Term 3 Week 8 - 7th - 11th Sept
Section outline
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Context: Space & Time
Big Ideas: Space has always fascinated mankind. During the past few years there has been a renewed commitment and effort to explore the Moon, Mars, other planets and celestial bodies. This term we will be focussing on aspects from Planet Earth & Beyond and the Physics of space exploration including time.
5c's - Collaboration, Communication, Critical Thinking, Creativity & Citizenship
EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING the concepts of space and becoming familiar with scientific terms relating to space exploration.
- We are EXPLORING the concepts of physics relating to forces, motion & time.
- We are PLANNING...to construct Balloon cars so that we can investigate Newton's laws of Physics.
- Give the basic definition of force with examples.
- Distinguish between various types of forces and categorise them as contact or non-contact forces
- explain Newton's laws of force with suitable examples
- Monday - Final modifications and taking part in class race off. Top 3 winners will be chosen based on distance and speed of the balloon car.
- Wednesday & Thursday: Complete task sheet from Google Classroom and submit.
- Thursday - Class winners to compete with 10C2
PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:
Physics