Designing and making our Vehicles
Our Finished Vehicles
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TRIMLEY ST MARTIN PRIMARY SCHOOL |
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In computing this half term, the children have been learning how to use TinkerCAD. They have explored how to make shapes (changing the height, width and colour of them) as well as how to combine two shapes together. In this lesson, they were using the merge tool to put two shapes together to make a hole in 1 of them. They were then able to combine these with other shapes to produce a pencil pot. Great use of this learning gem:After making our periscopes, we tested them out and then thought about how we can see things through them. The children used a bank of words to describe how they worked. Good use of this learning gems:The class have been busy helping Mr Childs to tidy up the courtyard this morning. Great use of these learning gems:We took a break from our usual science lesson this week to take part in our school science week. We had the same theme as the national science week this year - connections - and we were looking at our connection to the world through mobile phones (particularly focusing on what elements from the Earth go into mobile phones and where these elements come from). We started by looking at the periodic table and finding out the names for the symbols of elements included in a mobile phone. We also found out how scarce these elements were and whether they came from an area where there are wars. Following this, the children made question tellers to help them come up with questions they would like answers to. Good use of these learning gems:We started our science lesson with a game of vocabulary Pictionary. The children chose one of the key vocabulary we are using for our light topic and then drew a picture to represent it, their partner then had to guess what the word was. These are just a small selection of the pictures drawn. Today our focus was on mirrors. We talked about how smooth surfaces (like mirrors) reflect light well. Then I set the children a challenge of using mirrors to shine a light on a target that was on the opposite side to the torch. Afterwards, the children showed how they thought the light had travelled from the torch to the bullseye in their books. Good use of these learning gems:We had a fantastic start to our new science topic on light today. We used question spinners to help us come up with questions that we wanted the answers to and I was really impressed with the range of questions and also the depth of them. The children then tried to identify the science enquiry they would have to do in order to answer these questions - most of them we research based, although a few were observation of time and fair testing. We will have some time in our next lessons to try and find the answers to some of them. Following this great start, I then posed the children a true or false statement - Light appears to travel in straight lines. They discussed this with their partner, before carrying out an investigation to prove that it is true! Great use of these learning gems:Good use of the Learning Gems:Well done for those in this term’s guitar group who performed in our music 🎶 assembly this morning. Good use of these Learning Gems: |
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