The document provides information and questions about several topics for a class: 1) Drones - It asks students to watch a video about drones and answer questions about what drones are, how they are used for filming events and news gathering, how the military uses them, and the ethical debates around their use. 2) School values - It mentions that the class will be revisiting the school values and core rules, and asks questions about the value of humour. 3) Mathematics - It provides two math problems, one involving saving increasing amounts of money each month and the other counting the number of times the number 2 appears between 1 and 100. 4) Inquiry - It presents a riddle with

1. Due Friday 16th March 2012 T1W8
Current What is happening around us?
Events Drones
Watch this short video titled Drones and answer the following questions
(The short video is also on the blog. Let me know if you cant view it at
home and I will let you watch it during the week at school).
1. In your own words, describe what a drone is.
2. What sorts of events are drones filming?
3. How are they being used for news gathering?
4. Describe the different ways drones could be used.
5. How do the military use them?
6. Drones being sent to places like Afghanistan are being operated from ___________.
7. Describe the ethical debate about using drones.
8. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using drones?
9. What do you understand more clearly since watching the story?
Values What do we value?
We will be revisiting the school values and
core rules over the next few weeks.
Humour
- What does this mean to you?
- Have you seen an example of someone using
humour to help someone feel better ?
How did this affect you?
- Think of a time when you used humour to
help a friend.
Mathematics 1.a) If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1,
$6.00 on March 1, $8.00 on April 1, and so on, how much
money would you save in one year?
1.b) If you saved $2.00 on January 1, $4.00 on February 1,
$8.00 on March 1, $16.00 on April 1, and so on. How much
money would you save in one year?
2) Ethel made a list of all the whole numbers between 1 to 100.
How many times did she write the number 2?This week you
will also be completing some written maths tasks in your
text book.
Inquiry What are the words?
Each of the following are four-letter words with the same two letters
missing.

2. Can you work out what the two letters are, and what the five words
are?
S–O– –O–S –OS– S–O– –O–S
The Riddle of The Trumpalar
Now we have finished the book what does this riddle mean to you?
"When battle's fought,
and proof be sought.
Beside the spring,
the metal ring.
Below the slate,
that holds the date.'