P.E - Social Responsibility

For today's lesson of P.E we played moon ball and bench dodge-ball. We split into two team, yellow & green, and played game after game. As we played we had to think about what level of social responsibility we were in. Social responsibility is your attitude & values in making good/responsible choices. This also leads to your behavior toward your learning (physical and health education) and outside your learning. My partner (Lani) and I felt that we were more based on level two then level 1 or 0. Although we started off a bit negative with our choice of words we managed to move up and pass that and fall into level 2, the involvement level. We both feel like that we could improve our skills to level five by working our way up. We can start by working on the level three ("Self-Responsibility"). We can start from makes good choices cause we feel that we show respect to the people in our class and work our way down the list. Although we already filled most of the stages in level three we will focus more on the ones we don't.

Science

The term is nearly over and for the past few weeks my class and I learnt about the science lab safety rules, layers of the earth, tectonic plates, earthquakes and volcanoes. I enjoyed learning all of these things and they could defiantly could be helpful in the future.

Learning - Science

For the past few weeks in science we have been learning about the Earth’s layers and volcanoes.

We first learnt about the layers of the Earth. I know that the Earth has four layers they are called the Crust, Mantle, Outer Core and Inner Core. I also know that the continents were all together but then split and moved away to their present positions because of the plate tectonic. We also learnt about the three boundaries. They are called the convergent boundary, divergent boundary and transform boundary. Convergent boundary is when two plates meet creating mountains and trenches. Divergent boundary is when two plates move away from each other. Transform boundary is when two plates slide past each other creating earthquakes.

Then we learnt about volcanoes. We learnt about the hotspot and where it is located. I know that the hotspot is located on the Pacific plate. Then we learnt about the types of volcanoes. There is a cone volcano, the composite volcano and the shield volcano. I know that when two plates converge it creates a mountain then the magma from the mantle and is stored in the magma chamber. One day the volcano will erupt and the magma that is stored in the magma chamber will then come out.

This is what my class and I learnt together for the past few weeks. We learnt about the Earth’s layers and volcanoes. We did enjoy our time learning about the Earth’s layers and volcanoes. My class and I learnt a lot from our two science teachers(Ms Kuruvilla & Mr Desoysa).