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Year 4 DigiTech 2017
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
Clinton’s Walk
We are learning to locate places in our own country.
We are celebrating the journey of Clinton Pryor.
TASK 1:
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.
Questions from Norway
Help to complete our Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a-uJ3WvjsBn9O9PEL0rwt0nWfdJJ3J7tS3kbDo4U788/edit?usp=sharing
5H sound files
Fire Safety Message
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.
Pasta Cars
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
Shipwreck Museum
This term the Year 4 students visited the Shipwrecks Museum in Fremantle. In teams, they explored the artefacts in the Museum, then created movies using the iPad app Book Creator. These movies can be found below. Please leave a comment to give them feedback or to ask them a question about their discoveries.
Akinshola, Sayuri, Christie and Dylan from brette lockyer on Vimeo.
Zoey, Cana, Zoe and Tom from brette lockyer on Vimeo.
Snip
We are learning to explain our mathematical thinking.
Make a great maths video using Snip, to be featured on this blog post. Yes! Your thinking will be good enough to show the world!
Check out my video how to get started using Snip:
Snip for Yr5 maths from brette lockyer on Vimeo.
A History in Trees
We are learning to …
Students investigate these moments in history, and make a pitch whether their ‘Tree Story’ belongs on the class Capzle timeline. The class Capzle timeline will also include the future: for example, future uses for Sandalwood, future celebrations on the Mrs Dance site. This will entail design thinking and Design and Technologies Curriculum.
TOPICS:
Mrs Dance chopping down tree
Sandalwood
oak tree in Stirling Gardens
Eastern wheatbelt woodland drive in rAC magazine last year
treetop walk in kings park and walpole
karridale timeberworker’s death
the lolly tree- acacia gum trading between indigenous groups
morrels in wheatbelt
giant log in Kings Park
tree in Star Swamp shows scar from bark cutting by indigenous people
Derby prison tree
lefroy olive trees
proclamation tree
Guildford avenue trees – fight for preservation
My notes:
Critical to get the students themselves to generate questions. I provide sources.
how can students’ passion for history spread to their families?