Day: August 19, 2025

AI Movie

  • LI: To use our knowledge about dinosaurs in creative ways

For inquiry we had been researching about our chosen dinosaurs on what they look like, what their habitat was, what they ate, who their predators were, and how they protected themselves from those conniving predators. The dinosaur that I had been randomly given from an egg was an Ankylosaurus which was a friendly herbivore, who ate shrubs and lived near water sources, and in upland formations, but in this particular experiment to show our creative thinking skills we were handed in the challenge of creating an image of our dinosaur without typing its name in its prompt, the we had to get on to making our own AI movie ( 6 second ) about our dinosaurs, using the program https://hailuoai.video . I enjoyed this challenge because I had to make loads of test prompts trying to make it an Ankylosaurus, and most of them were funny results !

Trip to Auckland War Memorial Museum

For our inquiry we had the topic of Volcanoes so went to the museum to put our topic to an end. When we went to the museum we had a space for learning and in that learning space we were having a reminder on what volcanoes worked like, we then had been challenged to organise the type of rock from the volcano in order, then we did a Backpack challenge where we had to pack all the necessary items into the bag within 30 seconds. The items were backpack toys can of food hole punch torch can opener pan gloves cat muesli bar cat food goggles bottle of water tea towel first aid kit mask and a colouring book .My group shoved everything but the cat because we ‘ forgot ‘ the cat and decided to take the cat food. Even we were walking around the different galleries going from WW2 to imaginarium, weird and wonderful and lastly NZ protests and politics, we were learning different things, and a fact that I found interesting was that whenever someone would spot an enemy, there would be a flagman giving a signal to the bell person, which then would ring the bell above to warn them ! What I learnt from the class time was that whenever there were volcanic bombs it was basically these big chunks of lava, ejecting in a high altitude and then coming down at great speed, twirling whilst its cooling down !

 

 

 

 

Paired Research Challenge

  • LI: to research questions about your dinosaur including their habitat, diet, predators, and protection.

For Inquiry we have been learning about dinosaurs, before we created anything we got to watch and learn about the different dinosaurs that used to live on earth before we were even alive! We got to create our own egg made out of flour, salt and water that created a form of clay. Later on we created an egg made out of clay and added our dinosaur inside. We mixed up all the eggs and cracked them open to see what dinosaur you have, after opening the egg we researched what protection, diet, predator and habitat our dinosaur has. After learning about our  dinosaur which was an Ankylosaurus we were challenged to create a DLO, Video or an Animation explaining their habitat, diet, predator and protection our dinosaur uses. As you can see we created a video explaining everything we needed to explain including the different body parts of the Anyklosauraus dinosaur. I found this interesting and entertaining because we got to learn about the many different things of Anyklosauraus and many other dinosaurs but did you know that Anyklosauraus could use its tail to defend itself from other predators!