Maraia - Current Events See Through Wings Term 2 2021

  See Through Wings 

WALT : Analyse media with an open but critical eye to inform our own opinions

Today in class we did our Current Events activity and for this Current Events Activity is about See  through wings. We had to read the whole article then answer the recall questions and do our glossary, a glossary is a list of words that you don't know the meaning to but then you you find out the meaning and write the 4 . After we do all that that we came move onto the activities.  For the activity that page will give us answers and we have to find the answers in the article. Like if the page says "I am the word scientists use to describe animals that live in colonies" then we have to look and find the answer in the article and the answer was Eusocial. 

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The main group of people in this article “See Through Wings” is a group of researchers from an American university wanting to find out what made the wings of certain butterflies. The key Event in this article is finding out what the wings of different butterflies are made of. This Event took place in South America. This event took place on the 1st July 2021

Some words I learnt about

Exceptions - a person or thing that is excluded from a general statement.

Membrane - a thin sheet of tissue or layer of cells acting as a boundary, lining

Repel - drive or force an attack or attacker back or away.

Metamorphosis.- in an insect or amphibian.

Proboscis, - the nose of a mammal

This article was about a group of researchers from an american university wanting to find out more about different species of butterflies and moths but they choose the glasswinged butterfly. It then said Butterflies start out as A larva, or caterpillar, hatches from it and ater, the caterpillar forms a cocoon, then it breaks out of the cocoon and becomes a butterfly or moth. Many people can’t tell moths and butterflies apart, but there are a lot of different thins about them. Like this most butterflies are active during the daytime and majority of moths fly at night time. If you touch a butterfly or moth wing, you will see tiny dust particles on your fingers. These are the scales that cover their wings.  Not all lot of insects have scales on there wings. The scales repel water. The glasswing butterfly lives in Colombia, in South America, and the Central American countries of Mexico and Panama. The butterflies also migrate and you might also see them in the southern parts of the USA. The parts of their wings between the veins look like glass.

It took place in Mexico.  It is the third largest country in Latin America. It is also one of the chief economic and political forces in Latin America It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean