term 3 and Australian History


After watching this video about the First Australians, these are some of our initial questions and discoveries about Australian History...

Why did the English Dance with the Aborigines? - Molly
A family got murdered for stealing a bag of potato. Did the Aboriginals use horses for trasnport? - Aerodyne
Why did the Aborigines cry and shout because Bennelong left? -Natalia
When the world was made was every country joined? - Jamie
The Aboriginals said ''take off your clothes'' to whoever came and was wearing clothes, because they didn't know if they were a boy or a girl - Jake
How many ships went to Australia? - Lachlan
I wonder what Sydney Cove looked like then - Cooper
How did Captain Cook know where Australia was? - Angelo
Who had the biggest impact in Australian history? - Riley
How was small pox introduced? - Ryan
How did Indigenous Australians live? - James
Why did Bennelong survive small pox and how? - Adol
Why were the Aborigines turned into stone? - Sienna
What was Australia like before the Englishmen discovered Australia? - Oscar
Why did the Englishmen execute the Aborigines? - Jacob
How many Aborigines got killed by the Englishmen and why did they go there? - Jenny
How did the Aborigines get small pox?-  Jack
Why did the Englishmen call Australia, "Australia"? - Natasha

Did you know about these events? Can you answer any of our questions? We'd love to hear from you!


                

Collaborative Maths groups

From last week of last term...






















Wednesday, 25 June 2014

Our Science Expo

Today, we did our science expo and we all picked a subject to learn about and to teach other people - Natalia
I think we all did a great job and we should all get a pat on the back - Molly
We were successful at presenting and teaching others about what we were learning - Adol
I learnt while studying volcanoes that a volcano is actually a mountain and opens up to a pool of molten rock below the surface. When pressure builds up, eruptions can occur - Cooper
I learnt that in Chemistry the Greeks began chemistry by mixing things together - Natasha
I learnt that a meteor is a chunk of space rock and if it burns up in the earth's atmosphere its a meteorite - Jake
I learnt that when you do gym you build strength in your arms, legs and core - Grace
I learnt from James R. that when you are in a plane, there is drag at the back of the plane and thrust at the front of the plane, weight at the bottom and lift at the top - Oscar
I learnt that Leonardo Da Vinci designed the submarine. Mrs Fitt told me that he designed the wings on aeroplanes - Sienna
 

Tessellations

Tuesday, 17 June 2014

The technical language of explanations

Today, during writing we practised defining the technical terms in Explanations. This was the model we used...

Term: microwave oven
Meaning: a household appliance used for cooking food
Features: has a turntable, digital display, found in the kitchen
Example: fan-forced microwave
Explanatory Sentence: A microwave oven is a household appliance that cooks food and is usually found in the kitchen. An example is a fan-forced microwave.

These are our versions, using our own examples. What do you notice about the explanatory sentence?
 

Our Term 3 Learning about Australian History

Name Reflection on the learning of history this term and our presentations today Tara This morning in Middle S ...