As promised, today Ms Jane brought in some rice plants for 5MJ to look at. She brought red rice, white rice and rice seeds for planting. The students were very interested to look at the plants and to continue their inquiry into how rice is grown and distributed.
Each student wrote a blog post about the rice. Some students were so excited they decided to make a poster about the rice. Other students made a video to show the grain of rice inside the husk.
We chatted about many things throughout this lesson.
Ms Jane brought in 3 kinds of rice
5MJ takes a closer look at the rice plants
They were excited to try to open up the rice to find the seed.
Rifqi takes a look and finds to rice grain inside.
Here is the rice grain for the red rice.
We watched a news clip that Ms Agnes found from Indosiar TV about rotten rice. Some people have no choice but to eat Nasi Aking which is rice from a rubbish bin that has been thrown away. This rice is dried out and cooked again. It is eaten with shredded coconut to make it taste better.
Here is the Indosiar video clip about Nasi Aking.
Student blogging in action ...
Many students made posters and movies which they captured with their Photo Booth on their Macbooks. This was a spontaneous reaction as they were intent on capturing their personal learning.
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