Tag: inquiry

Time Traveller’s Podcast ft Samuel Marsden

Samuel Marsden

For this activity we were challenged to create a podcast about Reverend Samuel Marsden. We have used our Inquiry knowledge to help us write questions that we might have asked Reverend Samuel Marsden as if we were talking to him. On Adobe Express we used the Podcast tool to record our voices and script we collaborated together and had created. For our roles Armani and Amorangi was Samuel Marsden, and the hosts were Jaeliyah, Hasna, and Valencia. I enjoyed doing this fun activity because we all got turns in taking part and we joined our knowledge of Samuel Marsden together and it helped us get more understandment.

I learnt while doing this task was to always use expression in what your saying because it makes it sound better and be confident because if your not confident no one will hear you speak up.

Photo Story

LI: To understand the concept of visual storytelling.

Our task was creating a Photo story of our walk to Pt England Reserve by using the photos from the walk. To create a story by using photos we want to put the photos in the right order explaining how fun our walk was I always wondered how long it was. One thing I liked about our walk was playing sports after we walked to Pt England Reserve.

Camp Collage / Movie

LI: To create a collage of images or short movie that reflects my time at camp

Our camp at Kokako Lodge in Hunua was showing what we did at Kokako Lodge. My collage or movie show was about the activities we did and how we did it. I chose these photos because it can show the world on how we felt and what we looked like. My favourite part of camp was the great pancake race because we get to eat the pancakes and decorate it.

The Kokako

LI: To use our smart searching skills

Our Year 7/8 camp was at Kokako Lodge in Hunua. Our challenge today was to use our smart searching skills to find out about the kokako bird and create an infographic to share the facts we researched in our own words. Something I found interesting about the kokako bird was that the kokako bird is a large song bird.

A Moment In Time

LI: To write a poem that describes a moment in time

At camp we had lots of challenge activities to try. Our challenge in with our poem was to chose our words carefully so that we painted a clear picture of what we were describing in the mind of our readers and I have described what it was like to to feel facing our fears while challenging ourself to the activities we were doing at camp. We chose this challenge because we can tell the world how we felt facing our fears and the activities.

 

What Samuel Marsden Saw

LI: To use the information in the diary extract to create an image of what we think Samuel Marsden saw when he sailed down the Tamaki awa.

We used Adobe Express to to create what Samuel Marsden saw back in 1830.We included using Adobe Express and used AI to help us because we can give the words to give what should we put in what Samuel Marsden saw back in the day. We learnt that we have to give more details in AI to get the photo or drawing we want.

Exploring AI

LI: To identify and understand how descriptive language is used to create a clear picture of a setting in a text.

This is the image I created using the Adobe Express. I found this activity challenging because we have no idea of what a scary valley looks like but I found it fun because we choose our own design and make it look super scary. Something I learnt when using prompts for AI is to always have a lot of details so you can get the drawing or photo of what it looks like.

Who was Samuel Marsden ?

LI: To use our smart searching skills to find out who Samuel Marsden was and what he is known for.

We used our smart searching skills to research facts about Samuel Marsden. To make sure our facts were correct we used three different websites. The websites I used were Wikipedia and Word Hippo

Something interesting I found out about Samuel marsden was that New Zealand was preached by Marsden at Oihi Bay in 1814. He was participating in a role for bringing Christianity. I learnt its is important to use my own words because we might not know words that is in the text that we copied and we might not understand what it means.

Kauri Dieback

LI: To understand what Kauri Dieback is and what it spreads.

 

Our challenge today was to use the links provided and our own smart searching skills to find out what Kauri dieback is and what we need to do to try and prevent this from spreading. We need to know about this so that we do our part to keep our Kauri safe when we go on hike at camp. I worked with Mareta and we found it interesting that a Kauri is the largest forest tree but found only in the Northern North Island, it has a large trunk and small, leathery leaves, kauri resin, soot from burnt kauri gum used for tattooing. A tall white timber tree of New Zealand having white straight grained wood. It’s the largest forest tree in Aotearoa New Zealand. 

Evolution of the NZ Flag

LI: To understand the story behind our flag

                       

 

Our challenge today was to create a collaborative presentation that reflects the story behind our NZ flag. We did this by looking at how our flag has changed over time. Something I found interesting was the United Tribes of New Zealand was a of Māori tribes based in the north of the North Island, existing legally from 1835 to 1840. The Union Jack reflects New Zealand’s origins as a British colony. The Southern Cross is one of the striking features of the Southern sky, and has been used to represent New Zealand. On how my team collaborate so well and helped each other to create ideas and information about the Evolution of New Zealand Flags. This task was very fun to work on becasue I was working with great people who helped with the information and what it means.