Yesterday the students of 3/4M did an incredible job presenting their Inquiry Research Projects to their 1/2 buddies! It was wonderful and I felt like the proudest teacher of all the learning and teaching by my fabulous 3/4 students! Below are some photos!

What did you learn about Rhinos? What is their Appearance/Description? What is the their Dynamics or Behaviour like?  What is their habitat like? What are some other interesting facts about Rhinos?

For our Inquiry topic of ‘What makes you Australian?’ students learnt about the reasons why people immigrate to Australia. Students went home and interviewed one of their family members to find out their story. We learnt so much from our teachers, parents and grandparents journey to Australia. Amy was especially inspired by her mother’s story and asked if we could act out the interviews. We decided to dress up as one of our parents and show our learning of immigration through the interviews. We pretended to be doing an episode of ABC’s wonderful program ‘Australian Story’. In between the segments there are adverts. Think about the advert: what is advert trying to convince you to do? Who is the advert aimed for (gender, age group)? Thanks to our parents and grandparents who gave us their time and shared their stories with us! Enjoy our video!

By Andy
By Thomas
By Martin
By Vincent N
By Veronica
By Sophia
By Theresa
By Vincent L
By Sujan
By David
By Isaac
By Alex
By Chelsea
By Tony
By Ashara and Jasmine
By Jason
By Mandy

At the end of our ‘Survival on Earth’ unit in Term 2, we chose questions that we wanted to research further. We came up with some amazing questions and we demonstrated what we learnt in many ways such as creating dioramas, graphs, models, posters, PowerPoints and more. Below are some photos of our incredible work. We had a lot of fun research our own topics and we learnt a lot! Stay tuned for more photos soon!

Jewel’s research question: Which animal lives the longest?

Kenny’s Research Question: Do any cactus’ help human survive?

Dat’s Research Question: How do the MegaMouth Shark’s Survive

Tina’s Research Question: How does the sun keep humans alive?

Levi’s Research Question: How do Sharks survive?

Kev’s Research Question: How do Spiders survive?

Andy’s Research Question: What animals survived the extinction of dinosaurs?

Jenny’s Research Question: How do turtles survive?

HERE ARE MORE OF OUR AMAZING RESEARCH PROJECTS!!