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Our Outdoor Learning Journey Part 7

In Primary 5 we have been learning more about newspaper reports and what is included in them. We have been learning about the terms eye witness account, reporter, direct quotes, indirect quotes and opposing opinions so we took our learning outside and planned, recorded and reviewed news reports of our own based around finding a dino egg in the school grounds. We all got involved and had different roles to play in the news report. We then gave some positive feedback to other groups after watching their recordings. For maths we had to solve a problem methodically. We had to create as many different natural faces and record them but the main aim of the challenge was to have a method of changing the face to a new one without getting confused or repeating a face we had already created. We set ourselves a success criteria to work from in order to show how successful we had been in the task. In the afternoon we took our learning outside again and used the loose parts play equipment in the park to find solutions to small challenges we set ourselves. Each group had a different challenge to solve with a pile of given resources. The groups solved the challenges in different ways and we learned the importance of communication and cooperation to ensure we were all understanding each other. It was a great day of learning.

STEM Early Level.

Miss Mulliss and Mrs Arbuckle attended a training course at SSERC Dunfermline on Friday 30th August. It was very informative and gave us great ideas.

We investigated sorting trays and how we could use these in our learning at early level. We also went outdoors to try different activities we could do outside for example making a human sundial.

Image result for sserc dunfermline   We also were given ideas for teaching the senses, these were really great fun! We also made ice cream and this allowed us to think about how we would use ice in our classroom to teach about states of matter.

We are attending the second training day at the end of November and are sure we come back to school with more wonderful ideas for learning and teaching of STEM at Early Level.

P1 STEM – cars

We worked as a class in small groups to make cars using a shoe box as the car. This was a STEM project as we used different aspects of STEM learning to help us be successful. We made our car for Teddy to go on holiday. We had to make sure the car was able to move.

Here are the steps below

  1. First we had paper to plan our design
  2. Next we designed our cars
  3. We used the hole punch to make the holes for the wood to go through
  4. Then we had to measure the stick for the wheels to go on
  5. We used the junior hack saw to cut the right size
  6. Then we had to sharpen the ends to put the wheels on
  7. Finally we attached the wheels to the sticks and put them onto the car

After we designed our cars we went through to primary two to see their cars and talk about their designs. We drew a road on the carpet to see if our cars would move and they were all successful!

 

ImageSome thoughts from the primary one pupils –

I enjoyed designing my car

I liked using the saw

I found using the saw difficult

I found it hard to punch the hole

I would have liked to paint the car

I would add more to my design

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