Blocks to store energy – Australian innovation

MGA Blocks

Reading tips: Read the summary at the beginning of the article. Can you recall 3 important facts? Now watch the two videos to add to your understanding.

Quantum Dots – small but game-changing

Quantum Dots

Reading tips: Read the large headings to get a sense of the main idea. Then check out the photos – how do these fit in with the large headings?  Now watch the videos to add to your understanding. Last step: Go back to the top of the article and read until you find the answer to this question: How will quantum dots change solar energy?

Smart Curtains Make a Smart Building

Smart curtains

Reading tip: Don’t even think about reading the whole article, as it’s aimed at industry researchers. The first paragraph is an abstract or summary and you will find it readable and useful. Can you record your new knowledge fast and easy? Try sketchnoting this or Cornell notes.

Gelion Battery Power on the Bench

Gelion smart benches

Reading tips: take time to look carefully at the 3 photos to capture the heart of the article.

Use the useful DRTA strategy which gets you ready to read. Quickly write a list of words that you think will appear in the article. Take a short-cut: just read the first 3 paragraphs. As you read on, tick off the words on your list. 

Let’s layer in another article on the Gelion Technology.

Reading tips: The second article is easier to read, however before reading and viewing,  turbocharge your understanding by thinking of 2 or 3 of your own questions you would like answered about Gelion.

Gelion Technology

C.S.T. ENERGY CIRCLES

CST – concentrated solar thermal

Reading tips: the infographic and the first video in the playlist are good starting points. Show what you know by explaining to a classmate OR creating a cool sketchnote.

WIND POWER WINNERS – AND LOSERS

This is a very recent article from a reliable source.

Reading tips: As you read the article keep in mind the main heading:

Chill wind: Major renewable energy investor says wind farm ruling to have ‘disastrous’ effect

Another reading tip: Build your thinking around the concept of PERSPECTIVE. What does each side want?

Last reading tip: Use Ms Lockyer’s perplexing question about the Bald Hills wind farm law suit:

‘What kind of community do the people of Bald Hills want to be?’

We are learning to use digital technologies in finding solutions for problems connected with disasters.

READ:

https://www.redcross.org.au/prepare

and

http://education.abc.net.au/newsandarticles/blog/-/b/3060819/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-droughts

CLIP 1: DISASTERS HAPPEN

CLIP 2: DEALING WITH FLOODS

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/2163724/life-on-our-ever-changing-creek

CLIP 3: HOW TO PREDICT AN EARTHQUAKE

http://abcspla.sh/m/30150

CLIP 4: PREPARING FOR FLOODS

http://education.abc.net.au/home#!/media/3353989/flood-prevention-in-tokyo

CLIP 5: PREDICTING BUSHFIRES

CLIP 6: VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS

CLIP 8: WHAT CAUSES TSUNAMIS?

http://abcspla.sh/m/31077

CLIP 9: DISASTER IN BALI

As a project for Science Week, we are creating a news podcast: STEM RADIO!

We are aiming to produce quality news items which are about the latest exciting developments in our world. Based on STEM topics, we hope to inform our audience how science is used to solve problems and create solutions in our world. In particular, we want to tell our audience which science was involved – the basic scientific thinking and science disciplines behind the story.

Here’s an example podcast segment.

Process:

Work with a partner. Choose an article from the list. Create a draft of your podcast script. Include:

• WHO
• WHEN
• WHERE
• WHAT
• THE SCIENCE INVOLVED

Are there any direct quotes in the article you have read? You may use these to create an authentic ‘voice’ in your script. You may include a fictitious quote or interview in your podcast if it helps to highlight the science!

TIPS FOR SUCCESS – VERY IMPORTANT!

• Use the assistive tech on your laptop to read the computer.
• Include the main idea in your introductory sentences.
• Your original writing is best – just don’t copy sentences from the article.
• Make it entertaining!

Here’s a list of suitable articles: stem radio articles for 6M

RECORDING YOUR SCRIPT

• Use audacity on your laptop.
• Keep the laptop still when recording.
• Keep yourself close and stay in the same spot when recording.
• make sure you and your recording partner are at an equal distance from the computer so that both voices can be recorded at the same volume.
• Rehearse!
• Finished? Now to get your file ready. FILE < EXPORT AS MP3. Save this and email it to me with SCIENCE PODCAST 6M in the subject line.

Combine the power of emoji with graffiti to create speech bubbles on these images. Stick to the theme: migration.

Choose an image from this slide show:

TIP: Insert your chosen image into a Word document. Add a ‘callout’ shape. type your emojis inside the callout shape – no more than 5 emoji per shape. Here’s my example:

emoji graffiti example

Upload your file into the Activity space in Seesaw.

Go-To places: (caution: check the date of the item to make sure you are using a current source.)

• World Book Online for basic information.
• Clickview for basic information in videos.Here are some useful links on energy sources.

WIND ENERGY

https://www.evernote.com/l/AAYU5oe6JA5OB5HCvE14ksSn_0m1yPCuzn4/

WIND AND SOLAR ENERGY

https://blogs.imf.org/2019/04/26/falling-costs-make-wind-solar-more-affordable/

BATTERY STORAGE

https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/News/cure-drawbacks-li-ion-batteries

ENGINEERS AUSTRALIA

https://www.engineersaustralia.org.au/

WAVE ENERGY

https://www.abc.net.au/btn/classroom/wave-energy/10526972

NUCLEAR ENERGY

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180907110524.htm

AUSTRALIAN ENERGY SOURCES ( GOOD FOR FOSSIL FUELS)

https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/energy-supply

Year 6W

Year 6M

Year 6H

Create a BOYS – BUT OR YET SO – sentence.

TOPICS: Netflix, emojis, boy bands, tomato sauce, nori rolls, sunflowers, basketball, pen licence.

Based on the Unicode rules, here are our rules for judging our emojis:

1. Original work, not just created by an app such as Bitmoji, and not of a character protected by copyright
2. New – not a direct copy of an existing emoji
3. A distinctive image
4. Multiple usages
5. Principles of design are followed. Read here for a summary of the principles of graphic design.

Click on this link to find out the rules for submitting an emoji to Unicode.

Rudolph and his  friend Prancer have the job of delivering all the Christmas presents. Can they do it?

Use this Scratch Game

Design your journey for the reindeers. They must make the journey without the alarm sounding. The journey must be at least 10 metres – the longer or more difficult the better.