Agenda

1st September
Monday is day 1
Homework
Notices:
Attitude
All shook up
Reminders: Camp Adair

Signed

This is what Room 7 sometimes gets up to on a Friday Block 2

WALTS- Describe the physical appearance of our animal (Refer to first paragraph) Refer back to prior learning about character writing - MOSES BEACH
-Describe how it uses it's adaptations to survive..

Specific learning Intentions Yesterday:
-Use a comparison to help the reader relate to your animal..
-Use a hyphenated adjective before a noun (To paint a clear picture)
-Specific detail (tips of it's claws..... not just claws)

Agenda Book

30th August
Tomorrow is Day 5
Homework:
Business Venture
Animal Adaptation Article

Notices:
School Dance

Reminders:

Signed:

The Pistol Shrimp - Article

Reflection: Business Venture

What's working well?

What obstacles are in your way?
How do you plan to overcome these?

Algebra

Vampire Finch - Adaption - Mini Inquiry

1. What/ Who is your animal? Where does it live?
2. Describe it's physical appearance
3. Describe it's adaptation (Physical or behavioural) that helps it survive in it's environment.


The Vampire Finch lives on Wolf Island. It is a small bird that survives in it's environment with the help of it's sharp beak. This sharp beak acts like a surgical tool. It has learned that the Red Footed Booby is the most reliable source of food and water around the island. In times of drought, these little Vampires relentlessly peck at the base of wing and tale feathers, with its beak, to meet their daily nutritional requirements.

Task: Choose an animal and complete a mini Inquiry about 1 of it's adaptation.

You might like to use the website below to find information

25 insane animal adaptations


EXTENSION: WRITE AN EXPLANATION
COMPARE AND CONTRAST, BY DESCRIBING THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM FROM THAT OF A HUMAN TO A BIRD.

Camp Adair

Agenda

28th August
Tomorrow is day 3
Homework:
Talk to your parents about some "non food" money making ventures

Noties:
School dance Thursday 7-9

Reminders:
Tech arts
camp Adair payments

Signed

WWA - Adaption

Adaptation is an evolutionary process that results in organisms being increasingly well suited to their habitat or ecological niche.

ADAPTION

There are many types of adaptations, but these can be classified into three main categories –structural, behavioural or physiological:

·        Structural (or morphological) adaptations are the physical features of the organism. These include things you can see, like its shape or body covering, as well as its internal organisation.

·        Behavioural adaptations are learned or inherited behaviours that help organisms to survive.

·        Physiological adaptations relate to how an organism’s metabolism works. These adaptations enable the organism to regulate their bodily functions, such as breathing and temperature, and perform special functions like excreting chemicals as a defence mechanism.

Adaptation cards

For Each card, state whether it is Structural, behavioural or Physiological

Birds have different shaped beaks and feet suited to the habitat they live in.	Kiwi hatch with an internal yolk sac. This sustains the chick in its first week of life.	The bill of the takahē extends onto its forehead as a shield.
If there is thick snow cover on the ground during winter, takahē will nest in forested areas to provide shelter.	Kiwi have fine whiskers at the base of their beak to aid their navigation in the dark.	The breeding cycle of kākāpō is tightly linked with the fruiting of the rimu tree. In abundant fruiting years, more chicks are often born.
Kererū are one of the few birds to produce ‘crop milk’ – a protein-rich milky secretion from the walls of their crops to sustain their chicks.	Kiwi have nostrils at the ends of their beaks	The kākāpō has a ‘freezing’ response to danger.
Kererū fledglings spend 1–2 weeks with their parents before becoming independent.	Kiwi plumage blends in with the undergrowth to allow them protection from predators through camouflage.	The kererū has the widest gape of any New Zealand forest bird. This enables it to swallow the large berries of native trees.
Kiwi and takahē have vestigial wing buds, which are incapable of flight.	Male kākāpō let out a ‘booming’ noise from dug-out bowls in the earth to attract a female.	The tūī has a long curved beak and a fine brush-tipped tongue that enables it to extract nectar from forest tree flowers.
Kiwi are nocturnal birds.	Many birds such as the kererū and tūī perform display dives to attract a mate.	Tūī have hollow bones and no teeth, which makes their body light for flight.

Why do birds have different shaped beaks?

Otago Maths

Inquiry Cycle

Inquiry Cycle

Adaptations

An adaptation is a mutation, or genetic change, that helps an organism, such as a plant or animal, survive in its environment. Due to the helpful nature of the mutation, it is passed down from one generation to the next. As more and more organisms inherit the mutation, the mutation becomes a typical part of the species. The mutation has become an adaptation.


