Antarctica - Audioconferences

Kiaora Ladies

Here are the questions that will be asked on the audio-conferences over the next week and a half.  You will need to look at how you can gather the information to answer these as I will select a range of these questions for your Science exam.  Start making notes from the audio conferences to answer these.

Questions for Antarctica Audioconference 1

Questions from Willowbank School Year 1

1. How do the huts stay on the ice - when the ice melts do the huts move?
2. How do you stop ice and snow coming into the huts?
3. When you do your washing, how do your clothes dry?
4. What kind of food do you eat when you can't grow food in the snow?
5. How do you have baths or showers - where does the water come from for a bath or shower?

Questions from Te Akau ki Papamoa Primary School Year 3

1. What lives in Antarctica?
2. What do the scientists eat while they are working on projects?
3. Do people live in Antarctica?
4. How many different species live in Antarctica?
5. How many science experiments are there running in Antarctica at the moment?

Questions for Antarctica Audioconference 2

Questions from Spring Creek School, Year 4-6

1. How is it that Scott became just as famous for his explorations, despite Amundsen beating him to the Pole?
2. What makes Antarctica so important for scientific discoveries? How come people do the science there and not in warmer places?
3. Why are the southern lights so spectacular in the south pole and not as much in NZ?
4. How did explorers like Scott, work out how much gear and supplies they would need for their expedition?
5. How did the information Scott gathered, help science and promote the Antarctic as a place for more research?

Questions from St Marks School, Year 7-8

1. What kinds of new inventions did Captain Scott and Shackleton have on their ships to help them survive in Antarctica? - Nathaniel
2. What's the most challenging experience you've had in Antarctica and how did you deal with it? - Bella
3. What kinds of personal qualities do you need to be successful in Antarctica? - Lilly
4. How did early explorers manage the cold? - Gabrielle
5. What's the best way to get around Antarctica. How has transport changed over time? - Lola

Questions for Antarctica Audioconference 3

Questions from Alfriston School Year 5-6

1. What different species of penguin have you seen near the hut? Luca
2. How do you transport the big materials such as wood to make the huts? Isaiah
3. How do you know where you are when you’re on the snow? Olivia
4. How was  Hillary’s hut different from Scott and Amundsen’s? Lovepreet
5. What is the worst thing that has happened to you or that you have seen in Antarctica? Ella

Questions from Mercury Bay Area School Year 7-8

1. How did Edmund Hillary become a leader of the Ross Sea Party for the Trans-Antarctic Expedition? (Layla)
2. What skills did scientists need to have to be a part of the TAE Expedition? How can I be like them one day? (Alban)
3. What surveys were taken on the expedition and how did those surveys affect the future? (Sebastian)
4. What can we do to help or get involved with the restoration of Hillary's Hut? (Ashley)
5. What tools were used to make the hut and will the restoration team use the same kinds of tools/techniques to restore it? (Ava)

Questions for Antarctica Audioconference 4

Questions from West Gore School Year 3-6

1. Why are the huts still standing after such a long period of time? Ethan F
2. What types of materials did they use to make the original huts?  What would be used these days? Corban
3. In the original huts, why did the explorers leave everything behind rather than taking it back with them? Ethan M
4. Why is the hut going to be made into a museum in Antarctica (when lots of people don't go there)? Meg
5. Why do the original huts have so few windows?  Would this change if they were built now? Oliver
6. Are the huts a certain colour for a reason? Tristan

Questions for Antarctica Audioconference 5

Questions from Alfriston School Year 5-6

1. What sort of fungi grows in the snow to change its colour?
2. How deep is the snow and the ice? Lucas/Divya
3. What tricks do animals have to survive through the winter? Karanbir
4. Why do you go to antarctica to test the ice and temperatures? Ella
5. What got you inspired to go to Antarctica?

Questions from Te Awamutu College Year 9 Science

1. If newer sea ice has more salt than older ice, how does the salt get out of it? Bert
2. If there were no polar ice caps, would that mean the Atlantic currents stop moving? Dylan
3. How do icebergs form? Neeve
4. How does the melting ice affect the animals living on it and how will it affect them in the future? Oksana
5. How much of the sea ice has melted this year because of climate change? Dani

Mini Lessons

Antarctica - introduction

Antarctica is the coldest, driest, windiest and highest continent on Earth. 

It is about fifty times the size of New Zealand and is almost completely covered in ice.

We will begin our research into Antarctica before our Online Virtual Field trip which starts on the 8th of November.

Start with the Google Slide below.  You have until the end of this period to complete

1.  Watch the video and then click on the links that will take you to different websites. These websites will actually read the information to you - plug in your headphones and listen and learn!  

2.  At the bottom of each of the websites there is another link that will take you to a quiz.

3.  Complete each of the three quizzes.

Term four Update

He panui

This is to keep you informed with a few changes that will be happening from today onwards.

1.  ALL TERM THREE WORK MUST BE SUBMITTED TO YOUR MENTOR TEACHER BY THIS WEDNESDAY!  

So that means that you have until Wednesday the 2nd of November to submit any work that you have done for you Brave New World, Literacy, Numeracy, Social Science and Science assessments.

This will mean that all students will have their grades with comments loaded onto KAMAR by the end of this week:  FRIDAY 4TH NOVEMBER

2.  We have changed the schedule for our timetable - see the table below:

FFL Timetable Term Four

	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6
1		Numeracy(HL)		Inquiry(HL)	Antarctica(MA)	Antarctica(MA) Virtual Field Trip
2	Literacy (MO)			Inquiry(VR)		Antarctica (VR) Virtual Field Trip
3	Inquiry (MA)	Numeracy (HL)			Antarctica (VR)	Antarctica (VR) Virtual Field Trip
4	Literacy (MO)		Current Events (HL)			Antarctica(MO) Virtual Field Trip
5		Library (MA)	Inquiry(MO)	Inquiry (MA)		Antarctica (MO) Virtual Field Trip

3.  Current EVENTS quiz - just a reminder to revise for this by keeping up to date with what is happening in the world!  Watch the news, read the NZ Herald ('like' on Facebook to get notifications straight to your FB newsfeed!)

Numeracy Task 6

The link below will give you the instructions of where to find the work for the next two cycles.

I will upload references for the Alpha textbook and video lessons later in the week.

Inquiry Planning - Term 4

This term you will be working on an inquiry project of your own choice!  Yay!  We will be following the same structure as our previous projects, Click here to see the format for your inquiry project.  You will be able to work on this in your own time and on a Day 1 and Day 6 in class.  

To do list:

1.  Submit your Inquiry Brainstorming document through the Google classroom
2.  By the end of today you must have emailed your mentor with your driving question and you four key questions. 
3.  Have created a folder in your google drive called TERM FOUR INQUIRY
4.  Started researching your inquiry.

Research planning

Think about different ways that you can collect information - the internet is not the only source!

a)  Library time - find books, magazines that will support you understanding more information about your inquiry topic
b) Create a survey that you can send out to different groups of people - YOU MUST ENSURE THAT THIS IS CHECKED BY A TEACHER BEFORE YOU SEND IT!

c)  Plan an interview and contact an expert - it can sometimes take a while for people to get back to you - so the earlier you can send your questions to someone the better!

d)  Conduct an interview

e)  Continue to gather secondary sources