Day 2

Welcome to Day 2!

Watch the video to help you get started.

Day 2 video

Duration: 0:50

To complete today's activities, you will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

3 cups or 3 of the same objects (e.g. spoons)

paddle pop sticks

bottle lids

rubber bands

paper clips

sticky tape

a ruler or measuring tape

a ping pong ball or a ball made out of crumpled aluminium foil

English

Speaking and listening – Stories are all around us!

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Record the names of some people you could interview. You might choose:
- a family member
- a teacher
- your sport coach.
Record why you think they would be great to interview.

Hint! You will not need to interview them yet.

Stories are all around us!
Duration: 3:51

Reading and viewing – Inferring

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Read the story 'Finding Out' from The School Magazine.

'Finding out' by David Hill – The School Magazine

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Join the teacher in the video to look at quotes from the text and what information can be inferred.

Hint! Sometimes information is inferred rather than stated in texts.

Inferring

Duration: 5:38

Writing and representing – A letter to Uncle Fred's family

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Imagine you are Uncle Fred on the battlefield in 1916. Write a letter to his family back home in Australia.
Include how he felt, the sounds, smells and sights he experienced in the letter.

Hint! Use your planning template from yesterday's lesson to help you.

A letter to Uncle Fred's family

Duration: 2:45

Care and connect

Five senses

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Five senses
Duration: 1:17

Mathematics

Probability – Experiment

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video.

Look Kool – Probability
Duration: 21:06

Look Kool: Series 2 ProbabilityHamza can't figure out why Koolkatt always wins when they play Flip-the-coin. Can you use probability to predict the future? Hamza interviews a real-life playing card and find out what's so 'lucky' about the number seven.

Adapted from ABC and NRICH maths

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In a far-away land, the lottery consists of four balls numbered 1 to 4, which are placed in a bag.

To enter, you choose one number. To win, your number must match the number that is drawn from the bag.

What is the chance of winning this lottery?
Record your reasoning.

: Four green balls labelled with the numbers one, two, three and four.

The people running the lottery in this far-away land decide that it is too easy to win. So, they change their lottery game.

In the new lottery, there are still four balls numbered 1 to 4, which are placed in a bag. Now, to enter, you choose two numbers. To win, your numbers must match (in any order) the two numbers that are drawn from the bag.

What is the chance of winning this new lottery? Record your reasoning.
Have the organisers made it harder to win compared with their original version? Record your reasoning.
Create your own version of the lottery which would also be harder to win than the first game. Share your ideas with your teacher explaining how you know your game is harder.

Challenge!

Play ‘scissors, paper, rock’. What chance do you have of winning?
When you roll a dice, each number is equally likely to occur. What other chance experiments do you know where each outcome is equally likely to happen?

Number – Magic cups part 1

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

3 cups or 3 of the same objects (e.g. spoons, forks)

Watch the next video and join in the activity.

Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.

Magic cups part 1
Duration: 3:36

Instructions (select arrow)

Set up your three cups or whatever objects you have chosen.

Hint! Notice how the middle cup is facing down and the two outside cups are facing up.

Your challenge is to flip pairs of cups, in exactly three moves, to have them all facing down.
Flip one cup and record your move.
Flip a second pair of cups and record your move.
For the third time, flip a pair of cups and record your move!
Once you’ve found one way of flipping pairs of cups in exactly 3 moves, see if you can find another way!

Set up your cups or objects like this.

Three cups in a line. First and third cups are facing up. Middle cup is facing down.

Start by flipping one pair of cups.

Three cups in a line. First two cups are facing up. Third cup is facing down.

Example of how to record your moves.

Top row of three arrows showing starting position of cups: up, down, up. Second row showing position of cups as they landed: up, up, down.

Number – Magic cups follow up (part 2)

Watch the next video and join in the activity.

Magic cups – follow up (part 2)
Duration: 0:42

Revise your recording by sharing your thinking in a table in your workbook.

Hint! You could use the ideas shared with you in the video.

Example of how you could record your thinking in a table.

Example table showing how thinking could be recorded, with the starting positions listed across the top row and the number of flips recorded in the left column.

Challenge!

What does the starting position need to be to get the trick to work in exactly 4 moves using 4 cups?
What does the starting position need to be to get the trick to work in exactly 5 moves using 5 cups?

Brain break

Body percussion

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Body percussion
Duration: 1:14

Let's keep learning!

STEM – Ball launcher challenge

You will need:

cups

paddle pop sticks

bottle lids

rubber bands

paper

paper clips

glue or sticky tape

a ruler or measuring tape

a ping pong ball or a ball made out of crumpled aluminium foil

Today's STEM challenge is to design and build a ball launcher.

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Download the instructions for this task:

Ball launcher challenge task card
(Word doc, 7.2 MB)
Design Thinking for STEM
(Word doc, 99 KB)

Ball launcher challenge

Duration: 6:48

Rules:

You can only use the materials listed.
The cardboard is to be used as a base for the ball thrower only.
The ball must land on the target.
You are allowed to use one hand to hold the base of the thrower as you launch the ball.
You can only use one finger to activate the throw. You can not use force to launch the ball.
The launch area needs to be kept clear. DO NOT launch the ball near people.
The target is an A4 piece of paper.

Materials needed

Materials for the challenge. Craft sticks, tape, cardboard, rubber bands, cups, ruler and aluminium foil.

Using the Design thinking process is a way of solving this challenge.

The Design thinking process

Make a target and a ball

Brainstorm your ideas

Ball launcher design

Ball launcher made out of a ruler and craft sticks with ball at one end of ruler.

Improved design

Challenge!

See how far can you launch the ball.
Add points to different parts of the target and try and get the highest score from 5 launches.
Make the target smaller.
Try landing the ball in a cup.

Well done completing today's learning activities!

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