Inquiry

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Our Big Question: What is under the water and how do we look after it?

Our Key understandings:


 * We have an impact on the underwater environment
 * There is a wide range of plants and animals living under the water together
 * Things that live under the water have special features so they can live there

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= Lights, Camera, Action! = Our Big Question: How are movies made? Our Key understandings:

People follow a process to make a movie.

People have different roles.

Movies have different purposes.

Here are some quiz websites you can use for tuning in! [|Disney characters quiz] [|Children's movie quiz] [|Which Disney movie is it?] [|Movie Quotes] [|Many other movie quizzes here]

Plant Inquiry

Our Big Question: Why are plants important?

Our Key undersandings:
 * Environmental factors affect plant growth.
 * Plants have different life cycles
 * Different plants grow in different seasons and environments.

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Play these games to learn about the different parts of a flower and what plants need to grow.

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__ ** Webquest ** __ Complete this webquest for the finding out stage of our inquiry. [|Polynesian Webquest]

Celebrations in Samoa:

We are using these websites to start

our research on celebrations in Samoa.

Just click the celebration you would like to know

more about and it will take you straight there!

[|Fa’ataupati] Umu Maulu’ulu

Teulia Festival Siva

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for reading activity

http//www.aucklandnz.com/pasifika/

Polynesia Inquiry

**Our Big Question:** Who are we and what is our culture? Key Understandings

• Polynesian cultures are important to us. • It is important to respect other cultures, their beliefs and differences. • NZ is an isolated country. • Maori culture is important to NZ because Maori are the indigenous people.

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<span style="color: #800080; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 180%;">What makes a great learning environment??

Finding Out how different people learn
<span style="color: #001bff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 130%;"> People learn best when they have an understanding of how they learn well. Complete this quiz to find out what your preferred learning style is:

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Learning Styles __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">To find out your preferred learning style <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Go to this website and answer the questions []

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">When you have finished count up the different coloured answers you got a put them on a tally chart (see sheet handed out) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What is your dominant(main) learning style?

__<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Multiple Intelligences __

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Find out how you learn bes t. Go to this website and answer these questions

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Information about the Smarts

Multiple intellegences - smarts information

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Finding Out about Different Learning Spaces
WALT identify where we learn best Watch these you tube clips to see how these children choose where to sit in their classrooms.

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