Category Archives: Room 7

Australia’s Neighbours – Year 3

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What do we already know? What do we want to find out? What have we learnt from our research?
Australia’s neighbours are the countries next to Australia How far away are they from Australia?
Some of them are in Asia How many neighbours does Australia have?
 One of them is Madagascar Which is the closest?
Australia’s neighbours are in the Universe What type of climate do they have?

One of them doesn’t have humans living on it –

Antarctica. It does have part time people (scientists)

 What type of land is there?
They all exist
All of them have living beings on them

 

Australia’s Neighbours – Our questions Rooms 7 and 8

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Why is Asia so big?

How many states are in Asia?

How far is it to the nearest country from Australia?

How far from Australia to England?

I wonder if a long time ago New Zealand was a part of Australia? – Evie

How can we help the endangered Indonesian elephants? – Mira

How come New Zealand is the closest country to Australia? – Trishna

How can we help the Indonesian elephants and animals? – Odele

How could we help the endangered species? – Leuca

How many years ago was Asia found? – Chanelle

 

Chinese New Year – Guest Speakers – Martin and Jessica (Rooms 5 and 7)

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On Thursday 25th February, Erin’s Mum Jessica, and Dad Martin, came to talk about Chinese New Year. Erin’s Mum talked about Hong Kong and how it is a small place, but a big city. Erin’s Dad talked about Chinese New Year; the food, the traditional story and how to make a dragon.

The Story
A long time ago in China there was a monster. The monster ate all the food, and people. The monster was afraid of loud noises, the colour red and painted faces. That’s why during Chinese New Year people play drums and also use fire crackers. You need to stay away from the fire crackers because they could hurt your ears. Chinese people set off fire crackers from a boat in the harbour on Chinese New Year so they keep them away from buildings and people so they don’t get burnt.

During Chinese New Year celebrations the dragon came in the restaurant and danced around. Erin fed the dragon a red envelope.

Red Envelopes
The red envelope has money in it and Chinese people give them to younger people for good luck.

I learnt that fire crackers go really loud. Belce
Chinese teachers are very strict. If they call out your name then you have to stand up straight and the class is very quiet. Freya

Chinese New Year is a happy time where the Chinese people have fun with friends and family and lots of food! Katelyn

It takes 10 years to be a master of making a lion. Danh

They have small schools in China. They don’t have many trees in their schools. Alex

There are more tests in Chinese schools than there are in Australia. Paolo

Chinese Dragon Lena

Chinese Dragon – by Lena

Chinese Dragon

Chinese Dragon – by Libby

Dragon - Alex

Dragon by Alex

Fireworks Mira

Fireworks – by Mira

Climate Zones – Year 3

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Groups get together to share their information. Each student to read aloud/ explain their slide.
Provide feedback by:

  1. asking clarifying questions
  2. explaining the features that you thought were effective
  3. comparing the different climate zones
  4. use a highlighter to show which elements of the rubric were completed effectively

Group 1

Group 2

Group 3

Group 4

Group 5

Group 6

Group 7

Year 3/4 Climate Zones – Geography – How and Why are Places Similar and Different?

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What do we know about weather?

What do we know about climate?

What is the difference between weather and climate?

http://www.weatherzone.com.au

How and why are places similar and different?

Map of Australia showing key Climate Zones
http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/climate_zones/map_1.shtml

http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/climate_zones/map_2.shtml

World Climate Zones:
World Climate Zones

Alpine Zones:

http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1436384

Desert Zone:

http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1436340


http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1436032


http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1436054

Rainforest:

http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1423363


http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1423055

Temperate Zone:

http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1668062

Arid Zone:

http://splash.abc.net.au/web/splash/embed?id=1423407

 

Climate Zones Climate conditions Geographical Location Countries/ Places
Temperate Rain 500mm annually, all year round – near equator, further away usually in winter between poles and equator northern Europe, Canada
Tropical heavy rainfall, always warm, wet and hot all year round  narrow band near the equator Congo basin (Africa), East Indies, Sumatra to New Guinea
Arid

 extreme temperatures – cold nights and hot days

Cold deserts further away from the equator

  near Tropics (Cancer and Capricorn)

 Australia, Africa, USA, Mexico

Cold desert – Antarctica and Iranian Desert in Middle East
Polar
Mediterranean  usual temp 2-26 degrees Celsius, rainfall is light about 1000 mm per year  near arid zones, near temperate zones  western and southern Australia, Italy and central Chile
Alpine

 

What would it be like to live in a neighbouring country?

 

When researching we need to:

1. Read carefully

2. Clarify anything we don’t understand

3. Identify key words, points to note down – use sub-headings