Inquiry: DARE | Impact Message by Julian

This term, our focus for inquiry is DARE. It is a program that allows children to learn the dangers, and consequences of drug and alcohol use. Yesterday, Constable Cyrus came into our class to give us extra information about the use of them. We want to give a big thanks to Constable Cyrus for going out of his way to help us. This week, our challenge to alert others about these dangers was to create a DLO that showed what could potentially happen as a result of using drugs or alcohol. For this task, I worked with Alex and Jack, and we created a poster warning people about the dangers of drunk driving. On our DLO's we needed a strong message that would persuade people to think twice about driving drunk or using drugs. Our message was "Don't be like this guy, make a choice... Make the right choice..." We thought this was a strong message, and would work well.

Siri Group Challenge

Today, we have been given a challenge for writing by our teacher Mrs Anderson. Our challenge was to write in exactly 50 words, a response that Siri (An automated program on Apple devices) would give us if we asked it "Why Kokako Lodge is the greatest place to take year 7 and 8's on camp?" Although Mrs Anderson wanted to make this more of a challenge. So what we could do is gain points by using different Language features that would give us 5 points each. If every feature was used, then you could gain a total of 40 points. Although for another 5 points, you needed to make sure that everyone in your group was working together, and that a learning conversation was taking place. If you had exactly 50 words, and you used different references, you could even have 100 points total! Once you finished writing, you needed to digitally create a Siri conversation showing Siri's answer. The final step was to create a Screencastify that had us voicing over the whole conversation. For this activity, I worked with Julian, Jack, and Viliami. We had a lot of fun, and enjoyed recording the most.

Age Problem | By Julian

Today we had done a rich task a rich task is when you are finished eney other task like a bonus. You have to workout how old the people are and this is what we had to figure out. Malcolm was 3 times the age of Peter but was 4 years younger than Jack. Jack was 10 years older than Craig, who was 4 times the age of Richard. Richard is 15. How old is everyone else?

Professor Stephen Hawking | Sanujan, Alex, Jack, Julian

This week for inquiry Learning Space 2 were researching about Professor Stephen Hawking. Sadly on the 14 of March 2018 Professor Stephen Hawking Died by ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis). Professor Stephen Hawking was a Theoretical physicist who had a rare disease called Motor Neuron Disease. Our task was to create a DLO (Digital Learning Object) explaining how he died, who he was, why he was famous. I really loved making this DLO because on slide 5 you can see a Simpson version of Professor Stephen Hawking. For this task I worked collaboratively with Jack, Alex and Julian.