Focus
This week, we will learn how to make inferences when reading. We will also be continuing our glider-making competition for inquiry.
Instructions
1. Read the article, How do airplanes fly?
2. Complete your task.
3. Begin creating your glider. Remember to use the texts to help you!
Focus
This week, we will learn how to make inferences when reading. We will also be continuing our glider-making competition for inquiry.
Instructions
1. Read the story, Battle.
2. Complete your task.
3. Continue with designing your glider. Remember to use the texts to help you!
Focus
This week, we will continue looking at Forces and Flight. In particular, we will look at whether the forces that are acting on moving objects on the Earth's surface are the same forces that are acting on a moving object which is flying.
Instructions
1. Read the text, Sky High (Rocket Club AND BLAST FROM THE PAST).
2. Re read the texts while listening to them, here.
3. Complete the tasks for these texts.
4. Read the four online texts. These should begin making more sense as you learn more about Forces and Flight.
Rocket Club
Blast from the past
How do Airplanes fly? [Wonderopolis]
Youtube: The Problem with Palm Oil | Fight for the Forests | TakePart, TakePart, 21 April 2016.
Focus
This week, we are going to look at the risk to rainforests and some animals, internationally. This is as a follow on after completing our class shared book, Kensuke's Kingdom (by Michael Morpurgo).
Later on in the week, we will begin looking at our new mini focus, Forces and Flight. In particular, we will look at whether the forces that are acting on moving objects on the Earth's surface are the same forces that are acting on a moving object which is flying.
Instructions
1. Read the text, Fuelling Extinction.
2. Complete the Google Maps Task.
3. Complete the Google Forms Task.
Youtube: Merida Pro Road Cycling, 18 April 2013.
Youtube: Y7 Balanced and Unbalanced Forces, St Mary's Science, 28 Nov 2016.
Focus
This week, we will continue looking into forces that make objects move.
Instructions
1. Read the article, Beating the Wind.
2. Read the three online texts.
Youtube: Force and Motion | Science Video for Kids, TurtleDiary (2016)
Focus
Over the next three weeks, we will be looking into forces that make objects move.
Week 1 Instructions
1. Read the article, Red-hot racers.
2. Read the online text, .
3. Complete the Vocabulary Task.
4. Complete the Create Task.
5. Faster Finisher? Complete your Term 2 Animation Planner (Forces and Flight) and continue working on your animation.
6. Start reading the text, Beating the Wind.