Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was born in the 1928 6th of August. He became an famous artist by being an commercial illustrating and also portraying famous celebrity. He also became an artist by printmaking stuff like how he printmaker cans of beans and coke. But mainly after college for his career he made lots of commercial art. Andy warhol was famous because. Andy Warhol was successful magazine and ad illustrator who became a leading artist for the 1960's Pop art movement. The most famous art piece of his art was. One of his chinese communist was leader Mao Zedong. In 1973. So far he is gone now out the earth and died in February 22nd 1987 in New York city.

 

Joan Wiffen

Joan Wiffen is a famous fossil Hunter. From NZ. Joan wiffen was born in 4 of February 1922. She lived in NZ and had married Pont Wiffen and had 2 kids. her job a palaeontologist. In 1975. Joan Wiffen found the first ever fossil in NZ. At Hawkes Bay at the Maunga Hounga stream and found 6 types of species. She found a tailbone from a theropod. Because her family and friends were helping her find lots of fossils. They probably knew that they were fossils in rocks so they got tools to split the rocks up and find some cool interesting fossils. When they found a fossil they put in there backpack and carried it to there car. An Australian Palaeontologist Dr Ralph Molnar confirmed it was a dinosaur bone in 1980. At Maunga Hounga stream, inland Hawke’s bay Joan Wiffen and her family and friends found at least six different kinds of dinosaur bones and was 70 - 80 million yrs old. At south of port waikato )kin cliffs along the coast) found a very small finger bone of a theropod dinosaur found by brendan hayes and was about 150 million yrs old. In northwest nelson dr greg browne found dinosaur footprints about 70 million yrs old. In tioriori, chatham islands Dr jeffery stilwell found several dinosaur bones (theropod and sauropod) and was about 66-145 million yrs old. When Joan wiffen gave a fossil to the University of Auckland. They gave her a degree because she just knew lots about fossils. Sadly Joan wiffen died on the 30 of june 2009. She knows that she remembers that the fossils she found is now safe at safe places she knows and knows some is at the University Of Auckland. Also her collection of is also with another that is the paleontological collections at GNS science in lower hutt. The first one she found is on the display of Te Papa. We will remember Joan Wiffen because of her marvelous actions she’s done.

What we learnt

Room 7

Dinosaur knowledge

Prior Knowledge	In 2 weeks, we learnt that...
Animal Predator Dino is the root word ‘Saurs’ means something Species  Extinct  Huge Large bones Long necks Eggs  Sharp teeth Long tails Eat people Different kinds Spikes Horns Mammals 4 legs	Bipedal means 2 feet and quadruped means 4 feet. Some dinosaurs are bipedal and some are quadrupeds. Some can change between the two stances. They are sturdy. Theropod is a 3 clawed dinosaurs Dinosaurs are warm-blooded, which means their blood temperature is always the same Carnivore means a meat eater Herbivore means a plant eater Omnivore means it can eat plants and meat Some dinosaurs are huge and some are small. Typically, huge dinosaurs were sluggish (slow).  Dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. They started existed 230 million years.  They died because of an extinction event, most people think this was because a meteor hit the Earth.  Dinosaurs legs go out the bottom of their hip bones, whereas reptiles bones go to the side of their hips. Reptiles do not have an extra hole in their skull, but dinosaurs do.  Mary Anning found lots of fossils on a cliffside in England in the 19th century. She was born in 1799 and died in 1847. She survived a lightning strike as a baby. In 1824 she found the first fossil.	Non-avian dinosaurs are dinosaurs that are not birds. Avian means birds. Metabolism means how fast or slow your body converts food into energy Diverse means a big range Modifications means changes. Dinosaurs have modifications such as spikes, armour, horns or crests.  Clade means family. Lineage means ancestors/descendants  Paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including dinosaurs There are 4 main groups of dinosaurs; theropods, sauropods, ankylosaurus and pterosaurs. Titanoboa was top of the food chain after the dinosaurs died. It killed people by constricting people. It spent most of its time in the water because it was super heavy. It was 13m long, as big as a bus.  Hominins existed when 7-6 million years ago, the first humans to walk on 2 feet.  People did not exist when dinosaurs existed.	Adaptation is something that changes over time.  Ecology - how animals relate to each other Fossils are made when dinosaurs die and their bones get trapped in rock or mud. The bones break down over time but leave a mould, which is filled with rock. This becomes the fossil.  Dinosaurs sometimes eat each other.  There were 3 periods of time that have dinosaurs. This is called the ‘age of dinosaurs’ also known as the ‘Mesozoic Era’; Triassic period, Jurassic period, and Cretasous period.  Then there were 3 more periods in time, “Age of mammals”, also known as ‘Cenozoic Era’; Paleogene Period, Neogene period and  Quaternary period. Dinosaur fossils have been found on every continent, including Antarctica. Joan Wiffen found the first dinosaur fossil (a theropods tailbone) in NZ in 1975, in Hawkes Bay. She died in 2009.  Dinosaurs laid eggs and they lived in family groups.

Matariki Description

Matariki is the maori name for a group of seven stars. Known as pleiades star group. Some people think of matariki as a mother star six daughters, and it is often referred to as seven sisters. Others think that matariki are the eyes of the gods.

Continents of the world

Reading task

Fossils

Fossils are dead animals or plants. They are usually skeletons found embedded in rock. Sometimes fossils are footprints or poo. Small animals or insects get stuck in tree sap which hardens and traps them forever. Large animals can get trapped in ice, or their carcass gets trapped in layers of rock. Over thousands of years, pressure builds up and the ground. Next the mould left is filled with minerals that form rock. This rock shape is the fossil - an exact replica of the dinosaurs. This process takes 10,000 years. Palaeontologists find fossils when the top layer of dirt or rock washes away.

Skeletons - bones in a body

Palaeontologists - A scientist who studies the past. Palae means ‘the past’ and ‘ologist’ means study of.

Embedded - inside

Carcass - dead body

Dissolved - when something disappears in water

Mould - a shape that can be filled

Erode -  washed away by water

Siberia - a country near Russia

Vital - important, crucial, necessary

Climate - weather