Inquiry Learning

Our 'Community As Home' Planting Day
(Term 2, 2016)

Our Community As Home 'Wanderings' 

(Term 2, 2016)

Our Class Brainstorm!

Our ANZAC Guided Inquiry

(Term 1, 2016)

Our collaborative Guided Inquiry 'research project', with the slideshow questions being adapted from NZ History.net and completed as a mini unit on our chromebooks at the end of Term 1, 2016...

Scaffolding our 'Prior Knowledge' for the start of Term 2!

Wearable Arts Fashion Show
(Term 4, 2015)

The Wearable Arts Fashion show was held at school. The students showcased their creations of the Fabrics, Fibres and Fashion Inquiry. The students of Whanakitanga Whare researched, designed and created their own masks and outfits. All the materials used were recycled materials. They were only supported by the teachers, rest was done by the children, for the children. This is a very good example of LEARN CREATE SHARE!!!

Our Flight and Innovation 'Wanderings' 
(Term 2, 2015)

"How does a helicopter stay in the air?" - asked by Nepia.
"How does a jet plane's engine work?" - asked by Shania.
"How do you fly a hot air balloon?"  - asked by Shelby.
"How do they keep or fix the planes when they've finished moving people?"  - asked by Colsey.
"How long can planes fly for?" - asked by Lahrenzo.
"How do firework rockets fly?" - asked by Onyx.
"Why did the Wright brothers want to invent the first plane?" - asked by Lyric.
"Why is a space rocket bigger than an aeroplane?" - asked by Fatu.
"Why do aeroplanes need an engine?" - asked by Denzel.
"Why doesn't gravity stop planes from flying up so high?" - asked by Chaye. 


Our Flight and Innovation Research
(Term 2, 2015)

In Whanakitanga Tahi, we have been learning about Matariki over the past fortnight. We found out that, as part of the celebrations for this, people may choose to make and fly kites!

So, this morning, we used the PCs in Amua Whare ICT, and we went on to Google to find some "How To" answers about this for our upcoming Innovation Day activities. 

As part of our latest ICT lesson around "Learn, Create, Share" activities, we were learning how to create an Email to share our selected websites (i.e.: by copying and pasting the website address hyperlink into the body of the Email). We then Emailed our chosen answer websites to our classroom teacher, so that we could use these to inform our technology activities.

We had two questions to ask - the first one was "How do you make a kite?" and the second question was "How do you make a parachute?". Here are some of the websites we chose to share by Email when looking for our answers to these online:

Shelby shared 
Why Make Your Own Kite?

Detroit shared 
How To Make A Kite

Shania shared 
How To Make A Diamond Kite

Krystal, Fatu and Nevaeh shared 
How To Build Kites To Suit YOU

Denzel and Lahrenzo shared 
Make Your Own Kite!

Athens shared 
How To Build A Plastic Parachute

E1 are looking forward to using their findings to co-construct instructions together using what we have found out to write an explanation, once we have had the chance to create our own kites (and maybe even parachutes!) in Whanakitanga Whare during wider Innovation Day activities tomorrow!

Learning: Our Topic Inquiry 'Wanderings'
(Term 3, 2015)

WALHT create our own 'wanderings' for our new topic.
Inquiry Topic: Fabric, Fibres and Fashion.
This afternoon in class, we brainstormed ideas together about our Term 3 Inquiry Learning topic. We asked ourselves: What do we want to know? And here are the 'wanderings' we came up with... 
What are our school uniforms made out of?  Nepia & Colsey
What are jackets made out of? What makes them waterproof? Denzel
How do we do a fashion show? Fatu
How do we find out about fashion show stuff? Onyx
How do we walk down the stage? Colsey
How do we print a t-shirt? Colsey
How does the t-shirt design process work? Lyric
Are police jackets and hats made out of denim? Colsey and Nepia
How do you make hats out of denim? Nepia
What kind of art do they use to make fashion designs? Nevaeh
How do you design and make:
- a mask? Athens & Onyx
- jewellery? Krystal & Jazarehus
- leather and denim jackets / chino pants? Fatu
- a dress and a mask (for a ball)? Shania & Shelby

...As you can tell from our ideas, we're ALL really looking forward to creating items for our upcoming whole school fashion show here at Red hill school later this term!