PR-6170RUK Science A STEM Approach - Primary 1

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WATER WATER Unit Description STEM Project The STEM Project provides pupils with the opportunity to apply what they have learned in the previous science lessons while incorporating cross-curricular concepts where possible. The project entails group collaboration and an extended learning period of between three and four weeks. This gives pupils a real-life experience of working with ‘colleagues’ to share ideas and test various solutions. Each STEM Project contains a complete overview of what the project entails, teacher notes, group assessment rubric, and a project brief and checklist for pupils. Any resource sheets required are also provided, as well as a self-assessment sheet. Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Concepts Overview: STEM Project Overview www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Infants STEM Project Make a Home for a Parrot Pupils work in pairs to design and create a home for a parrot out of recycled and natural materials. The home must be able to hang in a tree and must meet the parrot’s needs. Pupils must then create a video of their bird house, describing the needs of the parrot and how the features of the home help to cater for these needs. Science • Apply knowledge of living things to create a home for a bird that caters for its basic needs. Technology/Engineering • Apply the design process to plan, create and evaluate a home for a bird that caters for its basic needs. • Select appropriate materials and apply safety procedures while creating. • Create a digital video of the completed bird house, explaining the inclusion of each feature and how those features cater for the bird’s needs. Mathematics • Use informal measurement to ensure the home will be big enough for a parrot. Alternative Project Ideas: • As a class, grow a class vegetable garden, such as a vertical garden. Small groups can be allocated a garden bed each. Pupils decide how they will look after their garden bed to provide for the plants’ needs. They take digital photographs of their garden and print them, or upload them to to create a gardening book called Caring for Plants in the Garden. • In small groups, pupils create a worm farm in a glass jar. Pupils research worms to find out their basic needs. Pupils ensure they collect the materials required to cater for its needs and construct their worm farm in a glass jar. For full instructions, go to . Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Find out information Learn about the needs of birds. Science: A STEM APPROACH STEM Project Overview STEM Project Talk to people who own birds to find out how they care for them. Read books about pet birds and birds that live in the wild. Look at pictures of birds and their needs on the Internet. Learn about different homes for birds. Look at pictures of bird cages for pets. Look at pictures of bird houses made from recycled materials. Look at pictures of bird homes in the wild. Design, plan and collect resources Plan your bird home. Draw a picture of your bird home. Draw/write the needs of your bird and how it will get these. Collect the materials you need. Create Create your bird home. Choose which materials to use for each part of the home. Make the bird home. Project Steps 29 Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Infants STEM Project Teacher Notes Parrot Template STEM Project STEM Project: Make a Home for a Parrot Pupils work in pairs to design and create a home for a parrot out of recycled and natural materials. The home must be able to hang in a tree and must meet the parrot’s needs. Pupils must then create a video of their bird house, describing the needs of the parrot and how the features of the home help to cater for these needs. Estimated duration: 4 weeks 1. Introduce the project cater for the bird’s needs. They should also • Read the problem on page 32 to pupils. draw the needs of the bird around the bird home to ensure they cater for each one. • Watch the first 27 seconds of the online video clip from the film Rio at . This video clip shows Remind pupils about resource a macaw and its owner getting ready in the management, conserving resources and morning in a very unusual way. ensuring that resources are shared. • As a class, ask pupils to close their eyes 4. Create and think about these questions: Do all • Pupils choose which materials they will use birds live the way Blu lives in the film clip? to make each feature of their bird home. What kinds of homes do birds live in? What • Pupils create their bird home according to do they need in their home to survive? their diagram. • Read the task and the important things to 5. Evaluate and refine do on page 32 to pupils. Show pupils the cardboard cut–out of a parrot using page • Pupils evaluate their designed bird home 34. Pupils will need to make sure their bird to ensure that all the criteria on page 32 is home will fit a parrot of this size. Note: included. Keep the design brief on display on the • Pupils make any adjustments necessary to interactive whiteboard or print an A3 copy their designed product. and put it on display for pupils to refer to. 6. Communicate 2. Find out information Pupils create a video of the bird home using a • Provide time for pupils to find out tablet computer application or a digital camera, information about birds. explaining to Jack the things birds need to survive — Place images of different bird homes on and how each feature of the home caters the interactive whiteboard for pupils to for the bird’s needs. look at. • Display the bird feeders outside and — Provide a selection of non-fiction have pupils, in their pairs, take turns to and fiction texts for pupils to look at, share the features of their bird home and ensuring that only factual information is explain how it will help a parrot meet its transferred. needs. — Talk to people that care for birds • Pupils complete the self-assessment such as zookeepers, pet owners on page 35 to show how well they and vets to see how they care participated and cooperated. for birds. 3. Design, plan and manage resources • Pupils plan their bird home and create a diagram of it, labelling the features that Teacher Notes Science: A STEM APPROACH Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Create a parrot template to help pupils to correctly size their bird house. Attach an A4 copy of this parrot to thick cardboard and cut out. Make a few templates for pupils to share or make one for each pair. 31 STEM Project Project Brief The problem Jack is five years old and wants to own a pet. Every time his parents take him to the pet shop, he looks at all the birds in every cage. He hopes that one day he is allowed to take one home. His parents always say that Jack is too young for a pet and that he doesn't know how to look after it. How can Jack show his parents that he knows how to care for a bird? The task • Design and create a home for a wild bird that Jack could use to show his parents that he knows how to take care of birds. Create a video of the bird home using a tablet computer application or a digital camera, explaining to Jack the things birds need to survive and how each feature caters for the bird’s needs. Important things you need to do! • You must work in pairs. • You must use recycled and natural materials found at home or at school. • You must cater for the bird's five basic needs. 32 Science: A STEM APPROACH Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS Pupil name: I listened to my partner. I came up with ideas. Infants 978-1-912760-14-5 Prim-Ed Publishing – www.prim-ed.com Pupil Brief Self- assessment • Your bird home must be able to hang in a tree. • It must be able to fit a parrot inside it. Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS • The video must include instructions to Jack about how to care for a bird, using the features of the bird home. Date: STEM Project: Make a Home for a Parrot STEM Project Viewing sample I helped to find out information. I helped to collect materials. I helped to make the plan. I helped to make the design. Check and make changes Check that it is correct and you are happy with it. Check that all the important things in the Project Brief were done. Check that you and your partner are happy with it. The project was: easy hard The best part was … Communicate Use a tablet computer to record a video. Talk about how the parts of the home meet the bird’s needs. Tell Jack how to care for the birds. . www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Science: Infants A STEM APPROACH 33 34 Science: A STEM APPROACH Infants 978-1-912760-14-5 Prim-Ed Publishing – www.prim-ed.com www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Science: Infants A STEM APPROACH 35 Project Steps Resource Sheets Self-assessment and Group Assessment Rubric vi Science: A STEM APPROACH Infants 978-1-912760-14-5 Prim-Ed Publishing – www.prim-ed.com
Living Things LIVING THINGS HAVE NEEDS living thing non-living thing human Keywords survive food nutrient warmth shelter Viewing sample space plant water soil animal need want air sleep protection sunlight www.prim-ed.com – Prim-Ed Publishing 978-1-912760-14-5 Infants Science: A STEM APPROACH 1
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