Year 5 - How to Lift a Lion topic - Homework Activities.
Try to do one activity each week and present your findings in your homework book. Remember to ask for adult help with any experiments. You must ask their permission!
Also try to add comments about your research or homework on our class blog http://www.berkeleyprimary.org.uk/?page_id=333
Read a comic and make your own comic about a scientific
discovery or invention
Read about Louis Pasteur’s discovery of
yeast in this comic strip by the society
of microbiology then use it as
inspiration for your own comic. Perhaps
you can make a comic about another
scientists discovery, for instance
Edward Jenner...
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk
/dl/096b3b223dc820aa8ea4f07f70f617d180878a8c/22041MM1.pdf
Test some yeast and see how much gas yeast produces to
blow up a balloon in this cool experiment!
Remember to take a photo of your
experiment or draw a diagram of what
happened:
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org.uk/
dl/728cbb96dfd0991f8b27284e422ea76
ab34f6415/22346MM1Yeast_Power.pdf
Make bread dough and test how much dough rises over time
in this other cool yeast experiment.
Put your results into a graph. Take
some photos of your experiment if
you can or draw a diagram!
Make a poster of good and bad microbes
Make a poster of good and bad
microbes and explain why the bad ones
are bad and why the good ones are
useful! To help you, look for places that
microbes might be found in this BBC
bitesize microorganism activity
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/sciencec
lips/ages/10_11/micro_organisms.shtml then click on the
magnifying glass and sound button to listen to their
descriptions.
Practise your science spelling by writing words into a shape
cloud
Either write our your word cloud by hand or use an online tag
editor such as Tagul http://tagul.com or Tagxedo
http://www.tagxedo.com/app.html
Draw your own microbe!
Read the poster about microbes and draw your own...
http://www.ebug.eu/lang_eng/primary_
pack/downloads/UK%20Ju
nior%20Pack%20Complete.
pdf
Look up some facts about famous scientists and make a
creative fact file.
You could look up facts about famous scientists who made
discoveries in microbiology at the Hall of fame http://www.ebug.eu/ . When you make a fact file, make a portrait of your
favourite scientist and creatively present their bio!
Make a junk model piece of science equipment, such as a
microscope or a set of scales. Perhaps you could even invent
your own new piece of science equipment!
In your homework book, write an explanation of how your
piece of equipment should work and remember to use causal
connectives, e.g. “As the wheel is turned anti-clockwise, the
lever, on the side of the lens, is lowered. Once the lens
reaches the lowest point, the gear locks into place, which
stops the wheel from turning. The lens is then closer to the
slide. As a result, you can see a more magnified image.”
Made a model of a microbe!
You could make some model microbes out of plasticine or
marzipan! If you do, group them into good and bad
microbes, and label them! Look at the table of microbes and
their pictures at
http://www.microbeworld.org/images/stories/resources/PDF
s/Experiments/letsgetsmall.pdf to help you make your
models.
http://www.nationalstemcentre.org
.uk/dl/5f13ad405134f0d673d11303
99fd2316a1a98980/22350MM1_High%20Rise%20Dough.pdf
BE CAREFUL when handling yeast, some people are allergic to
it so you may want to wear gloves.
Create a power point or write a description to explain what the
scientific method is all about. The
scientific method is the process
scientists go through to explain how
things work and solve problems. It
is a step-by-step process which is
usually written up so anyone can
repeat their work. It isn’t always
about fair tests though. There are
other ways to investigate, including
observations and surveys! Check
out this video on the scientific
method to help you:
http://glencoe.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0078778115/student_view0/brainpop_movies.html#
Watch some science animations.
These animations are from BrainPop
and are American but they have
some really excellent scienctific
facts! Once you have watched one,
write a small summary of what you
find out. You could also use it as a
basis of more research.
http://glencoe.mcgrawhill.com/sites/0078778115/student_view0/brainpop_movies.html#
Make a Science poem or a song. Im your homework book, write a
song or a poem, which explains a scientific concept, e.g. the
properties of the three states of matter and the differences
between reversile and irreverislble changes! Watch some of these
animated videos for ideas: http://vimeo.com/4889404,
http://vimeo.com/4888735, http://vimeo.com/4888934
You could then perform your song, or rap to music!
