LI: To create a DLO that tells Mary Annings story from her perspective story.
Before we took part in our own dinosaur dig LS2 were challenged to capture the story behind Mary Anning, a pioneering fossil hunter and paleontologist during the early 19th century. Something I learnt was that Mary Anning was the first to complete the skeleton of an Plesiosaurus and an Ichthyosaurus , she was 23 years old when she discovered the Plesiosaurus and 12 years old for Ichthyosaurus.
For this task LS2 was to complete 2 challenges one , Use ADOBE Express to generate an image about each dinosaur on your completed sheet. You can not use their name – only the facts you have gathered.
Challenge 2 Use https://hailuoai.video to create AI films showing 3 of your dinosaurs in their natural habitat.
I enjoyed this task because i got to use my creativity skills on AI .
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 Beachiosaurus.
Thought out our research we have learnt many facts about the Brachiosaurus one of them being:
Something I found interesting was that the Brachiosaurus front legs where way bigger and stronger then its back legs which was the main support due to the ohw heavy the chest and the neck of the Brachiosaurus.
We 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.
In this comic strip I chose to relate to the idea “taking a stand in today’s world”.
Something I found interesting about this challenge was that this comic strip I made was inspired about the RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers.
We read the text RISE UP: The Story of the Dawn Raids and the Polynesian Panthers and created a DLO that explores and discusses both perspectives of this historical event in our groups. Something I found interesting about this text was the Goverment was the person who looked for Pacfic for help with work and extended their time in New Zealand, but soon after he allowed dawn raids to get rid of them, isn’t that cruel?
For this task LS2 have been working about dinosaurs, my teacher Mrs Anderson bought some dinosaur skeletons and helped us make our own dinosaur eggs and we had to wait two weeks to break them open. After two weeks LS2 broke open the eggs and everyone got different types of dinosaurs, this task included partners. The dinosaur me and my partner Vili got was a parasaurolopus. The parasaurolopus was a dinosaur with a long hollow crest on its head which the parasaurolophus can use to communicate. Me and Vili created a Google video and it was about the parasaurolophus.
LI: To Imply and justify an opinion
We explored what a provocation is and why it is important to have an informed opinion when sharing our perspectives. Our provocation was ‘Should the Government of today (2021) have apologised for the dawn raids of yesterday (970s)?’
In the past starting around 1970’s the politicians and immigrant officials were running out of money, they would’ve had to take the Polynesians and Pacifica people out of their homes if they had no identical proof and sent them to a country in the islands, this caused a public outcry and the Polynesians they formed group of people that protested against the dawn raids, their name was the Polynesian Panthers and this went on for a while, the Polynesian’s did dawn raids on the politicians around 3am 2 hours before the real dawn raids started.
In our opinion we agreed that it was a good option because of them apologising behalf of the government it shows they acknowledge the past and they understand that it was a stain on the history of NZ and how they didn’t treat the Pacifica right throughout their life and that it was wrong for yesterdays (1970’s) government to have create these dawn raids.
For inquiry we are learning about dinosaurs, paleontologists and different types of fossils. We have learnt about body and trace fossils. Something I have learnt about trace fossils is that they are preserved remains of the ancient animals.
LI: To understand how scientists know so much about dinosaurs.
LI: To recognise different types of fossils and how they are formed.
Our challenge was to create a Google Draw that shows clearly labelled examples of each fossil type. Something I found interesting was how much paleontologists take as much interest in dinosaur diets as they do.
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 Brontosaurus. What I found Interesting was how its tail help the Brontosaurus walk even with its long neck. This task was fun because how fun it was doing the AI.