NZ Sign Language Finger Alphabet

It's NZ Sign Language week in Week 2 (12-18 May).
Room 1 need to practice their alphabet and especially greeting someone with their name.
Go to http://nzsl.vuw.ac.nz/alphabet/ to help practise.

Room 1's ISS Module Models

We've made models of what we think would be needed to sustain a community up in space.
Can you see the library's, laboratories, plant rooms, animals, exercise and chill rooms, farm, wash rooms, computer rooms and escape pods?

Let's Hope the rain clouds clear.

Mars is looking spectacular at the moment with the full moon.

Pity the rain clouds are around. Check out this video to explain why?

Solar System Homework

Get a load of these. What a fantastic array of models and information about the problems with scale. Ka pai Room 1!

Theo and his Dad. 

James' creation.

Sydney's (above), Matthew's below. 

Riley's

McKenzie and Eli's

Mack's, Casey's, Tors, Caleb's, Tyler's. 

Riria's and Kynan's.

Lachlan's

Torenzo's

Mareva's

Eden's

The ISS and plant growing.

Mack F wanted to know if plants could grow in space and the sunlight of space.
She found this great website that gave her the answer. See if you can hunt it out.
Click here.

Tour of the ISS (International Space Station)

Commander Sunita Williams takes us on a fantastic tour of the ISS.
Click here.
If you want to spot the ISS go to n2yo.com.
If you were to add a module to the ISS what would you put in it to improve and sustain the community that is up there (even if there is only 6 of you!)?

Bill Nye: The Science Guy - The Sun (Full Episode)

This guy is great. What to understand something, Bill is a great teacher. This episode is about the sun.

Also check out his website at billnye.com.

So you wanna know more about the First World War?

David Hill's My Brother's War has opened up alot of learning for Room 1. With the 100th anniversary of the beginning of WW1 there are oddles of great websites to find out more. Here's a few.
http://ww100.govt.nz/ (NZ)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww1 (UK)
http://www.teara.govt.nz/en/first-world-war (NZ)
http://www.watchknowlearn.org/Category.aspx?CategoryID=527 (American)
Enjoy

Solar System Homework

Due next Friday, the 11th of April,  is your model of the solar system.
As part of your model YOU MUST explain the scale errors to it, to show your understanding of the size of space.
Some example ideas are below.
If you want to confirm real size and distances between the planets click here.

What are be the scale errors in the example pictures?

 What would happen if we were this close to the sun?

 Is the sun that size?

This link has a great way to calculate the sizeof the solar system if you were to use a standard size for one of the planets, or the sun, in space. Click here.