We are learning about how places in Australia are similar and different. 

We are learning to describe places in different ways – by their names, their features and their location.

We are learning about the indigenous names of places in our country.

We are learning to locate and collect information from images

Watch this Slide Show

CENTRAL IDEA: People create and use code to enable machines to help us in our daily lives.

LINES OF INQUIRY:

• FORM – What is computer code?
• FUNCTION  – How does it work?
• CONNECTION  – How is code connected to our daily experiences?

What Is Code? – Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

We are learning to locate places in our own country.

We are celebrating the journey of Clinton Pryor.

TASK 1:

Watch the video on this page.

TASK 2:

Learn more about Clinton Pryor here.

TASK 3:

In your group,create an Ozobot map showing Clinton’s journey.

TASK 4:

Stretch your thinking. Impress us with your synthesising. Leave a comment on this blog post. Tell us anything which surprised you, puzzled you, anything that you noticed, anything that made you change your mind about Clinton Pryor and Clinton’s Walk.

Help to complete our Google Doc:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a-uJ3WvjsBn9O9PEL0rwt0nWfdJJ3J7tS3kbDo4U788/edit?usp=sharing

LEARNING INTENTION: We are learning to create an effective safety message.

What can we make our message about? Here are some ideas from DFES:

• Being alert and aware of unsafe situations
• Responding to friends when they are being unsafe with lighters/matches
• Seeking help
• Staying calm
• Responding to fire (Home Fire Escape Plan e.g. smoke alarm, crawling low under smoke, meeting at the letter box; Triple Zero) Indicating on a local map the location of safe places

Use the Pages app on your iPad to create an infographic about one of these. Steps:

• Open Pages App
• New document
• Google search for an image to fit your topic. Save, insert.
• Create a slogan – a catchy sentence for your message. Insert text box for this.
• Looking good? Try some editing tools to make it look fantastic.

Our learning intentions:

Design and Technologies: We are learning to design a contest.

Personal and Social Learning: We are learning to collaborate on a design task

Science: We are learning to explain how forces can be exerted by one object on another