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Practical Science
Earth and Beyond for 6-8 year olds
! Practical hands-on science activities ! Contains comprehensive teachers’ notes and lesson ideas
By Kevin Rigg
Ebook Code REAU4024
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Written by Kevin Rigg. Illustrated by Elizabeth Buckley. Design & Typesetting by Shay Howard. Published by Ready-Ed Publications (2007) Š Ready-Ed Publications - 2007. P.O. Box 276 Greenwood Perth W.A. 6024 Email: info@readyed.com.au Website: www.readyed.com.au
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Contents
Contents
Earth and Beyond
This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Teachers’ Notes Presentation Ideas Curriculum Links
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Lesson 1: Season Match Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 2: Favourite Seasons Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 3: Environments Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 4: Natural and Built Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 5: Nocturnal Animals Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 6: Weather Watch (1) Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 7: Weather Watch (2) Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Lesson 8: Water and Home Teachers’ Notes Activity
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Teachers’ Notes This book contains a package of photocopiable worksheets designed to be used to cover the Science learning area of “Earth and Beyond” with 6-8 year old students.
Earth and Beyond
Lesson Sheets Layout
This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. At this level the students’ focus is on the local environment and how it affects them. Tasks involve drawing, discussing and writing about the things that students observe in their daily life. Opportunities are provided for students to develop skills such as labelling, data gathering, graphing, matching and carrying out simple surveys. Specific activities include identifying seasonal changes, understanding the concepts of natural and built, studying the features of nocturnal animals, watching the weather, and examining water use at home.
STUDENT LESSON SHEET Lesson title Student learning activities
Each lesson has the potential to: • extend into more than one lesson by having separate parts to the lesson sheet. Some sections of a lesson may need planning on other paper before final copies are transferred to the lesson sheet. Some lessons may be too long for one lesson and could be completed at another time. • expand into other curriculum areas using a similar theme. There are ideas for crosscurricular integration with other learning areas. Sometimes a whole day’s work could be planned around one lesson sheet.
Science Materials and Equipment The equipment needed has been kept to a minimum to facilitate ease of planning. It is readily available in schools or is easily acquired. All lesson sheets are outcome linked to the various curriculum documents (see page 6). Answers are provided where necessary (see page 24).
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Outcome links; Required materials; Lesson plan ideas including extension ideas and teaching tips;
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Other books in the Practical Science series:
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TEACHERS’ NOTES INCLUDE: (FOR EACH LESSON)
Energy and Change Life and Living Natural and Processed Materials Working Scientifically
Cross-curricular/integration ideas.
Presentation Ideas
Earth and Beyond
This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. • Create a display using items used in the lesson and worksheets. Children could make labels for the items.
• Make a frieze of drawings, magazine cut-outs and worksheets used in the lesson. Students can label the pictures. • Take digital photos of the activity and download/print them for a language activity. Children can create labels to put under the photos. • Children could produce labels or text for the photos which can be used to create a class book or display in the library. • Display record pages alongside the data collection pages in a class display. • Collect photos from the children of activities, pets, homes, etc. • Cut the worksheets up into parts and display, together with the children’s drawings. • Use art pieces as a backdrop to a display of the children’s worksheets.
• Children could prepare and present talks to another class using the worksheets as a guide.
Internet Use All websites listed in the Practical Science books are linked from the Ready-Ed website listed below. This saves the teacher and/or student from typing in the addresses each time. External websites referred to in this book will be updated through the Ready-Ed site below should they disappear or modify their address after publication.
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Bookmark this site for ease of use:
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Curriculum Links
Earth and Beyond
This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. The activities in Practical Science: Earth and Beyond can be linked to the following Science strands and learning outcomes for each state/territory.
