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What is it?
What is it?
We had lots of fun looking at items and pictures from the 1980's. Using contemporary evidence from this era and collaborating to decipher the purpose of each item.
Some of the items looked familiar but some we had never seen before (only in old films!)
We couldn't believe that there were no seatbelts in cars, lots of different types of toys but most importantly...
NO IPADS OR FAST INTERNET!
(What did everyone do with their time?)
What do we want to find out?
What do we want to find out?
At the beginning of the topic, we had lots of questions and ideas of things that we would like to learn about. This included:
The cost of items in the 80s.
Differences in style and fashion.
What toys and activities did children use?
Was there any disasters?
What were the key events of the 80s?
1980's Timeline
1980's Timeline
In groups, we created a timeline of key events during the 1980s. Some key events included:
The creation of the Rubix's Cube,
The Miners' Strike 1984,
The Challenger Space Disaster in 1986,
www. - World Wide Web!
Creation of video games.
We loved using our numeracy skills to place the dates on the timeline in order.
After this lesson, Dosbarth Du decided they wanted to research the Miners Strike and Dosbarth Arian decided that they wanted to learn about the Challenger Space Disaster.
1984 Miners' Strike
1984 Miners' Strike
Dosbarth Du were interested in learning about the 1984 Miner's Strike as it affected the local community.
We were very lucky that Dosbarth Gwyn ( Year 5) learned all about this for their topic Cynefin Cwmlai and were willing to teach the children about everything that they had learned. There was a lot of discussion and questions being asked and Dosbarth Gwyn provided lots of answers. Diolch Dosbarth Gwyn!
Expressive Arts - Miners' Portraits
Expressive Arts - Miners' Portraits
We were inspired by the artist Valerie Ganz and her artwork of miners. We looked closely at her print, 'A Miner Going Home' and tried to replicate this image using pastels and chalk.
Take a look at our work below...
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
Dosbarth Arian delved into learning about space travel and the Challenger disaster.
We started by having a class discussion about the event as it was quite emotional.
The children created a list of questions that they would like to research. These included:
What was the Challenger?
When did the disaster happen?
Who was involved?
Why and how did it happen?
Where did the disaster occur?
The children used Chromebooks to find answers to their questions. They chose different ways to represent this information. Then, using the information that they had found, they created an Adobe video about the disaster.
Science - Light and Sound
Science - Light and Sound
During our science lessons, we began investigating light. We firstly discovered that light is a form of energy made up of a spectrum of colours.
We used torches around the class to find objects that are opaque, transparent and translucent. We were shocked by some of the items!
In groups, we were challenged to prove that light travels in a straight line by using pegs, cardboard, pencils and a torch. It's safe to say we found this challenging! With a range of clues, we finally discovered how to prove that light travels in straight lines!
Sound
Sound
We really enjoyed researching sound to create an informative poster that answered our questions.
We also explored sound practically by looking at how sound travelled by creating vibrations. We seen this on a drum with rice!
Expressive Arts - 80's Street Art
Expressive Arts - 80's Street Art
Dosbarth Arian were inspired by this colourful street art from the 80s! We wanted to create our own.
We started by painting an A3 piece of paper with brightly coloured shapes.
Then we used black paint to create a patterned design.
We were so proud of our 80s art!
Shadows Investigations
Shadows Investigations
We conducted an investigation to see if the size of a shadow would change if the distance between the light source and object grew.
We were surprised by our findings!
We investigated how the distance between a torch and an object can effect the size of a shadow.
We wrote a prediction and collated our results into a table.
We then used our table of results to create an accurate bar chart.
Following this we wrote a conclusion and evaluation of the experiment.
We also investigated if our shadows moved during the day on the yard. We went outside 4 times during the same day to measure them. Most of us predicted that the shadow would stay in the same place... BUT to our surprise they moved and got smaller due to the position of the sun!
Shadow Puppets
Shadow Puppets
The children were inspired by the work that they had completed for the 80th Anniversary of D-Day to produce a puppet show about the D-Day landings.
Gaming - Super Mario
Collaboration Project
Gaming - Super Mario
Collaboration Project
We worked in groups across our two classes and collaborated to research the major changes to the game, 'Super Mario', through the decades. We loved working together across the classes and learnt so much from each other. We looked at lots of different elements including:
Music Games Consoles Character Development Green Screen
Have a look at what we explored...
Review of Mario Games from 1985-2024.
Review of Mario Games from 1985-2024.
Mario Coding
Mario Coding
Super Mario using the Green Screen
Super Mario using the Green Screen
Mario Music with Mr Evans
Mario Music with Mr Evans
IMG_0077.MOVWe had to follow the beat to the Mario music by saying a word for each note! We looked at the different lengths of the notes and clapped different rhythms. We are making compositions using Mario words of our own.
Movie Trailer Project: Posters
Movie Trailer Project: Posters
They used Adobe, iPads and the green screen to create them! Take a look at our poster gallery!
After watching some Gen X and Gen Alpha movie trailers; Year 4 decided that they would like to create their own! They started by chosing a genre and creating posters in their groups.
Film Classification
Film Classification
Whilst we were making our film posters, we decided that we would like to learn more about film classification.
We learnt the reasons why films and games have ratings and how to keep ourselves safe by viewing appropriate content for our age.
Movie Trailer Project: iMovies
Movie Trailer Project: iMovies
After creating the posters, we moved on to creating our trailers. We loved learning how to use iMovie and the green screen app in more detail to make the trailers.
Here are some behind the scenes sneak peeks!
At the end of the week, we hosted our very own premier to showcase our work to eachother. We were so proud of everyone and offered some verbal feedback! Take a look at a few of our trailers below.
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Recycled Fashion Show!
We researched how fashion has changed and developed from Gen X to Gen Alpha. We were surprised when we noticed that some fashion trends come back around! We designed, created and modelled our own versions of recycled fashion - using colourful bin bags!
IMG_7465.MOVGen X or Gen Alpha - Who Won?
Gen X or Gen Alpha - Who Won?
At the end of the topic, we reflected on all of the different facts that we had learnt to decide what generation was the best. After a lot of discussion and debate, the majority vote went to.... GENERATION X! The children loved exploring the differences in generations and decided that they would like to try and spend less time gaming and more quality time with eachother!
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