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Week 5/6: Collision Course
Week 5/6: Collision Course
WALT: Evaluate information from across a range of texts.
WALT: Examine cause and effect consequences within texts
Success Criteria:
Identify the cause and effect of icebergs on the environment
Compare the positive and negative impact of icebergs on the environment
Find supporting evidence for icebergs being helpful or harmful.
Big Question:
Big Question:
Icebergs - helpful or harmful?
Icebergs - helpful or harmful?
Learn
Learn
Task 1: Make a diagram to show the life cycle of an iceberg. Include pictures, labels, stage descriptions, title and arrows. Example
Task 2: Iceberg PMI. Complete a PMI chart examining the consequences of icebergs floating in the ocean. Use 3 or more sources of information to complete your chart.
Task 3: Write a paragraph to share your thoughts about this weeks big question.Use evidence from the articles you have read this week to support your argument.
Supplementary Texts
Supplementary Texts
Icebergs - Polar regions fact file, Antarctica and the Arctic.pdf
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Create
Scientists are hoping the giant iceberg will change course and miss the South Georgia Island or break up before it gets there. Design and carry out a fair test to investigate icebergs. Investigate the factors that affect the time it takes for an iceberg to melt or break up. Ideas here.
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Share
Share your experiment findings in an interesting way including photos and evidence. Post your iceberg life cycle and PMI chart about icebergs on your blog also.
Include the WALT and reflect on how you went with the learning tasks.
Invite your readers to give their opinion on this topic in their blog comments.
Week 4: Cunning as a fox?
Week 4: Cunning as a fox?
WALT: Synthesise ideas across texts to find common elements and draw conclusions
Success Criteria:
Summarise the physical and behavioural traits of a real fox
Summarise the physical and behavioural traits of fictional foxes
Identify similarities and differences between fiction and non fiction foxes
Big Question:
Big Question:
Are the literary descriptions of foxes within literature justified by the known behavior of foxes in the wild?
Are the literary descriptions of foxes within literature justified by the known behavior of foxes in the wild?
Focus Text
Focus Text
Learn
Learn
Task 1: Note taking Chart here using 3 or more sources of information
Focus Text: Are you sly as a fox text
Source 2: Red Fox Adaptations / Fox in Snow
Source 3: Cunning as a fox text
Source own text. Digital or a Picture book from the classroom. Link here
Task 2: Fox Information Report here
Task 3: Comparison chart - Fictional Fox vs Real Fox comparing one of the fox characters from the books we have read over during the last 2 weeks and the information you have researched about foxes this week.
Supplementary Texts
Supplementary Texts
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Create
Write a persuasive paragraph to share your opinion on whether or not foxes deserve their bad reputation within children's literature from a foxes perspective. Present your argument in an interesting way. You may like to make a video clip, a green screen recording, a comic with audio etc.
Create fox tonal art activity here
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Share
Share your learning around foxes within literature on your blog. Post your creative argument presentation, your fox tonal art work, your fox information report and your comparison chart.
Include the WALT and reflect on how you went with the learning tasks.
Invite your readers to give their opinion on this topic in their blog comments.
Week 2/3: Fantastic Mr Fox
Week 2/3: Fantastic Mr Fox
WALT: Compare and contrast character traits across texts
Success Criteria:
Summarise the physical traits of a character and give text evidence
Summarise the personality traits of a character and give text evidence
Identify similarities and differences between texts
Big Question:
Big Question:
Was it morally right or wrong for Mr Fox to steal food from Boggis, Bunce, and Bean to feed himself and his family?
Was it morally right or wrong for Mr Fox to steal food from Boggis, Bunce, and Bean to feed himself and his family?
Focus Text
Focus Text
Learn
Learn
Task 1: Finish foxes in literature synthesis chart from last week using links below.
Task 2: Venn diagram character comparison activity here. Choose two characters from the texts we have covered to compare.
Task 3: Opinion piece: Mr Fox was wrong to steal! Examine the arguments and answer the questions here. Create a google drawing to persuade others to agree with your point of view.
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Create
Write a persuasive paragraph to share your opinion on foxes being universal symbols for tricksters within literature. Use evidence and examples from the texts you have read this week.
Create a comic with audio to go with your paragraph. Example here
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Share
Share your learning around foxes within literature on your blog. Post your persuasive google drawing, venn diagram and persuasive paragraph along with your comic with audio on your blog.
Include the WALT and reflect on how you went with the learning tasks.
Invite your readers to give their opinion on this topic in their blog comments.
Week 1: The Fox
Week 1: The Fox
WALT: Compare and contrast character traits across texts
Success Criteria:
Summarise the physical traits of a character and give text evidence
Summarise the personality traits of a character and give text evidence
Identify similarities and differences between texts
Provocation:
Provocation:
Foxes are universal symbols for tricksters within literature
Foxes are universal symbols for tricksters within literature
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Create
Write a persuasive paragraph to share your opinion on foxes being universal symbols for tricksters within literature. Use evidence and examples from the texts you have read this week.
Create a comic with audio to go with your paragraph. Example here
Share
Share
Share your learning around foxes within literature on your blog. Post your anticipation guide, venn diagram and persuasive paragraph along with your comic with audio.
Include the WALT and reflect on how you went with the learning tasks.
Invite your readers to give their opinion on this topic in their blog comments.
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