This week in steam we learnt all about famous people in New Zealand like Sir Edmund Hillary, Jean Batten, and Ernest Rutherford they all did some important things to change New Zealand.
Jean batten- broke the flight record in 1930 and was awarded all around the world
Sir Edmund hillary- first to climb Mount Everest and make it alive.
Ernest Rutherford- a scientist that was the first to spit atoms in parts.
all of these people are important by changing the world in different ways
I learnt lots from these people like what sir Edmund Hilary brought on his long trip and what school Jean batten went to to learn how to fly a plane and atom parts that Ernest Rutherford found out about.
In small groups, we were given a famous New Zealander to learn about. Some of us had Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man to climb Mount Everest! Others learned about Jean Batten, the amazing pilot who flew all the way across the world.Some of us even explored the life of Ernest Rutherford, the scientist who helped discover atoms!
In my group we had Jean batten. We worked together to find important dates in their lives – like when they were born, when they did something amazing, and when they changed the world. We put all our facts in order to make a giant timeline on a big sheet of paper. It was like building a story of their life!
We turned our paper timelines into digital timelines on Canva.
I learned:
How to work as a team
How to research important facts
How to make a timeline
It was fun learning about these brave and clever Kiwis.
⭐ l liked to make the timeline ⭐it was hard to find lots of info ⭐it was fun
On Thursday me my mum and my brother went to build a bear and we made a bear first we chose a bear ten we fillled it with Cotten and put a scent. After that we chose some clothing for them and we named them after that we went to the checkout and paid for it, it was so fun and it smells really good
During this term for STEAM we created a podcast, the hardest part of making it was when I had to write the podcast script, and come up with lots of questions. The easiest part of our podcast was putting the podcast on GarageBand.
l enjoyed writing the podcast because it was hard and fun like choosing the font and completing it.
Our podcast relates to kaitiakitanga because we learnt about sea animals in our home whanau so we did our podcast about sea animals. Sea animals relates to kaitiakitanga because kaitiak tanga means guardian of the earth and we wrote about protecting sea animals.
These are my three tips on making a better podcast in the future.
1. Don’t keep writing the same thing over and over
29/07/2025
Ernest Rutherford- a scientist that was the first to spit atoms in parts.
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