SPACE-CURIOUS!

THE BIG PICTURE: Exploration of observable patterns helps us to understand the universe. Our curiosity about space can lead to new understandings.

TASK 1: WHAT DO YOU ALREADY KNOW?

Take this quiz.

TASK 2: ECLIPSES

With a partner, read this page.  Add to your OneNote space. Tell us what you know from this page about our solar system.

TASK 3: HEXAGONS

Search on ABC Splash. Use the search term ASTRONOMY. Choose your resources carefully to add to this understanding: The Earth is part of a system of planets. Add your new understandings to your OneNote.

 

Pinjarra: Battle or Massacre?

  • We are learning to understand perspectives of groups in an event in history.
  • We are learning to think about how language – the words we choose – reveals perspective.
  • We are learning to think about how language defines significance.

RECORDING OUR THINKING

Use the THINK-PUZZLE-EXPLORE chart as you sift through the information sources.

LISTEN TO THESE ABC RADIO AUDIO CLIPS

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/awaye/the-end-of-the-beginning/3668818

and

https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/archived/creativeinstinct/creative-instinct-saturday-2-june-2012/4046404

and

HOW MIGHT WE COMMEMORATE?

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-10-28/noongar-community-centre-opens-at-pinjarra-massacre-site/5849336

CHECK OUT THESE  VIDEOS

A USEFUL TIMELINE

FROM: http://mediawithmrsjames.weebly.com/year-8-ccc.html

Newsworthy

Follow the links to create a news report about these events in our history:

EVENT LINK
Mrs Dance chops down the first tree in Perth https://goo.gl/CdwbFS
Jandamarra at the Battle of Winjana Gorge https://goo.gl/VazH0F 
The opening of the Goldfields Pipeline https://goo.gl/7fJ2kV
C.Y. O’Connor in trouble https://goo.gl/XBx3Bd
The funeral of Moon Chow https://goo.gl/cX2kJM
The death of Stanley Harrison, timberman https://goo.gl/Coq4Qw
The hanging of John Gavin https://goo.gl/Z6nTis
Rosendo Salvado gives a concert https://goo.gl/y49W70
Henry Wildman tries to escape https://goo.gl/NyDfd3

https://goo.gl/c5t3S7

The Catalpa convict escape https://goo.gl/BsXzZf
The death of Yagan https://goo.gl/QOlp8J

https://goo.gl/xhANeF

WA celebrates self-government https://goo.gl/xV9aMz
The rescue of Varischetti https://goo.gl/vfE2p5
Finding Warri and Yatungka https://goo.gl/QpssRi

https://goo.gl/RbejsS

Pitman and Walsh https://goo.gl/pbGSR8

GOLD!

Ms Lockyer’s Top Seven information sources:

 

1.  http://www.egold.net.au/home.html

Good for: pictures, women’s lives, mining techniques, Eureka, effect on Indigenous people

 

 

2.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo81c6GQPQM

Good for: life as a prospector, the development of Kalgoorlie

 

 

3.  http://www.sbs.com.au/gold/

Good for: Chinese on the Goldfields, health and doctors, daily life, Eureka, technology developments.

 

 

4.  http://museum.wa.gov.au/online-collections/dwyer-and-mackay

Good for: photos of people and places on the Goldfields

 

 

5.  http://museum.wa.gov.au/explore/wa-goldfields

Good for: mining techniques, life for women and children, villains, photos.

 

 

6.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6iSo209fPU

Good for: an amazing story of an heroic rescue in the W.A. Goldfields.

 

 

7.  http://www.goldrushcolony.com.au/australian-gold-history-culture-info/immigrant-influences-australian-gold-fields/population-goldfiel

Good for: law and order, living conditions, women’s lives.

Sharks! Part 4

How’s Ms Lockyer going on her Sharks! work? Check out my first Scratch game here. I need a bit of help to get it working. Do you have any suggestions?

If you have a Scratch account, you can see the script for my game here, and can perhaps spot my mistakes:

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/106799201/

I have had a go at making a graph to help explain what I learnt from the Twitter feed:

shark graph

Can you give me some feedback on my graph? I am wondering how I might improve it. I am also wondering if it shows any AHA! information on our inquiry. Please leave a comment here.

 

Sharks! Part 2

FIRST:

Watch the movie to work out where our thinking is, and how we can grow our thinking.

NEXT:

Choose a Storify document from this list. The Storify documents are snapshots of the Twitter stream for the Surf Lifesaving Association of WA.

slswa-sun-27-2-9am

slswa 27 feb

slswa-march-1

slswa-mon-7-th-march

slswa-mon-march-14

slswa-march-16

slswa-march-20

What do you notice? Are there any patterns? How can you summarise the tweets?

SHARKS! Part 1

We are learning to think about what we already know. We are learning to connect our prior thinking with new thinking. We are learning to make thinking connections with others.

Add to our THINK-PUZZLE-EXPLORE grid.

Tips for the grid: respect others’ work and do not edit or delete their sentences. You may add to the same square in the PUZZLE or EXPLORE sections. Type your first name after your sentence.

SWAN RIVER COLONY- HISTORY MYSTERY 1

We are learning to imagine what life was like in the early days of the Swan River Colony. We are also learning why the Colony was started, and the people who played a role in this.

1st MYSTERY

Work with a partner. Why? Thinking together is thinking better! Use PicCollage app on the iPad to assemble a poster showing three buildings in the Swan River Colony built before 1849.

Locate the images on the National Trust W.A. site. Look for the ‘Places W.A.’ button. Choose 3 images of buildings that were made before 1849. Insert into your PicCollage. Label each building with one word which describes the original purpose of the building. Email your completed PicCollage to your teacher.

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