Comparison between Womens rugby in Iran and New Zealand

This picture displays comparison towards women's rugby in Iran and New Zealand. I completed this task as part of the Rugby World Cup tasks. I used Lucidchart to complete this diagram. 

Commenting

This is my comment to Isabella from Room 6. This is the link to her blog below:

Isabella's Blog

 This is my comment to Asmah from my classroom. This is the url to her blog below:

Asmah's Blog

This is my comment to Mangila from Glenbrae school. The url link to his blog is below:

Mangila's Blog

Sapphire Group: Estuary Health check

Sapphire Group

Title: I am learning to understand the main ideas

I am learning to link prior knowledge and experiences to the texts I read

1. What is Amy and Hazel’s job?

Amy & Hazel are volunteers at the Pauatahanui Inlet. The count the cockles at the Tidal Estuary.

2. Why do they count the cockles?

They count the cockles because cockle counting is a good way to measure the estuary’ health.

3. What are the indicators of a healthy / unhealthy estuary?

If there cockles have decreased from the previous numbers then the estuary is more likely to be unhealthy, if there are a lot of cockles then the estuary is more likely to be healthy.

4. How are the teams organized?

There are 31 stations. Each team will be responsible for one station, where they will take 12 samples.

5. Describe the process for counting the cockles

1. Put the metal square on the sand next to your marker.

2. Dig down 7 centimeters and remove all the sand and shells inside the square (Cockles don’t live deeper  than this.

3. Put everything you find in a sieve and wash away the sand, leaving just the shells.

4. Sort the live cockles from the empty shells, pip, limpets, and crabs.

5. Count and measure the live cockles. Make sure you don’t miss the very small ones.

6. Mark the results n a tally sheet.

7. Put the cockles back.

6. What is an estuary?

An Estuary is an enclosed body of water where fresh water from streams mixes with the salt water from the sea.

7. Why are estuaries important?

Estuaries are important because they provide shelter and food.

8. Why are cockles important?

Cockles are important because they are like filters but for the sea. They help clean the bad waters.

9. Why has there been a decrease in the number of cockles?

Well in 1976 there would be lots of bush and trees but in 1922 they cut down the trees to build houses and the estuary has become more polluted which makes it hard for the cockles to survive.

10. How do people living in the area affect the cockles population?

Well the roads next to the estuary leave gas, petrol, paint and much more which eventually ends up in the estuary making it hard for the cockles to survive.

11. What sorts of things get poured down a storm water drain?

Oils, Petrol , Gas, Paint and much more get poured down the storm water drain.

12. Where does the data go?

All the Data end up in the Estuary.

13. Why is the decrease of cockles a concern?

Because the water will become more dirtier  than it already is and no more animals would live in the estuary.

14. What are the rules for contractors?

Contractors must ensure that their soil  does not end up in the Estuary.

Voyage of Exploration By Fine

Sapphire Group

Title: Voyage of Exploration

Connected 2012

Learning Intention

I am learning to find information in the text

I am learning to link prior knowledge and experiences to the texts I read

Comprehension Questions

1. What are the NIWA Scientists doing?

The NIWA scientists spy on a mysterious world teeming with strange life.

2. Why is there a camera on the ship?

The camera helps the NIWA scientists discover new animals and new plants under water.

3. Describe the seabed

The sea bed looks like fine, brittle stalks, growing in clumps. FIshers call it the wire weed. But this is no weed. Each stalk is actually a hollow tube, built by the worm that lives inside it.

4. What is the weed and how does it support other sea life?

The weed is called the seabed, fishers call it the wire weed. The worm meadow that lives inside the seabed supports a whole range of life. Young sea perch dart in and out. Sea quiets attach themselves to the wire weed and filter the water passing through their own bodies, drawing out small particles of food from it.

5. Describe the feather stars

Walking feather stars retract their arms when disturbed.

6. What new information has been gained from the voyage?

The voyage has found new information about the habitats and distributions of many different species, including species we didn’t even know existed.

7. What is the DTIS?

DITS is to explore the world beneath the waves. DITS is short for Deep Towed Imaging System.

8. How does the DTIS work and why use it?

The DTIS works at a very slow pace, allowing the system’s cameras to capture images of any marine life.

9. Describe the process in sorting the animals.

The technicians who work with the scientists divide the animals and plants into groups or piles ( each plant and animal will have its own pile or group).

10. What is a taxonomist?

A taxonomist is a biologist who specialises in classifying organisms

11. Why classify the animals?

Because the scientists are better to understand different, how they function, and how they work together in the ecosystem.  

My reading activity on Brooklyn School Writers Walk. By Fine

Ruby Group 1:

Title: Brooklyn School Writers Walk

School Journal Part 3, Number 2, 2010

Learning Intention

I am learning to link prior knowledge and experiences into the texts I read

1. How were the students inspired to do their own Brooklyn Writers Walk?

They were inspired by a visit to Wellington Writers Walk.

2. How was it a bit like a treasure hunt?

It was like a treasure hunt because they had to find all the poems between Chaffers Marina and Frank Kitts Park.

3. How did the students prepare for the Writers walk?

They made thirty focus questions and then they diveded the questions and themselves into five groups.

4. What were some of the roles and responsibilities?

Publicity, collecting the poems, designing the poem cards, locating the cards and coordinating the groups to ensure everyone was kept up to date.

5. Why did the competition last for ages?

Because they went around classes reminding students about the competition, they also made help sheets for the Younger students and invited teacher, parents and people from the Brooklyn Community.

6. How did the poetry group work out the winners?

They made two piles. “One was pretty good” and the other was “not so good” and they picked out the winners.

7. What was the judging criteria?

First of all, it had to be about Brooklyn but they also looked for effective use of some of the following poetic features: Vivid use of languages and imagery, rhythm, strong verbs, similes and metaphors, alliteration and assonance, personification and onomatopoeia.

8. What were the options for displaying the poems?

They wanted to display the poems where there was shelter, people would pass by a lot, would not be damaged and the location had to have a surface for the poem to stick against.

9. Why was corrugated plastic the best option?

Well their principal suggested to use the same plastic that their school uses.  - corrugated plastic.

10. What were some of the things they wanted to include on the display?

They included their school logo, but they still included the authors name and the title of the poem.

11. What were some of the reasons for the ideal location?

They wanted to display the poems where there was shelter, people would pass by a lot, would not be damaged and the location had to have a surface for the poem to stick against.

12. Why was it easier with the prototype?

Yes because it allows them to create one and criticise and make it better.

13. Describe the opening ceremony  

The opening ceremony was held on Friday 24 July 2009. The minister of arts, culture and heritage also came as the guest of honour.