TK technology challenge

Half a packet of spaghetti pasta, 20 marsh mellows,an egg and 30 minutes. Instructions: Build the tallest freestanding tower...supporting the egg. Simple??

Poser Art

In Room 15 we have been exploring our incredible human machine. After a yoga PE lesson, we created poses using a cardboard skeleton, to which we added colour. A colourful addition to our classroom wall. The challenge was demonstrating our pose with our own body! Our next step is to recreate this pose using wire, to produce a sculpture. We'll keep you posted on how successful we are. Below are the creations of Ella MacKenzie and Sam Gilbert.

Transplant victims!

The challenge was set! In groups of four construct and plant every major organ into the "patient". Needing correct size, shape and colour..it proved quite a challenge for many!

A real fun way to explore the human machine.

Sensational senses

Exploring whether our tongues still detect flavours when our other senses are inactive. What an incredible human machine we have! 

This explanation about our tongues in a school journal has reinforced what we need to aim for in our own explanation writing this term.

The Incredible human machine brainstorm

We created initial brainstorms using a variety of mind mapping tools this week.  Our next step will be to identify a topic that is of particular interest, formulate some 'FAT' questions to research and eventually craft an informative written report. Keep a watch on our blogs as we will be creating posts to show our progress.
Here is Sophie's brainstorm...check out others on individual blogs.

Treaty of Waitangi inquiry finale

I am busy lining things up so that I can update the class blog...because so much is happening and being achieved in Room 15 already this term- BUT.... WAIT! My students have alerted me to a  major omission. At the end of last term we created and shared with each other some AMAZING timelines of major events in New Zealand's history that are linked to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. You need to check these out!
A huge amount of effort went into creating these and a number of new timeline apps were explored.
As a taster, here is the link to Jasmine's superb creation- check out others on individual blogs
http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/272010/Treaty-of-Waitangi/#vars!date=1842-03-13_12:33:48!

The Incredible human machine

We have started discussing our 'incredible human machine" and gosh...what a lot of amazing options and variety of interests we have in our class in relation to this unit! This youtube clip was shared by another teacher...I just had to post it!