Wednesday 28 June 2017

Making Compasses - Technology used for navigation

As part of our inquiry into changes in technology over time, we have been looking at navigation. This week, we began to look at the sun and shadows, and how they have been used for many years to tell the time and to understand direction.







We have also been reading about magnetic compasses and how they work. We followed some instructions to create our own working compasses. We checked our compasses out against an actual compass to see if the needles were pointing to north, and they were!




As we continue to read about different technology used for navigation, we will be creating DLOs (of our choice) to share our learning.

25 comments:

  1. Hi my name is Toeumu and I go to welsey primary school and I am a student in room three.I like how you got to share your navigation work with us good job.It reminds me when I did inquiry with my class.Next time you could do less pictures.

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  2. Kia ora Room 10,
    What a great opportunity to find out more about navigation, compasses and the ways that our ancestors told the time and travelled before modern technology. It is great that you have experimented and created y our own magnetic compasses. I am sure you would all be able to teach me lots about traditional ways of navigating and telling the time. When I was in India I went to visit the worlds largest sun dial. It is 73 foot tall, made entirely out of stone and VERY precise. It is called Jantar Mantar if you want to google it and check out what it looks like. Have any of you seen a sun dial before?
    Tania

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  3. Hi there, my name is Sela and i am a year 6 student in room 3 at wesley primary school. I really like how you guys are making compasses. It made me think of a time when i was in kindergarten and we were making compasses i didn't really know what they were until they told me and also teach me how to pronounce it and i started to know what it was and how to say it. Have you thought about teaching putting some pictures on how you use compasses because some people might not know what compasses is. If you would like to see my learning here is my blog http://wpsselah.blogspot.co.nz/

    Blog you later!!!

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  4. hello pt england school my name is simativa i am from wesleyprimary.school.nz.
    i like the way you are being creative and making your own compass.
    i rember a time i made my own compass.
    mabey you could post a video of how it works.
    this is my blog http://wpssimativaa.blogspot.co.nz/

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  5. Hi there. my name is Paula and i am a year 6 student in room 3 at WesleyPrimary school. I realy like how you guys were looking how to tell time time long ago. It made me think when we were learning about time and how to read time. Next time you might want to make a video how to do it.

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  6. hi room 10 im viliami from Wesley primary school and i really like how you guys learn about technology navigation and i love doing technology to. you can vizit our blog and see out lytracy festival and its about doing some riddles too. http://wpsmargetts.blogspot.co.nz/

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  7. Hi there my name is Sabrina and i am a student from Wesley primary school and i am a year 6.Wow like the photos you guys put up on your blog.Is this for your inquiry it reminds me of the time when we did technology for earthquakes.Maybe you could add some more writing on your blog.But really like it.It is amazing.Keep it up BE POSITIVE,THOUGHTFUL and also BE HELPFUL.!!!
    And never give upon each other.

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  8. Hi my name is Alisi I am from Wesley Primary School. I really like how you included photos with your writing. This reminds me for what we did at our school because we do technology too. Maybe next time you could write more. Come visit my blog at http://wpsalisis.blogspot.co.nz/

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  9. Hi pt England my name is Losaline and I´m a year 6 in room 3 at Wesley primary school. I really like how you guys are doing Technology. We are doing the same thing at our school too.Maybe next time you can do one or two photos. If you will like to see my learning my blog is http://wpslosalinek.blogspot.co.nz/

    Blog you later

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  10. Hi there my name is Brendan and i am a student at from Wesley primary school .I am a year 5.cool photo's guys. It made me think of what we are doing on technology this year.May be you use more a little bit more sentences.Keep up the good work. BLOG YOU LATER!!!

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  11. Talofa lava Pt England. I really liked how you showed the photo with the solar panel in it and well obviously it moved because it comes from the sun. it reminded me of when a lovely woman called Ester came to our school and told us a lot about power. next time you could tell us more about navigation. if you liked to see my work. check out http://wpsanaseinii.blogspot.co.nz/

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  12. Hi my name is Nila and i am a student from wesley primary school.OUTSTANDING! i like the way you searched for shadows ad was navigating magnetic compasses this made me think of the time we were doing technology in our school. maybe you should include more info thankyou.

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  13. Hi there i am Luseane and i am a student in room 3 at wesley primary school i liked how added a lot of picture's it remind's me of when i did that maybe next time you should've added a bit more detail

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  14. Hi my name Elizabeth and I am a student in room 3 at wesley primary shcool I really liked how you added a lot of pictures. It made me think of a time i did lots of pictures like in my work,next time could you add more information about your work.

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  15. Hi there my name is Tufui and I am a student in room 3 at Wesley Primary school. I really liked the way that you guys are doing technology. We are also doing technology too. Maybe next time you could add a bit more detail.

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  16. hi my name is jason im from room 3 and im from wesley primary school i like the technology maybe nxt time you coughld do more stuuff and details

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  17. Hi Pt England School. My name is Tamiah and i am in room 3 wesley primary school. I like how you have been doing energy. Has anyone taught you how to use energy.It would better if you have shown us a video to show us how to do it

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  18. hi my name is kotahi I am from Wesley primary school and I am in room 3 I like the technology maybe next time you could do more stuff and details this reminds me when I did this at my old school.If you want to see my learning you can copy this http://wpskotahik.blogspot.co.nz/

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  19. hi my name is dallas i am from wesley primary school we are doing technology bye

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  20. hi my name is Cassidy and i am a student from Wesley primary school and i like your guys technology it looks really interesting by the ways.BY CASSIDY

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  21. hi my name is analese. and i go to Wesley primary school i just wanted to say i love your how you guys used team work and sported each other. i remember when me and my friends and my teams worked as a team.and shared but i think next time you should share more about like details.You should write how it felt. but it is so cool that you guys post some of it and it looks cool you guys should come and check our class blog out and comment on our blog and my blog and the class blog.thanks

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  22. Hi there my name is Steve and i am a student at from Wesley primary school .I am a year 6 and cool photo's. It made me think of what we are doing on technology this year for our work.May be you use more a little bit more sentences.Keep up the good work. bug you later

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  23. hi my name is Alipate. and i go to Wesley primary school i just wanted to say i love your how you guys used team work and sported each other. i remember when me and my friends and my teams worked as a team.and shared but i think next time you should share more about like details.You should write how it felt. but it is so cool that you guys post some of it and it looks cool you guys should come and check our class blog out and comment on our blog and my blog and the class blog.thanks

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