Design your own science lab. Think about what would
you need in a science lab. You can draw a diagram of
your lab using a birds-eye-view drawing or you could
make a model lab out
of a shoebox. Can you
label all the parts? How
would you stay safe in
your lab?
Read and write a book review of some science fiction!
Look out for some great science fiction books and write a
review. Remember to describe what book you read and who
the author is!
Create an alphabet list of different scientific jobs from
a-z,
e.g. astronomer, biologst, chemist... etc and write a
simple definition of what each type of scientists studies.
If you cant find one, try
looking online and if that fails
make one up! I excpect a
really imaginative definition.
You could also try to find out
examples of famous
scientists or real-life people
who do each job. For
example, Steven Hawkin is a famous astrophysisit!
Design a Science Stamp!
If Royal Mail were to design a stamp commemorating a
famous scientific invention or discovery what would you
choose? Design your stamp in your homework book and
write some facts about the scientific discovery.
Play some online science games, and write a review
Choose between lots of interesting science games at
Crickweb then write a description and
a review of what game you played and
what you have learned in your
homework book.
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2scienc
e.html
Create a concept map of a new scientific concept you have
learned and undersood.
You could make a conept map of how we have night and day,
and how the Earth orbits the sun to create the seasons. You
could describe the mater, such as water changes state, you
could explain the difference between boiling and evaporating
or you could investigate how we see objects. Whatever you
do, make sure you use scientific vocabulary and use a ruler to
draw your arrows!
Try a virtual disection!
Have a go at virtually
disecting an owl pellet to
try and identify the
different bones of the
animal that the owl ate for
its dinner! In your
homework book, see if you can explain what disecting means
and why scientists use it!
http://www.kidwings.com/owlpellets/flash/v4/index.htm
Pretend to be a time travelling journalist
If you were a time-travelling journalist, which great scientists
or inventor would you want to go back and interview? What
questions would you ask them? What about their discoveries
would you want to know more about? Write a recount of
your journey back in time and the questions that you asked.
Could you even answer some of the questions?
Make a periscope!
Make your own science project
Look up and write a defintion for these diferent scopes...
microscope, periscope, telescope then make your own
periscope. Look at this video to help you.
http://www.primaryscience.ie/media/flash/act3/act3_launch.
htm
Locate famous scientists
Draw a map or print out a
world map from
http://www.supercoloring.com
/pages/world-map/ and use it
to mark on where different
famous scientists were from. E.g. Da Vinchi was from Italy.
Rememebr that if they were from a long time ago, some of the
places have changed names!
Research some odd Scientific things...
What is a Foucault pendulum?
http://pbskids.org/zoom/games/pendulum/foucault.ht
ml
How did Bernoulli help flight? http://www.funpaperairplanes.com/Learn%20About%2
0Flight.html
What different types of gases are there? http://www.mikecurtis.org.uk/ks2_gases.htm
Make up your own science investigation
to solve a prolem or answer your own
question. Remember to use the scientific
method - obsrve and ask a question, do
some research, suggest a hypothesis, test,
collect data, concclude and present it all
creaticvely, if you can!
Have a go at making a
fractal picture
http://www.dangries.com
/Flash/FractalMakerExp/F
ractalMaker_exp.html
Take some science quizes and then write your own quiz in
your homework book.
Have a go at some of the quizes on BBC bitesize. The ones
for 9-10
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/quiz/quiz_age
s9_10.shtml and 10-11 are perfect for us!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/scienceclips/quiz/quiz_age
s10_11.shtml
Make your own Science fortune-teller.
Write science questions and answers
on a fortune teller and use it to test
your friends and family. You can get a
blank fortune teller template here
http://www.naturedetectives.org.uk/N
R/rdonlyres/CFE9B713-8B97-447F-82AA7E581A7B57D1/0/fortune_teller_template.pdf