The Life Cycle of a Butterfly

Post Writing Assessment Explanations

The Life Cycle of Butterflies

Your class has been researching the life cycles of butterflies. You need to write an explanation of the processes of change that occur during a butterfly's life cycle. Look carefully at the diagram.

You need to write to explain the life cycle of a butterfly. You should think about the process that happens and include details and reasons in your explanation.

Hints

• Remember who you are writing the explanation for.
• Use the diagram to help you think about what to write.
• You can add ideas of your own.
• Start by telling what it is you are going to write about.
• Remember to give details and reasons to help explain the process.
• Write in sentences.
• Think about the order of your ideas.
• Pay attention to spelling and punctuation.
• Remember to use the time at the beginning for planning and the time at the end to check and edit your writing.
• If you need more space to plan your writing, ask the teacher for more paper.

Time Frame:

5min discussion as a class

5min Planning

30min Writing

5min editing at the end

Homework for Week 3, Term 3

Do materials stay where they are deposited?

Over the next week I want you to use the web to complete the table below for mountains, hills and volcanoes. Be sure to provide evidence of your ideas :-) For those who want a challenge I have left a spare space for you to add in one more landform.

click here for a master copy of the table.

Landforms	Do the materials move?	How do they move?	Where do they move to?	What evidence do you have to prove this?
Mountains
Hills
Volcanoes
Challenge - extra Landform

E-Learning Survey No.2

So how does erosion work?

If this is how it works in the sea - how does it work in the river??

River

The Start of the Waikato River


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Port Waikato


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Want to learn more on rivers?

Fun Activities Landforms

Check out the Landforms page on wikipedia

Volcano Song

Plate Tectonics

Making Mountains

Rock Types

We are going to have a look at rock types through using these 2 webquests below.

Discover How Rocks Are Formed

Become a Rock Expert!

Students will work on these in pairs. Students will need to compile basic research notes as they go - you may choose which format is best for you for note taking.

Add 3 things to rock types vocab list as you go - remember once it's on the vocab list you can't add it again, so search for interesting information that others will enjoy reading!! :-)

Post your notes here

Hinuera ignimbrite

Hinuera ignimbrite (often marketed as Hinuera stone) is a yellow-cream to pale-brown ignimbrite containing angular fragments of pumice in a fine-grained matrix of volcanic ash. It is still quarried today, and widely used for cladding buildings in the North Island.

Andesite

Andesite is a fine-grained, extrusive igneous rock composed mainly of plagioclase with other minerals such as hornblende, pyroxene and biotite. The specimen shown is about two inches (five centimeters) across.

Pre Brainstorm - Attack/Defence

Attack Defence Brainstorm

Our class is currently working on our attacking and defending strategies for PE. This is our brainstorm of what we think makes a good attacker and a good defender. Over the next few weeks we will be learning a new range of strategies and will hopefully be able to incorporate these into a range of invasion games.

Toondoo with Miss Skippy

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Landforms Pre Assessment

We are learning how to add 'word' documents to our blog using www.scribd.com
We are using this to load up our pre assessment on Landforms, the unit we are currently working on for science.

Volcanoes

Attack/Defence Pre Assessment

Copy this video to your blog and do the following:

1. Write what you think good attackers do.
2. Write what you think good defenders do.
3. Watch the video of our first game of our "Attack/defence" unit.
4. Write what you think you did well and what you need to work on.
5. Write what you think the class did well and what we need to work on.

Publish all of this under your video on your blog.

The Rock Cycle

Rock cycle animation

Maths Work

Group One


Subtraction

http://www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/games/mission/mission.html

http://www.scweb4free.com/subtraction010.htm

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters3/ghostsub2.html


Group Two



Subtraction

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Ghostblasters3/ghostsub2.html

http://www.quia.com/rr/10279.html

http://www.scweb4free.com/subtraction030.htm


Group Three

Adding decimals, one place

http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Math/NumberSense/G6-M-NS-Add1Dec.htm

Subtracting decimals, one place

http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Math/NumberSense/G6-M-NS-Sub1Dec.htm

For adding and subtracting with more places -

http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Math/NumberSense/G6-M-NS-Sub1Dec.htm

The River

Fun Activities Landforms

Check out the Landforms page on wikipedia

Volcano Song



Plate Tectonics



Making Mountains

The Moon

A Meteoroid Hits the Moon

Moon Information page and a comparision between the Moon and the Earth.

Some Moon Facts from Kathrin via email - difference between Earth and Moon and how landforms were created  Moon had very active volcanism in it's early history - there are still remnants of volcanoes, but most of all Moon was heavily bombarded by meteorites causing many of the craters we can see today. Earth also received meteorite hits but contrary to the moon today they are hard to make out - partially because of all the vegetation we have  in contrast but also because of the lack of erosional forces that lack on the moon in contrast to Earth.

How do the Earth's Tectonic Plates work?

Tectonic Plates video

Changes of the Earth's Tectonic Plate over 650 Million Years



How are Mountains made?

An extra activity with ARB's Plate Tectonics with student worksheets.

Volcanoes

How Volcanoes happen







And 1 from NZ's own Mt Ruapehu 1995/1996

Earthquakes

How Earthquakes happen