Scientist Research: Galileo Galilei | Physics

LI: To use smart searching skills to find out about a scientist from the past who made an important contribution to their field of science.

This week as an activity for distance learning in reading, name and I worked together to create a DLO on researching a famous physicist. We chose to learn about Galileo Galilei because his name sounded most interesting and we’ve never heard of him before. We’ve included some things that he is recognised for, some of his biography, and his life/childhood growing up. Something we found new was that he had the intentions of becoming a priest and studied camaldolese. Camaldolese is the Congregation of Monk Hermits of Camaldoli. Something we found interesting was he that he discovered the four moons on Jupiter. We enjoyed this activity as we never knew who Galileo Galilei was and what his professions were.

Helping Rm2: Manaiakalani Survey

This week LS2 helped the juniors with their servers. On Thursday we buddied up with the people from Rm2 and helped them fill out the Manaiakalani survey in the library. My partner was Noel and she was mixed with cook island. She was able to understand each question on the survey when I tried asking more questions to explain what they meant and did my best to make sure she felt comfortable. Afterwards we looked into Cook island culture for cook island language week. We learnt about everything she found interesting like the dances and colours and alphabet. It was really fun being buddies with Noel for this and I most enjoyed looking at the traditional cook island foods.

Dance Lesson #1

This week Thursday was our first P.E lesson: Dancing with Miss Rebecca. Today our goal was to try our best to let go and feel free when we are dancing. She tells us there is no wrong way to dance. Our topic is 'Me and my body'. But the first thing we did was warming up, to get our heart rate up and stretch. Miss Rebecca played music while we were all in a circle and got us to copy her and move around. I've learnt that dance is really expressive and creative. The music she played really helped me dance in different ways and with my friends. Next we did a freeze activity, where she played some music and whenever she paused it she would call out a thing/shape to make with our body; i.e stick or a star. Then she would start making it harder, by getting us to make these shapes with the people around us. We tried coming up with some unique ways to create shape/s with eachother. Our last activity was mixing into 4 groups and working together to quickly create a letter in the alphabet in 15 secs.

Science: Summarizing the text

What is Science?

Science is the knowledge we get from asking questions that help us understand the world around us. Science is divided into four main branches known as, Chemistry, Biology, Physics and Geology & Astronomy.


Chemistry is the combination of two or more types of matter to create a new type of matter, for example the combination of hydrogen and oxygen creating H2O or water. Biology is the study of life and living organisms like how your body extracts the benefits of nutrients to reduce risk of diseases and bacteria. Physics is the force and motion of energy surrounding us dealing with the matter of the universe, for example the electricity we use to power a light bulb and the gravitational pull of the earth. Lastly, Geology & Astronomy focuses on the structure of the earth and can also include the study of the solid features of any terrestrial planet or natural satellite such as Mars or the Moon. This also includes a study of celestial objects and phenomena.


There are two sorts of science: Basic and Applied science. Basic science is the discovery of new information. This science follows a cycle: asking questions, making a hypothesis, followed up by your experiments, and making a final conclusion (If your hypothesis were right) The other main category of science is called applied science. Applied science is more dependent on Basic science as it is the science of the utilities of what has been experimented on by using basic science.



L.I: To summarize the information.

This week for reading our focus is science. For this second activity my group and I skimmed and scanned our notes and shared ideas to create a collaborative summary explaining ‘what is science?’. We divided our lengthy summary into 3 following paragraphs: an introduction on science, the 4 main categories of science and the two types of science. We used a question dice that helped us with our learning and made us ask questions to help us think about our subject and provide ideas for our summary.

Life Education Trust

This week we had the life education caravan come to our school. The class was split into two groups to have separate sessions but we learned almost the exact same thing. Over all we had 2 lessons on Tuesday and Wednesday but I was only there for 1 of the lesson. In the caravan we met our Life Education teacher Nicole. In these sessions we learn about the human body, like the different systems that support our body which is what we did the last year that she came. In that lesson we went of the 4 walls of Hauora which we have been learning about in class. And in small groups we collaboratively wrote about the definitions of Taha Tinana, Taha Wairua, Taha Hingenaro, and Taha Whanau and some positive examples of what they mean. We watched an interesting video that showed us an example of how our the walls of our Hauora are affected by everything that happens to us. What I took from this lesson is that it's really important to look after our well-being to live a fuller life.

Science: Identifying the Main Ideas

LI: to find our 3 most vital ideas from the information answering the question 'What is Science'.

 This week for reading our focus is science. In groups we watched a YouTube video explaining physics, chemistry, and biology (the things that are connected to it) and why science is important to us. After watching it twice, my group and I wrote down notes about some of the information that we took and remember from the video. We negotiated on the most important 7 of the notes to separate from the rest. We left 4 of those notes as ‘very important ideas’ and picked out our 3 vital ideas. In our opinion we thought that the 3 most vital ideas were: Science is divided into 3 branches, Physics, Biology, and Chemistry. Basic science is knowing something and applied science is using what we know. Science is the knowledge behind every question.