Today in our expedition we were scientist and looked at animals and their offspring. We talked about how mammals give birth to live babies and how reptiles and bird lay eggs. We matched animals who go through a metamorphic changes so they don’t look like their mothers when they are born. We then discussed and wrote about the changes for example lava to caterpillar to butterfly.
Today we have learnt about mummies and babies and how the scientific word for this is “offspring”. We matched the mums to their offspring and learnt what each of their babies were called.
Crew Hamill continued their investigations with magnets by identifying materials around school that are magnetic and non-magnetic. It was interesting to find out that all magnetic materials are made from metal but that not all metals are magnetic!
This afternoon, we have completed our case study reflection for Science. We had the opportunity to reflect on our learning using the rubrics and demonstrate our understanding of what we’ve covered.
In our expedition lesson, we began to experiment with magnets, investigating how they work. We identified that opposites attract. This means that when you put a North Pole with a South Pole, they will pull together and ‘stick’! It was so fun to feel the force of the magnets pushing each other away when like poles were placed together – North and North, South and South repel!
In our expedition lesson, we have been investigating how magnets work and what items around the classroom were magnetic. We found that when you put North Pole and North Pole together (the same) the repel but when you put North Pole and South Pole together (opposite) they attract. We found that items such as scissors, paper clips and coins are magnetic but things such as paper, cardboard and pencils are not. 🧲
Yesterday afternoon, we explored a range of materials to investigate which were magnetic or non magnetic. We sorted our materials into 2 groups. We also discovered that that attraction was stronger with some items. To help us understand why some metal materials are magnetic we watched a video that explained for an item to be magnetic, it just contain cobalt, iron or nickel.
Today, we completed our case study reflection for Case Study 2. We reflected on all our learning over the case study and answered some questions based on our learning. I was blown away by the amount of knowledge the children had remembered.
In Crew Shields this afternoon, we have been sketching images based around global warming which will be used towards our final product.
In science we were looking at magnets and finding out which items were magnetic and which ones wont . We also looked at what happens when you put 2 magnets together. If you put N and N together they would repel , same for S and S but if you put S and N together they would attract. Here are our findings
