November 5

STEAM Term 4 Kaitiakitanga Minecraft

Week 1:

this week me and my team planed a game on minecraft

This is my teams planing paper we made a roler coster were you take a trip through nature and answer questions about the things the signs tell you.

Week 2-3

What is Canva

This week I made a Canva ad for my game


First I made the rules and then I wrote what we are doing

Then I showed the map


What I liked about Canva

I liked that we could make our own slide

Week 4-5

Building my world

 When I made the world I started by making a place to get the carts and first you go down a water slide then you grab a cart and ride through the roller coster and you go past fishies then into a hole that takes you though a tunnel then up a quiz if you get the wrong questions you die.

 

Week 6

What shows kaitiakitanga In my game

we have fish and water through our roller coster and there are questions along the way to beat the game.


That’s the question for the people that play

if you pick the wrong answer you die and restart.

October 29

My Acrostic poem

Beach is fun

                                              each person in a family gets ice cream

                                                   all the people at the beach love ice cream

                           call your mum for ice cream

                 hooks are in the ocean

what is a acrostic poem

A poem that spells out a word and each letter describes the word your talking about

October 28

I Love the beach!

                          Beach

Fun , relaxing

Swimming , surfing, sinking

Swimming in the ocean

Wet

what is a cinquain poem

it’s a poem that has 5 rows the first word is the title the second row is two adjective words then the third row I ing words and the fourth row is a sentence

then fith row is one word

August 27

STEAM Week 4 – Life cycle of a Sea Turtle

This week in week 4 I did a life cycle of a turtle and realised that there were lots of stages like first egg, then hatchling, next juvenile, then young adult, then finally adult and we lernened facts like the sea turtle lives in coastal water, and sand temperatures are very important.

August 21

Week 3 Steam – Marine Animal Reproduction

In week three for STEAM we researched the different life cycle patterns observed in marine animals. We found that there are four main categories.

I learned there are different zones of repudiation the oviparous ,lay eggs viviparous, give birth to young  ones ovoviviparous, hatch from eggs and look like it’s parent, metamorphosis has 2 or more stages.

August 20

WEEK 2 – Diving into the Ocean

This week I learnt that the parts of the oceans have different names, the names are sunlight zone, twilight zone, midnight zone, abyss zone, and the bottom. We also learned that there are lots of different species in the different parts of the ocean some are in like squids are in twilight zone, and midnight zone. We made an ocean zone chart showing the different zones.

August 20

Week 1 STEAM. Marine animal life cycles

In week one I did a KWL chart and I know that 5% of the ocean has been seen ,there is several seas, the ocean has different parts, jelly fish have no bones, 95% of the ocean has not been seen, blob fish have big nose.

I want to know what is in the 95% of the ocean, what else is in the ocean, how do they catch fish without killing them.