Google Expedition

Google Expedition

On Tuesday, two days ago my class and I walked down to room 3 to go on a Google expedition trip around the world. “You may think I'm crazy  but trust me, we did” using a cardboard view master with a smartphone inserted. This is what it look like.

The adults controls everything. Our teacher moves us to different kind off places like the great wall of china, the caves in Slovenia, under the ocean and out of space. The most thing I like was going into space and learning all about the moon. On the moon my class and I learned that in the moon the people who went to the moon also had little cars on the moon.  The rocks on the moon are  small, most of them are big.  On the moon the light  is red, orange and sometimes yellow.

To me It’s feels like I was there for sur but something in me felt like I was just my imagination. It was a lot of fun learning about knew things about earth and space.

STAR DOME

STAR DOME

It was like a summer morning, but just a little chill when our bus's came to our school because in our school we are learning about the solar system. That my school it going on a trip to star dome to learn about new things, also find new informants to use while we’re doing our solar system writing, and inquiry too. When we there Room 7,8,9, and 10 got off the bus and walked over to the trees were it has some chairs. Room 8, and 10 sat on the chairs while room 7, and 9 sat on the ground for morning tea. After morning tea room 7,and 8 went inside the star dome first while room 9, and 10 stayed outside and had their morning break. When we walked in we had to put our bag away and walked into a room where a woman was standing in front of us. When we all sat down on the chairs she explain all about earth and planets. After that we moved over to a really cool where we lay down on a special chairs and looked up at the silencing because that where the move start. Later on we came out to have lunch and play around while room 9, and 10 went inside.

What causes the seasons ?

What causes the seasons ?

Define: Seasons happened throughout every 3 month & include Autumn, Winter, Spring, & summer.

In Autumn it's more cooler than winter or spring because the earth is on a tilt which why autumn is cooler. And some all the leaves turn orange and yellow.

Winter is the colder because during it tilt it also faceing away from the sun, which why it’s colder. Also good for drinking hot chocolate.

Spring is more windy and a good mouths for flying cite. Spring is also the time when the leaves fall off the trees.

Summer is the hottest of them all. That is a good time to go swimming, also it good to slip, slop, slap and wrap on some t-shirt.

Lastly we get seasons because the earth is on a tilt on its axis. Most people think when the earth orbits the sun we will fall off. “No” because on earth we have gravity.

The Problem with Pluto

The Problem with Pluto by David Hill

SJ Level 3 Feb 2012

WALT: Use a cline graphic organiser to order words with similar meanings

WALT: create an acrostic phrase

There are lots of different words that describe the comparative (to compare) size of an object.

Use this cline scale to find the words which indicate size and fit them along the scale (click to edit the image)

People used this acrostic phrase to remember the order of the planets: My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nine Pies. Now that Pluto is no longer an official planet create your own acrostic sentence to remember the order of the planets.

Letter	Planet	Original Phrase	Your Creation
M	Mercury	My	Many
V	Venus	Very	Volcanoes
E	Earth	Excellent	Erupt
P	Mars	Mother	Mostly
J	Jupiter	Just	Just
S	Saturn	Served	Some
U	Uranus	Us	Under
N	Neptune	Nine	Nine
P	Pluto	Pies	PM

3. Write a paragraph summary explaining if Pluto is a planet, and why/why

Pluto is a planet like ever other planet and pluto is well and alive   

Travel on a research craft heading to the uncharted limits of the Solar System. Learn how Pluto is different from the other planets and discover the challenges of working out just what a planet should be.

The Problem with Pluto takes a modern look at our once familiar Solar System. It presents a lively debate over Pluto’s planetary status, a debate that had been looming from the moment Pluto was discovered, over 70 years ago.

If you could vote on Pluto’s status, how would you make up your mind? What are the characteristics that all good planets should have? Lucy and her teenage friends, who live on various planets in the Solar System, think they should know the answer but find that it’s not so easy. Lucy’s mother, who is a scientist, is given the job to settle the argument once and for all.

The last decade has seen some major new discoveries within the Solar System and in response scientists have had to rethink their views. Science, history and sentiment all played a part in reorganising our Solar System. But, as Lucy comes to realise, it’s not really a question of what’s right or wrong, but, in looking for the answer, that we discover what’s important after all.

Plastic bags around the world!

This is my star chart about the cause and effect!