8W2 Science
Weekly outline
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Opened: Wednesday, 19 June 2024, 12:00 AMDue: Thursday, 20 June 2024, 5:00 PM
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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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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 1! For the first week of the term we will be finishing our 'safety' context by exploring the science of how helmets keep a person safe, and the dangers of drunk driving.
Success Criteria:
- I can label the features of a helmet
- I can explain how the features of a helmet protect the rider
- I can use my knowledge of energy absorption to create a protective device
- I can list the effects of drinking alcohol on the human body
- I can discuss the dangers of drinking alcohol and driving
Activities:
- Helmet labelled diagram
- Safety device for an egg
- Drink driving worksheet
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by recognising the importance of hydration and making water safe to drink
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 2. This week we will be beginning our new context by looking at the requirements for survival and beginning to investigate safe drinking water.
Success Criteria:
- I can list importance things for survival
- I can order and explain the priorities for survival in the wilderness
- I can explain the importance of hydration
- I can discuss the risks of drinking unsafe water
Activities:
- Wilderness survival scenario
- Water in the wilderness reading + questions
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by recognising the importance of hydration and making water safe to drink
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 3! This week we will be investigating how and why to make water safe to drink.
Success Criteria:
- I define water filtration and purification
- I describe the processes of filtration and purification
- I can outline different methods of filtration and purification
- I can use my knowledge of water filtration to create a filter out of classroom materials
Activities:
- Purification and filtration table
- FIll-in-the-blanks
- Make a water filter
- Water filtration and purification comic strip
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by discovering the fire triangle
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 4! This week we will be investigating fire - how to make it, and the 3 things required.
Success Criteria:
- I identify and explain the 3 parts of the fire triangle
- I can discuss how to light and extinguish fires using my knowledge of the fire triangle
Activities:
- Fire triangle diagram
- Fire triangle experiment
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by recognising the importance of hydration and making water safe to drink
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by discovering the fire triangle
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by investigating how to stay warm
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 5! Over the next 2 weeks we will be investigating the science of heat and how to stay warm in a wilderness situation
Success Criteria:
- I can identify the cause of hypothermia
- I can identify the symptoms of hypothermia
- I can describe how to treat someone who is suffering from hypothermia
- I can name the 3 methods of heat transfer
- I can describe how conduction, convection and radiation transfer heat
- I can explain what an insulator is
- I can give examples of insulation
- I can construct a miniature shelter
Activities:
- Hypothermia worksheet
- Conduction, convection, radiation diagram
- Convection experiment
- Insulation worksheet
- Mini shelter experiment
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PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:
- We are PLANNING to apply our knowledge of survival science in practical situations
- We are planning to demonstrate insulation by carrying out an experiment
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 7! Over the next 2 weeks we will be carrying out an experiment for our first assessment, investigating insulation by different materials
Success Criteria:
- I can carry out an experiment safely
- I can explain the definition of insulation
- I can discuss the link between insulation and heat transfer
Activities:
- Experiment and report
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by investigating food and energy
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 9! This week we will be investigating the energy provided to us by food.
Success Criteria:
- I can outline why food is important for our survival
- I can define respiration
- I can name the unit of energy
- I can discuss why different people have different energy requirements
- I can interpret a food label to determine how much energy a food item contains and make comparisons
Activities:
- Ngahere forest tea and fire activity
- Food as fuel worksheet
- Food label energy hunt
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by investigating food and energy
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 10! This week we will be continuing to investigate the energy provided to us by food, and we will also recap rongoa Māori.
Success Criteria:
- I can conduct an experiment to determine the energy contained in food
- I can accurately collect data, and use a simple mathematical equation
- I can explain the historical use of harakeke
- I can outline the medicinal benefits of 2 rongoa species - manuka and kawakawa
Activities:
- Burning food lab
- Harakeke reading and weaving task
- Making manuka and Kawakawa tea
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by recognising the importance of hydration and making water safe to drink
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by discovering the fire triangle
- We are EXPLORING...the science of survival by investigating how to stay warm
Kia ora year 8's and welcome to week 5! Over the next 2 weeks we will be investigating the science of heat and how to stay warm in a wilderness situation
Success Criteria:
- I can identify the cause of hypothermia
- I can identify the symptoms of hypothermia
- I can describe how to treat someone who is suffering from hypothermia
- I can name the 3 methods of heat transfer
- I can describe how conduction, convection and radiation transfer heat
Activities:
- Hypothermia worksheet
- Conduction, convection, radiation diagram
- Convection experiment
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