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Category Archives: Geography
Geography – Year 6 – Indigenous Peoples of the World
Can you answer the questions:
1. What is a declaration?
2. Who are indigenous peoples?
3. What is the United Nations?
Feedback for our International Friends
Here is the link to some Sway Presentations completed by the Year 3 class. Can you provide them some feedback.
1. Compliment – What was successful?
2. Feed forward – How could they improve?
3. Pose a question – start a discussion
Geography – Liveability – Year 7
Discover:
Draw up a table or use a spreadsheet on your computer to collect at least five sets of information to compare the top 10 and the bottom 10 in the liveable cities list.
Explain your findings.
http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.FEC.RNEW.ZS?view=chart
http://splash.abc.net.au/home#!/digibook/1278012/wheres-the-best-place-to-live
Geoguesser – Geography Game – Year 7
Year 7 Comparative Reports – Nancy Wake
Here are some of the well written comparative reports relating to our research on Nancy Wake. What do you think? Feel free to leave some comments for students.
Phasmids – Research
Phasmids: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect
Timeline
Date | Significant Event/s |
1855 | Species was first discovered |
1916 | Published first detailed observation |
1918 | Black rats ate nearly all the phasmids |
1930 | All phasmids were gone |
1964 | An amazing photo of a dead phasmid taken on Balls Pyramid |
1969 | More phasmid remains were found |
2001 | 5 people scientific expedition to Ball Pyramid |
2002 | 5 people rediscover phasmid on a bush in the middle of the night |
2003 | Two males and two female phasmids were collected on Valentine’s Day |
2003 | Male and female taken to Melbourne Zoo |
2007 | Some phasmids were returned to Lord Howe Island |
2008 | Melbourne Zoo returns adults phasmids |
2008 | Doctor Jane Goodall visited the phasmids – Melbourne Zoo |
2009 | Video filmed of phasmid hatching |
2012 | Program to kill rats |
2012 | Funding for school to incubate eggs |
2013 | 20 minute movie- Sticky |
2014 | A new display set up for phasmids in Melbourne Zoo |
Sticky from jilli rose on Vimeo.
Questions
Here | Hidden | Head |
Explicitly in the text |
Read the clues Read between the lines Gather information from various parts of the text Inferential |
Opinion based on evidence Evaluative based on details in the text |
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Phasmids – Questions by Room 12
Exploring the Shortlisted Books in preparation for Book Week 2016
Over the next 5 weeks, during RBL/ICT lessons the Year 4 to 7 students will be exploring the non-fiction texts that have been shortlisted by the Childrens Book Council of Australia. Which one of these do you think deserves to win? Why?
We will be exploring the topics presented by these books, and thinking about how the authors have used the topic and language structures and features to good effect. What makes these worthy of making the shortlist?
To begin, what do we already know:
Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 9
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
I think they will save the stick insect | ||||
They will probably try to find some more because they thought they were extinct | ||||
The text will be about the recovery of the stick insect | ||||
Might all be extinct then they find another egg and it breeds | ||||
We think that maybe there is more of them. Where do they come from? Travel to look for them, find more | ||||
Maybe they were endangered, being taken care of in an enclosure, got away, had to try to look for them | ||||
They started to be extinct and they found one | ||||
Some people think they are all extinct then someone finds some | ||||
They are all extinct but some people don’t agree and then go and search and they find them. Find them on the edge of extinction, but manage to save them | ||||
We think that they are on the verge of extinction, try to find some more of the species | ||||
Someone finds a whole group of them somewhere but no one believes them | ||||
Science non-fiction book about the stick insect. They finds one, copy the DNA and then breed more | ||||
Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 11
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
We think it would be sad if this species of insect becomes extinct | ||||
Cool that a guy discovered a new species on the island | ||||
The phasmids were extinct and then found and bred more | ||||
A man will discover a new bug | ||||
Everyone who tried to save the bug would have been really happy | ||||
