Jasmine's Bottlenose Research

Bottlenose Dolphins

Dolphins are well known by their intelligence and their kindness. Their mouths are curved to show their appearance of friendliness, and they can also be trained complex tricks to perform.

Bottlenose Dolphins can swim 18 miles per hour. To breath they swim to the surface for 2-3 every minute. Schools of Dolphins would come to aid an injured Dolphin by bringing it to the closest shore.

Bottlenose Dolphins track their prey through the use of echolocation to find out where the prey is and how big it is. They can make nearly 1,000 clicking noises every second. The sounds they make to find food travels underwater until it meets their prey, then it bounces back to the Dolphin who sent the sound and the Dolphin finds out their prey's location, size and the shape of their prey. When they are feeding, they often eat bottom dwelling fish. They also eat shrimps and squids.

These Dolphins can be found in tropical oceans and other warm waters surrounding the earth. They are scattered around the world in oceans. They avoid the Arctic oceans in the north and also the Antarctic ocean down south, where the water starts to get cold.

Dolphins travel in groups and communicate by squeaks and whistles. They are sometimes spotted following fishing boats in hopes of the fisherman's dinner leftovers. 

Once Dolphins were widely hunted for meat and oil. Today limited Dolphin fishing takes place. They are being threatened because of commercial fishing for other sea animals. They can also become tangled in fishing nets and other fishing equipment, which leads to their death.

Fast Facts about Bottlenose Dolphins:

They are: Mammals

They are: Carnivores

Their size is: 10-14 ft

Their weight is: about 1,000 lbs

Did you know?

Dolphins sleep with one of their eye open and the other closed.

To stop drowning, dolphins keep ½ of their brain awake and the other ½ sleeping so they can continue breathing.

By:Jasmine

Jasmine's Camp Poem

Camp Poem

Another fun day was rising,

As other people were realizing,

That today was the day for the beach!

We all hopped into the bus,

Without any fuss,

Though the top of

the bus was out of reach.

Morning tea is very close

And all my food is very gross.

The black sand is steaming hot.

Learning how to recognize a rip

makes me want to bite my lip.

Thinking about this

Makes me want

to trot.

Lunch is super near

I smell the fear

For me to eat!

Ran down the glittery sand

slipping off my hand,

Beating my feet on the ground

with the best beat!

By Jasmine

Jasmine's Mind Mup

I used a Mind Map (on a programme called Mind Mup!) to show all of the different things I think of when I think about school. I hope you like it. Can you think of anything I should have added?

Jasmine's Senses Poem

Summer Senses

    Summer smells like the mouth-watering scent of sausages being grilled on a steaming barbecue. As I ride past the windy beach, I can smell the salty sea foaming onto the wet sand. I love the delicious smell of Fish n Chips being cooked by my mum.

    Summer sounds like the beautiful birds singing loud and clear like the cow's bells ringing. I can hear little kids singing with the birds. I like to hear pop music from my stereo.

    Summer tastes like the cold vanilla Ice cream melting in my mouth. I can taste the juicy steak fresh of the barbecue. I like to taste the freshly caught, salty Fish 'n Chips.

    Summer looks like a green healthy environment near the beach. I can see the sun shining brightly on the cold, heavy waves pushing me onto shore, As I walk along the golden sand, I love to see the colourful sea shells scattered on the shore.

    Summer feels like the soft sand sliding off my hand like silk. I like to feel the cold water sticking to my body. I enjoy feeling the cold big waves pushing me to shore.

By: Jasmine 

Jasmine's Comic Life (Camp)

Our Water Filter

Hi everyone!

We are The Rock Stars.

We made water filters today. Here is what we did, in case you want to make one at home. Make sure you do it outdoors so you don’t make a mess!!!

In our water filter we had:

• Cotton (at the bottom of the container that has holes) make sure you cover the container and you can’t see any plastic at the bottom
• Sand (cover the cotton)
• Rocks (you don’t need to cover the sand)
• Charcoal
• Grass (only a little bit)
• Tissue Paper (fold to fit into bottle)
• Rocks again (same type of rocks)

 

Steps

1. Poke holes so when you pour water in it will come back out
2. Put the cottons in first and make sure you can’t see any plastic
3. Put the sand in which covers the cottons
4. Add the rocks in, to cover the sand
5. Break the charcoal into little pieces and put them in after the rocks
6. Now find some grasses that doesn’t cover the whole thing
7. Take a piece of tissue and fold into the size that would fit inside and put it in
8. Now add the rocks again which is the same type of the rocks in step  4
9. Put another bottle underneath the container with holes
10. Take some water from the tap
11. Pour them into the container with the holes
12. Wait and you will see that the water you put in will come out dirtier than the normal water
13. Pour again into a different bucket and put it back underneath the container with holes
14. Now pour the water in the bucket that has holes
15. Wait again and see if it is clean
16. If it is still dirty repeat step 13 & 14 until you get the water clean
17. If it is clean then drink it if it doesn’t have any other stuff in it (make sure it is absolutely clear)

 

Jasmine said:

Our class made filters this morning. It was lots of fun.

The container that I brought to school was bigger than the Pump bottle that Yuan brought, so we had to duct tape the sides so water will not drip out.

Yuan said:

I brought 2 bottles to school and traded 1 bottle to someone (because they didn’t have a bottle) and they gave some sand back to us. My other teacher, Mrs Figgins came to our class and helped us make the water filter. I hope you have a good time trying  the water filter. Try not to make any big mistakes. :D

Michael said:

It was fun doing the filter but it had its challenges like when we had to find good charcoal and get stones around school.

Jaimie said:

I loved the experiment.  I would of drunk the water but we weren’t allowed to, because we weren't sure if it was safe or not. I also loved making muddy water!!!