{"id":8649,"date":"2025-05-16T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/?p=8649"},"modified":"2025-06-06T12:54:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T12:54:04","slug":"area-portraits-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/2025\/05\/16\/area-portraits-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Area Portraits and Climate Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #339966\">This week P6a have been busy learning about Area. \u00a0We have measured, calculated and drawn area shapes. \u00a0One of the most enjoyable activities were our self portraits done in a Minecraft style. \u00a0Not only did we use Area we also had a little symmetry involved. \u00a0The final pictures allowed us to calculate the area of each part. \u00a0They look amazing!\ud83e\udd29\ud83d\udc4f\ud83c\udffb<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 1.84615;margin-top: 1.71429rem;margin-bottom: 1.71429rem;font-size: 14px\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 1.84615;margin-top: 1.71429rem;margin-bottom: 1.71429rem;font-size: 14px;text-align: left\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/h4>\n<h4 style=\"line-height: 1.84615;margin-top: 1.71429rem;margin-bottom: 1.71429rem;font-size: 14px\" data-wp-editing=\"1\"><\/h4>\n<p data-wp-editing=\"1\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff\">We have also explored the issue of pollution and climate change on our Oceans. \u00a0First we watched an animated film by Aardman Films called\u00a0 \u2018<em>Turtle Journey<\/em>\u2019, which, although incredibly sad also made us realise the problems creatures face. The pupils retold the story through a comic.\u00a0 \u00a0We then created an experiment using shells and lemon juice, to show the erosion of coral and shells due to the polluted waters and the increase in acid.\u00a0 This is called acidification. \u00a0Next week we will see what has happened. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week P6a have been busy learning about Area. \u00a0We have measured, calculated and drawn area shapes. \u00a0One of the most enjoyable activities were our self portraits done in a Minecraft style. \u00a0Not only did we use Area we also had a little symmetry involved. \u00a0The final pictures allowed us to calculate the area of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26087,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primary-6a"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26087"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8649"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8649\/revisions\/8832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/wallacewellprimary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}