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Topic: Space |
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Year 5 & 6 |
Level 2 (Silver Level 24) |
Duration 1 week |
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Achievement objectives |
Learning outcomes |
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Close Reading Viewing |
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Processes |
Learning outcomes |
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Thinking
Critically (Reading and
Writing) |
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Resources Instructional readers
Variety of library books on Space theme Science Alive kit: Earth and Beyond (Big Books, Small Books, Teacher) Internet sites
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Learning Experiences 1. Read Footprints for a thousand years. Discuss meanings of text and identify how similes are used to explain the meanings. Related reading activity – Inspiration template “Footprints for a thousand years’ identify reasons for why footprints disappear or stay. 2. Read First on the Moon, discuss space word meanings. Go to internet site The Moon Earths Satellite http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/shadow/solar_system_level1/moon.html Identify the space words and record the meanings of the words. Read more on the space landing at http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/apollo11/index.html Related Reading activity - Inspiration template ‘First on the moon’. Move the pictures into the right order and explain what each one means. 3. Read Space Shuttle and then read more about it on Space Shuttle NASA site http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/Rockets/shuttle.asp discussing meanings of text. Related reading activity – Inspiration template ‘Space Shuttle’. Students label the space shuttle with the correct names and describe what each part is used for (information link is available) 4. Read Moon Buggy look at how the pictures and text relate to each other. Shared reading experience Moon Buggy http://www.thursdaysclassroom.com/04may00/article1a.html discussing text and meanings and reading for information related reading activity – follow instructions and make a moon buggy http://www.spaceday.org/conmgmt/index.php?option=displaypage&Itemid=79&op=page&SubMenu= 5. Read Skylab discussing text and meanings. Go to Skylab website http://www.aerospaceguide.net/spacestation/skylab.html and find out what Skylab is used for. Related reading activity PowerPoint sentence Wordfind.
Assessment Student self assessment with Rubric
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Extra Activities
Space box (made of space books from the library) Non Fiction box
Bookmarked space stories
Listen to a moon story
Make a shuttle
Make your own Wordfind using PowerPoint
Create an A-Z Space PowerPoint show
Use Artrage to create your own spacecraft import into Inspiration and add annotations
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