Stage 3 students continue to investigate communication.
A guide to effective communication
Verbal and non-verbal communications
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This lesson is to build field knowledge for a Guided Inquiry unit. Brief Youtube clips, supporting the Stage 3 science unit of “Made environments – Information”, will be discussed and consolidated after considering the students’ responses on a “Plus, minus, interesting” matrix, to encourage/develop note-taking skills.
Morse Code
Morse Code Alphabet – By G4JNN
W48 rotary phone overview and ring
Voice quality – iPhone 5 vs antique rotary phone
The making of information age: Enfield Telephone Exchange
This term, Stage 3 students will be completing a collaboratively-taught unit of work in science on Made environments – information, with particular emphasis on early and modern communication devices, types of codes, digital citizenship and eSafety. This week, the students completed a pre-test survey sheet from the SLIM toolkit (Guided Inquiry) to provide some baseline data, both qualitative and quantitative. We also revisited the Orbit interface of our OLIVER library system to familiarise the students with its capabilities.
We aim to communicate our cumulative findings as entries on a blog, which can be shared with each class and beyond the school.
Coincidentally, today is International Safer Internet Day 2018. “Celebrated globally in 130 countries, Safer Internet Day is coordinated by the joint Insafe/INHOPE network, with the support of the European Commission, and national Safer Internet Centres across Europe.” This year’s SID theme is “Create, connect and share respect: A better internet starts with you”.
1.1 – Stone Age to Modern Age – evolution of communication
What is communication
16 famous logos with a hidden meaning (that we never even noticed)
Today, I want to explore with my teacher colleagues the upcoming National Simultaneous Storytime picture book for 2018, Hickory dickory dash by Tony Wilson & Laura Wood, and how it fits into our existing K-2 literacy cycle, and how it can address English outcomes for Stage 2 and Stage 3 students (see Objective C).
English K-10 syllabus outcome (From NSW Education Standards Authority, NESA):
We will also briefly discuss:
* aspects of Guided Inquiry activities for Stage 2 and Stage 3, team-taught, library lessons this year (Note: units use the KLA’s own syllabus outcomes plus related English outcomes)
* revisit the concept of pre-, mid- and post- surveys for students (from the SLIM toolkit) to collect both qualitative and quantitative data (action research)
* some possible strategies for improving student attitudes and successes with longer form fiction, such as novels (see Objective D).
English K-10 syllabus outcome (From NSW Education Standards Authority, NESA):
OASIS searching:
Students searching with the Orbit interface in Oliver
Stage 3 students will be researching the Geography unit, Humans shape places, with particular emphasis on the numerous false starts on Sydney’s proposed second international airport.
Second Sydney airport – a chronology
These Youtube clips will be a useful starting point for developing field knowledge.
Badgery’s Creek Airport to be ready by 2000 for the Sydney Olympic Games
Sydney Airport 2000 Building your Olympic airport documentary
Western Sydney Airport explained – 12 December 2016
Ten Eyewitness News Sydney-Badgery’s Creek Airport Project (2/5/2017)
Our Stage 3 students are exploring the built environment in their current geography unit. Some of these students did work on the planning that went into Sydney’s current light rail projects when they were in Stage 2, so I will need to establish some baseline data as to their current field knowledge on the topic during the library sessions this term.
Here are some of our useful Youtube clips:
Sydney’s Light Rail future with audio commentary – Transport for New South Wales
Sydney Light Rail flythrough – May 2015 [Sydney CBD]
Western Sydney Light Rail concept flythrough [Parramatta CBD]
The students are probably also aware of the recent building projects (Thornton Estate) and our local railway station modifications at Penrith:
Future of Sydney – Penrith
Laws of reflection
ABC Zoom – Refraction: why glass prisms bend and separate light
Dispersion of white light
For the Stage 3 science & technology unit, “Light me up”, here are some more Youtube clips that may prove useful.
What color is a mirror?
3 easy kids’ science experiments with magnifying glass
The science of rainbows
How a prism works to make rainbow colors
Special LED lights in infrared and ultraviolet spectrum
Rainbow walking water – easy kids science experiment
This term, Stage 3 students are studying the Physical World in Science & Technology. In the unit, “Light me up”, activities concerning electricity will be done in classrooms and activities concerning the properties of light will be done in the school library.
To introduce the “light” concepts (including shadows, absorption, reflection, refraction, transparent/opaque/translucent, researching with secondary sources about reflection/refraction science understandings, discoveries and/or inventions, such as mirrors, magnifiers, spectacles and prisms, that directly affect people’s lives), here are some Youtube clips that may prove useful.
Shadow | The Dr Binocs Show | Educational videos for kids
Why do we have shadows?
Science – light – shadow – Advanced – English
The science of snowflakes
How do snowflakes form?
Snowflakes photographed by new high-speed camera