Author Archives: Samar

Cube Nets

Hello everyone,

Today I will show you and describe my learning from our recent mini-unit on Cube nets.

1) We have made various different cube nets, we have discovered that there are more  than 1 cube nets, I have found out 9 different cube nets. I have found a T-pose nets well. Learning these nets was fun while trying to find every cube-net there was without any help.

2) These are the nets that I have made but shown on a digital source. We had to spin the shapes around to observe our shape and to see if it was the shape we wanted.

3) Then we looked at all the cube nets, by observing the shape and recognising the shape, faces and the actual net. We had the opportunity to say if it was a cube net or not. I had 3 wrong and the rest right.

4) We have also made an educational tutorial on one cube net, and how it works using magnetic shapes. We have shown our Mathematical Reasoning in this video. Sit back and. Relax and Enjoy this video!!!

Samar Cube Nets from SAS Year 5 on Vimeo.

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Exhibition Reflection T3W5

We have now finished our tuning in phase of our Exhibition! That is why you will read lots of stuff that I have already said.

Lines of Inquiry:

Making my Lines of Inquiry was an easy process but when the teacher and the my mentor teacher saw it they told me to eliminate some. Matching the Lines of Inquiry was really hard, so the teacher supported me. In the end I got it. These are my Lines of Inquiry:

1) An inquiry into the fundamentals of Genetic Modifications such as basic information about DNA, genes, genetic code, cloning and genetic mutations etc.

2) An inquiry into the future implications of Genetic Modifications.

Group

1) An inquiry into the changes in the natural world and how they risk our health and wellbeing.

Central Idea:

Choosing my Central Idea was very tough. I used lots of time at home to create one but in the end even that wasn’t the one that we chose.

Our original one was Innovate, Act and Evolve.

But we changed it to Technological advancements impact the way we live. Our Central Idea challenges the world asking and challenging their knowledge.

Lotus diagram:

In the lotus diagram we had to sum up our questions and sort them into key concepts. I liked making up and writing questions down as I new this was the base of my research, so the more question the answers.

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Isometric Drawings

Hello, everyone, we made Isometric Drawings today on an online source. We were given a shape to make. We view the top, right and bottom of this image to make it. We had to also change the direction of the shape to make it.

 

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This is the Isometric drawing that I have down hand-drawn. I have drawn a 3D ‘A’. One of the ‘A’s’ has been drawn by our teacher the other one I have drawn myself. I have also made the shape in the other Isometric drawing but by hand. Part of the whole task was to prove that we can draw rectangular Prism so you can also see that hand-drawn.

 

Exhibition Reflection T3W4

In week 4 we focused on getting our questions written down on the lotus diagram, we focused on matching our questions with some key concepts. We helped each other(group members) to produce good quality and deep questions. Mr Huebl told us that we don’t want to have questions that, you can find the answer straight away from. He said he wanted us to have questions that required its of research. We also developed our Lines of Inquiry, I had already written them down before so me and my group focused on getting our group Line of Inquiry written down.

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Entering the Dimensional

We looked at dimensional shapes and found the length, width and depth of the objects to calculate the area, volume and perimeter together as a class. Then we had to find the some objects in our spatial area(classroom) that matched the worksheet we had. We had to write the Identifying Features.

 

Year 5 PYP Exhibition

At St Andrew’s we are doing a Year 5 PYP Exhibition which is a long term collaborative inquiry on a global issue in which we are interested in, we are also doing a PYP Exhibition to celebrate our PYP journey. I have chosen the topic Genetic Modifications. I chose this because I am interested in different ideas that can affect our living and can take the global perspective. This topic also took my eye because I have already had experience with this topic. For this Exhibition we had to pick a Transdisciplinary Theme that best matched our Global Issue, I chose ‘How the World Works’ because it best matched my topic. We also had to choose a Central Idea but I haven’t completed it yet, we learned that to create a Central Idea we had to match to concepts and make a Central Idea. Overall, so far I am happy with my project and am enjoying.

Thanks,
Samar