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Visual art, yep.

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 Hey guys! So over the past few weeks, we have been making an abstract picture of an endemic animal for our art exhibition. And oh, you might ask, what endemic means? Endemic means that either a plant or animal is from a certain place, and is restricted in that place. And not anywhere else. Anyway, let's start with the process of the visual art.  Here are the materials you need : - Acrylic paint - Paint brushes  - A thick piece of paper - Pencil - Pen - Art book - Our device (chromebooks in this blog.) 1.The first thing we did was listing animals in our device, and more animals...  2. Then we chose an animal (Mine is a bluegill bully, the animal type is an eel) 3. Find 4 photos of your animal.  4. Choose one of the 4 photos for the 4th step and well, there you go! The decision-making steps are over. :D 5. And this is where the drawing and painting begins. We sketch some some pictures of our creature.  6.Choose one of your drawings (mayb

How to make a flood-proof house

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Hello there! From a few days before, we have been creating models of a flood-proof house. We used our prior knowledge and texts from of a book, called 'Building for the Future'. It was about a country, Samoa, had been massacred by typhoons and other disasters. So the chief, and some people who came to Samoa discussed about how they are going to survive more storms. After we made the model, we labelled and analysed it. Next time I want to cover the strips with short walls. I thought that Samoa was a nice, tropical island where they enjoy their life. But I realised that they experienced lots of storms.  We explained the purposes of features that the house has. Here is mine, there are labels for you to understand.  This is the house I made.