Ancient and Modern Olympics

These 2 weeks I was with Ms Naicker. I was working collaboratively with Sajiha. We had to create a DLO about ancient and modern Olympics. We first wrote down our prior knowledge ( what we know ). Then we attributed images, 2 ancient pictures and 2 modern pictures. This was really helpful and fun. We really learnt about ancient and modern Olympics. 

Sketch Note

This week we were practicing sketch notes. We first practised with questions ( something we know ) because we knew the topic. When you do sketch notes you can use bullets, pictures, symbols and numbers. We also talked about ways we could record our thinking. We moved onto things that we didn't know about, like Rio De Janeiro, Olympic medals and athletics. When we wrote about 5w questions and we had to explain how they unlock the door for learning. For athletics we had to write about the things we knew, we wrote about long jump, high jump and running. For Rio we had to write down the landmarks and some facts. Sketch notes helped me understand the learning because I have put it in my own words. Sketch notes don't need to be understood by other people besides you. They help you make connections or tell you learning story in your words. Sketch notes don't need to be neat or tidy to help you understand. They are easy to tell and you don't need to write lots of words to make you understand. Sketch notes have been really interesting and fun to do, hopefully we can practice more. 

Provocation on Olympic games

This week we were looking at venues from a couple of years ago to these years. We learnt about provocation which is two different opinions, WALT: To consider both sides of a provocation so that we can make an informed opinion. Mrs Anderson asked us to think about the question she asked, Should host nations waste so much money on Olympic venues? To make our informed opinion we had to look at two sides. My DLO shows three different opinions which includes two pictures, the 2004 Athens baseball with the 2016 baseball stadium, there is a big difference. It looks like it has been abandoned.