Collaborative Earth and Beyond

This week for Inquiry, we collaborated with LS1 to active our prior knowledge about science, and earth and beyond. Our first activity was creating a digital bus stop slide to active our prior knowledge. I worked with Charlize and Fui to fill out as much as we could about science, space, earth, our solar system, moon, and sun without searching up any of this information. Then we created a final list of Vocabulary about words related to solar system. We had a time limit, so it was a rush to get information down, then communicate with our partner/s. We finally all watched a video to build on to our prior knowledge and write more onto our presentation.

Google Earth (Planet Distance)

This week Mr. Johnston came in and taught LS2 about our inquiry topic space, and the real distance and size of planets. We learnt that on scale, planets seem very close to each other and doesn't showcase the actual size of the planets, because it'll be too big, it is defined by something like a 1 meter in real life. Everyone was amazing and surprised when Mr. Johnston got out a giant sun, the size of the white board. He did a lot of measuring to make this scaled sun. We took a guess at the distance of each planet before being proved completely wrong by Mr. Johnston. We then created Google Earth's of the "solar system", choosing where the sun is from any point in New Zealand after learning from Mr. Johnston. I worked with Nyjah, Mele, and Marieta to create the distance of the planets using a piece of paper with their meter distance. We placed the sun at our school, on the theatre. I was enjoyed doing this, and making a google earth of the solar system.