Do you know a Pufferfish?

This is my slideshow about pufferfish. You will be able to read about the taxonomic classification of a puffer fish and about it's MRSGREN. I hope you like it.

Website Review

This is my website review. I had to compare two websites from a list I was given. I chose these two and
here are my notes and ideas for you to read through. Enjoy :)
Website Review

National Geographic
Clear headings, easy to navigate.
While using the search feature I searched “pufferfish” and got the information I needed. 
Has a kids feature for kids to use.
Shows a variety of pictures, videos and articles.
National Geographic Website: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/



WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

Showed irrelevant information I didn’t need. I wanted information about pufferfish and

I got information about buying t-shirts.

Only has information about some animals.

Can sort a search from date.

WWF Website: https://www.worldwildlife.org/



Overall Conclusion
I think National Geographic is a lot easier to find stuff I need than the WWF website.
The WWF website also has a choice to search by date or relevance and I think for some people this would
be a great help and make it a lot easier to find relevant information. In my opinion I think National Geographic
has a better website with the information easy to find and clear, bold headings which are easy to navigate.

Types of Life

Types of Life Science

Today Poppy and I finished our types of life science drawing. We had to show our opinion on what we think came first in the animal life. You will be able to see what we thought was first and etc. You can also listen to my screencastify by clicking the link. What type of life do you think came first? 

Science Screencastify

This is my screencastify of my science work. We had to read out the pages about the types of life in the world.

Vocab Definitions

Here are my vocab words for this week. I had to find definitions for the bold words on the left and write them into my own words. I hope you learn something!

Movement - How something moves.
Respiration - How the breathing process works.
Sensing - The senses of a living creature. Senses like smell, taste, hear etc.
Growth - Getting bigger, taller, stronger and older.
Reproduction - Making another living creature of that species.
Excretion - How a living creature gets rid of waste.
Nutrition - The food something needs to live.
Marsupial - Marsupials carry their young in a pouch.
Monotreme - Mammals that lay eggs.
Mammal - Animals that give birth to live young. Mammals are warm blooded animals.
Carnivore - An animal that eats only meat or other animals.
Primate - Animals looking very similar to humans, with hands or claws, and legs.
Vertebrate - The backbone or spine. Something that has a backbone.
Invertebrate - An animal without a backbone.

William Pike Challenge Percentage Progress

This is my William Pike Challenge Hub percentage progress. For community service I have been working on organising a dance group for the preschool kids. I have also been making pompom toys for a cat adoption service called the cats protection league. For my outdoor activities I have done camp, surfing at camp and year 8 girls self defence. I will be part of a trip to adrenalin forest and a class skiing trip too. For my passion projects I have done Spanish language learning, baking and netball.
To finish my William Pike I will be going on a skiing trip and a trip to adrenalin forest, Sophie and I will work on getting the dance classes running and I will deliver the cat toys to the cat place. 

Taxonomy Word Definition

Here are my vocabulary words. We had to find the definition for each of these and write them in our own words.

Taxonomy - naming and classifying things. Connecting all living things.
Organism -
Evolution - the change of growth and development.
Biology - A form of science. Experiencing living things, how they work.
Species - Individual groups of having something in common.
Relationship - Connection between something.
Botanist - They specialise in botany.
Nomenclature - A system for names, used in a particular science and/or art.
Morphology - The branch of biology connected to organism research.
Homologous - Being related to something or someone. Having the same relation or structure.
Trait - An individual characteristic, commonly for a personal nature.
Genetic - Related to something by genes.
Binomial - A name in taxonomy, having a generic and specific term. This is used to designate species from one another.
Characteristics - A distinguishing feature or quality to something.

Taxonomy

In literacy we have been learning about Taxonomy. Taxonomy is the science of naming and clssifying all living things. In this slideshow you will be able to follow the human species, and figure out where we sit on this chart and who we are closely related to. I hope you enjoy this!

MRSGREN Dolphin

Today in science I learnt about the MRSGREN process and how all living things are connected with this.

Mechatronics Technology

Mechatronics...

Today at tech I had mechatronics. Today we had to use a grabber arm to pick up a lego rock thing. We had to watch how the arm worked and write down what we what change if we could. I thought of a arm with thicker grabber pieces so it could grab things more easily. The next challenge was to programme our robots to drive over some coloured dots to get points. I was working with Kirsten and Shafrin and we were tied with Clara and Jessica with the most points. I was so surprised we got the most points because I just estimated the last two programming blocks. Next term I have three more sessions doing mechatronics, then I will be moving to another tech group.