Tuesday 13 August 2013

PBL - Are we interested?

Of course we are!

We organised ourselves into groups to explore, discuss, design, construct and test our ideas on making objects to meet the demands of the Amazing Race. Here we are (some of us anyway), doing some discussion, research and planning.


Using Digital technology to help with an Analogue problem

 
Much better than a paper worksheet -


Tuesday 6 August 2013

Here are a few pictures related to our HSIE and Science in term 2.

To wrap up our study of Antarctica, we had a visit from Pat Farmer who has visited Antarctica and completed an amazing run from the North Pole to the South Pole. You can find out more about him at : http://poletopolerun.com/pat-farmer/

We dressed warm to hear about  Pat's adventures which included involvement in restoration of Mawson's Hut. He even had a piece of the original Hut to touch and see. We also had the privilege of actually touching a piece off an Antarctic iceberg, probably frtozen thousands of years ago.

 
Here are a couple of samples of our work in Electricity: