Term 1

The Water Cycle!

This term we had a science focus on Water. To study the water cycle we followed an inquiry model. The inquiry model has 6 stages Activate, Enquire, Investigate, Organise, Use, and Action. Here is briefly how we followed this cycle when studying water.

Activate 

This is where Miss Tupai showed us lots of books, stories, photos and diagrams of different things to do with water. As a class we had lots of brainstorms about what we knew about water. We even learned a water song.

Enquire

As a class we talked about what is a question and how to ask good questions. We practiced asking questions during news time and then had a think about all the things we had looked at during the Activate stage. Miss Tupai helped us come up with the question "Where does water come from?"

Investigate

Luke experimenting with water

We had so much fun with water. We did lots of experiments. We made steam, we froze water, we tried to make clouds. We also used the rainbow fish story for art. We made our own.

Part of our rainbow fish art

At this stage we talked about where can we find our answers? What places can you go. We came up with theses answers.
A book, the computer, ask mum and dad, Miss Tupai, Make a phone call, A scientist. Even ask ourselves because we think we already know :)

Organise

With Miss Tupai's help we started to organise our information so that it made sense to us. We were able to organize our information into diagrams as a group

Our diagram of the water cycle. We did these in groups of 4.

Use

We decided to make a video of us explaining the water cycle, you might have to listen carefully to some of it as we forgot to talk into the microphone in the computer. But we tried really hard to make a video that told people about what we now know about the water cycle.

  Action:

Please watch and enjoy our movie that we have made with our new knowledge on the water cycle. Please leave us a comment. (Please keep in mind that we are 5 and only had 1 whole term at school) 

We have been learning a lot in Room 6!!!