Month: August 2025

AI Movie

LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

We were given 2 create challenges to help us show our learning in creative and fun ways.

 

 

I enjoy these challenges because it helps me be more creative and helps me learn more stuff about AI and how it works.

Comic Strip- Once A Panther

LI: To identify the key historical context and events related to the Polynesian Panthers and the Dawn Raids as depicted in the graphic novel.

Our class read the text Once a Panther and asked to create a comic strip that depicts a scene related to the ideas of prejudice, justice, or taking a stand in today’s world using thought bubbles or dialogue that explains the image.

Something I found challenging in this task was selecting a scene that described the dawn raids the best.

Paired Research Challenge

LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

 

Our challenge was to create a DLO that tells others about the dinosaur we found when we excavated our dinosaur eggs.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Brachiosaurus. Did you know that that brachiosaurus as the same life span as a human being which is a hundred years.

Dinosaur egg

  • LI: To understand how scientists discover, record and learn from fossils.

Our challenge was to become a palaeontologist who uncovered a rare dinosaur egg fossil. We used Adobe Express to reimagine what a real find might look like. After a quick research challenge about habitat we used that information to create our image.
My partner and I found the skeleton of a Triceratops. Did you know that triceratops are herbivores and that they feast on plants like ferns, cycas and palm leaves.

Something I enjoyed about this create activity was that We could use our imagination on Adobe Express to explore the AI (artificial intelligence) world and making it into reality inside a picture.

Shameful stain on NZ history-Provacation

LI: To evaluate (form an opinion) the text and respond to the provocation

For this weeks reading task we made a DLO about a provacation, we gave a question to answer and looked at both sides of it, we checked which one we thought  had a better reason to the question, the question was “Should the government have apologised for the dawn raids that happened yesterday (1970s) ?”

We thought yes because the people that felt hurt to this and the family’s broken in this event still needed a apology otherwise the hatred for the government would still be there.

We still checked the other answers for no and the reason behind it, overall  we thought yes was the reasonable answer.

This task was fun and I liked how I could tell my own opininons.