Water

Welcome to your STEM learning hub. Here you can find a weekly activity to have a go at. There is no pressure, we know this is a tricky time. We just hope that you can find something interesting here that you can share together as a family. If you need anything, you can contact me on lindsay.gardiner@education.vic.gov.au Take care., Mrs Gardiner.

FREE CHOICE!

This week you can go back over anything you have seen on the STEM page and choose something you would like to do! Remember there are lots of experiments and challenges on the STEM home page, click here.

You might even like to come up with your very own experiment - share it with us on our celebration wall.

Term 3 2020

At Home Water Investigation

Can you find ALL of the places that you can find water in your home? How many are there?

Can you find ALL of the places that water travels away from your home? (Hint - they look a lot like drains!!)

Can you draw a picture of your home or school showing ALL the places you found water?

Meet Drop - he's the water saving drop from Barwon Water - look at how many ways he can save water at home and school!

Can you make a poster about saving water?

Share this on our celebration wall.

Term 3 - Week 8 Prep and Year 1

Investigating Water

Do you know how water gets to your house? Watch this clip to find out.

Earth has a lot of water - but can we drink all of it?

Investigate the types of water on Earth, watch this clip and find out why we can't always drink it.

Earth's water cycle

Do you know about Earth's water cycle? Find out more by watching this clip.

Sing the Water cycle song!

This song is a great way to remember what happens to the water on Earth. Can you sing this song and share it on our celebration wall?

Draw or make the water cycle

Can you draw a picture of the water cycle, or make a model with LEGO and share it on our celebration wall?

Term 3 - Week 7 Prep and Year 1

Rainbows

We are learning to understand how and why rainbows can occur. Watch this clip and try the experiment using a glass of water, a piece of white paper and a beam of sunlight. See if you can tell what colours you find in the rainbow. Can you draw this?

Auslan "I can sing a rainbow".

Auslan is the Australian Sign languag that we can use to communicate with each other. It uses hand and body signs that represent words. This is the song "I can sing a rainbow" - can you have a go at some of the signs and sing along with the video?

Ava and the Rainbow who stayed.

Do you think a rainbow is a rare and precious sight?

How many colours of the Rainbow do you eat?

What is your favourite coloured fruit and vegetable?

Can you see how many colours you eat each day?

You might like to draw a rainbow and put in all of the different coloured fruit and vegetables you eat.

Term 3 - Week 6 Prep and Year 1

Listen to this book and see what you can find out about Dugongs?

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Look at the beautiful pictures in this book - what do you notice about the Dugong's habitat? Can you have a go at drawing, or building or making your own Dugong Habitat that would be safe for them to survive?

Can you draw or make the Dugong's habitat

Include sea grass for food, shallow water so they can breathe and safe things that humans can do to protect this wonderful species.

DugongsThe slow and gentle dugong has developed an interesting strategy to avoid its nemesis, tiger sharks.

Find out more about Dugongs

Term 3 - Week 5 Prep and Year 1

Cloud Game

Remember back to our learning about weather and the clouds - watch this video and play the cloud memory game.

What are clouds made of?

Watch this video and draw some pictures of the different types of clouds we have.

Cloud Experiment

You can watch "rain" fall from a "cloud" by making this experiment.

You will need an adult, a jar or container, water, shaving cream and blue food dye.

If you fill the jar with water, put some shaving cream on top. This acts as the cloud.

Drop some food dye on top of the shaving cream and wait for it to "rain" into the water below.

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Lesson Plan

Have a go at following the video to make the cloud game and maybe you can even try the fun experiment above. Enjoy.

Week 6 Classwork

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Whole Family Challenge

What things around your house - particularly your pantry, fridge and garden, can you use to make your own PAINT!

Watch the video, explore this and paint a picture for our celebration wall!

Week 5 Classwork

Lego Spinning Tops

Watch the clip, get creative and make your own LEGO spinning top - you could even build an arena for battles.

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Timelapse

Using your iPad, can you record a timelapse of your LEGO building? Add this to our celebration wall!

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iPad Time Lapse Lesson Plan

Week 4 Classwork

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Secret Messages

Can you follow this quick and simple experiment and write some secret messages for your mum or someone special in your home? Can you show us on the celebration wall?

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Cloud Dough

Can you use these ingredients to make a nice, sensory dough to play with? Can you describe it? Show us on the celebration wall.

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Week 4 Lesson Plan

Use your senses to explore how the cloud dough feels, moves and smells. Share you sensory explorations on our celebration wall

WEEK 3 CLASSWORK

Watch how a marker line can change!

Using any colourd marker, some paper towel and water, can you watch how it changes?

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Can you guess what happens?

Observe the colour chromatography experiment and share your observations on our celebration wall

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Timelapse of experiment

If you can't do this yourself, you can watch the experiment here and share with someone what you saw!

Week 3 Prep Year 1

WEEK 3 LESSON PLAN AND MATERIALS

1) Empty glass jar or plastic cup2) Fill jar with water, half way3) On a piece of paper towel, draw a line with a marker. See above picture and video. 4) Wrap paper towel around a pencil and submerge into the jar with water. 5) OBSERVE what happens to the line you drew with the marker.6) Upload your photo to our celebration wall here