We are a collaborative learning space, with over 50 learners at Wainui Beach School in Gisborne. Our teachers are Kōkā Rozie, Kōkā Ngaire & Kōkā Pip.
We are so lucky to go to school right across the road from the beach...
As our term draws to a close, we have had the opportunity today to share our learning with our parents and extended whanau. Our Retro Tech open day was fantastic!
All of the classes had their learning up on display in the hall. We got the chance to share our learning and creating with each other and our families.
There were lots of discussions, thinking, giggles and amazement at all of the different ways technology have helped us and also changed as time has passed. It has really made us think about the past, the present and the future.
Here is a video summary of our term of learning in MLH.
Geometry learning was delicious in MLH today. But what does food have to do geometry you ask?
Koka Terri set us the task of creating 3D shapes out of the above materials. We figured out that the marshmallows represented the vertices and the kebab sticks represented the edges.
In order to get the materials, we had to choose one of the shapes Koka Terri selected for us to make and let her know how many vertices and edges we would need to build it. If we asked for a clue, we would get a penalty = loss of marshmallows! None of us wanted to lose one of those so we had to engage in lots of learning discussions and undergo trial and error in order to get it right.
Check out some of our square-based pyramids, then head over to the kids blogs next week to see more!
What on earth is ECMOT, you ask?!
Well, it is the East Coast Museum of Technology! A total treasure trove of all sorts of gadgets and transport from the past and we got to visit there for a WHOLE day!
We had to share our advertisements for our Retro Gadgets with Barry (who had loaned us most of the gadgets from the museum) and he let us know if we were correct or not in our guess of what our object was.
A solar panel heater?
A hair straightener?
These were 2 objects that we were not so sure of.... and we were amazed to find out that this object on the left was actually a gadget to put the seams back in your pants and the object on the right was a stick on de-mister for the back window of a car!!!
Our advertisements were fun to make - here are a couple:
We got to look all around the museum - go on things, touch, feel, ask questions, make connections and share our recent learning with our parent helpers... it was fantastic!!! In our buzz groups, we had to find at least 3 other items that related to our original Retro Tech gadget from our beginning of term unveiling. That was a lot of fun finding them and we learnt lots from our parent helps and Barry. Some of the boys were totally intrigued by the old computers and computer games that were in working condition.... they decided that computers had DEFINITELY come along way!!!
We were all really interested in the HOME section - lots of irons, toasters, vacuum cleaners, washing machines, ovens etc . It was fascinating to imagine how people used to use these items. The was much amazement too at the 'hair salon'... some of the gadgets looked really dangerous!
It was such a fun trip - we have learned lots this term and it was great to make connections to everything that we have seen from the past and to think about what it might evolve into, in the future.
Last week our teacher went missing. Koka Terri was missing her partner in teaching crime so we set out on a mission to find her.
We had to use the clues she had left to help us figure out where she was.
We organised a Google Hangout with her and were allowed to ask her 5 yes/no questions to help us locate her. In our Buzz groups, we discussed which questions would give us the most information and narrowed them down to our top 5.
In the end, we asked these 5 questions:
During our Google Hangout we had to write down Koka Ngaire's answers and then use these to help us to narrow down Koka Ngaire's exact location. She made it tricky by moving around the country!
In the end, we managed to figure out that Koka Ngaire landed in Christchurch, drove to Akaroa then headed off to Hamner Springs.
Lucky we were super detectives so she is back in class this week!
As our term draws to a close, we have had the opportunity today to share our learning with our parents and extended whanau. Our Retro Tech open day was fantastic!
All of the classes had their learning up on display in the hall. We got the chance to share our learning and creating with each other and our families.
