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Science
Cross Curricular Links
ICT
Tuning in - Engage
Change by heating – cooking activities (spiders, popcorn balls, cheese toasties,
chocolate crackles and honey joys). With each of the 5 cooking activities we will
need a parent helper. We will need three sandwiches presses, 3 microwaves,
bowls, spoons and ingredients. We will need $5 from each child.
Demonstrate tools for measuring heat
Sorting Out – Explain
Brainstorm sources of heat – friction, electricity, fire with examples of each
Build circuits to demonstrate function of electricity
Modelling state of particles in solid and liquid and conduction of heat in
kinaesthetic activity
Going Further – Elaborate
Diagram Sun as source of heat
Investigate seasons
Model movement of sun, earth and moon using torches and globes. Model
kinaesthetically with student orbiting “sun” and “moon” orbiting. Link to seasons.
Link seasons to living things and impact of heat, rotation, etc.
Discuss and diagram characteristics and needs of living things in mind map
Incorporate sorting activities of living/nonliving/once living and different groups of
living things into English rotations
Class project – incubate and hatch chooks – Living Eggs
Reflection and Action – Evaluate
Students create ongoing Science notebook which they will use to summarize their
learning.
Mathematics
Graphing temperatures or weather – link to
discussion of season
Make Sun dials – link to discussion of time
Make number line of temperatures and
match to appropriate clothing/activities
Make diagrams/number lines of
seasons/months/holidays and put together to
show relationships.
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Create digital story book about seasons.
Students create a picture story book
about seasons
Students use media and online text to
research and find out further
information about topic
What effect does heat
have on our world?
-Students will understand living things can be grouped on
the basis of observable features and can be distinguished
from non-living things (ACSSU044)
-Students will understand a change of state between
solid and liquid can be caused by adding or removing
heat (ACSSU046)
-Students will understand that the Earth rotation on its
axis causes regular changes, including night and day
(ACSSU048)
-Students will identify that heat can be produced in many
ways and can move from one object to another
(ACSSU049)
Home Learning
Picture story book about seasons
Take pictures of yourself in outfits representing all
seasons. Incorporate into calendar or diagram of
seasons.
Students link change of state from solid to liquid
to process of recycling goods e.g. tyres – as a
home learning task.
Reading articles about bushfires and natural
disasters – home learning
Year 3 Term 2 2014
Reading
-Shared reading on Natural disasters (what causes fires)
Learning Intentions and Success Criteria
Change of state – sustainability
- Students link change of state from solid to liquid to
process of recycling goods e.g. tyres – as a home
learning task.
- Reading articles about bushfires and natural disasters
– home learning
- Watching documentaries about natural disasters and
environmental problems impacting wildlife.
Heat – Aboriginal culture
- Discuss/model process of making fire with friction
between sticks.
-Reading recipes for cooking activities
-Interpreting analyzing and evaluating
-Listen to and contribute to conversations and discussions
to share information and ideas and negotiate in
collaborative situations
- Read book as class about seasons, natural disasters
Speaking and Listening
-Use interaction skills and communicate in a clear and
coherent manner using a variety of everyday and learning
vocabulary and appropriate pace pitch tone and volume to
share their findings from their activities
-Plan and deliver short presentations
Writing
-Procedural texts for cooking spiders, honey joys, popcorn
balls, cheese toasties and chocolate crackles
-Write policy and guidelines with students for living eggs
program
- Ongoing Science Journal – include table of contents and
glossary
-Write a glossary of relevant terms as they present themselves
-Quantify observations to enable comparison
-Identify more sophisticated ways of representing relationships
-Narrative and Persuasive Writing – Link to life science topics,
“Should animals be kept in cages?”
-Create class Lotus Diagram of Science concepts, showing
relationships
- Create picture story book about each season – 4 pages per
season, discuss activities and clothing needs.
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