My learning

March 15th 2017

WHAT AM I LEARNING ABOUT AND HOW DO I LEARN BEST? (Blog scaffold)

Hello world

Below you will see some examples of and reflection about the learning I am doing at HPSS at the moment.

1. Table of learning..

Name of module or spin	I am learning about/ have learnt about..	I am learning about this so that I … (reason I am learning this..)	Screenshot of some learning evidence	The thing I most enjoy learning about in this module/spin is...
Talk loud	Im learning how to play the guitar and keyboard	Im learning this so i can    PLay the guitar and keyboard	We dont do any work sheets	I dont enjoy this spin
Tomorrowland	I am learning how to make a colony on mars.	I am learning this because soon the earth is going to run out of resources and the human race will need a new place to live.		Working with my group
Subcult	Im learning about different subculture	Im learning this so i know different personalities.		I dont enjoy this spin
Life of pi	We have learn’t lots of different things to do with tech and english.	So i can do all these different  techniques.		The thing I most enjoy about this spin is that its easy
West park	We have learned how to make a playground	I have learnt this so i am able to design and build a structure	We have done everything on paper	The thing I most enjoy about this spin is because we get to play with lego.

2. I learn best when...

Im not tried or interested in the work

3.The things teachers do that help me learn are...

They give me work to complete

4. The things teachers do that I find unhelpful in my learning are,,,

Not letting me understand the work.

hi

Aarons Progress

So far I am up to doing my literature review. To get here I had to list as many questions as possible and then recraft them to make a question that I can explore a lot about  it. So far I have found  out that a guy that used to work at area 51 on his death bed claimed that at area 51 they work with aliens and they are also friends with them.

Jessie's Inquiry update

What are you up to now?
I am currently up to the literature review.What this means is that I will be researching data that will back up my question which is... "Is the conspiracy theory about the moon being a hologram that has been created by the government true? If so why would the government tell us that the moon is a real object?"

How did I get here?
I am up to the literature review because I wrote around 50 different questions based upon the environment and space.I then had to narrow it down to one question and craft it in three different ways so then when I am researching I know what information I need to look for and be in more death when I am doing the activities for the question.

Where to next?
My next step in this activity is to write my literature review which is facts that I know about the question, study methods and to research some theories that have not been proven yet. 

Inquiry Update - Adrian

So far I have finished question storming and have further refined my question to make a vary focused question. In my inquiry my favorite part was the question storming  because I was able to go wild and explore lots of different questions.  

Inquiry Update- Nicolas

So far I have done my questions, Craft your questions and a justify The reasons why  I chose these questions. The stage I have enjoyed the most is the Questions because they lets us make any question we liked but it had to be related to the environment. The other stages weren't so fun because I don't think they necessary.

Cole's ALIENS Inquiry

Hi guys, I have chosen to do my inquiry on what will happen if Global Warming destroys Earth? my aim is to find a possible answer and explain what we will have to do to survive.-Cole

Inquiry Update Aiden

Aiden's Inquiry update:
Where am i up to?
I am currently up to the literature review. I have choose my question and are very confident that it is the one I want to research. My question is "Which organisms can survive in space?" I really like this question because it is a very strange environment and it interests me to see if anything can survive without equipment

In Aliens, we had to fill out a Google Doc on biological sampling and environments. We did a question storm consisting of 50 questions.

We then had to choose a question out of the 50 questions and had to rephrase it 3 times. My question was 'What is the difference between the amount of craters on Earth and Mars'.

Then we had to state why we wanted to investigate in this question. I wanted to investigate in that question because I was fascinated and interested in the differences of planets that are already so unlike each other

Next we are supposed to do a literature review which includes of known fact,methods of study and theories (things that have not yet been proven)

Inquiry Update

Where am I up to?

For this current inquiry I am up to the literature review. In this review I need to summarise everything I find out about my chosen topic, by finding facts to back up my statements.


How did I get there?

For this inquiry I am up to the literature review because I have generated many different questions I have about space and the environment. I have also narrowed down my questions by choosing my favourite and improving it, and then I justified why  chose that question. 

Where to next?

For this inquiry my next step is to complete the literature review by using the reflexagons to help me create my literature review summary. I will need to make sure I research my question and find the correct information. I will need to back up my facts with examples so that I can show that I have found the correct information for my chosen question.

I am now wondering......

For this inquiry I am now wondering if I will find any new interesting information that I can then build on more. I am also wondering if any organisms can survive on other planets, which is my research question.

