Natural Disaster Research

This afternoon we were researching about Natural Disasters and different facts about them like What is a natural disaster, how do natural disasters happen, where do natural disasters happen / why do they happen in different places, why do natural disasters happen and who is affected by natural disasters. The question that I decided to  research about was " What is a natural disaster " . 

From my research I have found out that a natural disaster in my own words is  something that happens naturally that can harm huge amounts of people and animals. This is my definition of an natural disaster because when they usually happen they tend to hurt huge amounts of people not only physically but emotionally to. People can be hurt physically by natural disasters when they are in the middle of an Earthquake, they could fall through cracks in the earth or something harmful could fall on them. People can be hurt emotionally by natural disaster by losing someone they love to and Earthquake, Tsunami, Avalanche or a Landslide and lots of other natural disasters.

According to what google said about what a natural disaster is it is a " Natural event like a Flood, Earthquake or a Hurricane that causes damage or loss of life " to me this means that a natural disaster is a event that happens naturally that cause damage or or loss of life.

What I have learnt this Term about Earth and Beyond

This term we have been learning a lot about our inquiry topic Earth and beyond , I have learnt a lot of things this term like ... 

What have  I learnt so far ?? And what new knowledge have I learnt ??

I Have learnt a lot of things about our Galaxy and lots about the stars, planets, comets and other things in  our galaxy like …

1. Comets got their name from Aristotle
2. People believe that in the center of our Galaxy there is a giant black hole
3. And that the stars that we see at night are most likely giant blue stars three times the size of our sun
4. That there are three different types of star red dwarf star, yellow medium stars and giant blue stars
5. That our galaxy is believed to have eaten smaller galaxies inits past years of existing life span
6. That black hole are created when I star dies/ before a star dies there is a tiny virus inside of them that starts to eat away at the remaining mass that the star has left and before the star even knows what's happening to it, it explodes into comets, black holes or supernova’s
7. That if two black holes cross paths they will battle pushing the other one of and the bigger the black hole the greater the black hole

What is interesting about this topic ??

I think that this topic is very interesting because there are a lot of things that you get to find out about the galaxy and the other planets and comets that it  brings along with it. I also think that this is a interesting topic because I got to learn where the “ Milky way “ got its name from ( Hera - a Greek Goddess ) Greek people in that era believed that she spilt milk across the sky wichis why they gave the Galaxy the name “ Galaxais Kyklos “ or road of milky.

What have I found challenging about this topic ??

I have found a lot of things about this topic very challenging because it was hard totryand find different information about the Milky Way and actually understand people gave the Galaxy the name Milky Way.

Inquiry Investigation

This week we have been researching about an area in our inquiry that we found interesting, and to come up with questions that relate to the topic that we have chosen to research about. The topic that I have chosen to research about is the Milky Way, I think that I decided to research about this topic because before we started our researching I didn't know many things about the Milky Way and at first I thought that the Milky Way was a chocolate bar until someone said that we live in the Milky Way. I have learnt a lot about the Milky Way science we have been researching about it like ... 

THE MILKY WAY

• Look in the night sky to see a part of the milky way
• Our solar system is small
• Name came from  hera
• Clear sky
• Only can see a small part of the milky way
• 13.6 billions years ago
• 100,000 thousand meters
• 230 million years to orbit around the centre of the milky way

THE MILKY WAY

The milky way is believed to be about 100,000 meters in diameter, and believed to have been born  about 13.6 billion years ago. The name Milky way came from Greek people because in that era they believed that one of there greek goddess spilt milk across the sky and that's why they called it the road of milk and letter on changes to Milky Way. On clear night if you look up at the night sky you can see a small part of the milky way which is mostly just a couple hundred thousand stars. The milky way began shaping and forming back around 14 billion years ago and it can take up to 100,000 year to cross the tire Milky Way. Our Galaxy was made from clouds of dust and gas called the “ Nebula “ ?? Stars, comets, meteors, asteroids and planets.

Name of the “Milky Way"

The MIlky way got its name from  Greek people who called it “ Galaxias kyklos” witch is translated back to “Milky Circle”. After they had named the Galaxy “ Galaxies Kyklos” or “ MIlky Circle” another race used the same  name and that race of people are known as Romans. Because they thought that it was a good name because at night in the sky it looked like a big milky streak across the sky or in other words a road of milk.  And i think that they named it this because whenever they would look up at the sky they would see splashes of white, purple, blue and pink across the sky and to me I think that I would mistake that for milk as well.

After that me and my friends decided to work on a presentation together about the things that we have learnt like where the name came from and why they decided to call it that name... we also researched about how long it would take a person to cross the entire Milky way which would take around one hundred thousand years to get from one side of the Milky way to the other here is the presentation that we have made.

Phases of the Moon

Throughout the term we have been learning about the Moon, Its orbit and its phases. We have been learning a lot about the Moon and its phases and the different phases it goes through like the New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First quarter, Waxing gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous , Last Quarter, Waning Crescent and New Moon again. Each of  these phases happens when the Moon is on certain angle in its orbit and the light from the Sun hits and reflects of it causing us to see more and more of it every twenty nine and a half days. 

I think that it was very fun learning all the Moon phases throughout the term and teaching others about them to. At morning tea and lunch every one would be talking and discussing the Moon and its different phases and about after a week of learning about the Moon and its phases everybody in the Kia Manawanui Syndicate Knew what the phases of the moon are and how they work.

Matariki

Hi today for inquiry I wrote a DLO about matariki it has a story about matariki that I learnt and some facts I learnt.

Samoan Language week

Hi today for inquiry we did an DLO on Samoa's language,you had to write the numbers ten/twenty in Samoan hope you enjoy.

ANZAC Facts

WALT:Summarise information about ANZAC

Hi today I did a google drawing about anzac facts like when the landed in Gallipoli.

Myths and Legends W6T2 2015

Hi today I did my Myths and legends work I had to pick a culture mine was Irish then you had to do a presentation about it mine was about a banshee.