A Scientific look at the Age of Earth

As part of our inquiry into dinosaurs the students in Room 10 rolled out a 47 metre long strip of paper which represented the 4.7 billion year old Earth (according to most Scientists) from the Big Bang to today. 

Our scale was 1cm = 1 million years in time.

 Students got to place key events in history 

Big Bang, first oxygen, first life, first bird, first dinosaur, dinosaur extinction, first humans.

We found that 65cm (65 million years) from start of the time was when the Dinosaurs became extinct and just over 2 metres (225 million years) from the start was when the first dinosaurs were walking the planet (Scientists believe they lived for about 160 million years).
 

About 5 metres (500 million years)  from 'today' was when the first life appeared in the oceans.

And only 1 millimetre (100,000 years) from the start was when the first humans are believed to have existed!!!

47 metres (4,700,000,000) from the start of our time line Scientists believe the Earth began to form after a Big Bang. 

 

We got to discuss what life would have looked like at different times in the Earth's history and used books and our knowledge to help us draw life through the ages.

IT WAS VERY POWERFUL!!! - TRY IT AT HOME.

Gardening with the Lions

Today, 10 students from Muritai School received $300 worth of gardening equipment from the Eastbourne Lions Club.  They spent the afternoon eating, drinking tea and gardening with the Lions.

 

Not these lions!!! 

These Lions

 

 Here's a few of the tools that were donated.

They were given trowels, spades, pitch forks, a dozen pairs of gloves, seeds, vegetable plants, flowers and a seed raising kit.

 

Together, they weeded, composted and planted the new plants. 

Here's them in action.

HUGE THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!!

Rubbish Duty - ANTI LITTER BUGS

To help Muritai School keep tidy, Room 10 was put in charge of monitoring and picking up litter around the school.   From now on, each room will be able to take turns to be in charge of monitoring rubbish around the playground.

When it was Room 10's turn, the kids from made up a system where their cooperative group was in charge for one day of the week and then the class did a whole school sweep later in the week.  

It was a bit scary HOW MUCH WE FOUND - 6 FULL PLASTIC BAGS OF LITTER!!! 

To encourage kids to pick up their own and other people's rubbish a few children in Room 10 have made a plan.

HERE IS IT:

The class on rubbish monitoring gets to spot kids that are picking up rubbish around the school.  They write their names on a piece of paper and put them in the Anti-Litter-Bug Box which will live in the office.

At Assembly, Tom and Xander will draw one person's name out of the Anti-Litter-Bug Box and let them choose a LUCKY DIP prize .

HOPEFULLY OUR SCHOOL WILL BE MORE ENJOYABLE TO BE IN!!!

Week 1

What a big week in Room 10.

Here's a quick glimpse at what we've been up to so far in Term 3 - the Dinosaur Inquiry Term.

 Bar graphing and converting fractions to percentages about the top 10 most deadly dinosaurs.

 Researching and mind-mapping different deadly dinosaurs.

 Printmaking in visual art.

 Collecting seaweed for the compost - plants need a balanced diet too!

 Cooperatively creating a multi-layered dinosaur print.