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Nature
Provocation - The beach - What makes a nice beach?
Animals - fish, crabs, sharks, jellyfish
Toys, ice cream, umbrellas, suncream
Sand, water, shells, rocks
Why?
What makes a beach not nice?
Plastic, rubbish
Exploration - Talk about and watch videos of Mauritius oil spill
A boat
Explore sinking and floating
Explore fresh and salt water density
Build boats
Oil in the ocean
People helping to clean
The animals
Oil spill cleanup experiments using different materials - Experiment cleaning different things found int he ocean eg sand, shells, feathers
Documentation - Draw pictures of discoveries, share information as a class, play with boats that were made
Reflections - How easy/hard is it to clean oil from water? What could be the impacts of the oil spill - What could we do to keep our oceans clean?
Caring for the environment
Being dirty
Scary animals - What animals?
Provocation - Shells - Look at some shells
What are they? Where do you find them? What do they look like? Are they animals?
Exploration
Take a closer look - what colours and textures can you see
Documentation
Texture rubbings
Use shells to make markings and different textures in clay
How are shells the same/different from one another? What other animals have shells?
How do shells move - What lives inside? Move like a shell
Texture and colour - How can we tell what texture it is? smooth, rough, bumpy, soft, sharp, blunt, wrinkly, wavy, hard, shiny, gritty, prickly
Provocation - Exoskeletons v endoskeletons - Which animals have which? How do we know?
Discovery
How can we see endoskeletons?
How can we see endoskeletons? Discuss and explore x-rays - how do they work?
Explore xrays, create xrays with light and shadow
Look for animals in the garden, do they have exo or endoskeletons - how do we know?
Documentation
Draw pictures of the animals found in the garden, discuss whether they have endo or exo skeletons
Reproduce 'xrays' by blocking light, paint ect to create an image
Reflections - Are there things around you that are similar to xrays where light and dark make a picture? How are shadows similar? How are they different?
Move like the animal - compare and contrast movements of exo and endo skeleton animals
Provocation - Shadows - What do we know about shadows? Where do we see them? How can we use them?
Discover - Shadows inside and outside
Shadow play with body, hands, objects
Shadow puppets
Documentation - Create a shadow puppet play, show other students, parents, record it
Reflection - How did the puppet show go? What did we do well, where can we learn?
Explore different cultures and countries where shadow puppets are used
Water puppets
What types of stories are told
Trace shadows
Trace each others shadows
Talk about shadows changing over time - experiment with shadows outside
Talk about sundials