Related Concepts: 

Key Concepts

1. charles darwin
2. natural selection
3. evolution
4. genetics
5. speciation
6. mutation
7. adaptation
8. 
   

Websites to help your mini Inquiry:

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/adaptation/
http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/basics/mutation/


TASK: 
Inquiry about an animal?

Create an Article about an animal that has adapted due to it's environment.

What is the animal

Describe what it looks like

What are it's adaptations (Why and how)

Agenda

21 August
Tomorrow is day 2
Homework:
Finish Explanation on "Genes, Traits"

Reminders: $8 for Dumplings Investment (Due Thursday)

Notices:

Signed:

Algebra (Year 9 Fast track 1) - Equations (simplify, expand, factorise, one step, 2 step, substitution,

WWA

What Are Traits

What Are Genes

What is Inheritance


Listen / take notes on the above 3 Areas?

Can you explain what makes a person who they are?

Room 7 Photos

Algebra - Multiplying

Room 7 Guidelines

Discussion

-Earphones

-White table

-Work in pairs

-After breaks

-Computer use

-Couch

Agenda

16th August
Tomorrow is day 1
Homework:
Business Venture
Notices: Business Venture letter


Reminders: Year 9 Band
Signed

Algebra

15th August
Tomorrow is day 6
Homework:
Business Venture
Notices: Camp Adair (11th - 13th )
check if your parent can help

Reminders:
Signed

WWA

UOI5 - Who We Are - What are Genes and where do they come from?

Task:

In your UOI book draw and label images that represent what you learnt in today's video.

Some areas you may want to document:

- Cells

- DNA

- Genes

- Inheritance

- Chromosomes

- Cell Division

Key Question:

What do you think an SNP is?

14th August
Tomorrow is day 5
Homework:
Business Venture
Notices: Camp Adair (11th - 13th )

Reminders:
Signed

How your brain works?

Find a Rule for a Pattern

Equations 1

Equations 2

Business Venture Learning Journal

Cash Book

Marketing Ideas

Business Venture: Marketing Ideas

Continue work on your eye-catching Market Day banner.

Remember to include:

- a clear font

- bright colours

- use the entire space

- your price

- your slogan (optional)

Max & Nick

Grace, Abbey & Isla

Jessica & Sophie

Resilience

Agenda

8th August
Tomorrow is info evening
Homework:
Finish Growing up sheet (Share with parents)
Notices:
Reminders: Info Evening (Full school Uniform)
Signed:

Algebra

Numeracy - Algebra - Pre Tasks - Monday 7th August 2017

The Table Problem

Funky Furniture sells tables that can be joined together for large meetings. Tables and chairs are set up this way.

If a line of 24 tables is set out like this, how many chairs will be needed? Can you give a rule for the number of chairs needed for any given number of tables?

The Fish Problem

With 26 matchsticks, you can make 4 fish in this pattern.

How many fish can you make with 140 matchsticks?

Write an equation that gives the rule for the number of matchsticks you need for a given number of fish.

Gallery Walk

UOI4 - Sharing The Planet - Gallery Walk

How to complete a Gallery Walk:

In pairs you will move around the room and look at each person's piece of work.

At each station you will add your thoughts to their rubric.

You will have 2 minutes at each station.

You will alternate between the following roles:

- Reporter - presents the group's thoughts on a question to the class.

- Recorder - writes group responses on poster sheets and prepares the written report out.

What else might we need to consider during this activity?

STP

UOI4 - Sharing The Planet - The Island

Waimaths Questions

Conflict Videos

Ban the bag - Greenpeace


Sugar Tax - NZ

Jamie Oliver has taken aim at the New Zealand Government, calling their failure to tax sugary drinks a "bloody disgrace".

Speaking via video message to the annual FIZZ Symposium in Auckland, the celebrity chef says the Government is dismissing a move that is "logically, scientifically and economically justified".

"New Zealand, like Britain, has got some of the most obese children on the planet... It's disgusting," Oliver says.

"In New Zealand 26 percent of all sugar kids get is from sugary sweetened drinks.

"Anyone who could dispute this needs a slap."

Almost one in three Kiwi adults over the age of 15 are obese - the third highest rate in the OECD.

Oliver explains that Britain initially wasn't on board but after a long campaign, changed their minds.

"France is in, Portugal's in, Hungary's in, Ireland's in - this is the new norm, guys."

"Go and kick some arse from your Government. The fact they're not there is a bloody disgrace," he said.

The Government is not actively considering a sugar tax, but says it's monitoring the situation.

-What is the purpose?

-What makes this persuasive? Powerful? (any language features stick out here)

-Who is the intended audience?