Using your Minecraft Education account, log in and attempt the extra challenge titled "Hour of Code".

This is a challenge that asks you to travel back in time and teaches you some simple coding challenges and commands to use in Minecraft.

We have been doing marble runs in STEM. You recently completed FANTASTIC challenges using plastic cups and wooden planks.

Watch this video on how to build a marble run out of simple cardboard.

You might have a cereal box you could cut up and use - you will then only need some sticky tape or glue.

Get creative, remember you will have moments when engineering where you will need to rethink and rebuild - but that's all part of the process.

Share your creations on our celebration wall.

Some of you may have a remote control car, or even a type of robot at home.

You could design an obstacle course for these types of toys and see if you can time yourself going through them, and beat your own time.

Even if you don't have a robot or remote controlled device you might just like to build an obstacle course and share that with us.

Enjoy!

Enjoy this epic story of our favourite engineer, Rosie Revere.

Write your own story - using Clips, or pen and paper, about a character you might like to create.

Your character needs to have a passion and does anything they can to achieve that.

There are other characters in this series; Ada Twist Scientist, Iggy Peck Architect, Sofia Valdez Future Prez and Aaron Slater Illustrator. Rhyming is used in these types of stories so have a go and create a character that has an incredible passion! Share with us your stories.

This is an old one but a good one - as we are moving in to new stages in our lives, it's important to have dreams.

Build your dream home in Minecraft and take lots of photos of it to share with me on the celebration wall.

Use sign posts and chalkboards to tell me all about the features of your dream home - I wonder how many of you will have sustainable features in your home!

Build away engineers and architects!

Term 4's focus will be on chemical science - looking at understanding how things are made, what they are made of and if they can be changed in any way. We will look at the states of matter (solids, liquids and gases) and even start to explore mixtures and solutions. Chemical science is exciting because it can be easy to explore while at home - you just have to go into the kitchen!

Even though we haven't finished off our Diorama's and claymations - these are all waiting for you when school returns to normal. So while we are still doing remote learning, we can turn our focus from biological science, to chemical science and then we can finish off our creations when we are back together.

Hope you have all had a wonderful holiday, can't wait to see your faces again soon.

Mrs Gardiner

Below you will find a matrix of activities that you can choose to work through over the next few weeks. I have left a guide for what you can explore in Week 1, 2 and 3.

Please create a new page in your 2021 STEM Book Creator book - and title it with CHEMISTRY. You can decorate it with images if you like. Don't forget to take photos on your iPad for when you come back to STEM and share anything you discover on our celebration wall.

Happy investigating!

In your matrix, you are asked to represent each state of matter - solid, liquid and gas. Here is an example of someone who has done that, both making the particle representation and an example. Then adding labels to explain what they know. Have a go and share on our celebration wall.

Using Minecraft as a building tool, can you create either an AFL logo, football field or even a giant football jumper in your favourite teams colours?

Share on the celebration wall.

Let's talk about PETS and PLANTS!!!

I am sure that by now you are confident in knowing about living things. Two examples of living things in our home include PETS and PLANTS! I want you to share with us photos of you and your wonderful pets and/or plants. The more we see the happier we will be! Post to our celebration wall!

You can see photos of us with our beloved pets and plants at home. Mrs King with Teddy, Mrs Kneebone with Shay, Mrs Christoe with Raph and Mrs Gardiner with Leo and Coco..

Can you spy the plants in the background of each photo?

You might like to try some activities today to do with using technology to draw, photograph and make things for plants and pets!

Welcome to week 8 - We are learning about living things and this week you can explore some living things you might find around you?

Watching this timelapse video, you can see how a seed can grow roots and then the plant. It is a fascinating process that we don't often get to see with our own eyes. Then you can follow the activity below to have a go at trying your own experiment - you might need some extra help with this.

You will need a glass of water, an avacado seed, some toothpicks and a nice place near some sun.

This experiment takes a while, so you can sit it in the sun, give it clean water each day and see what happens.

Watch this quick video and see if you can take the seed of an avacado and place it in a glass of water. Over a few weeks, you might start to see the seed changing, even some roots starting to grow.

While you wait for you avacado seed, you might like to draw a dancing avacado. You could even write a song about it!

Watch this clip to find out about Fungi - a fascinating type of living thing that's not an animal and not a plant.

Biology is the study of living things, and often, Biologists have to carefully draw and label the things they are investigating. Watch this video about how to scientifically draw a plant, then have a go at doing your own.

If you don't have a plant, you could try it with a fruit or vegetable from your home or lunchbox.

Don't forget your labels!

Here I have had a go at drawing some things I have found at home. I have tried hard to make them clear with labels.

Share yours on the Celebration Wall.

In Term 3 we have been learning about Biological Science - that is the understanding of living things.

We have been learning about life cycles, habitats, food webs and predator prey relationships.

Watch some of these clips to tune you in - then we can get to some activities. Good Luck Biologists!

Below you will find work for your age group. Have a great time learning from home, remember to look after yourself and your family and we will see you as soon as we can. Take care, Mrs Gardiner.

House Walk - Can you walk around your home, and take some photos or drawings of things that are

1) Living things - they breathe, move and eat/drink.

2) Non Living Things - they do not breathe or eat or drink. Be careful, some Non Living Things can move.

Can you sort your photos and drawings into groups? You could make a group for living things, non living things and perhaps once living things.

Take photos of these with your iPad or make drawings of them.

Can you find a real egg from your fridge?

Can you draw it?

Can you draw the chicken life cycle?

I used pasta and seeds from my pantry to make a butterfly life cycle.

Can you draw the life cycle of a frog?

Can you act out a frog life cycle?

Or can you make a life cycle out of LEGO?

What do you find is the most interesting part?