Garden with science

 Garden with Science - Task 1

WALT - We are learning to make connections to prior knowledge.

Type in the boxes below the questions, they will expand as you type.

What do you know about gardening?	What do you think gardening has to do with science?	What science learning might help you to be a really good gardener?
A sunflower is more than one flower. Plants respond to sound Butterflies might be more attracted to your weeds than your flowers. Insects are important to a garden 80 PERCENT OF THE EARTH'S ORIGINAL FORESTS HAVE BEEN CLEARED OR DESTROYED. THE EARTH HAS MORE THAN 80,000 SPECIES OF EDIBLE PLANTS. 90 PERCENT OF THE FOODS HUMANS EAT COME FROM JUST 30 PLANTS. Don't water your plants in the sun Weed your garden	All the nutrients, bugs and the cycle of the garden for example the plant starts off with a seed and all that. Also the nutrients of the soil and how to give it more nutrients. Also photosynthesis plants will need four main things to grow, air, water, sun and nutrients.	The insects that are good and bad, the nutrients you need to put in the soil to help the plant grow and maybe the purposes of some insects.

Bio poem about Toroa

 WALT: Take information from a non fiction text to complete a bio poem.

Bio poem

Toroa

Majestic, Magnificent, Endangered, Wide-winged

Lover of hanging out with their hoa, clacking and clappering like noisy neighbours.

Who feels scared of those flags that flap around even though they are a safety device.

Who needs their tubenose system to filter out the unhealthy salt from their body.

Who gave their body parts to Pakeha to make tobacco pouches and pipe stems.

Who fears the thousands of baited hooks that fishing boats set which could kill tens of thousands of their whanau.

Who would like fisherman to use strategies to avoid catching and killing albatross and other sea birds.

Who comes from the freezing cold Southern Ocean that leads to Antarctica.

Albatross

Photosynthesis

WALT we are learning about what plants need to grow.

Something I found hard was finding a plant that was right for my animation because there were not much good photos

What part did you like the best?

Pilot whales

Today in Literacy I learnt about pilot whales. 



In maths we focused on...making a graph

Something I'm still not sure about after today... why whales strand there selves.
Something I struggled with today...making a chart.
Something I found easy today... a-z  because we just write words.
Something I would like to find out more about... pilot whales.

T3 W7 Mango Severe Weather SJ SL

WALT understand different kinds of severe weather.

WALT think critically about some of the effects that different weather patterns can have.

Interesting or Tricky Words	Meaning
climate	An average of the weather conditions an area gets over months and years
continent	One of the larger land masses in the world such as australia africa
erode	Wear away
forecasters	People whose job it is to analyze and predict the weather
satellites	Objects in space that go around earth collect information for example information about weather
Water vapour	The gas state of water not liquid or solid
Southern alps	A range of mountains running along a large section of south island
metservice	A new Zealand organisation  That provides weather forecasts

2. Choose one of the subheadings in your text. Summarise the information in your own words - one paragraph.

                            snow

Snow is formed when water vapour turns into ice without first turning into water. The snow then falls to the ground it snows on New Zealand hills and mountains every winter, mostly in the South Island. Sometimes the snow spreads further. New Zealand’s most widespread snowfall on record was in the winter of 1939. Snow fell on the lighthouse at the top of the North Island.