For our launch sessions this term, we visited Totara park. The purpose of this trip was to identify plant species using a camera app called: seek. In the app seek, you take a picture of a plant – the closer the better! – and it will show you the species, there will be a number of green dots on the screen showing how accurate the ai assumption is. Perhaps for example, five dots or more is a more accurate guess. If the picture is blurry, bad quality or too far away, the less accurate the ai is.
The goal for this whole trip was to use the seek app properly, and to identify five or more plant species. As we hiked through Totara park, we saw multiple different kinds of plants, some were able to spot little bugs as well! Sadly I couldn’t, but I found five different plant species throughout the whole day. Afterwards, we walked back to school and made a little reflection about our visit.
We spent around 20 minutes in our launch session to make the reflection, here’s mine; hiking through the bush was amazing and felt so fresh. In my opinion, Totara has a close connection to our theme of kaitiakitanga*. It was a lovely view and I loved looking at the tall trees and the soft green grass! Overall, this was a nice and refreshing trip, and I learnt a lot about new plant species.
* (noun) guardianship, stewardship, trusteeship, trustee – websites used ; https://maoridictionary.co.nz/search?idiom=&phrase=&proverb=&loan=&histLoanWords=&keywords=kaitiakitanga