Our Feelings towards Covid-19

Today in maths we decided to do a statistical inquiry via hangout. Of course this had a lot of limitations, but it was interesting to follow the steps of an inquiry to see what it would be like.

Shortly before the lockdown, we conducted a really quick statistical inquiry to kick off our unit in statistics. One of the inquiries was by Toby, who wanted to find out how everyone was feeling about Covid-19. This is what he found:


Today we wanted to find out if our feelings had changed after being in the lockdown. So our question was going to be "how are room 11 maths feeling about Covid-19 post lockdown". However, as our whole class did not participate, we had to change it to 'some of room 11 maths'.

                                  
This time we decided to make a scale between one and 10, and we discussed what each number in the scale would look like. As you can see, nobody in the class answered anything above a 5.

Check out the slides below for our full inquiry:

                           

Volcanoes

This week we have been learning about volcanoes in Literacy. We started by discussing what a volcano is and learning some key vocabulary, before learning about some famous volcanic eruptions.

Check out Jordin's learning from today:

              

Which Graph?

This week in maths we have been discussing the purpose of different graphs. This is important when we are doing a statistical inquiry so we know which graph to choose for our data. Check out Marika's learning below:


                

Writing

This week we have been learning about sentence structure. We had to write a sentence based on an image. Check out what our literacy class wrote about this image:

(Chance) The cage rattled as the scuba divers gazed at the ginormous shark in wonder. The creature then swam swiftly towards the metal bars, circling around the species he had never seen before.

(Kauri) The Scuba divers were eager to have a look at the beautiful shark. They were desperate to share it with the world.

(Pauline) The divers are exploring sea life in the metal cage. Many pods were found swimming in unison. Sharks surrounded the metal cage.

(Caleb) The sea roared as the shark rattled past the cage which was full with people. After seeing the beast, they all wished they were anywhere else in the world.

 (Aaliyah)The cage rattled as the lights flashed at the shark.    

( Sonnia ) The ocean thundered as the shark shook the cage.

(Laolao) The scuba divers shook in fear as the shark swam past.              

( Tsai )  The shark was swimming around the cage ready to eat the people.

Science!

This week we have been learning about the different sugar content in different food. We learnt that there is sugar in foods like cake and fizzy drink, but also in milk and fruit!

The sugar in a cake is called sucrose, the sugar in fruit is called fructose and the sugar in milk is called lactose.

Then we looked at some different types of food to see how much sugar in them. We found that there is quite a lot of sugar in lots of foods! We didn't realise how much sugar would be in juice either,
here are some labels we found.

Great Graphs!

Room 4 maths have been focussing on interpreting a range of graphs as part of our statistics unit. Check out Pisirina's work about pie charts:



Are you familiar with line graphs? Zamera's slides might help to refresh your memory!

A new planet?

Today in literacy we have been learning about the goldilocks zone. This is an area in space where planets are at the right temperature to sustain life.

Check out what Aaliyah learnt below:

         

Pauline pondered whether we should move to a new planet:

Moving to another planet is a big risk for us humans to take. There have been other planets that have water on it and looks promising to live on, but however, if we were to move to another planet there would be many consequences. Gliese 581g was the first earth-like planet to be found orbiting its star.

See her full argument here.

Do you think we will ever move to another planet in the goldilocks zone? Let us know in the comments.