I am a Year 8 student at Tamaki Primary School in Auckland, NZ. I am in the Kia Manawanui syndicate and my teachers are Mr Janse and Ms Schellingerhout.
Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Thinkers key
A-Z
Complete and A-Z listing of all
the key topic vocabulary to
do with Earth and Beyond.
Asteroid
Black hole
Comets
Dwarf planet
Earth
Flars
Gravity
Heat
Io
Jupiter
Kore
Light
Moon
Neptune
Orbite
Pluto
Quaoar
Rocket
Sun
Titan
Uranus
Venus
World
Xena
Yellow dwarf star
Zenih
We know that we stick to the earth, with
the help of gravity...but what if gravity didn’t exist? What would you do?
- Playing sports with no gravity
- Go to school without gravity
- Watch T.V.
- Play Fortnite
- Draw
- Feed pets
- Go to town
- Go to the beach
- Sleep
- Jump around
- Cut my hair
- Go shopping
- We could climb high mountains
- Read book
- Go eat
- We could wear a jetpack
design of at least two of these options..
- Hologram in the satelite.
- Food in the rocket.
The answer is: the sun.
Write 24 questions that would give this answer.
What is the other word for solar?
What makes fire?
What is hot?
What is in the middle of the solar system?
What burns us everyday?
How can you get sunburn?
What grows planets?
What makes light at day time?
What makes us warm?
What do the planets orbit?
What makes refraction?
What makes us not freeze?
What is the hottest thing in the solar system?
What makes us tired?
What's hotter than lava?
What makes us blind when you look at the eclipse?
What wakes us up sometimes?
What is a big magnet in the solar system?
What makes me up?
What is close to mercury?
What shines in the sky at day time?
What holds the planet?
What is the biggest yellow star?
What is bigger than jupiter and saturn?
What has solar flares?
Imagine you are going to interview the Sun. Write 13 questions that you would ask.
Use a range of question starters and open/closed questions.
Extension: Write what you imagine the Sun would say to answer each of your questions!
How long do you stay awake?
How do you come out in sunshine?
Why are you so fiery?
Why are you so hot?
Why are you not cold?
Who are your favourite planets?
Why don´t you eat?
How can you float?
How do you fly?
How old are you?
What are you made of?
How can you get brighter?
Why are you big?
Tuesday, July 3, 2018
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