This was the final week of our How the World Works unit, inquiring into the Central Idea that "Changes in Matter affect our Environment". The children continued to use the Scientific Method, with a focus on observing carefully. They enjoyed seeing what happened when we mixed oil, water and food colouring. At the end of the experiment, we realised that oil floats and that water finds other water, which linked to the water cycle and cloud formation. The children have been busy creating slideshows to share their knowledge from this unit. They are combining their literacy skills and using features of information texts with their rapidly expanding computer skills. We have begun sharing these with the class and this will continue over the coming days. Finally, we started to transfer our learning and apply it to games we know. Scissors, Paper, Rock became Solid, Liquid, Gas. Similarly, I Spy combined with Twenty Questions to guess the object by asking questions about its properties. We also had a group explore Simon Says with different actions to represent the states of matter.
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