Inquiry Term 4 Week 9

 This week room 9 has been working on gears for inquiry.  We had to get ourselves into groups of four and Miss Kirkpatrick will give us a work sheet to fill out. Miss Kirkpatrick also showed us the four gears. The green had 8 teeth, the yellow had 16 teeth, the red had 24 teeth and the blue had 32 teeth. After we finished filling out the work sheet we got to use two wood with holes in it and put two pegs in the holes. You then have to put the gears on the pegs. You also have to make sure that the gears are connected. We then had to find out what will happened if you have a red gear and a yellow gear and the yellow gear is the driver and the red gear is the driven. Then you have to turn around the yellow gear around one full turn and try and see how far the red gear goes. The answer was three quarters.

Tangrams! A simple machines challenge.

What do tangrams have to do with simple machines?

Room 9 had to make their own tangram puzzles from a single piece of balsa wood. Which simple machine did they use to make the puzzle? A wedge. Wedges separate things, either two different objects, or splitting one object into two like knives do. Because Mr Wong likes martial arts and zombies, Room 9 also learnt about the difference in usage between swords (thin, light, cut, fast) and axes (thick, heavy, chop, slow).

Once Room 9 measured, ruled, and erased guide lines, they needed to cut the pieces out of the wood. They found out that slicing / cutting takes several passes along the same line to cut through something.

After cutting out all of the pieces they had to try and make a house and a yacht before challenging themselves to do other shapes.

 

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Tangrams - simple machines

Tangram Puzzle research

Yesterday we did a Tangram puzzle research. We had to research where it was originated from, when they they become famous and who uses them today. I found out that tangram puzzles were made out of 7 flat shapes. They were originated from China then carried on to Europe in the 19th century. It became very famous at the time and also during world war 1. 

Inquiry

Today room 9 worked on their simple machines. The item that we used was balsa wood we all described about what it felt and what it looked like. After we described the wood Mr Wong gave us instructions to follow and draw on the piece of wood. When we followed the instructions we had to draw on the balsa wood. Drawing on the balsa wood was quiet hard because we had  to draw softly or other wise it will snap. Drawing on the balsa wood was quiet hard because we are used to draw barely. But after a few minutes people got the hang of it. So the finished result was quiet amazing. The words we used was parallelogram and square and triangle. 

7 times tables

Today Room 9 learnt their 7 times tables. We wrote them 15 times to memorise the 7 times tables. After we wrote them we got tested by Mr Wong  and did our DLO. In our DLO we needed the 7 times tables in words, numerals, in a different language and in objects. 

Assembly

Today Panmure bridge school had assembly. At assembly there was some guess from the Panmure library and guess from c3 church. Guess from the panmure library talked to us about dare to unlock. They also talked to us about a secret box, inside the box had puppets, books and hats. The guess from c3 church talked to us about a party which will be happening 29th of November. 

Kiwi Can W7

Today after lunch we had Kiwican. We talked about respecting others and cultural differences. We got split into 2 groups (girls and boys) and talked about our questions. What do we know about cultures? What is different about your cultures and others? We got into our cultural groups (Samoan, Tongan, Niuean, NZ and CookIslands) and discussed the different events, foods, celebrations that happens in our culture.