Home Learning, Friday 5th June
Friday is Freya's Day, or Frigg's Day. Freya (Frigg) was the wife of Odin, the King of the Norse gods. Did anyone find out the origins of the other days of the week? Well, your final set of learning for Week 1 is below.
PE: Did you start the Viking Games yesterday? You can carry on with this today if you wish, don't forget to send your photographs to Mrs Horrigan. If you would rather do one of Mrs Horrigan's weekly activities, that's good too!
Reading: Sputnik's Guide to Life on Earth, Part 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fZi0qdFA1g&t=42s
- Why didn’t Prez want to tell the family that Sputnik was dangerous?
- The more mass an object has, is gravity weaker or stronger?
- Why do you think Sputnik is on Earth?
Maths: Data Handling Quest!
As a bit of fun, today's data handling takes the form of an online quest. Go to:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/games/embed/guardians-mathematica
And get ready to play Guardians, defenders of Mathmatica.
Firstly you will need to choose your character, a Knight, Warrior or Elf. Then complete your training mission. As we have been looking at data handling and graphs head to the Swamp of Statistics and complete as many of the quests there as you can. If you would like to tackle some other areas of maths on the map, please feel free. The better you do in the quests, the more coins you will earn to spend on your character.
Good luck brave adventurers!
English: Space poems. Read through the poems about space that I have attached. Then go to the question sheet and answer questions about them. Mums and Dads, the answers are there too if you would like to mark them.
Topic: IK: how the moon impacts our planet
I hope you enjoyed our recap of the water cycle yesterday. There are other ways the water is so important to our planet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQnpWyXMyL8
Living by the coast we know that the sea goes in and out. We call this the tides. It is very important to be aware of the tide times in our local area as this can help us plan our visits to the beach and stay safe. But how do the tides work? Why does the tide go out and in again?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/topics/z8c9q6f/articles/zdqr97h
Watch the Brian Cox video (same link, lower down page). The first half of this clip is also useful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ohDG7RqQ9I
As you can see, it is he centrifugal force and the gravitational pull of the moon that create the movement of the tides!
If you have time and the resources, this is a simple scientific experiment to help them understand the moon and the tides using a ball in a bowl of water.
https://www.kidsgen.com/school_projects/tides.htm
If this is too much then I would like you to use diagrams and explanations to show your understanding of how the moon controls the tides.