Static Electricity iExperience

Learner:  Ameerah      Learning Coach: M Lennon - LH2       Date:   24 November 2016

Learning Area:  iExperience

NZC Achievement Objective:  Physical inquiry and physics concepts:  explore everyday examples of physical phenomena, such as movement, forces, electricity and magnetism, light, sound, waves, and heat.

Learning Observed

In iExperience Ameerah has been learning about static electricity.  She was given a balloon and some tissue paper and was given the task of making the paper jump onto the balloon using static electricity. Ameerah demonstrated her curiosity by rubbing the balloon onto many different surfaces to charge the balloon full of static and successfully picked up many pieces of tissue paper.  She showed collaboration by working with others to share her findings. Through her active participation in learning conversations Ameerah demonstrated that she was connected to the current learning.

Evidence of learning

Ameerah made the tissue paper stick to the balloon with static electricity.

Next Learning Steps

Find out what other objects make, store, or hold static electricity. Share your findings with other learners.

Diamante Poem - Elephants

Learner:  Ameerah      Learning Coach: M Lennon - LH2      Date:   23 November 2016

Learning Area:  Literacy - Poems

NZC Achievement Objective:  English; Speaking, Writing, Presenting:  Acquire and begin to use sources of information, processes, and strategies to identify, form, and express ideas.

Elephants

elephants

big, fat

stomping, splashing, eating

toes, tail, ears, trunk

playing, swinging, splashing

fat, slow

elephants

Learning Observed

Ameerah has been learning to write Diamante Poems themed around her recent visit to Auckland Zoo. Firstly, Ameerah had to brainstorm different nouns, adjectives and verbs about elephants.  Then she had to choose which ones she would use to make her poem make sense. Ameerah was given a template structure to follow, which listed the order in which her nouns, adjectives and verbs needed to be.  She was able to follow the structure independently to produce the above poem.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During this learning, Ameerah demonstrated that she was: Connected - actively taking part in learning conversations and activities. Capable - understanding the different parts of speech have different purposes. Curious - asking questions and seeking new vocabulary. Thinking  - able to brainstorm and find words relevant to the topic.

Next Learning Steps

Teach others how to write a diamante poem. Begin thinking about opposite words for an antonym diamante poem.