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AoLE - Humanities & Science and Technology
Creation
Creation
During our topic, we have explored a range of creation stories. We discussed that different people and religions have different beliefs about different topics; including how the world began. We explored creation stories from the following religions and cultures:
The Hindu creation story,
Chinese Creation Story: Yin and Yang,
Aborigine story,
Christianity creation story.
Following learning about the stories, we created collages of the creators.
Brahma
Brahma
Mother Earth
Mother Earth
Pangu
Pangu
Logan’s group .mov Timeline of Evolution.
Timeline of Evolution.
Evolution Timeline.movThe children were able to sort through the images and data to correctly position the cards to show evolution through the ages.
Identifying stages of evolution.
The children were asked to design a new feature that they would like humans to have to survive.
The children enjoyed being palaeontologists hunting for fossils.
The children enjoyed being palaeontologists hunting for fossils.
To know the stages of fossilisation
To know the stages of fossilisation
Making Fossils
Making Fossils
Block Printing
Block Printing
A New Welsh Dinosaur!
A New Welsh Dinosaur!
After our visit to Cardiff Museum, we were fascinated by the Dracoraptor. We made a collage using different shades of paper and cutting/tearing techniques.
Mary Anning
Mary Anning
Professor Anning was mentioned in our class novel. We wanted to research Mary Anning further; creating an informative poster about her.
Investigating Food Chains
Investigating Food Chains
We began investigating food chains by looking at the key vocabulary that we would need to know. During the topic we had already explored key words like carnivore, herbivore, omnivore, predator and prey.
We were able to learn new vocabulary like food chains, producer and consumer before starting our journey.
We began by researching our own food chains. We discussed how food chains are a part of the circle of life and how each animal has different survival instincts.
We began by researching our own food chains. We discussed how food chains are a part of the circle of life and how each animal has different survival instincts.
We then looked at an owls food chain. We discussed how owls may have lots of different prey. We discovered that owls are nocturnal and hunt during the night.
We also discovered that once an owl has hunted its prey, it creates a pellet in its tummy and regurgitates it. The pellet can contain the bones of its prey which helps us create their food chain.
Dissecting Owl Pellets
Dissecting Owl Pellets
We were so excited to have the opportunity to dissect some owl pellets in school!
We wore gloves in order to protect our hands and used a sheet in order to match the bones to the voles skeleton.
Year 4 thoroughly enjoyed this activity because they got to pull the pellet apart and search for bones (although they were not so keen on the smell!)
We watched a video of an owl regurgitating a pellet to understand how the owl disposes of it. We then compared our pellets to the chart to discover which owl they had come from.
We then drew the food chain that we thought our owl pellet had come from (after washing our hands thoroughly!)
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