Term 4 Week 1-2

Kia ora and a big welcome back to Term 4.

I hope you are all feeing refreshed after your 2 week break. 

Due to COVID lockdowns, your science exams will be replaced by a one hour Common Assessment Tasks instead (aka CATs) on Monday 9th November, Session 4.

In preparation for these CATs, we will be developing our ability to interpret and communicate in science.

Success Criteria:

1. Increasing our understanding of vocabulary used in scientific literature
2. Developing our comprehension skills by describing and summarising what a scientific article is conveying
3. Extrapolating information from a scientific graph or diagram, and accurately communicating what is being conveyed
4. Summarise and describe a graph/diagram/picture using all the words from the title, as well as the text and numerical values in the scale, of the graph/diagram/picture. 

5. Identify different anatomical features of the heart and describe the flow of blood through the heart/lungs/body
6. I can conduct a heart dissection, and identify various anatomical features of the heart

Activities:

1. Reading scientific literature 
2. Analysing and communicating information conveyed in a scientific article by practising our writing skills with pen and paper (identify/describe/compare/summarise/inference)
   
3. Conduct a sheep heart dissection

Further Learning:
All resources will be handed out in class on paper as opposed to on devices. This is to mimic the CAT conditions.