Inquiry research into Colour

Room 10 has been working on an inquiry theme about colour. Our inquiry led us to look at colours used in different countries' flags. We used our prior knowledge and wrote all the things we know about flags for the tuning in stage. Our questions raised some interesting points that we discussed and went on to research. It led to more wonderings and even MORE questions at the Finding Out stage. Next we sifted and sorted and made meaning of what we knew by focussing on the Football World Cup colours and flags. In this sorting out time, we had a mini football World Cup at school. Our class were  grouped into three different countries. This helped create new knowledge at the thinking deeper stage. We did a survey of 100 people and found out some people wanted to change N.Z. 's flag and some didn't want it changed. We interviewed Mrs Field's son, Sam, who represented N.Z. In the NZ Secondary Schools Under 15 Football team last year. His team went to Malaysia. His interview is getting uploaded soon.

We had a visit from Tayla's Dad who is part of the 2014 Waka Ama team in Rio, Brazil. You can read his ideas about the colours and symbols that are important to him in a separate post. This explaining part of our inquiry has helped us reflect on our own ideas. Our action is to write persuasive arguments for and against changing the flag and design our own flag for N.Z. We will present the best ones to Mr Craig Foss, our local Member of parliament. It has been a great inquiry. Our final action is to have a mini Commonwealth games day later this week. How is that for ACTION!