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Description of Learning
Description of Learning
These tasks were designed to:
help students understand the difference between a deeper wondering and a ‘googleable question’
develop students’ understanding of gathering information from various sources including videos, images, infographics, texts
encourage students to make connections between newly acquired information and their own lives
Year 2 Boys explore a range of forces and the transference of energy through electricity circuit and the concept of conductors and insulators. In this stage of the Inquiry Cycle the aim is for the boys to find out new information by gathering and making connections. The students experienced explicit teaching and hands-on investigations to then apply their understand to design and create a working arcade game, showcasing motion in a variety of ways.
Toy Provocation
Toy Provocation
Visual Thinking Routine: See, Think, Wonder
Students are introduced to three old toys that they may have never seen before (wind it up plane, push metal car and metal train, push and pull monkey on stick).
Allow students to observe the toys (look, don’t touch) and discuss their wonderings/thoughts with a partner using the ‘Think, Pair, Share’ strategy.
In their workbooks, students choose one of the displayed toys and respond to the questions:
What is this object?
How does this object move?
Prompt students to support their responses with a labelled diagram of the toys and how they think they move.
Toy Provocation.MOVThe Big Idea:
Energy and forces are used to make products.
Students deconstruct the big idea by using small post-it notes to share their understanding of the terms ‘force’, ‘energy’ and ‘product’. Once each boy has completed their ideas, construct class definitions for these words.
Key Questions:
Key Questions:
How do we use forces and energy?
How are forces used for a purpose?
Can objects move on their own?
What are some ways that we can make things (objects) move?
What animals can you think of that move really slowly? What about really fast?
What is something around you that you can move away from you?
What would happen if earth had no gravity? Which planet do we know of that has less gravity than Earth?
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