Weet - bix-Term2
Making Amazing Places
Walt: use information from a range of texts.
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read the text carefully
Text: Making Amazing Places
2. Make a copy of Designing your own amazing playground
- You are going to design your own playground in groups of 2 using the steps that are laid out in our text.
- You will need to think about what students at Pt England school would like to have in a playground, what ideas are already awesome that you could adapt and researching some amazing playgrounds from around the world.
- Once you have finished your design you need to post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining your learning and post to the learning log.
Biographies of Inventors
Walt: gather information and put it into our own words.
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read the text carefully
2. Select one of the inventors you have read about.
Complete the About an Inventor presentation about them. - Remember to write the sentences in your own words. Do not copy and paste from the text. - Use the information from the texts and do some research to find out more about your inventor. - Make your presentation look good by changing its background, text font and adding free to use images. - Post this to your blog with a sentence about what you have been learning.
Text: Biographies of Inventors
Rice, Rice, Rice
Walt: Summarising - locate and summarise ideas
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully
2. Use your story to write your own Story Review
Text: Rice, Rice, Rice
Basket Boats
Walt: Inferring - use prior knowledge to help make meaning of information in a text.
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully
2. While reading make a copy of Basket Boat Mindmap and add facts.
3. Boat Sale Newspaper Instructions
- Read the instructions then make a copy this template.
- Choose another boat as well as a Basket Boat to sell.
- Add photos and write about each boat.
- Give as much detail to make people want to buy your boats.
- Post this onto your blog.
Text: Basket Boats
Elephants' Next Act
Walt: recognise different text structures and language features of a news reports.
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully.
2. Answer the comprehension questions following the story.
Text: Elephants' Next Act
A History of Rock
Walt: Find clues in the text to help us comprehend what we read
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully
2. Makey Makey Design Challenge
- Think about how you could make a better controller.
- Complete this presentation with with as much detail as you can.
- Make the actual design and record each prototype.
- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining your learning.
Text: A History of Rock
A Tyreful of Air
Walt: understand that technology can be developed further
to resolve a problem.
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully
2. Skateboard Design Challenge
- Think about how you want to improve the skateboard and why.
- Complete this with as much detail as you can.
- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining your learning.
Text: A Tyreful of Air
Puppet Making in Cambodia
Walt: Ask questions before and during reading to focus my understanding
Instructions
Follow ALL instructions
1. Read your story carefully
- Complete this with as much detail as you can
- Remember to add in lots of colour, photos and design.
- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining your learning.
3. Create final animation plan.
4. Complete a Game Review.
Text: Puppet Making in Cambodia
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