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.

Robotics - Tamaki collage

Last week on Friday after our normal tech sessions, we got split into three groups. The groups were Robotics with Mr Dunn, Social Science with Ms Apelu and PE with Mr Moyes. I was in the robotics group. There were 12 people in robotics and were put into groups of 3. Two groups were programming on the Mbot and the other two were programming on the Mdrone. I was in the Mbot group. We had to challenge the other group programming the Mbot by making the Mbot do a figure 8. At first my group found this very complicated. When we had to leave max did a hack and then we could control the Mbot with the keys. We then made some progress towards our challenge. 

Inter school Athletics

Yesterday some students from Panmure bridge School went down to Lloyd Elsmore Park to participate in the inter-school athletics. The event that I was participating in was long jump and high jump. In the morning the boys were doing the track events and the girls were doing the field events. After that we had a break. My next event was long jump. The event after I participated in was high jump. We didn't get to finish it because most people had to do relays. 

Fire Station Trip

On Tuesday LS1 and LS2 went to the Panmure Fire Station. We learnt about Fire trucks and the different tools like (Ladders, pumps, hoses). The firefighters also demonstrated how they got someone out of a car if they are trapped inside of it (They used the glass cutters and spreaders to take apart the car). It was really cool and interesting watching them remove the windscreen without making it shatter. Everyone had a great time and had loads of fun. 

Fire Station - Summary

On Tuesday, LS1 and LS2 went down to the Panmure Fire Station. Our inquiry for this term is our community so we have been learning about the different places in our community. After the trip, we came back to school and wrote a summary about our experience. First of all, we (I was working with Daniel, Nazella and Shakaia) got twenty words that we thought were important, then we got six words from the first twenty words and used them to write a summary about firefighters.  

Maths Problem DLO

In maths we have been doing some maths problems. This week the problems we were solving involved using our times table and our division. I have worked with Shannon, John and Zane to show our learning through a DLO 

Summarising DLO

Last week Calvin and I decided to read a book called Robert the rat. We managed to read half way through the book, so we made a Summarising DLO. We had to write down 20 important words from the text we were reading and turn them into the 6 most important words. With those 6 words we had to sum them up into a few sentences.

Police visiting PBS

Today we have had an amazing afternoon because the police officers came to our school, this was probably the best police visitors we have ever had in the school because the police helicopter came and landed right onto our school field. It was a big surprise for me because it was my first time seeing a helicopter with my own eyes because I only get to see them on films or video tapes. Did you know that the helicopter goes 232 kph (WOW!). Did you also know that there are only 2 helicopters here in Auckland ?. My second favourite part about the visit was seeing the German Shepherd police dog come over to see us. It was fully trained and understood what to do when the other officer Grant was giving him commands. This was one of the best visits I have had so far for my last year here at Panmure Bridge school. Another fact about the helicopter is that it costed 850K for it !!?( that is a lot of money). 

Dental Health DLO

Today we were learning about oral / dental health and I made a DLO to show my learning. This is an animation Shannon and I made using google slides and it shows why you should brush your teeth and what can happen if you don't. It is very important to brush your teeth and NZ is one of the worst countries when it comes to keeping your teeth safe. So let's change our ways and start to brush our teeth. This animation is intended to educate the younger audiences specifically room 4 in PBS.

Film Festival 2017

Yesterday, the whole school went down to Hosts Sylvia Park for the 10th annual Manaiakalani film festival. The films that were shown there were created by students from the schools in the Manaiakalani cluster. My favourite film was the one LS1 made. It was about two boys trying to survive in a school full of crazy people. When we got back to school, we went on some of the other schools videos and left some comments. All of the films were creative and I enjoyed watching them.

Badminton

Today we were learning how to keep a rally going using the forehand grip and backhand grip. I find using the backhand grip better for serving and forehand for hitting the shuttle. I really enjoy Badminton that is why this is one of my favourite Kiwi Sport this year.

Animal Adaption

Today LS2 learnt about animal adaption. Animal adaption is when an animal has been living in an environment that might have some harsh conditions so it then adapts to that habitat to make it suitable for them. This is a presentation showing how Bengal tigers adapt to there environment and how they are able
to survive in there habitat.

Badminton

Today for kiwi sports we played badminton. For badminton we were practising the forehand and the backhand grips. After practising our forehand and back hand grip we started to practice how to swing the rack to pass the shuttle to your partner but you had to keep an eye on the shuttle. After that we had to hit the shuttle to your partner as long as you can Carl and I got 45. Playing badminton is very fun to play.

Explanation

How Children Learn At School. 

On the first day of school, young students go to a class where they meet new students and start a new learning day. The first day of school is very challenging for kids because they don't know where to go and what to do.

The teachers teach new students how to do good things. They first teach them how to count up to number five and learn how to read easy words from A to Z.

Teachers teach children how to collaborate with each other, E.G (Help each other and share with each other).

Did you know students can learn from each other if they tell stories about very interesting things from cartoon movies. They can also explain what they did in the weekends that way they could almost do the exact same thing.

On my first day on school I had to learn from the mistakes I made. Also I'v lean't how to make new friend's.

This week for writing we have been practising, how to writing an explanation to First we wrote on a piece of paper. Before writing it we planned our explanation so we know what to write in our text. Calvin and I were partners. We learnt that in a explanation there has to be a title telling why or how something works, the introduction which has a hook like a rhetorical questions, 3 Paragraphs of interesting points in order and the conclusion. The writing below shows you our explanation we wrote about How Children Learn At School.