Friday
Week P – Stage 3
Happy Friday!
To complete today's activities, you will need:
a workbook
coloured pencils
a variety of materials to build a Rube Goldberg Machine (STEM) (e.g. blocks, balls, string, boxes)
Care and Connect – caring for yourself, your family and your friends
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Challenge accepted
Let's get started!
Watch the video and join in the activity.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Challenge accepted
Duration: 2:01
English
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What do we know about bees?
Let's create a flow chart to show where honey comes from!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Brainstorm ideas and create a flow chart showing where you think honey comes from, using arrows and captions to sequence the process.
Hint! Use temporal connectives (e.g. first, second, next).
What do we know about bees?
Duration: 1:45
Share your work with your teacher.
Honey bees
Let's learn more about bees!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook.
Read the text 'Honeybees' with the teacher in the video.
Why are the arrows used on the text?
Identify the action verbs used.
What interesting and new information have you learnt about bees?
Hint! Add any new information to the flowchart you just created.
Honey bees
Duration: 4:44
Read 'Where the blue bees fly' by Carolyn Galbraith from The School Magazine.
You will need:
pencils
your workbook.
Complete a Venn diagram looking at the similarities and differences between blue bees and honey bees.
'Where the blue bees fly' by Carolyn Galbraith – The School Magazine
Share your work with your teacher.
Procedural writing – recipes
Let's explore a recipe for honey pancakes!
Watch the video and join in the activities.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
View the recipe for honey pancakes in the video.
Identify all the verbs used in the method.
Where are the verbs located?
Why do you think they are located where they are?
Why are some words in brackets in the ingredients section?
Write out the recipe for your favourite dish. Make sure you include the ingredients and method.
Procedural writing – recipes
Duration: 4:32
Share your work with your teacher.
Brain break
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.
10@10 – around the world
Duration: 10:52
Virtual excursion
International Space Station
This week we have been exploring the International Space Station!
Let's finish our tour of the International Space Station by listening to the story ‘Give me some space!’ by Philip Bunting.
Fun fact! The story was read by NASA astronaut Shannon Walker (PH.D) in the International Space Station!
Story time from space – Give Me Some Space!
Duration: 15:11
From the Australian National Simultaneous Storytime 2021.
Mathematics
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Time zones
Let's learn about different time zones!
Watch the video and listen carefully.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
Investigate and record what the time is (right now) in all the states and territories of Australia.
If an important live TV broadcast needs to made across Australia, suggest the best time for it to be. Justify the solution you come up with.
Hint! Don't forget to consider daylight savings.How do the different time zones within Australia (and the world) impact on peoples' lives? Consider things like holidays, communication and travelling for work.
Investigate if time zones have had an impact on your family members at any point.
Share your work with your teacher.
For those who like a challenge!
Research some places around the world that are exactly 3 hours apart.
Heavy versus big
Watch the video and listen carefully.
You will need:
a pencil
your workbook.
List some items from around the house that are large but don’t weigh much.
List some items from around the house that are small but are quite heavy.
Record what unit and what device you would use to measure the mass of each.
Share your work with your teacher.
STEM
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Please note: Materials required for this activity will depend on the design of your Rube Goldberg machine. Please see the suggested materials below.
Rube Goldberg machine – part 2
Today's STEM challenge is to make and test the Rube Goldberg machine that you designed last week!
Remember! A Rube Goldberg machine is designed to perform a simple task. It uses different simple machines, including wedges, levers, inclined planes, pulleys and axles/wheels.
Last week you identified and defined the challenge of what simple task you could solve using your Rube Goldberg machine and then sketched your design.
This week you will focus on two more steps in the design thinking process.
The materials you will need depends on your machine. Some suggestions include:
blocks and/or dominoes
small balls (e.g. tennis balls, marbles, ping pong balls)
string
cardboard tubes
boxes and/or containers of different sizes
sticky tape.
The next step in the design thinking process is to make and test!
Make your Rube Goldberg machine.
Important! Always ask an adult before using any objects or materials.
Draw or take a photo of your design.
What else could you try?
Hint! The videos from last week's lesson are included below. Watch these videos for some ideas on how you could make and improve your machine.
The final step in the design thinking process is to test, make improvements and present your machine!
Have you thought about changing materials around?
What improvements did you make?
How many times did you test your design?
Share your work with your teacher.
Rube Goldberg machine – videos from part 1 (last week's lesson)
You might remember watching these videos last week. Watch them again for some more ideas on how you could make and improve your machine.
Simple Rube Goldberg Machine
Duration: 1:09
How to Make a Rube Goldberg Machine
Duration: 2:58
Student voice
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