Tectonic Plates

 Kia Ora bloggers,

So a couple of weeks ago my class and I got into groups of four. Then we were given  a plastic plate, some sweet chilli sauce, and 2 pink wafer's to demonstrate how earthquakes can start by the plates moving in a convergence, divergence or transform way.  Do you know what transform means?  I learnt how to under stand how plates work, and how they can move in different ways.  The hardest thing was trying not to eat the wafers. And the easiest thing for me was under standing how the plates work.

Science: Me and my DNA.

This term for science we are learning all about how the human body works and how special we all are. We are also trying to learn how to think and act more like a scientist. So, Miss Fletcher asked us to look at our faces in the mirror and write down notes about what we look like. The information had to be precise and clear so that when someone read it, it would help them find the person it described quickly. It was a bit like being a detective. You had to look and notice things carefully.

Miss Fletcher said that what we look like depends on our mother and father. Making a new human is a bit like making a cake.  You get some ingredients from your mum and some from your dad. The ingredients are called DNA. Everybody’s cake is different to everyone else’s. 

Miss Fletcher said the person with the most efficient description was Andrew J as he wrote: My hair is 1cm long all over. He is the only student in Team Moana with a haircut like that so he was able to be identified very easily. You can read my description below. The sentences highlighted in blue are the ones that Miss Fletcher said were not precise and clear enough.  Ten people said they could recognise me from my description. 

Science fair

Kai Ora

Just yesterday we presented a science fair experiment for our school.  My group made the three lolly questions and we were looking at which lolly would dissolve first.  The hard part was making the box and the easy thing was sticking the photos on to the box.  The lolly's were mackintosh mint and  fruit burst - check out our presentation to see what dissolved first.

Science Fair The Three Lolly Question