Inquiry

Inquiry Focus: 

Social Sciences and Health.  ANZAC  This term we started off with a rotation of 12 activities.  The students were divided into 12 groups and over 3 days they experienced all of the activities.  This ranged from baking biscuits to making stretchers and making billy tea and eating damper.  The students were fully engaged in all the learning activities and had a whole range of experiences to launch them into our Matrix of inquiry.

Students chose an activity from each row and each column and worked either on their or with others.
Students explored ANZAC in many different ways,  They produced, writing, art, board games, surveys and compared and contrasted ideas.

Here are some examples of their work.

Gabe's ANZAC Board Game

Tony's ANZAC Board Game

This is the contour map Lucy and Isobel created using layered sponge cakes.  The model was based on a map and shows the landing boats, the beach head and the British and Turkish camps.



Science Based- Nature of Science, Scientific Inquiry leading up to the Science Fair.  Skills to be developed, Fair Testing, Hypothesising /Predicting,

Ultranet and ICT tools ongoing.


Now we are well into Term 2 our focus has changed to Matariki:  We have a student teacher in our Room Whea Sabrina (or Ms Wattie) is supporting us with our learning.

Here are some of our Matariki inquiry projects to date:

Zoe and Sam T's Presentation

Lucy T's Presentation