State/Territory
Subject Area
Strands
Outcomes
NT, ACT and Tas. (National Curriculum)
Science
· Earth and Beyond
New South Wales
Science and Technology
· Built Environments · Earth and its Surroundings
BE S1.1 ES S1.6, 2.6
Victoria (VELS)
Science
· Science, Knowledge
CSF 1.1
Queensland
Science
· Earth and Beyond
1.1, 1.2, 1.3 D 2.4
South Australia
Science
· Earth and Space
1.1, 1.2
Western Australia
Science
· Earth and Beyond
EB 1, EB 2
- Earth, Sky and People - The Changing Earth
and Understanding · Science at Work Earth and Space Sciences: Our Place in Space
1.1, 2.1 1.2, 2.2
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Earth and Beyond This is a Ready-Ed Publications' Lesson plans and activities for:
book preview. •Season Match
•Favourite Seasons •Environments •Natural and Built •Nocturnal Animals •Weather Watch (1) •Weather Watch (2) •Water and Home
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Lesson 1
Lesson 1
Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
Season Match This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcome:
• Lists ways that the local environment influences daily life.
Materials: • clothing items from both seasons, e.g. jumper, singlet • sporting equipment from both seasons, e.g. football, tennis racquet
Lesson Ideas: • Discuss the clothing items. Children decide which season each item would be worn. Discuss other clothing worn in summer and winter. • Children can complete the top section of the worksheet. Children should justify their answers with explanations. • Children can answer the question orally before they write their answers. • Show the sporting equipment and discuss sports the children like and what season sports are played in. Using the sports equipment, create a “Summer” pile and “Winter” pile. Select children to place the equipment in the correct pile. • Children can write “Summer”, “Winter” or “Both” under the sports pictures on the activity sheet. Children should be able to justify their answers. • Make large “Summer” and “Winter” label cards and have children place them near the clothing and sports gear.
Integration Ideas: The Arts: Children draw a summer/winter scene showing weather features and clothes. English (Writing): Children write sentences about their favourite activities during summer/winter. Society and Environment (SOSE / HSIE): Show posters or display weather in other countries (e.g. snow, beach scenes) and discuss how winter and summer weather differs.
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Match the season to the clothes.
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Why do people ski in winter?
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Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
Season This is aFavourite Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcome:
• Lists ways that the local environment influences daily life.
Materials: • labels of the seasons and associated months • magazines for cut-outs
Lesson Ideas: • As a class, match up months with the correct seasons using labels. • Children colour the seasons using the correct colours. • Discuss the main features of the four seasons including the weather expected, what people wear and the actvities (e.g. sport and recreation) associated with each season. • Discuss things that people do in the different seasons. List and chart. • Children predict the season they think is most popular and write it down in the box on their worksheet. • Class Survey: Children can only vote once. Write the tallies on the board and allow children to copy the totals into the icons on the worksheet. • Children can fill in the bar graph of the class result and list the most popular seasons in order at the bottom. • Glue the seasonal activities collected onto a freize of the seasons. Collect other information about seasons (e.g. clothes, sport, holidays, food and so on) and post them in a “Summer”, “Winter”, “Spring” and “Autumn” section of the room.
Integration Ideas: Focus more questions about the graph result (e.g. gender preference, pooling reasons for choice). Society and Environment (SOSE / HSIE): Collect magazine cut-outs of events or activities and classify according to the seasons. English (Writing): Students write about seasons, favourites, sporting activities, seasonal hobbies, etc.
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Favourite Seasons
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Colour the months in the correct colour for the season:
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Lesson 3
Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
Environments This is a Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcomes:
• Distinguishes major features of the physical environment. • Describes changes that occur in the local environment.
Materials: • posters/pictures showing these four different environments: swamp, sea shore, desert, bushland • variety of plastic animals to sort • magazines (for cut-outs) • glue, scissors, coloured pencils
Lesson Ideas: • Show the class a picture of one of the environments. Discuss plants and animals found in this type of environment and ask children to describe places they know of with this type of environment. Work through each of the four environments. • Conduct a sorting activity with the plastic animals. Some animals will be able to fit into more than one environment and some may not fit at all. Discuss these choices with class and ask for explanations. • Children draw the environments using coloured pencils. They could copy features from the posters/pictures provided. • Children cut and place the animal and plant pictures (don’t paste yet!). Check that they are correct by quizzing the whole class. Children can then paste the pictures onto the worksheets.