Story about saving a stick insect. Happy to find species | ||||
Extinct but then a man found on a crevasse in a rock | ||||
Grateful that they found it, now we can learn more. Never give up | ||||
Interesting that everyone thought it was extinct. Need to learn more to keep it alive | ||||
Book about how to save insects | ||||
Phasmid: Saving the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect – Room 12
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
Phasmid was extinct but not extinct | ||||
A lot of research before they could breed more. How they kept them alive |
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People that saved them must have really cared about them | ||||
How it got extinct and how they found it | ||||
Publishers are scientists | ||||
Persistence and hope | ||||
Colours which identify it – from other animals | ||||
Send someone to go find the phasmids, research lab to learn more about them | ||||
Care a lot about them, heard about extinction, searched island. Starts a breeding program | ||||
Might try and get other people involved | ||||
Book to create awareness of extinction and other animals that might have same problem | ||||
Work together as a team | ||||
May have been preyed on by predators – birds, animals –maybe snakes | √ birds | |||
Some people wouldn’t care just to become famous |
Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony – Room 13
Lennie goes to Sydney from Melbourne | ||||
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
He didn’t flee Melbourne | ||||
Lennie is really brave because he was on a pony | ||||
Probably had to go through a tough time – robber | ||||
Crazy to travel all that way. Was the pony Ok – was it fed? | ||||
Lennie meets the Prime Minister. Who was the Prime Minister at the time? Gough Whitlam? | ||||
31 years after Federation. Lennie was optimistic. During the Great Depression. Pony – Ginger Mick | ||||
Not very well thought out blurb, it shouldn’t tell the outcome | ||||
Maybe the family was struggling | ||||
I wonder how old the pony is and what happens to it afterwards |
We Are the Rebels: The Women and Men who made Eureka – Room 14
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
Maybe some people invaded their town, and there was a big fight | ||||
Maybe they were having a war and people were told not to be involved – tried to fight back and that’s why they were called the rebels | ||||
There is the gold rush, Eureka Flag – looks very old – white cross and dark blue background with stars at the end and the middle | ||||
Gold rush – people across the world went to the gold rush, so they could mine gold and get rich | ||||
Maybe the background of the cover is the flag | ||||
Eureka Stockade – mining area – attracted lots of people, Cornish people | ||||
Eureka – I found it! | ||||
Seen a mining film – gigantic field – Burra | ||||
Eureka – Sky Deck building – tallest building in Southern hemisphere – named after Eureka Stockade | ||||
Mining place | ||||
Eureka Stockade in Australia somewhere | ||||
Lots of money involved | ||||
Front cover – flag – burn – culture or belief | ||||
Eureka flag – stars, red, blue | ||||
Up and down story – good parts and not so good parts |
The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Room 15
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
She is in the French Resistance – WW2 (against the force – Hitler) | ||||
Australian | ||||
She is very secretive and brave – The White Mouse | ||||
She’s wanted – Dead or Alive | ||||
Most decorated Australian woman | ||||
She is rebellious for a good cause – helping refugees | ||||
– works for the army – Australian army | ||||
10 medals | ||||
– parachuted behind enemy lines – sneaky, using a tactic to get around the opposition | ||||
Had to sacrifice and cause destruction |
The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Room 16
What do I think I know | Confirmed √ | Misconception | New Information | Wonderings |
A war, a woman’s experiences during WW11 and how she achieved the medals | ||||
She was a spy and her code name was The White Mouse because she could get passed the enemy’s defences | ||||
Women have equal abilities as men, as she can do things that men can’t | ||||
Must have had a lot of courage | ||||
Wonder why it’s called The White Mouse | ||||
Think she’s a spy and the other enemies call her The White Mouse | ||||
Called The White Mouse because of how she dresses | ||||
Nurse, Reporter, Rebel |
Phasmids – Year 4/5
Lennie the Legend: Solo to Sydney by Pony – Year 6
We are the Rebels: Women and Men of Eureka – Year 6
The White Mouse: The Story of Nancy Wake – Year 7