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Day 2 video
Duration: 1:01
To complete today's activities, you will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
3 cups or 3 of the same objects (e.g. spoons)
cardboard
a balloon
a box
sticky tape
weather chart (DOC, 30KB)
a container with a wide opening and hard sides
a skewer (or other similar light, straight item)
Speaking and listening – Your new car!
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
View the image of the old car in the video.
Convince your family to buy this car.
What are 3 positive reasons for buying this car?
Hint! Strengthen your reasons with any supporting information.
Your new car!
Duration: 1:54
Writing, reading and viewing – Connections to text
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Read the article 'Yum Yum!' by Susan Letts from The School Magazine.
'Yum Yum!' by Susan Letts – The School Magazine
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Think about a time when you tried a new food.
What was the new food?
Record 3 positives about that food.
Record 3 negatives about that food.
Connections to text
Duration: 3:05
Writing – Advertising poster
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
If you were to open an insect restaurant, what would it be called?
What would your advertising slogan be?
Create an advertising poster for your restaurant.
Hint! Your poster must convince or persuade people to come to your restaurant.
Advertising poster
Duration: 3:12
Scattergories
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Hint! The list of categories is in the drop down below in case you need them.
Scattergories
Duration: 1:31
Scattergories categories:
an animal
something cold
a colour
a fruit or vegetable
something you would find in your bedroom
a country
a sport
something that is stinky
somebody famous
something you would find in the ocean.
Number – Let's explore 1
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
Watch the video and join in the activity.
Let's explore 1
Duration: 5:05
Reflect on the strategies you used to solve 23 – 19 and identify the most efficient strategy you used.
How many steps did it take?
Do you think you could use the same strategy (keeping a constant difference) with other problems?
Write 1 or 2 problems you could use this strategy with.
Number – Magic cups
You will need:
2 pencils
a workbook or paper
3 cups or 3 of the same objects (e.g. spoons, forks, pencils, blocks)
Watch the next video and join in the activity.
Hint! The instructions are also below if you need them.
Magic cups – follow up (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.
Start by flipping one pair of cups.
Example of how to record your moves.
10@10 – Firefighters
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10@10 – Firefighters
Duration: 10:49
Science and Technology – Under Pressure
You will need:
pencils
a workbook or paper
cardboard
a balloon
a box
sticky tape
weather chart (DOC, 30KB)
a container with a wide opening and hard sides
a skewer (or other similar light, straight item)
Watch the video and join in the activities.
Under pressure
Duration: 14:16
Using your barometer
Follow the instructions in the video to construct the barometer.
Place the barometer in the fridge for 20 minutes to check that it works.
Set up the barometer and the box outside in the shade.
Leave the barometer in place for an hour.
Over 1 week, check your barometer. Whenever the needle moves more than a finger width up or down, mark the box and describe the weather.
Check your barometer over the next 2-3 weeks and repeat the marking process.
Learn to predict the weather
Use the chart (DOC, 30KB) or a similar method to record the weather. Include the position of your barometer pointer.
Did the needle move a great deal?
When did it move the most/least?
What did you notice about the weather when the needle was high (low pressure)?
What did you notice about the weather when the needle was low (high pressure)?
Did you notice a difference in the weather between the highest and lowest pressures?
Challenge!
Re-design your barometer so that when the pressure raises, the pointer also rises.
Observe the barometer pointer each day for a month.
Record the weather for each day.
Use your barometer and weather observations to predict the weather for the following day.
What will the weather be tomorrow?
Were you correct?
Did your barometer help you predict correctly?
Well done completing today's learning activities!
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