Natural Disasters

Last week was the last week of our distant learning. Our activity for inquiry/reading was to make a DLO of a natural disaster that had occurred and to inform someone who may not know about natural disasters. A natural disaster is a phenomena that can occur at any time which can be caused by a volcanic eruption, tsunami, earthquake or flood leading to people fleeing the area. I chose to make my DLO about volcanoes. In my DLO I include what volcanoes are, what a volcanic eruption is, examples of volcanic eruptions in New Zealand and a fact. Something I found interesting about volcanoes was that Rangitoto was last active 600 years ago. 

Famous Scientist Research

LI: To use smart searching skills to find out about a scientist from the past who made an important contribution to their field of science.

This week as an activity for distance learning in reading, Victoria and I worked together to create a DLO on researching a famous physicist. We chose to learn about Galileo Galilei because his name sounded most interesting and we’ve never heard of him before. We’ve included some things that he is recognised for, some of his biography, and his life/childhood growing up. Something we found new was that he had the intentions of becoming a priest and studied camaldolese. Camaldolese is the Congregation of Monk Hermits of Camaldoli. Something we found interesting was he that he discovered the four moons on Jupiter. We enjoyed this activity as we never knew who Galileo Galilei was and what his professions were.