Inquiry update - Tia

Where are you up to?
I have come up with my final question which is, Could we recreate this area/these plants on another planet or in extreme earth environments like the arctic or savannah desert.


how did you get there?
I got here by writing 50 questions about space and the environment then i picked one and wrote it 3 different ways and picked out my final question.


Where to next?
I am now going to write literature review which is a summary of everything that is known so far about about the subject. This might include:

• Known facts
• Methods of study
• Theories (things that have not yet been proven)

Star experiment

Today we did an experiment when we burned different types of metal chlorides. We did this by holding the chlorides on top of a Bunsen burner while a flame was coming out of it. enjoyed it because it the flame turned
into different colors when we burnt the chlorides.

I believe this is a good representation of the different color of stars because of how the the
heat on the stars are compered to the flames we burnt on the Bunsen burner.

A needle in countless haystacks

Experiment

Today in aliens we did a experiment in the lab.

For our experiment we burner 6 different metal chlorides using the bunsen burner. Each different metal chloride caused the flame to turn a different colour, but before we used the metal chlorides we turned a little silver thing on the bunsen burner until the  flame turned blue. after each chloride we had to tap off the excess chloride on the wood that was placed under the bunsen burner. The 6 chlorides that were used were copper, lithium, magnesium, sodium, Potassium and strontium. If you use a special type of telescope you will notice that the stars aren't actually white, The stars you see at night are colours depending on the temperature of that star, The hotter stars will appear as blue or white but then the colder stars are red. The blue or white stars are 6,000-7,000k but the red stars are under 3,500k.

Metal Chloride Experiment Evaluation

Metal Chloride Experiment Evaluation

The experiment that we did today involved a range of different metal chlorides and a bunsen burner. We lit the bunsen burner and put the different types of metal chloride on a long piece of metal to hold above the flame. We had Copper Chloride, Potassium chloride, Strontium Chloride and Sodium Chloride. All of these different metal chloride reacted differently to being held above the flame from the bunsen burner. We had a google doc to record our objectives subjectives, observations and inferences.

I don't think that this is a very good representation of the science of stars because the experiment is very inaccurate. Stars change colours based on their temperature. When the star is hot it is blue colour, when it is cold it turns red. We weren't able to find the temperature of the flame when burning the metal chloride so we couldn't identify wether when the flame was blue it was hotter than the red flame.

Some of the strengths of the experiment is that it does show two of the colours that stars could shine. 

experiment >:)

Today i did a experiment with fire.

i used magnesium chloride it is red 
sodium chloride it was red orange but now is orange
is was fun

Today In Aliens, instead of doing our normal work in Golf, we went in to the science Lab and did something more fun. It was an experiment that included fire and chloride. Most of the white chlorides turns into red once we put it in fire including the yellow one. But there was one chloride that had a different color from all of them, and it was the aqua one. It turned out having green blue and a little bit of pink. One of the chlorides also bubbled up once we put it in fire. It was amazing to see what happens when we included fire and chloride together.

Expriment

Today  we burned different chlorides under the Bunsen burner to see what colour they would these are some of the results.
Copper Chloride Light blue
Lithium Chloride Red
Strontium Chloride Red
Magnesium Chloride Red
Sodium Chloride Orange
Potassium Chloride Red/Orange

experiment-kyah

In the lab, we did an experiment burning metal chlorides and seeing if they were an actual representation of the colours of stars. The metal chlorides we used were potassium, lithium, copper, magnesium, strontium,sodium, and assessed to see if the chloride burned a colour accurate to the stars. The copper chloride burned a green colour similar to the colour it was as a solid, while the magnesium was a purple colour,

In conclusion, i believe that the experiment, while it was fun, is an inaccurate representation of the colours of stars, as colours of stars change colours due to the heat, and we kept it on a consistent heat, so it would not have changed, unlike the experiment.

Experiment - Matthew

We recently conducted an experiment to find out how a stars colour was decided. We actually discovered that we were wrong about what caused the stars colour. It's actually the temperature that decides. Here is the data we gathered.

Strontium: Red and turns green. Quite powerful. Feeling slightly heavier.

MAGNESIUM: bubbled. STARTED PURPLE, TURNED CYAN, HINT OF GREEN, BACK TO MAGENTA,

Sodium: Major  orange colour. Erupts into flames.

Potassium: Grains are popping. Red-ish colour. All jumped off

Copper: Turqoise at the start. Turns green, melts into a liquid and sparks.

Lithium: Rosy red.


Overall it was a cool experiment and I hope to continue with more exciting things soon.