This week we have been working on the ‘making conclusions’ part of the Year 5 Exhibition. We have had to make 3 information texts, which can be in any format we want as long as it summarises all of the information we found out about that line of inquiry,  as we have to make one for each line.

The above image is of my first fact sheet, about the main factors that affect biodiversity. I have finished my second and am working on my third, but I feel that that one was my best one so far. Also, in the ‘making conclusions’ part of the exhibition, we have been working on some other things that aren’t finished yet.

It has been a really fun week of exhibition, and i am looking forward to next week.

For this post I will be reflecting on the ‘Finding Out’, ‘Sorting Out’, and ‘Going Further’ stages of our Year 5 Exhibition. 

Finding Out:

For the finding out, it was pretty simple finding websites to answer my questions, but it was challenging at times to find sites about my question; ‘Is lack of biodiversity really a bad thing?’ I think it was hard to find sites about this, because most people just assume that it isn’t a bad thing.

Sorting Out:

When we were sorting out it was pretty simple, because all we had to do was write down our lines of inquiry, write down the key points for what we had found out about those lines of inquiry, and if we didn’t have enough research then we had to keep finding out.

Going Further:

When we were going further, we had to see if we had enough research, and if we didn’t, then we had to continue our finding out. I didn’t rally have to doo much of this as I already had enough research.

Thank you all or reading this post, and I will be posting more progress on the exhibition soon! Bye!

This week we continued our ‘Finding Out’, and we only have until the 3rd of September to finish our finding out and start getting our presentation sorted. I found a few good sites, but the ones that have had the most information were: https://www.worldbookonline.com/wb/Login?ed=wb&id=812 , https://newsela.com and http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/home .

I am looking forward to presenting but I still have to do a fair bit of research before Tuesday. I have been challenged in finding sites apart from the ones linked above, but I have Ben making progress in note-taking. That is my reflection for this week, but as it is Father’s Day on Sunday, let’s give all the Father’s a day off. I will be posting again soon,  but for now, bye!!

Sorry that I didn’t post an exhibition reflection last week. I was away! We have finally finished the tuning in stage (see the upcoming post), and now we have moved on to the finding out stage, where we start researching! So far we have learned a bit about the different note-taking strategies, and it has been super fun so far. If you would like to know more about the entire week, check out our podcast, Year 5 Weekly: http://year5sas.edublogs.org

Thank you for reading, and there will definitely be more posts in the upcoming week. Bye!!

I know that you have probably heard parts of this before, but today I am going to be reflecting on the ‘Tuning In’ stage of the inquiry cycle. My lines of inquiry are; An inquiry into whether lack of plant biodiversity is really a bad thing, an inquiry into what we can do to protect biodiversity and an inquiry into the main factors that affect biodiversity. Lines of inquiry, in case you didn’t know, are statements beginning with ‘an inquiry into…’ that drive your inquiry. The central idea that my group and I came up with is ‘Our advancements impact the natural world’. The concepts that my group are using are; causation, change and responsibility, and our related concepts are; impact, cycles and values. Thank you so much for reading, and I will be posting more next week. Bye!!