Inquiry: Comparing Different Structures

Through out our learning sessions in inquiry we've learnt many things about bridge, tunnels and towers. As you can see Sanujan and I have created a 3 circled Venn Diagram making a comparison between bridges, tunnels and towers. In order to complete this Venn Diagram, Sanujan and I were using our smart searching skills to find information for a particular segment.

Inquiry: Comparing Tunnels | Gotthard Tunnel and Water view Tunnel

This term, our focus on inquiry has been structures. We have been doing many different activities about this topic, and this activity was based around comparing two different tunnels. The Gotthard tunnel, and the Auckland Waterview tunnel. To compare these tunnels, we in pairs created a Venn Diagram. If you do not know what a Venn Diagram is, basically, you have two circles put together to have 3 circles. One on the left, one in the middle, and one to the right. In the outer circles, you will show the differences between two things, while the similarities will be in the middle. For this task, I worked with Sanujan, and we had a lot of fun researching, and drawing.

Our Trip To The Sky Tower

Today our class, along with a few others visited Auckland city to learn about the infamous Sky Tower. This may just seem like a cool trip that we had to pay a small fee for, but you'd be wrong as we were kindly funded this trip by Mr Douglas Bates. Because of his kind act, we along with Learning Space 1 and Room 5 learnt so much about our iconic structure. We learnt such things as the glass we were standing on was a whole 38mm thick! Also that the Sky Tower's weight is equivalent to 6,000 elephants! There are over 70 floors in the Sky Tower, and we only visited roughly 15% of it! The main part of the trip was visiting the main observing floor, which is floor 51. From here, you can see people bungee jumping off from the top, and at least 80km of land at every direction. While we were up here, we all had a little challenge for ourselves. We were all given a little booklet with blank boxes, with arrows pointing at a landmark. All around us were hand rails with information on them about nearby landmarks. Our challenge to figure out what to put in each blank box. I had a lot of fun learning a whole bunch today, and I believe that everyone else did too.