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Select an activity to complete and take a photo or upload a copy of each one to your files on Google Classroom.
Remember to always make a copy of any Google Apps to keep for yourself!
Select an activity to complete and take a photo or upload a copy of each one to your files on Google Classroom.
Remember to always make a copy of any Google Apps to keep for yourself!
Challenge yourself to do an activity more than once.
Challenge yourself to do an activity more than once.
Activity 1 - Book Recommendation
Activity 1 - Book Recommendation
Think about your Book Club Text from Term 1.
Create a book recommendation outlining why it was a great book to read. Think about the discussions we had around the themes found within the text.
Activity 2 Pt.1 - BTN
Activity 2 Pt.1 - BTN
Watch BTN Classroom Episode 7, 2020 once over and revisit particular sections of the video to complete the following tasks:
REEF BLEACHING
Note-taking: Practise your note-taking skills! After watching the news story once, reflect on and organise the information into a Y-Chart with the headings 'Positive', 'Negative' & 'Interesting'. Watch it again to see if you can add any more notes!
Focus Questions: Answer the following questions.
1. Briefly summarise the BTN Reef Bleaching story.
2. What is a ghost reef?
3. What are some threats to the survival of coral reefs? Give 2 examples.
4. Where is the Great Barrier Reef? Find using Google Maps.
5. What is coral bleaching?
6. What colour does coral go when it is bleached?
7. Coral gets most of its energy from algae. True or false?
8. What happens to the algae if ocean water heats up too much?
9. What happens if coral stays bleached for too long?
10. Scientists say that over the last hundred years, the average ocean temperature has increased by about: a. 1 degree b. 2 degrees c. 5 degrees
Creature Feature - Coral
Imagine you are an ecologist and study the world of coral. Create a creature feature about coral polyps and use the following template to record the information you find.
Activity 2 Pt.2 - BTN
Activity 2 Pt.2 - BTN
EATING INSECTS
Focus Questions: Answer the following questions.
1. What did the BTN Eating Insects story explain?
2. What type of food are food scientists in the Netherlands making out of larvae?
3. Complete the following sentence. Insects can be fed on waste products like offcuts from _______ and ______________.
4. What nutrients do insects contain?
5. Insects need to be farmed in a large space. True or false?
6. What are the benefits of farming insects over traditional livestock?
7. Insects need to be farmed in places that have lots of water. True or false?
8. Why do scientists say we need to start thinking of different food sources?
9. Would you eat insects? Why or why not?
10. What was surprising about the BTN story?
What do you see, think and wonder?
After watching the BTN Eating Insects story, respond to the following questions:
• What did you SEE in this video?
• What do you THINK about what you saw in this video?
• What did you LEARN from this story?
• What was SURPRISING about this story?
• What QUESTIONS do you have about this story?
Research Project: Edible Insects
Choose an edible insect and create a profile. Here are some possibilities: crickets, mealworms, scorpions, witchetty grubs and grasshoppers. Use the given structure to help guide your research.
Research Project: Use this template to help guide your research
Activity 4 - Open-Minded Portrait
Activity 4 - Open-Minded Portrait
Select a fiction text.
Go through the Google Slides to help you create an Open-Minded Portrait of a character found within the text. Your challenge is to step into the character's shoes and make inferences about how they would have felt during a significant event within the text.
Activity 5 - The Cave
Activity 5 - The Cave
Read The Cave and answer the questions related to the text.
Be sure to highlight key words and evidence to support your answers.
The-Cave.pdf
Activity 7 - Listen to the Moon
Activity 7 - Listen to the Moon
Read Listen to the Moon and answer the questions related to the text.
Be sure to highlight key words and evidence to support your answers.
Activity 8 - My Mind
Activity 8 - My Mind
Read My Mind and answer the questions related to the text.
Be sure to highlight key words and evidence to support your answers.
Activity 9 - A New Hero
Activity 9 - A New Hero
Read A New Hero and answer the questions related to the text.
Be sure to highlight key words and evidence to support your answers.
Activity 9 - A Boy Called Mouse
Activity 9 - A Boy Called Mouse
Read A Boy Called Mouse and answer the questions related to the text.
Be sure to highlight key words and evidence to support your answers.
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