Inquiry has started with a hiss and a roar this term for Waka Whanake!
We are looking into Taupo's ecology this term and we have been super busy so far. We spent the first two weeks preparing for an audio conference with Michel Dedual and our friend from LEARNZ Andrew Penny.
Our audio conference topic was Preserving and Improving Taupo's Freshwater Ecology. Phew! What a mouthful! We needed to come up with some questions to ask our experts so we had to do a lot of research. There were heaps of words we didn't know so we did some research and made a visual dictionary in our classroom to remind us.
Here's a of the questions we came up with to ask Michel and Andrew. (We're a clever bunch!).
On Tuesday it was audio conference time. We used a funny machine called a Polycom. It works just like a giant speaker so we could all hear what was happening. We all had different jobs during the audio conference. Some of us had to ask the questions and some of us had to take notes. All the schools in New Zealand could've tuned in to listen to us if they wanted!
We learnt so much from the audio conference! Check it out...
We did so well that Andrew even sent us this certificate! ...
Waka Whanake, post a comment telling us the most interesting fact that you learnt from our first three weeks of inquiry!
