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in the desert, fish in the jungle.

Keeping warm

Links to Survey of items in your house which help to keep things warm, keep things cool. Differences in
curriculum your summer clothes and your winter clothes, look at head gear and what difference there is in
the use of a cap and a wooly hat.

Solids, liquids and how they can be separated

Adding solids to water: imagine! Give children a list of solids in a table and they have to decide
whether or not the solid will sink/dissolve/be easy to extract/change and of it's properties. E.g.
custard powder, gravy granules (look at temperature of water, keep it a fair test!), soap (look at
time in a fair test too), a stone, a coin, a tea bag, tea leaves (look at effect on the water with all.)

Friction

Using friction: investigate ways in which we need to control the level of friction so that it is useful,
think of tread on tyres, on shoes, playground slides, goal keeper's gloves, shoe laces, ice-skating.

Circuits and conductors

Where do we find electricity in the classroom? How are we insulated from it? What materials are
used and why? What if the material was changed? Do you know what would happen if we used wool
instead? There's a very useful activity on BBC Science Clips (google it!)

GEOGRAPHY

Improving the environment

Survey how much paper etc. they think their class throws/wastes in a day, multiply by five for a
week, then by 'n' for the whole school to emphasis. Get children to design poster to go up in other
classrooms to encourage recycling, using both sides of paper etc.

Village settlers

Draw a sizeable island on the board, river running through, beaches, cave, forestation etc., and ask
children to label/describe where they would live if they were stranded on the island. Emphasise
close to water, building materials (or cave for shelter.) Why would they settle there? Why do they
think early settlers chose to live in their village/town?

A village in India

This is usually Chembakolli. Ask children to draw a table of differences between their locality and
Chembakolli – employment, lives of children, buildings, homes, leisure and food. What do they
know, what would they like to know, how would they find out as extension.