Integration Ideas: Society and Environment (SOSE / HSIE): Using four large pieces of art paper (one for each environment), children can cut out and paste pictures from magazines that suit the environments shown in the four posters. Other images can be cut out to show different environments (e.g. mountains, polar regions, grasslands, marine, etc.).
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Draw pictures to show what these environments would look like.
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Lesson 4
Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
This is aNatural Ready-Ed Publications' and Built book preview. Learning Outcome:
• Distinguishes major features of the physical environment.
Materials: • collection of items both natural (e.g. gumnuts, rocks, seeding, water, etc.) and manufactured (toy, bread, brick, radio, clothes, etc.) • digital camera and printer
Lesson Ideas: • Show the collection of items to the class. Children try to group them into two groups and then offer reason/s for the grouping. • Ask students to think of definitions for ‘natural’ and ‘built’ (manmade). List students’ responses on the board. • Children complete sections A, B and C on the worksheet. • Walk around the school grounds and point out natural and built items. Children can suggest some they see. Take photos of some of the features in the school ground. • Print the photos and have children group/sort the photos. Students can draw the features on their worksheet and label them. • Display the photos on a pin-up board and have “Made by People” and “Natural” labels made for the children to place under the photos.
Integration Ideas: The Arts: Each student divides a piece of art paper into two by folding. Children draw or paint a “natural scene” on one half and a “built scene” on the other.
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A road and a house are built or made by people. Name two more things made by people.
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Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
Animals This is aNocturnal Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcome:
• Identifies features of the day and night sky and relates them to patterns of behaviour in everyday life.
Materials: •posters •pictures •animal magazines showing both nocturnal and diurnal animals.
Lesson Ideas: • Discuss nocturnal animals and have children relate stories about their experiences at seeing them at zoos or in the wild. • Darken the classroom and have children look at a partner’s pupils. Turn on the light and let children observe how pupils contract. Discuss how pupils expand at night and how nocturnal animals have large pupils. Suggest reasons for this. • Children write about nocturnal animals. • Discuss the four pairs of eyes on the worksheet. Children choose the two pairs of nocturnal eyes and explain why they chose them. Repeat with the ears. • For part F, pictures can be printed from the Internet, can be cut out from magazines or drawn. Students can either paste these images on the back of the worksheet or on another sheet of paper. • Children label the special features of the animal that enable it to hunt and move around at night, e.g. features of eyes, ears, feet and so on. • View some interactive websites about nocturnal animals: www.enchantedlearning.com/painting/nocturnal.shtml courses.lib.odu.edu/eci/cfleener/eci361fall2001/kerritania/
Integration Ideas: Technology: Children design and build a model of a nocturnal animal using basic construction materials (e.g. wool, cotton wool, pop-sticks, pipe cleaners). The Arts: Students draw or paint a night scene with a nocturnal animal hunting. English (Writing): Write the word “NOCTURNAL” on the board and demonstrate how to write an acrostic poem. Children write the name of a nocturnal animal for each letter or a descriptive word for a nocturnal animal. Excursion: Combine the features of nocturnal animals with other animal adaptations and pay a visit to the zoo.
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Nocturnal Animals
Lesson 5
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Lesson 6
Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
Watch (1) This is aWeather Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcomes:
• Lists ways that the local environment influences daily life. • Records ways we monitor and use information about changes to the earth. • Describes changes that occur in the local environment.
Materials: • large thermometer that measures in Celsius ( ºC) • coloured card
Lesson Ideas: The children will be collecting data over five days (Monday to Friday): • Mark a thermometer with coloured card to show a range of temperatures: 8° – 15°
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16° – 25° green 26° – 35° orange 36°+
red
• Enlarge the worksheet to A3 size for the whole class to follow as the weather data is collected. • Check the “colour” of the day’s temperature. Children record on their record sheet. Arrange for different students to check the temperature each day. • Observe clouds and colour the rectangle for the amount of cloud cover. Children should be able to make their own observations • Give the wind a rating of 0 (none) to 4 (strong). Each child can do their own rating. More able children should try to include the wind direction. • Discuss and list words which describe the day’s weather. Children can either choose appropriate words from this list or come up with their own words. • Take photos of the day’s weather and keep a photo record of each day on a class chart.
