Day and Night AI Movie

For Inquiry today we were challenged to use our smart searching skills to research Day and Night, creating an AI video to show the process. We watched 2 videos that explained the Earth’s rotation and revolution, day and time. One full rotation of the Earth is one day, the part facing the light is a day and the part in shadow is night. I used PixVerse.ai to create the video that shows the earth rotating that is transferring from day to night by creating our own prompt. I enjoyed doing this activity because we get to use our skills to create a video by AI and also getting to know how time moves.

 

Ancient Timekeeping Devices

Today for this task we were challenged to create a Google video about the three old timekeeping devices that were used in the past which were Clepsydra, Sundial and Hourglass I had the Clepsydra. What is a Clepsydra? Clepsydra is an ancient water clock. It was a clever way people told time in the past, like the ancient Greeks and Egyptians, kept track of time using the steady flow of the water. Sundial is a ancient clock but it was also special it was the kind of clock that uses the sun to tell time. It works by using a stick or pointer called a gnomon to cast a shadow onto a flat plate with numbers on it. As the sun moves across the sky, the shadow moves to show the correct time of day. Finally Hourglass is a time measuring tool with two glass bulbs connected by a narrow neck, with sand that flows from the top to the bottom to show time passing. I really had fun doing this challenge/task I wish I could do it again.

Idioms

For this task we were challenged to make our own idioms. What is an idiom, an idiom is a sentence that isn’t real and is a figurative. My idiom was Carry the weight of a wet sponge, which means “To be weighed down by an overwhelming or impossible task, especially one that feels like it will never be solved or completed”. One thing I found intersting about this fun challenge is that we use idioms but don’t know when we use them.

Waltzing Matilda

For Reading we have been learning about “Waltzing Matilda” and how a Swagman stole a jumbuck which came from Austraila. We answered the questions on the document in our own words, and read the poem. Something I found interesting was when at the end of each line it always says “You’ll come a Watlzing Matilda with me”. We were challenged to create a summary that is exactly 25 words that talks about the peom or song from the Waltzing Matilda. I used Gemini to create a picture of a time line of where swagman started to the end that is related to what Barjon Paterson wrote. We enjoyed doing this activity because we get to understand the meaning behind his story I thought that this story was very deep.

Shearers strike of 1891

For Reading we have been learning about “Shearers strike of 1891” and we were challenged by our teachers into putting this text into perspectives ( perspectives is two different opinions and our own opinion with different sides of their story and what they think) between the Shearers and the Pastoralist, The Shearers fought for their right because the prices for the wool had dropped, they persuaded other Shearers ( Shearers are people who cut the wool off the sheep) to stop working because they felt it was unfair that they were not getting paid fairly, basically they protested with the pastoralist to give a better pay and work conditions. But  the Pastoralist ( Farmers/ Landowners ) dropped the pay for the shearers because they had dropped the prices of the wool so they wanted to get more sales. They thought it made more sense to drop the pay of the workers because they needed to get more sales than they already had. They also thought it was the  right thing to do and so they tried to include the police and the government to agree with their perspective. In our opinion we agree with both perspectives because the Shearers they work hard and are not earning a lot of money to pay bills and money to pay for food to feed themselves and their children. The Pastoralists are also right because they need to drop the price of the wool because they are not getting enough sales from how expensive the wool is. I found this interesting because we got to learn about the different sides of perspectives and how my group collaborated and all participated in this activity.

Procedural Text

LI: To create a procedural text to tell someone how to do something using a  sequence of  steps, instructions or actions in a particular order.

Our challenge was to work in our dinosaur research pairs create a prototype of our dinosaur’s skeleton my one was a Pterodactyl. The challenge was to make the skeleton of our dinosaur and record the steps we followed.  Once we had our first prototype we revised and adapted both the prototype and the instructions. We used the language features found in a procedural text to help us write clear instructions so that another pair could follow our instructions and create our prototype. I think this activity was fun because I got to explain how to make a dinosaur out of paper.

Hone Tuwhare Poem

Today we got to make images and record ourselves or our voices saying the 2 poems by Hone Tuwhare, we used Adobe Express and Google Vids to help us for this task. Hone Tuwhare’s 1st poem I did was Rain it shares personal, spiritual and emotional feelings with the person who reads the poem. Hone Tuwhare is a widely respected man for his speeches. To complete this assesment we had to read and structure the words carefully in a similiar tone in addition to how he declares it. Soon after the Rain poem I got to do the poem Child Coming home in the rain which is also another famous poem he wrote. The instructions were as same as the Rain poem we had to read and structure the words carefully in a similiar tone in addition to how he declares it.

I really enjoyed this activity because I got to read Hone Tuwhare’s poems and structure images using AI.

 

Malala Yousafzai DLO

For reading we have been learning about Malala Yousafzai an her braveness towards her learning and education, she was a tenacious young soul who never backed down even when facing a gun to her head, that belonged to the Taliban. Malala Yousafzai did’nt let that put her down even making a big speech to all the world leaders in the united nation, she fought for peace, social justice, and gender equality. We made a poster on one of her famous quotes that she said to the nations, and we chose ” Empower others with the weapon of knowledge,” because it brought a sense of empowerement and was a inspirational quote. Something I found interesting was she got shot on the left side of her head and never gave up.

Pterodactyl Research DLO

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

Since after our dinosaur dig we have finally discovered our dinosaur, my partners and I found out it was pterodactyl. Our challenge was to create a DLO that tells others about the dinosaur we found and when we excavated our dinosaur eggs. What me and my partners added was how it protected itself, what it ate, what its habitat was and even what predators hunted them during the 20th century. One interesting fact I found about the pterodactyl is that its wings aren’t covered in feathers they are actually covered with its large membrane skin so it can catch air while flying its skin is also super stretchy aswell.

Dinosaur Eggs

Our challenge was to become a palaeontologist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image. My partner and I found the skeleton of a Pterodactyl. One interesting fact I found about the Pterodactyl is that its wings are not actually covered with feathers its actually covered with its skin. This task was fun because we could collaborate with each other but not only learning about dinosaurs, Fossils but it can show us how important it was back then and it shows that we can change everyone’s perspectives through Fossils.