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Thursday, August 6, 2009

Exciting video conference


This week on Wednesday our year 5&6 Extension class had a exciting video conference with an
famous geologist named Hamish Campbell. It was exciting to see him again. We were all nervous.


In the beginning we were a little bit shy. But as he started talking about the earthquake we started to think of some questions to ask.


When he told us about the seismometer. We showed him our one made out of paper. He was so impressed when we showed our example.
Here is a picture of some of us working on it.

Then he said about New Zealand moving 35 cm closer to Australia and lasted 30 seconds. He said it was the biggest earthquake in 87 years. But on  July 28 1976 at 3:42 am  that there was a report that at Tangshan China on the northeastern there was a magnitude of 7.8  242,000 people died. It was like the one here luckily no one died at the end.
 We really learnt a lot.


We would like to say a huge thank you to Diana for setting up this amazing video conference.
Hope we get to have another opportunity to have a video conferences with Hamish.

2 comments:

  1. Hi Bobbi-Grace
    I found your report on the conference you had with Hamish Campbell very interesting. You certainly know alot about earthquakes now.

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  2. Hi Bobbi,

    I found your report very interesting. I can tell that you really enjoyed doing both those events. It is really awesome i'm most likely going to try to make a my own SIESMOMETER.

    Have a great time and also keep up the great writing.

    Latu

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