Making a Mini Raft - Buoyancy Investigation

Living in a Shipwreck

Living in a Shipwreck

1.2.07 Part 1

WALT: Analyze surface features and the language used

1. The Star of Canada sank in this story. A word that describes how it sank is = ‘Slowly’. Now we can write ‘Sank Slowly’. Two words that start with the same letter (like sank & slowly) and are put next to each other is called; Alliteration. Other examples of alliteration are; Fast Frog or Stinky Snail.

Find alliteration for these words from the story.

Wreck_  Washbasin

 

Rocky_  Reef

Captins_  Cabin

Sinking _   Stairs

2. What is a shipwreck?

A shipwreck is a ship that sinked.

3. How did the ship sink?

It crast into a rock.

4. Why do you think the part of the ship they saved was called the wheelhouse?

the wheelhouse is the place

5. What is a barge?

A barge is long boat.

6. Find  and mark Gisborne on a map of New Zealand using google drawing. Mark and name 3 near by towns.

It takes 5 h 54 min

Describing A Special Family Member

My favourite things

Street of water

WHAT IS BUOYANCY

WHAT IS BUOYANCY!!!

A long time ago in Syracuse, Ancient Greece there was a mathematician named Archimedes. One day when he was taking a bath,he discovered something life changing. When he got in some water got displaced, and it overflowed over the bath tub. Archimedes discovery got him thinking, he was so excited that he ran thru the streets without any clothes on, shouting “ Eureka! Eureka ! This means I found it in greek.”

He figured out that if you put something in water and it is lighter than the amount of water being displaced, the object will float.

This is know as buoyancy, or the Archimedes principle so if the object can float, it is buoyant.

Life on the River 1.3.04

7. BLOGGING: Post the photo that you have found of Mekong River and write 3+ sentences telling your audience about what the story is about.