Brochure | Reading

 LI: To create a brochure advertising a truthful visit at Afghanistan.

Our reading focus was around Afghanistan and creating informed opinions on a text or informative article. The text we explored was focused around attracting tourists despite the recent dangers and attacks that have been occurring in Afghanistan. 

Our creative task was to construct  an informative brochure that could persuade foreigners to visit Bamyan, Afghanistan on an escorted tour. 

We read through the article and shared our thoughts using information that we knew about the topical issue. We used different reading comprehension strategies to understand the text in a more clear and direct way. We used questions to help us understand the text better, skimming and scanning to evaluate the text even more and summarising in order to retell the text with our own form of comprehension.

I found this task fairly easy because I am familiar with creating persuasive brochures that advertise an area, and I was able to use my prior understanding of a text to make and share my formed opinions with others.

Screw | Simple Machines

LI: To find the information for simple machines.  

 We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are 6 simple machines. They are, wheel and axle, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and an inclined plane. Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams. Using the information and facts we found we created a 25 word summary for each simple machine. A screw or another word for nail is a round sharp point metal pin that screws things in.

Wedge | Simple Machines

LI: To find the information for simple machines. We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are 6 simple machines. They are, wheel and axle, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and an inclined plane. Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams. Using the information and facts we found we created a 25 word summary for each simple machine. A wedge is a simple machine that is used to push things apart.

Lever | Simple Machines

 LI: To find the information for simple machines.  

 We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are 6 simple machines. They are, wheel and axle, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and an inclined plane. Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams. Using the information and facts we found we created a 25 word summary for each simple machine. The lever consists of 3 main parts, Effort, Load and Pivot. Depending on how heavy the object is, the lever would go up (side where the lightest object is) or down (side where the heaviest object is.

Attitude | CARE award

  LI: Create a video explaining why having a positive attitude is important.

Today I created this video with Fau, Hosea and Aisea. It is based on "Why having a positive attitude is important". Having a positive attitude is important because it sets a good mood for everyone and yourself. Fau, Hosea, Aisea and myself tried to figure out some ideas of "why having a positive attitude is imporant" and we thought why not ask eachother for our own opinions on that. As we shared our idea's, Fau (our fastest typer) typed it on a Google Doc for us to practise. It took us about five tries to make our video but we still managed to get it done in no time. I personally liked this challenge because it was funny to see all our bloopers and because anyone who watches this video will now understand the whole purpose of this.

Inclined Planes | Simple Machines

 LI: To find the information for simple machines.  

 We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are 6 simple machines. They are, wheel and axle, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and an inclined plane. Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams. Using the information and facts we found we created a 25 word summary for each simple machine. The incline plane is a simple machine used as an mechanical advantage to move things upwards

Wheel and Axle | Simple Machines

 LI: To find the information for simple machines.

   

 We collaborated in our group to find information about simple machines. There are 6 simple machines. They are, wheel and axle, screw, wedge, pulley, lever, and an inclined plane. Our challenge was to create labelled diagrams. Using the information and facts we found we created a 25 word summary for each simple machine. The Wheel and axle are used to move something along the floor by cutting down friction.