Glen Waverley South Primary School Home Learning

STEAM

Term 4, Week 1

Week beginning - Monday 5th October

Focus: Science

Activity: Making homemade butter in a jar

Follow the steps on the slides to turn cream into butter! You may want some help from some family members for the shaking!

STEAM Activity - Making Butter

Term 3, Week 9

Week beginning - Monday 14th September

Focus: Technologies

Week 9 STEAM

Activity: Coding - the old fashioned way!

Learn about some famous secret code languages, then write a message in code to a friend or family member.

Term 3, Week 8

Week beginning - Monday 7th September

Focus: Visual Arts

Activity: Moving Targets

Watch the slideshow and make your artwork.

Download this for your moving targets activity:

artgrid.pdf

Space and moving targets art activity

Term 3, Week 7

Week beginning - Monday 31st August

Focus: Visual Arts

Father's Day card

This week you can use the template to create a card for your dad, or another special person for Father's day! Click on the template to print it off. If you don't have coloured paper you can colour it in!

Then, click through the power point for the instructions.

Make sure you cut carefully - you might need to get a family member to help you!

frog-popup.jpg

Steam : Activity Father's Day popup card

You can also print out some coupon gifts with special jobs you can do for your Dad!

Fathersday coupons.pdf

Term 3, Week 6

Week beginning - Monday 24th August

Focus: Science

National Science Week poster 2020.pdf

Activity

First, watch the teacher video to find out some interesting information about Dugongs.

Your activity is explained at the end of the video! You will need to complete the activity in your Learning Journal

Click here to see an example of the activity template.

Teacher video

More information about Dugongs!

Click here to see what a Dugong sounds like!

Here is the book if you want to read it further

Dhyum-the-dugong.pdf

Term 3, Week 5

Week beginning - Monday 17th August

Focus: Visual Arts

Rain sticks

We are making Rain Sticks today by recycling/ upcycling a paper towel roll/ Pringles container or any other long reusable cardboard tube.

Head to this website for the instructions: https://www.giftofcuriosity.com/diy-rain-stick-craft/

Here is a video link to watch what a rain stick sounds like

Term 3, Week 4

Week beginning - Monday 10th August

Focus: Design Technologies

Term 3 Week 4 STEAM Powerpoint

Activity: Re-purpose!

Your design challenge is to re-purpose something in your house.

Find an object in your recycling bin and think of another use for it.

For ideas to inspire you, watch the PowerPoint. Make sure you check with your parents before you start.

Term 3, Week 3:

Week beginning - Monday 3rd August

Focus: Visual Arts

Activity: 3D Hand Op Art (Optical illusion)

Watch the following videos and create your own hand drawing that looks 3D!

You will need:

A4 paper
greylead pencil
coloured markers, pencils or crayons
ruler (optional to keep your background lines straight).

Feel free to share your artwork in your WebEx or on ClassDojo!

Term 3, Week 2:

Week beginning - Monday 27th July

Focus: Design Technology

Activity: Building a three little pigs house

Using newspapers or any other materials you might like to choose, make a house for one of the three little pigs. Using your Learning Journal, draw a picture of your house and write a sentence about what materials you used.

Term 3, Week 1:

Week beginning - Monday 20th July

Focus: Digital Technology

Hour of Code: Dance PartyFeaturing Katy Perry, Shawn Mendes, Panic! At The Disco, Lil Nas X, Jonas Brothers, Nicki Minaj, and 34 more!

Activity: Coding

For coding this week we are revisiting Dance Party on Coding.org. Click on the link https://code.org/dance

See if you can complete all thirteen puzzles with two different types of music.

Handy hint : always read the instructions as you work through the tasks.

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