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Water Worries
Pseudoscience
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Week 5
Walt:
Instructions
Links
Experiment to prove that Rubbish does not exist
Walt: Think about inferences made within the text
Instructions:
1. Read through the story again
2. Complete your alphabet key
3. Write 3+ sentences of what you learned from the text and post it with your activity to your blog.
Fast Finishers: Complete Year 6 Camp Writing, Other activities on the blog log,
Animations, Reading Eggs, Blog Commenting
Pseudoscience
Walt: Understand what pseudoscience means
Research to prove or bust theories based on findings
Instructions:
1. Use the slides to help you find proof to support your answers
2. List the three pseudoscience ideas from the text and write down why they aren't true
3. Write a paragraph to explain why scientists work have to be reliable and valid and why they critique each other
4. We will work on the experiment of healthy chips together and you will have a followup for it
Read the articles and be prepared to share one idea from them
Fast Finishers: Reading Eggs, animations and blog commenting
Text: Pseudoscience by Sophie Fern
Site: Pseudoscience follow this site and complete one activity to post to your blog
Activity: Agree/ Disagree
Extended Texts (you need to read both of these articles)
Potato Chips Investigation Followup
Watch the video below and list 3 ideas from it. You might need to watch it more than once
Water Worries
Walt: Understand the water cycle
Explain how water is reused
Key Concept:
Instructions
1. Make a copy of your activity and file it 2. Answer each slide carefully 3. Do you understand the water cycle? 4. What can we do to save water? Write 3+ sentences to explain what you have learned from reading this article Read at least one of the extended texts. In the collaborative doc, write one fact that you read about. Do not repeat any ideas.
Texts: Water Worries by Rachel McMillan
School Journal April 2012 Level 3
Extended Texts (you need to read at least 1)
Severe weather more likely thanks to climate change
Links: Activity
Collaborative Doc (all must fill in)
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