Experiencing Marine Reserves EMR Action Projects

Experiencing Marine Reserves EMR Game
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Conceptual statement 

In the context of Experiencing Marine Reserve I will design and produce a Multi-Level Game for 11 to 15 years old to be used to help others about taking care of our Marine life.

Specifications

A minimum of three game levels

Challenges at each game level that players would find cool, fun and educational

At least one sprite

At least three backdrops

At least three levels

The difference between your local area and marine reserve

Creativity, Presentation, Leadership, Kaitakitanga

Demonstration of understanding of marine conservation, marine reserves, marine protected areas and or/marine issues in New Zealand

NZ marine biodiversity and conservation context

We are addressing a social action

In the beginning of the game it is a must to state the social action that the game is addressing

Each game level and backdrop must state in a text box the issue that relates to the social action

A challenge on each game level needs to include pop up texts that says how the issue has been solved

course of action survey

course of action survey results  

Link

Explanation - first hand experience with marine reserves (science)

Explanation difference between your local area and marine reserves (science)

   

Passion and demonstration of understanding of marine conservation in NZ (social studies)

Teacher's Opinions and Recommendations Results   

A Special Visit

                 The Summer Learning Journey for NEXT Foundation from Next Foundation on Vimeo.

Today the NEXT Foundation came to our school Assembly to lunch The Summer learning Journey. Rachael Williams. This program starts in the summer holidays, the program has a lot of activity's for students ranging from year levels from 4-8. The NEXT Foundation has made a mini movie with our school Daniel was the main star in the movie but there were other students from LS2 that were featured. The movie was about the previous Summer Learning Journey and how Daniel was completing the activities. After our special school assembly The NEXT Foundation provide us with a nice lunch.  

Screencastify - Christmas in South Africa

This week LS2 is learning about how to work as a team and how to work collaboratively. We discussed about different countries who celebrate Christmas. We were spilited into groups and had to choose a country that we would like to research about Christmas. We decided to research about Christmas in South Africa. We learnt a lot of new things about how people celebrate Christmas in different ways. We also learnt that Geseende Kersfees means Merry Christmas in South Africa. The thing we found interesting was that people in South Africa eat turkey and duck for Christmas meals. Above shows you our DLO about Christmas in South Africa and we made a screencastify to record our thinking about Christmas in South Africa.

Google Game - Coding

This morning LS2 went on google and played the new google game. The game involved coding. We were making the bunny go in specific directions. We were inserting arrows and different types of codes into the coding bar to make the bunny move. The game had a tutorial at the beginning to give us an idea on how to code. 

Maths drawing

Today we did  a cool graph, it is hard it got easier. We used coordinates to draw a dog picture. We used the ladder rule, the ladder rule is easy, first you always walk across and then climb up the ladder.

Tech Reflection

Every week, on a Friday morning the year sevens and eights go to Tamaki College for tech. So far this year, we have had three rotations. For the year eights, our rotations were (In this order), Food tech, graphics and hard materials. In food tech, we learnt to cook and we made some amazing things like chocolate truffles and quiches. In graphics we designed and painted our own clock and in hard materials we made our own stained glass design. A big thanks to the three teachers that taught us: Mrs Heka (Food tech), Ms Ferguson (Graphics) and Mr Grundy (Hard materials).

Hazel Informing us About the Next Summer Learning Journey

For Assembly on Friday we had a visitor. The visitor was Hazel to inform us about how the Summer Learning Journey is coming up soon. The Summer Learning journey is a program that is held over the summer holidays. The program contains a lot of activities. We found out that it starts on 18th of December and ends on the 26th of January. Another thing we found out was that the year 8s that are going to move onto college are welcome to participate and if they win, their prize will be sent to their secondary school. It is very beneficial if we take part in this program because when school starts again you will come back smarter.