8W2 Science
Weekly outline
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Kia ora year 8's and welcome to science for 2024!
Our first context of the year is 'Safety in NZ and beyond', and we will be starting the year off by recapping lab safety.
Success Criteria:
- I can list lab safety rules
- I can explain the reason behind lab safety rules
Activities:
- Title page activity
- Safety in the lab worksheet
- Safety in the lab comic strip
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety in the science lab by recognising important rules and behaviours for working in the lab
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 3! This week we will recap lab safety, as well as practise our skills of group work and measurement
Success Criteria:
- I can explain the reason behind lab safety rules
- I can collaborate and problem solve with my peers
- I can measure liquids accurately
- I can follow instructions carefully
Activities:
- Bikini bottom lab safety task
- Cup stacking group activity
- Colour magic lab activity
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety in the science lab by recognising important rules and behaviours for working in the lab
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 4! This week we will recap lab safety, and practise communicating effectively as a group.
Success Criteria:
- I can explain the hazards and safety features of the science lab
- I can communicate effectively in a group
Activities:
- Lab safety flip video
- Cup stacking group activity
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety in the water by investigation the science behind floating and sinking
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 5! This week we will be learning about safety in the water by investigating bouyancy
Success Criteria:
- I can list things that float and sink
- I can define bouyancy, density and displacement
- I can explain why different objects float and sink
- I can explain how floatation devices allow us to float
Activities:
- Things that float and sink worksheet
- Displacement activity
- Flotation devices research task
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety in the water by investigation the science behind floating and sinking
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 6! This week we will be learning about safety in the water by investigating water pollution and water quality
Success Criteria:
- I can list sources of pollution
- I can describe sources of pollution
- I can discuss methods of pollution prevention
- I can determine which beaches are safe to swim at in Auckland
Activities:
- Sources of pollution table
- Secchi disk experiment
- Safe swim website scavenger
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety at speed by investigating car and bike science
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 7! This week we will be learning about air quality.
Success Criteria:
- I can list sources of air pollution
- I can describe why the air is important to us
- I can explain the effect of poor air quality to the human body
- I can discuss solutions to poor air quality
Activities:
- The air and Maori
- Air quality learning tree
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety at speed by investigating car and bike science
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 7! This week we will be carrying on with car safety by learning about energy and cars.
Success Criteria:
- I can list types of energy
- I can describe what kinetic energy is
- I can explain transformations of energy in a car
Activities:
- Brainpop - kinetic energy
- Car ramp experiment
- Cars and energy reading + questions
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety at speed by investigating car and bike science
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 9! This week we will be carrying on with car safety by learning about car safety features
Success Criteria:
- I can list safety features of a car
- I can explain the purpose of crumple zones
- I can describe Newton's law of Inertia
- I can discuss how Newton's law of Inertia relates to car safety features
Activities:
- Safety features list + descriptions
- Crumple zones experiment
- Gifs sentences - Newton's law of Inertia
- Seatbelts and Inertia - paragraph
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety at speed by investigating car and bike science
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 10! This week we will be carrying on with car safety by learning about how inertia and distraction are involved in car safety
Success Criteria:
- I can describe Newton's 1st law - inertia
- I can give examples of Newton's law of inertia
- I can explain how seatbelts keep passengers safe
- I can list types and examples of distractions
- I can discuss how distractions can impact safety on the road
Activities:
- Inertia sentences
- Inertia paragraph
- Distractions experiment
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING safety at speed by investigating car and bike science
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 11! For the final week of the term we will be investigating speed, time and distance, and how to calculate each of these.
Success Criteria:
- I can draw a speed-distance-time triangle
- I can explain how to calculate speed, distance and time
- I can use tools to measure real life examples of speed, distance and time
Activities:
- DST triangle
- Speedometre slides task
- Speed-distance-time challenge
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