Ed Pack (2005) - Part Ten

Part Ten

Science, The Arts and Society and the Environment

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4. Science

Seahorse – Middle Primary……………………………………………………....……Additional Activity Page

Ocean in a Bottle – Upper Primary……………………………………………………Featured Below

Make Your Own Compass – Upper Primary………………………………………….Featured Below

Comparison – Middle and Upper Primary……………………………………………Featured Below

Adapting to the Environment – Upper Primary…………………………………….…Featured Below

Ocean in a Bottle

You Will Need:

· Clear plastic bottle with lid

· Water

· Blue food colouring

· Vegetable oil

· Funnel

1. Using a funnel, fill ¾ of the bottle with water.

2. Add a few drops of blue food colouring.

3. Fill the rest of the bottle with oil. Make sure it is filled right to the top.

4. Screw the lid on tightly and wipe away any oil drips from the side of the bottle.

5. Turn the bottle on its side and gently row it to and fro. Watch the waves appear!

Make Your Own Compass

You will need a magnet, a cork, a nail, a shallow dish approximately eight or nine inches in diameter, a twelve inch square piece of oaktag, and a ballpoint pen or indelible marker.

Mark the four points of the compass along the edges of the oaktag square. Include NE, SE, NW, and SW if you choose.
Magnetize the nail by rubbling it, in one direction only, with one pole of the magnet.
Press nail through the length of the cork until the cork is centred on the nail.
Fill the dish with water and place it in the centre of the oaktag square.
Place cork in the shallow dish of water.

Line up the north mark on the oaktag square with the pointed end of the nail.

Comparison

On a chart, compare fish to humans.

Here’s something to get you started:

Characteristic	Humans	Fish
Breathing
Communication
Covering

Adapt to the Environment

Divide an A3 sheet of paper in half.

On one half, pictorially show how fish, such as the African lung fish, adapt to their environment.

On the other half, research and show how at least two animals adapt to their environment.

Display the posters in you classroom.

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5. The Arts

Under-Sea Decorations – Upper Primary………………………………………………..Featured Below

Jelly Fish – Lower Primary……………………………………………………………....…Featured Below

Masks and Hats – All age groups…………………………………………………………Featured Below

A Children’s Pirate Shanty – All age groups…………………………………………..…Featured Below

Pirate Mirage – All age groups……………………………………………………………Featured Below

Under-sea Decorations

You Will Need:

· Green garbage bags

· Cellophane paper

· Stiff paper

· Tape

· Staples

· Scissors

· Paint/crayons/textas

1. Cut garbage bags and cellophane paper into long strips. Attach to a wide strip of stiff paper and tape this to a window, door or wall.

2. Draw simple sea-creature shapes onto the stiff paper. Have the children colour these in before they cut them out. Remind them to write their name on the back of their cut outs.

3. Attach the sea creatures to the garbage bag and cellophane strips.

Jelly Fish

You Will Need:

· Paper lunch bag

· Coloured tissue paper

· Tape

· Glue

· Scissors

· String

· Hole punch

1. Fold the end of the paper bag twice (to form a cuff). Put a piece of tape on the inside of the cuff and punch a hole for the string. Repeat on the opposite side.

2. Cut tissue paper into strips and attach to the cuff.

3. Tie a piece of string onto the two holes. Hold onto the string and run to make the jelly fish swim.

Masks and Hats

You Will Need:

· Paper plates

· Cardboard strips

· Poster paper

· Textas/crayons

· Scissors

· Glue

· Stapler

· Elastic or string

· Hole punch

· Scraps of material and string/wool

Masks and hats can easily be made from paper plates or strips of cardboard. You will need to punch holes on the sides of the paper plate to attach the elastic or string. If using strips of cardboard, remember to measure the size of the wearer’s head.

Animal masks and character hats are easy. It is only necessary to pick out some important features to recreate. Use pictures to guide you. Start with the basic shapes and keep it simple.

If you want one of the Captain Quokka’s Adventures on the High Seas creatures refer back to the information at the beginning of the book.

A Children's Pirate Shanty
by Mark "Cap'n Slappy" Summers
(can be sung to the tune of Monty Python's "I'm a Lumberjack and I'm OK" - or make up your own!)