Tag: Inquiry

How to take notes like a caveman

LI: To learn extract only the most critical information from a text.

In this task for Inquiry, we learned how to take notes like a caveman. This means focusing on short notes using keywords, symbols, and quick phrases instead of full sentences.

We practised picking out the most important information and leaving out the extra details. This made our notes faster to write and easier to understand when we look back at them later. We also used things like arrows and short forms to link ideas and keep things simple. It helped us focus on the main ideas instead of writing too much. Overall, this task helped me learn how to take clear, simple notes by focusing on the key points and keeping everything short and easy to read.

AI Reverse Challenge

LI: To improve prompts by reviewing and adjusting results.

This week in class, we learned how to use AI with Gemini. I learned that you need to give clear instructions to get a good image. We used something called SDS, which stands for Subject, Description, and Style. The subject is what is in the image. The description is what is happening and where it is. The style is how the image looks, like cartoon or realistic. Using this helped me make better images.

We also did a challenge where we looked at a picture and tried to write a prompt to match it. It took me 3 tries to get my image close to the example, which showed me I needed to improve my prompt each time. This helped me notice small details like colours and the setting. This is the prompt I used: A spotted leopard relaxing on the right with its head facing towards the viewer on a thick tree branch in a tropical forest with palm trees and green foliage around it, created on a white background with a mix of soft sunset yellow and green watercolor art style. Learning this has helped me understand how AI works and how to be more clear with my ideas. I’m getting better at writing prompts and creating images.

Building our class culture

LI: To collaborate to create a piece of art.

For this task, we worked in groups, and each of us got a part of our leader to draw. At first, I didn’t really know who we were going to draw, but the rest of my group already knew about our leader, Jonah Lomu, so they helped me understand why he was important. The task was about working together and learning how to collaborate with people you didn’t really know. We had to share our ideas, listen to each other, and sometimes compromise so everyone could be part of the project. It was cool to see how everyone had different ways of thinking about the drawing and how we could bring those ideas together to make it better. Something I learned from this task was that working with more people can help you get new ideas and do a better job as a team.

Social influence

LI: To evaluate peer pressure, digital interactions, and social influence.

This week in Inquiry, I learned about social influence. I found out that it’s when other people can change the way you think, feel, or act. I practiced noticing how my friends, family, or even people online can affect the choices I make. I also thought about how we sometimes copy what other people do or try new things because we see them doing it, like trends on social media. Learning about this has helped me understand why I make some of my choices and how the people around me can have an effect on what I do. I’m getting better at noticing it and thinking for myself.

 

How we honour the Treaty of Waitangi

This week for our task, LS2 was challenged to create a DLO about how we honour the treaty and respect Māori culture. We worked in pairs to come up with ideas about what we acknowledge and shared our own perspectives on why it is important to show respect. I really enjoyed this activity because it gave me the opportunity to express why Māori culture should be valued and respected just as much as any other culture around the world.

AI Day/Night Movie

For Inquiry, LS2 learnt about how time works and how it is connected to the Earth’s movement. We explored how the Earth spins around and how this causes day and night. To help us understand, we made an AI video showing the Earth rotating, with sunlight on one half and darkness on the other. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to turn all the way around, which is why a full day and night takes one whole day.

We really enjoyed making this video because it helped us see what actually happens when the Earth spins. Watching the sunlight move across the Earth made it easier to understand day and night, and it was fun to make our own video to show it.

Ancient Timekeeping

For  this inquiry task, In groups of three we learned about ancient telling time (hourglass, sundial, clepsydra). We used our smart searching skills to research and create a DLO that tells us about ancient timekeeping devices. We were challenged to get into groups of 3, and to find out what our device will be. An hourglass was used in ancient times, some people call it sand time or sandglass.

Sundial was created in Ancient Egypt around 15000 BC, people use this to connect to natural time or to teach them about the Earth’s rotation. Clepsydra is an ancient water clock that measures time. We watched a video that tells us the brief history of keeping time. We enjoyed doing this activity because we get to learn and understand the history of ancient times.

Dinosaur Egg AI

This week for our learning adventure this week we had form a little video showing how we transformed a dinosaur egg picture into an amazing dinosaur egg hatching video.  Also, this video shows how a dinosaur egg from centres ago look like and might hatch like   This had help me and others learn how to use adobe or hailou to create a video or edit photos or pictures.  And for the dinosaur egg that we had hated we had discovered that this dinosaur fossils/egg is a Dilophosaurus dinosaur bone. 

Procedural Text

For our inquiry task, we did dinosaurs, we got into groups of two or three and then made dinosaurs out of paper, and we made our own instructions with paper and we had Coloured paper, glu, a pencil, and a ruler, also we made a proderul text to tell everyone what to do if they want to make a Pterodactyl dinosaur.

Dilophosaurus Research

LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

Our challenge was to create a google slides that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Dilophosaurus, what I’d found out is that a Dilophosaurus was one of the largest carnivores of its time. Something I found interesting was that a Dilophosaurus could reach lengths of about 20 feet and weigh around 900 to 1,000 pounds.