Day 4

Welcome back to Day 4!

Watch the video to help you get started.

Day 4 video

Duration: 0:51

To complete today's activities, you will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

a timer

1cm grid paper
(PDF file, 90KB)

English

Listening – Poetry and place

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Watch the video featuring author Kirli Saunders.

Record 3-5 key messages that Kirli Saunders has about writing.

'Poetry and place' by Kirli Saunders

Reading and viewing – Sailor and a poet

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Read or listen to 'Sailor' from The School Magazine.

'Sailor' by Berverly McLoughland – The School Magazine

Watch the video and join in the activity.

What do you think this poem is about? Explain your thinking.

Look at the comparisons being made with the teacher in the video.

Sailor and a poet

Duration: 5:39

Reading and viewing – Deconstruct a poem

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

With the teacher in the video, work through the three-step strategy:

looking
listening
thinking about the poem.

Hint! There is a copy of the poem in the drop down below.

Deconstruct a poem

Duration: 5:22

White sheep, white sheep poem (select arrow)

White sheep, white sheep on a blue hill, when the wind stops you all stand still. When the wind blows you walk away slow. White sheep, white sheep where do you go? Christina G. Rosetti (Public domain)

Care and connect

Stretch those bodies out!

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Mountain ragdoll pose
Duration: 0:48

Mathematics

Position – Maps and directions

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Read the directions and imagine yourself following this route.

Walk 10 paces straight ahead.
Turn right and walk 10 paces.
Turn left and walk 5 paces.
Turn left again, and this time walk 15 paces.
Turn left and walk 15 paces.
Turn left and walk 5 paces.
Draw a picture to describe your route and where you'll end up.
Go outside and follow the directions to check whether your prediction was correct. If it wasn’t, explain why.

Watch the video.

Look Kool – mapping
Duration: 21:06

Look Kool: Series 1 MappingHamza thinks finding his way around is easu...until his smart phone breaks. Uh oh. Now he needs to use maps to get where he's going. Along the way, Hamza forms a marching band and gets travel tips from a gargoyle.

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Position – Treasure at Border Town Zoo

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

Look at the map of Border Town Zoo.

Hint! There is treasure buried somewhere in the zoo!

Border Town Zoo

A map of Broder Town Zoo with grid references. A variety of animals and objects are scattered throughout the map. At (1, 2) is an emu. (1, 6) is an elephant. (3, 1) is a dirt mound. (3, 3) is a well. (3, 5) is a windmill. (5, 2) is an octopus. (5, 6) is a narwhal. (6, 3) is a boat. (7, 2) is a house. (8, 6) is a snake. (9, 1) is a vulture. (9, 4) is a tree. Bridge goes across whole map between 4 and 5 on vertical axis.

Landmark co-ordinates:

When finding a landmark we look at the horizontal coordinate and then the vertical coordinate.

E.g. The house is located at (7, 2).

Write down what you can see at each of the co-ordinates in the table.

Border Town Zoo landmarks

A table with given coordinates and empty cells for students to identify corresponding landmarks. Co-ordinates: (8, 6), (1, 6), (9, 1), (1, 2), (5, 6), (9, 4), (3, 3) and (5, 2).

Buried treasure:

Think of a location to bury the treasure at Border Town Zoo.
Use directions such as north, east, south-east and north-west to describe the location in relation to other landmarks on the map.
Write your clues so that the person reading them has to read more than one clue to identify the correct location of the treasure.

Brain break

Flamingo stylin'

Watch the video and join in the activity.

Flamingo stylin'
Duration: 1:07

Let's keep learning!

Taronga Zoo – Big city birds

You will need:

pencils

a workbook or paper

a timer

grid paper

Watch the video to listen to learn about today's task of surveying big city birds.

Big city birds

Duration: 2:31

Did you hear some words that you didn't understand? (select arrow)

food availability – how much and what type of food is around for an animal to eat

micro-habitat – a habitat is the environment where an animal lives. The habitat contains everything the animals needs to survive such as food and shelter. A micro-habitat is a small area, so your neighbourhood can be considered a micro-habitat.

monitoring – watching, observing, recording information

preening – when a bird tidies and cleans its feathers with its beak.

Watch the video and follow the teacher's instructions to draw a table.

Hint! Use the image below to help you draw your table.

Drawing a data collection table

Duration: 2:31

Use the example to help you set out your work in your book.

Hint! You may need to spread your table across a few pages.

Example of a data table

A table with 2 columns - the first tiled Bird species, and the second, Tally marks. Under the first column the following birds are listed: Sulphur-crested Cockatoo, Corella, Australian Brush-turkey, Australian White Ibis, Noisy Minor, Indian Myna, Kookaburra, Peewee/Magpie Lark, Pigeon, Magpie, Rainbow Lorikeet, Galah, Raven, Lapwing Plover, Others:

Look through the images to discover the birds that you might see in your local area.

Hint! Use the arrows to scroll through the images of the different birds.

Images of the birds you might see in your local area

Identifying city birds

Watch the video and then survey the birds in your local area. Remember to:

sit outside if possible, otherwise somewhere near a window
set a timer for 10 minutes
use the images of the birds above and tally each time you see one of the birds on your table
record birds not on the table under 'other'.

Collecting data

Duration: 3:46

Download Big City Birds App https://taronga.org.au/conservation-and-science/current-research/big-city-birds
Enter an observation about one of the birds.

Big City Bird App

Duration: 2:50

Note about the 'Big City Birds' app (select arrow)

This project aims to engage the public and keen bird watchers to report sightings using the Big City Birds app or website. Their whereabouts, behaviours, communal roosts and nest sites are of interest to researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Taronga Conservation Society Australia and the University of Sydney.

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