Showing posts with label Rock pools. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rock pools. Show all posts

Tuesday 5 April 2016

Surf the Sea, not the Debris!


As part of our inquiry about change, we are learning about rock pools. We have been thinking about how to preserve our marine life and keep our beach tidy.

Today we put an elastic band around our hand and put the other hand behind our back. We had to try and get the elastic band off of our hands without using any other body parts. We did not succeed. This shows that you shouldn't throw anything into the sea as it might hurt our marine life!

We talked about how litter can affect sea life. Sometimes turtles think that plastic bags are jellyfish.

We are making posters to tell people not to throw rubbish on the beach. Watch this space...

By Rim and Mitchell



Here we are working hard on our posters...

Thursday 31 March 2016

Rock Pools Around the World

As part of our inquiry, we are finding out about rock pools. We would like to compare and contrast the rock pools close to us with rock pools from around the world. Can you help? Do you have relatives and friends that live close to rock pools in other places. We would love to hear from them and find out more about what is out there. 

Thanks,

Tautoru Kids

You can add to this presentation: 

Friday 11 March 2016

Planning our own trip to the rocky shore...

Today we went on a trip to Princess Bay. We planned our own trip. We were curious about what kind of creatures we would see. It was cold and windy and the sea was rough. The tide was in so we didn't see that much. We did see some sand hoppers though. It was fun to go on our own trip. 

A big thank you to Janis for taking us. 

By Thomas, Dylan, Ollie and Nikora

This is us getting ready to go on our trip
This is a cool shell that we found
We found some big rocks
This is us at Princess Bay

Tuesday 8 March 2016

Beach trip: Rock Pools

I found a piece of paua shell
I found a starfish
These are 3 hermit crabs in different shells
This is a sea anemone
Today we went on a trip to the beach. We had a look in the rock pools. We are learning about rock pools for our inquiry. At the beach we found all sorts of different creatures. We found sea anemones, mussels, cockabullys, starfish and seaweed. We saw all types of colours we also found a whole lot of barnacles. 
By Kate, Pippa, Katherine and Nela

Wednesday 2 March 2016

Rock Pool Inquiry

We are loving our inquiry about change, specifically how rock pools change.
A group of students learning about seaweed during guided reading time.
If you visit any rock pools in the evening or at the weekends, please send through some pictures of what you find to Nicola at: nstevenson@worserbay.school.nz We will put these on the blog and discuss in class. Thank you!

Tuesday 1 March 2016

We have been asking questions for our research...



As part of our inquiry into rock pools, we have been thinking about different animals that live there. We have been working in groups to ask questions about an animal of our choice. 

We have begun to put together links to different sites for the students.

Find out more by clicking the links below (we will be adding to these as our inquiry progresses):

Generic Resources for the Rocky Shore

Crabs


Mussels


Jellyfish


Sea Anemones



Friday 14 March 2014

Exploring the rock pools at Worser Bay beach

We are learning about creative thinking. We had lots of ideas and used our imagination down at the beach. 

It was Sea Week last week so we are doing a mini-inquiry into the things that live in our Worser Bay beach rock pools. We discovered some interesting creatures.