Inquiry So What

V4 have been deciding what we can do with our learning about living a Balanced life.

We asked ourselves...

So What? Now What? 

We have spent time learning about living balanced lives. 

What are we going to with our learning?   

We used the 3 Steps organiser to help decide what our class 

So What? Now What? could be.

What did we do?	What did we learn?	What could the Now What? So What be?
Researched sleep.	Children our age need 10 to 12 hours of sleep. When you do not get enough sleep it effects your learning and you cannot think straight. We need sleep to grow and rebuilds cells. (regeneration)	We can use these ideas in our inquiry share. Mini book for the school library We share what we have learnt on our blog (iMovie) Make a show to tell other children in our school live balanced lives. Share our raps Promote a perfect school lunch Mini notices for the children  Make posters Decision: The Perfect Lunchbox
Researched exercise.	Exercise burns extra energy. Children our age need  45 to 60 minutes of exercise a day, but 1 to 2 hours is best. With no exercise our extra energy turns into fat.
Interviewed our parents and grandparents with how to find out what was in their lunch.	Our grandparents and parents lunches were different to ours. They had less packaged food. They mainly had home made. Some parents had cooked lunches at school. They ate less food. They used paper bags. Some of us think our lunches are yummier now.
Completed a statistical investigation about yoghurt.	Sugar is the worst thing in yoghurt. Fruit yoghurts contain the most sugar. Most yoghurts contain 2 to 4 grams of fat. Most flavoured yoghurts have 30 to 60 µ. We learnt how to conduct an investigation.
Found out how to write recipes.	We need to be specific of the amounts needed. A blurb is good to persuade people to make your recipe. Listing the ingredients in the order of use… thinkitgreat…
Wrote raps about what we had learnt. Puppet Pals 2nd Ideas.	They showed us what we had learnt and Bridget then knew we needed to learn about mental health because no one had mentioned it.
Wrote SMART goals.	If you do not have goals you will go no where in life. Setting goals improves your lifestyle. Gives your a target to work towards.
Investigated our own lunch boxes.	Boys and girls are similar in what in they have in their lunch boxes. Boys had more sugar. Boys had more food.
Learnt about mental health.	If a part of mental health starts to break then the others start falling apart. There are 4 parts (physical, mental and emotion, social and spiritual) What you can do look after our mental health.
Inquiry Posters.	We learnt about different parts of food and makes it up. Proteins Fats Enzymes Carbs…
Wrote a class treaty.	It helps everyones mental health because then we look after each other. How to work better as team. Everyone needs to agree. We can set challenges.

After considering what we had learnt, we decided as a class that the our voices could be the most powerful when influencing the other children at Island Bay School. We have decided to promote a 'Perfect Lunchbox' because we believe this can have real impact on the health and learning of the children at our school. We now have to decide how we are going to do this.