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Whitebait Fritters are an all time Kiwi favourite. Everyone has their own "best" recipe.

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Laundry Advertisements

Walt: think critically about texts.

Key Concepts:

What is in washing powder?

What makes washing powder work?

What is better - powder or liquid?

What changes take place when washing powder is used to clean clothes

Instructions:

1. Watch the advertisements critically

- What are the advertisements trying to tell you?

- Do any parts of them seem exaggerate or offer false ideas?

2. Read and discuss the text with your reading group.

3. Jingle task

- Create a jingle using the jingle template

- Jingle example

4. CREATE: Get into a group of 3-4 and write a commercial for you to create a movie using of one of your jingles. This can be done with anyone from our class.

Texts:

Does it matter which laundry detergent I use?

Activities:

Writing your own Jingle

Myth: Are all Washing Powders the Same?

Walt: to synthesise information across multiple texts

Key Concepts:

What is in washing powder?

What makes washing powder work?

What is better - powder or liquid?

What changes take place when washing powder is used to clean clothes

Text: Detergents and Soaps

Instructions:

1. Read Detergents and Soaps and discuss with your reading group.

2. Watch the Soap and Oil video and complete a Scientific Method Sheet describing the experiment that the boy does in the movie.

3. Choose one of the additional texts to read, and then make a 30 second video for your blog telling your readers 3-5 things you learnt from the reading.

Additional Texts:

Washing in the 1800s

Liquid or Powder?

Front or Top Loader

Laundry Mistakes

Pseudoscience

WALT: show a developing understanding of ideas within, across, and beyond texts.

FOCUS: Use our growing science knowledge when considering issues of concern.

Instructions:

1. Continue to work on completing Blog Log, and animation this week.

2. Meet with Mrs. Moala to discuss the text Pseudoscience.

3. Continue reading the text while completing the Assignment.

4. Choose one of the additional texts to read, and then make a 30 second video for your blog telling your readers 3-5 things you learnt from the reading. Be sure that at least 2 of the things you learnt focus on something to do with your knowledge of science or the science behind the topic.

4. Reading Eggs.

Text: Pseudoscience