Friday
Week M – Stage 3
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
2 coins
a bottle cap
an everyday object (e.g. a chair, shoe, hairbrush, lunchbox)
paper
a ruler or tape measure
3 items that are small rectangular prisms e.g. tissue box
a calculator
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
Automatic arm raise
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Automatic arm raise
Duration: 1:58
English
You will need:
Onomatopoeia
Yesterday we read 'The Rain Frog's Song'. Let's read it again!
Read all or part of the story 'The Rain Frog's Song' by Wendy McKay-Taylor from The School Magazine.
'The Rain Frog's Song' by Wendy McKay-Taylor – The School Magazine
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Identify the onomatopoeia examples in the text with the teacher in the video.
Read the descriptions with the teacher in the video.
Record an onomatopoeic example for each description.
Onomatopoeia
Duration: 4:06
Share your work with your teacher.
How did they know?
Let's explore 'The Rain Frog's Song' some more!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
How did Maggie and her mother know the rain was coming?
Complete the table with the teacher in the video, recording the observations you have made when rain is coming.
How did they know?
Duration: 3:39
Share your work with your teacher.
The rain is finally here!
It's time to create your own text about rain!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook
recording device (optional).
Using 'The Rain Frog's Song' as inspiration, write a newspaper article or present a TV news story about rain falling for the first time in years.
Create a fictional town name and report on what the rain finally means to the town.
The rain is finally here!
Duration: 2:38
Share your work with your teacher.
Check-in survey – English
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Brain break
You will need:
Let's recharge!
It’s time for a brain break so we can recharge for some more learning!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
paper
2 coins
a bottle cap
someone to play with.
Australia's Coin Sports – Cricket
Duration: 1:00
Virtual excursion
The Royal Australian Mint
We are going to end our virtual excursion to the Mint by seeing how coins are made. We will also meet the robots who help make them!
Image by hddigital/Shutterstock.com
Circulating coin hall
Duration: 3:57
Behind the News
Duration: 3:45
Mathematics
You will need:
Check all faces
Let's explore measuring 1 square metre!
You will need:
3 household items that are small rectangular prisms (e.g. a tissue box, internet modem, cereal box, speaker or shoe box)
a ruler or tape measure
pencils
paper.
Instructions:
Select 3 household items that are small rectangular prisms (e.g. a tissue box, internet modem, cereal box, speaker, shoe box).
Estimate which item has the greatest surface area.
Measure, calculate and record the area of each face and the total surface area of each item.
Ensure all faces have been accounted for.
Imagine you are wrapping your three items as a gift for a family member or friend. Investigate how much wrapping paper can be saved by wrapping the three items together as opposed to wrapping each individually.
Start by measuring and calculating the surface area of the stacked items (rectangular prisms).
Reflect:
Did every face of an item have to be measured individually? Why or why not?
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
If you stacked your 3 items differently, would it change the total surface area and wrapping paper required? Explain your thinking.
Birthday trickery
Get ready to learn a fun maths 'trick'! It's not magic, it's maths!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a calculator.
Test the calculator trick for your own birthday.
Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
How to ‘calculate’ your birthday (select arrow to view):
Press the ‘C’ button to clear your calculator.
Enter 7.
Multiply by the month of your birth (e.g. January = 1, February = 2) and press equals.
Subtract 1 from that number and press equals.
Multiply that number by 13 and press equals.
Add the date of your birth (e.g. if you were born on the 21st add 21) to that number and press equals.
Add 3 and press equals.
Multiply your number by 11 and press equals.
Subtract the month of your birth (e.g. January =1, February =2) and press equals.
Subtract the date of your birth (e.g. if you were born on the 21st subtract 21) and press equals.
Divide this number by 10 and press equals.
Add 11 and press equals.
Divide this number by 100.
The remaining digitals should reveal the month and the date of your birth as a decimal.
Does this calculator trick work for your friends and family? Try it on someone else.
Explain how it works.
For those who like a challenge!
Have a go at another maths trick!
Instructions:
Choose any number on the grid. Write it down.
Write down a second number, but it has to be in a different row and different column to your first number.
Record a third number. Again, it has to be in a different row and different column to your first 2 numbers.
Write down a fourth number. Once again, it has to be in a different row and different column to your first 3 numbers.
Add the four numbers together.
Your sum will be 34.
Did we guess it? How did we know what the answer was going to be?
Try it on someone else. Can you explain how it works?
Number grid
STEM
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S.C.A.M.P.E.R. brainstorm
Today's STEM challenge is to use the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. brainstorming method to generate new ideas for an everyday object!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook
an everyday object (e.g. a chair, shoe, hairbrush, lunchbox).
Download the instructions for this task:
Brainstorming with S.C.A.M.P.E.R. challenge task card
(Word doc, 1.4 MB).
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. brainstorm
Duration: 13:43
We can use the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. thinking strategy to brainstorm new ideas for an object, ways of doing things, or almost anything!
Substitute: What other materials could you make this item out of to improve it?
Combine: What would happen if you combined this item with something else?
Adapt: How could you make a slight change to it to suit a new situation?
Modify: How could you make a major change to the object? Could you make it bigger, smaller or change its shape?
Put to other uses: What else could you use this object for?
Eliminate: What would happen if you eliminated or removed parts of the object?
Rearrange: What if you moved the parts around or switched them?
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. helps us to think of endless possibilities.
S.C.A.M.P.E.R. an everyday object (e.g. a chair, shoe, hairbrush, lunchbox).
Once you have 'SCAMPERed' your object, choose the ideas you like the most and develop them some more.
Hint! Use the pictures from the video and the ones below to help get you started!
Original chair
A common chair in its original form.
"Thonet plywood chair" by D68 design+art is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Substitute
Substitute the legs with wheels.
"Wheelchair Racers" by PMillera4 is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Combine
A chair combined with a lawnmower.
"An Etesia brand ride-on lawn mower at Parham Park, West Sussex, England" by Acabashi is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0
Adapt
A chair is adapted to become a stairlift.
"stairlift" by Ben Sutherland is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Modify
Modify a chair to make it smaller.
"Miniature Queen Anne Chair - Replicator 2 - 3D-printed at 0,1 mm-layer v01" by Creative Tools is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Put to other uses
A chair used as a flower pot holder.
"A 'chair-full' of Echeverias" by hortulus is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Eliminate
Eliminate the legs of a chair to make it a floor chair.
"Folding floor chair-2" by Uncle Su is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Rearrange
Rearrange the covers of the chairs to change the colours.
"reversible-chair-nicola-staubli" by Inhabitat is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
Choose a new object to use the S.C.A.M.P.E.R. brainstorming method on.
Check-in survey – STEM
Answer the questions below about the activity you just did.
Student voice
Show how you feel about your learning today.