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Kia Ora!!! Welcome to the DigiMax blog for 2010. We are a Digital Class of Year 7 and 8 students at St Andews Middle School in Hamilton, New Zealand. Here we will be keeping families and the world up tp date with what we are learning in class. Please check back and try to leave us a comment.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

The River

Fun Activities Landforms

Check out the Landforms page on wikipedia

Volcano Song



Plate Tectonics



Making Mountains

Monday, April 5, 2010

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?






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