Integration Ideas: English (Speaking and Listening): Write some “weather” poems. Discuss favourite weather and activities for that type of weather. English (Writing): Make up sentences to include the weather words.
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Weather Watch (1)
Lesson 6
Earth and Beyond
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Teachers' Notes
Earth and Beyond
This is aWeather Ready-Ed Publications' Watch (2) book preview. Learning Outcomes:
• Lists ways that the local environment influences daily life. • Records ways we monitor and use information about changes to the earth. • Describes changes that occur in the local environment.
Materials: • data from Weather Watch (1) • coloured pencils
Lesson Ideas: • The children complete the record page using the data collected. • Colour the correct colours in the temperature graph. Discuss the temperatures recorded and give them the correct numerical amount. • Students colour in the wind strength graph and answer the questions about the graphs. • Write words or phrases to describe the week’s weather. Students could look on the data sheet for what they have already recorded during the week.
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Weather Watch (2)
Lesson 7
Earth and Beyond
Use the data collected on Weather Watch (1)
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Earth and Beyond
and Home This is aWater Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. Learning Outcomes:
• Describes changes that occur in the local environment. • Explains ways that applications of science protect people.
Materials: • a water tap • poster or images of rainwater tanks ( www.ecoliving.cat.org.au/photos/greywater/) • bottle of “grey water” collected from home and a bottle of rainwater
Lesson Ideas: • Discuss how many taps the children have at home and list the various uses they have in each room. Children can carry out the home survey at school or complete it as a homework activity. • Discuss how “grey water” is used in the home. Grey water is made up of the wastewater from our showers, baths, spas, hand basins, laundry tubs, washing machines, dishwashers and kitchen sinks. (It doesn’t include water from toilets!) Grey water can be used to water your garden and can help to save around 400 litres of fresh water each day. • Show students the sample of the grey water and allow them to compare the difference in colour to rainwater (if available). Emphasise that grey water must be used safely. • Discuss the different types of rainwater tanks available and how they can be used safely to collect water for drinking and other uses. • Listen to stories about rainwater tanks from the children. Some students may even have a rainwater tank, particularly if they live in a rural area. Survey can be done in class with a class total also completed. • Use the taps and water samples to make a display.
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having a bath
drinking
feeding pets
washing clothes
watering the garden
using in aquariums
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Earth and Beyond
Match ThisLesson is 1a– Season Ready-Ed Publications' book preview. A) Teacher to check match-ups: Summer: Board shorts, bathers, summer dress; Winter: Jacket, snow outfit, winter coat, snow boots; Both: Man’s trousers and shirt, dress. B) Answers will vary. C) Basketball - both; Football - Winter; Skiing - Winter; Snooker - Both; Surfing - Summer; Tennis - Summer; Cricket - Summer; Rugby - Winter. D) Answers will vary.
Lesson 2 – Favourite Season A) Red: January, February, December; Yellow: March, April, May; Blue: June, July, August; Green: September, October, November; B), C) & D) Answers will vary.
Lesson 3 – Environments B) Swamp - water lillies, frog; seashore - starfish, crab; desert - cactus, camel; bushland - kangaroo, gum tree.
Lesson 4 – Natural and Built A) & B) Answers will vary. C) Green: Cobweb, log, shell, duck and leg; Red: Car, aeroplane, fence. D) & E) Answers will vary.
Lesson 5 – Nocturnal Animals A) B) C) D) E) F)
Nocturnal animals sleep during the day and hunt, eat and play at night. 1 and 4. Size of eye and pupil. 1 and 3. Size and shape. Answers will vary.
Lesson 8 – Water and Home A) & B) Answers will vary. C) Water which has already been used in a washing machine or dishwasher. D) Watering, washing paths. E) Answers will vary. F) Watering the garden, feeding pets, drinking, using in aquariums.
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