Dinosaur history

DINOSAUR HISTORY

By Junefia and Janett

This information report is about dinosaurs that ruled the earth. 

Palaeontologists

A paleontologists are scientists that study ancient things including mammals and dinosaurs. Mary Anning was famous because she was a  fossil hunter and she also finds shell and fossils. Her dad was very clever and he even taught Mary what the fossil were called,she called them “curios”.Mary Anning was much different to another old woman named “Joan Wiffen”,Joan Wiffen was a famous DINOSAUR hunter and she was the first person to find one peice of a dinosaurs tailbone in New Zealand. She proved for the first time that dinosaurs had once been in NZ. One day,Mary’s brother Joseph led her along a cliff,than Mary saw a skull.straight away, Mary could see that this was the skull of no ordinary creature,and it was huge over a metre long.Joan Wiffen was a very smart woman who hunts dinosaurs and see if they are extinct or not extinct.She knew that AMMONITES became extinct at the same time as the dinosaurs,and soon,dinosaurs were at the top of her most wanted list.

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 fossils - 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. When dinosaurs died their skin gets washed off,and then that is when you see the fossil of an dinosaur. 

Age of dinosaurs

The age of dinosaurs when dinosaurs existed. Dinosaurs started existing around 230 million years ago and died 66 million years ago. This time is also called the Mesozoic Era. During this time lots of different animals evolved.  230 mya dinosaurs evolve. 200 mya small mammals appear. 200-146 mya their were no people. 150 mya Birds evolve from dinosaurs. 140 mya first flowering plants appear. 130 mya first snakes evolve from lizard. 65 mya dinosaurs die out.      

What were dinosaurs like?

Some animal eats meat (carnivore), but some animals eat plants (herbivores), some animals eat both (omnivore). Female dinosaurs lay eggs , dinosaurs lives in family’s.  Non avian means dinosaurs that are not birds but avian mean birds. Dinosaur that are warm- blooded because their temperature is always the same. When they eat food they get more energy and then they run fast. But if they don’t eat food they were not have much energy and then they were walk slow. This is called their metabolism. Some dinosaurs had modifications (changes) like horns, spikes, crests or armour. 

Extinction event

Extinction means “DEAD” which means an extinction event is something that all the dinosaurs were dead. The scientist two ideas about how did the dinosaurs die,their ideas were,the dinosaur could have died because of the big meteorite that hit the world and formed earthquakes killed them and it is just like the movie Ice age.

Age of mammals

The Age of Mammals is the period of time after dinosaurs became extinct, and mammals ruled the Earth. It is also called the Cenozoic Era. There are 3 time periods in this Era; palaeogene period-60-58 mya, Neogene period (23-2.6 million years ago) and the Quaternary period (0.25 million years ago). During this time different mammals evolved. Titanoboa becomes one of the predators at the top of the food chain. 55-34 mya:large mammals appear,including horses and camels. 23-2.6 mya: Hominins begin to walk on two legs. 2.6-0 mya:Modern humans evolve.

Dinosaurs were the most powerful creatures to roam the Earth. If they lived now, they would be the dominant species. 

dinosaur knowledge

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.

Mary Anning

Joan Wiffen

oceans of the world

Continents of the world

Matariki art

Talofa lava and greetings to you all,welcome to Rm 7's art for Matariki.

What we need for the art
-sheet of paper that looks like natural mountains.

(cutted from a big thick paper) 

-pastels for the beautiful light on the background.

Miss Ashley keeps repeating the same thing she says"hard,soft,lighter,hard,soft,lighter"

-Paper clips to hold down the sheet so it doesn't move while we do the colouring.

-white paint for the seven stars and the other small tiny stars around the special stars.

-Ana a black sheet for the darkness day.

It was very fun when we started but a kind of  messy in the end after all of the students were finished.

Matariki retelling

Matariki story 

Matariki is the name for a star cluster that includes the star Matariki,there are eight other stars that can be seen in the cluster.Matariki is first seen in New Zealand skies between late May and early June, this marks the start of the Maori new year.Matariki is the eldest star out of the seven stars.the seven stars name are Waiti,Waita,Waipuna-rangi,Tupu-a-nuku,Tupu-a-rangi,Uru-a-rangi,and Matariki.It is very special for the Maori new year.

BY:Junefia Wilco

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 skeleton is dissolved by water under the ground.

Next the mould left in filled with minerals that form rock.

This rock shape is the  fossil-an exact replica of the dinosaur.This process takes 10,000 years.

Palaeontologists find fossils when the top layer of dirt or rock washes away.

WORDS

Dissolved,mould,erodel,mammoth,climate

vital,Siberia,carcass.

Ostrich description

Richard Owen’s

The ostrich's lived at “Africa”,a male ostrich is 2.1-2.8 meters high and a female ostrich is only 1.7-2 meters high.It can run 70 km per hour,it mainly eats roots,plants, and seeds but they don’t like eating those things then it might eat insects,snakes, and lizards and rats and mice.An ostrich is a unique looking animal,it has two long skinny legs,a big  body with two small wings, and a long neck.It’s body is covered with big feathers.The truth is that all the ostriches are not Extinct.A ostrich can really kill humans and a wild lion.

The eighth wonder of the world

Ako evening

On Ako evening,Tamaki Primary school had a very special project for the Tamaki students to have their time to explain their class presentation to their parents.

My and my partners presentation was making a comic book about retelling Maui myths.It took us one whole week to finish it,a lot of time but take ages to change every single thing like the backgrounds and the words.

“These two partners look like they are having fun”

They’re presentation is NZ money,now they are really famous,One type of money was called a dollar “NOTE”,one of them are 20 dollar notes,one side has Queen Elizabeth on it and the other has a type of NZ bird.

This is Maria’s group’s presentation,their fabulous games was called “KAHOOT!”.They really are clever of what they should actually do because nearly everyone came to their outstanding presentation.

The thing is that if you were the first place on the big screen(tv)it means that did read the whole story with out just skipping the important information and you get a special treat.

This game was made by a group of boys,they named it “Guess who”.When you guess it right you get a token.People did really enjoy it.

BY:Junefia Wilco.