Scientists in the making!
Category : Science
Fascinating Forces
We started the week researching different types of forces. We got hands on to demonstrate these to develop a deeper understanding before we are going to focus on these individually later on in the week.
We now can explain and demonstrate gravity, friction, water resistance and air resistance 🤩
Investigating gravity in MI
Today we looked at a Newton meter and measured the force acting on different objects. We worked collaboratively to do this and used the scale to read the amount of newtons.
Using our knowledge so far we then thought about what we could do to test gravity. This became our aim. This was what we wanted to find out. We then thought about what a hypothesis was and its purpose. We thought about how this would help our investigation. We then wrote our own hypothesis.
From here we took part in the investigation testing out our aim and hypothesis. You can see us in action below… We were all shocked by what we found out!
Exploring types of forces in MI
Today we started to explore and discuss forces in our expedition lessons. We watched a variety of different clips to understand what a force is and the different types. We then became active and showed both gravity and friction in different ways. We then used the knowledge we had gained to create our own anchor chart for our working wall on the different types of forces. We showed great collaborative working and supported our partner well.
Knowledge dump in MI
Today we thought about all the learning we had completed in case study one. We created a knowledge dump to help us to write our case study reflection. It was great to see how much we had remembered 🙂 Great work MI 🙂
Sorting materials 👩🏼🔬👨🏽🔬
Crew Marsh worked really hard in their science lesson yesterday, organising materials in to soft and hard.
A great Monday in MI
This morning Crew MI took part in their Caring Crew where we talked about who is in our family, who loves us and why our families make us feel safe. We worked in small groups to build back up a jigsaw using a variety of different families then we discussed what we noticed about the pictures thinking about what was the same and what was different. There was some great collaborative working during this activity which was lovely to see. We then drew our families, describing characteristics about each member, what they are like, what they do and what they enjoy. We then shared these things with the rest of the crew. During our debrief, we thought about what our jobs are as a member of Crew MI and we made pledges for moving forward. Crew was fantastic this morning! Great job Crew MI 🙂
In our expeditionary learning we took part in a grammar lesson thinking about figurative language. We explored similes, metaphors, personification and hyperbole. We worked collaboratively to build our own examples linking them to space and linking to the chapter we have been unpicking in our reading lessons.
A great day in MI, our HOWL score was 3.5 🙂 Lets keep this up MI.
Day and night / Phases of the moon
It’s been very busy today as the children have been exploring why we have day and night before recreating the phases of the moon.
During the practical lesson, the children were able to recreate the rotation of the earth on it’s axis and we used torches for the sun. While they completed this task, it helped them understand day and night and why our shadows move throughout the day.
After lunch, the children discovered more about the phases of the moon and were able to recreate each stage. Of course, it was made even better when they could eat the moon at the end.
Spinning around in Crew MI
MI have worked so hard to produce their own video on how the earth moves around the sun. They all thought about facts that could be used within the video to explain the different elements and used scientific vocabulary that they had learnt within the lesson. All children showed a great deal of respect for each other, listening to each other and giving one other the confidence to speak. Great work MI 🙂 Scan the QR code to have a look!
Challenge Crew
Today we completed a challenge to ‘re-create’ the Earth, Sun and Moon in an informative video to build up knowledge of key vocabulary and scientific learning of Earths rotation and revolution. This linked to our expeditionary learning (CS1 physics) and was a great recap of yesterdays learning. We worked on our team working skills and communicating in bigger groups. We had to also use our IPAD skills to ensure our recording was final product quality.
From our IPADS we screen shared our videos on the board for the rest of the Crew. They ensured our knowledge was correct and worthy of using for our expedition final product. Watch this space for the final edit coming soon…