Learning Goal: To create a piece of writing that instructs.
Signs of Success:
Include a title.
Includes a goal.
Use a list of equipment needed.
Use ‘Order Words’ first, then, next, before and finally.
Use ‘Bossy Verbs’ like, push, brush, pour, fold, or spread.
Use precise language (key words) and descriptive language (adjectives).
Ice Ball Exeriment
Goal: To discover what happens when water gets very cold.
Materials
note book/ note pad
1 balloon
water
a sink
a pen
a tape measure
a freezer
Method:
Step 1. First, grab a balloon and fill it up three quarters full.
Step 2:. Next, tie the balloon at the sink so you prevent any spillages to happening.
Step 3:. Now, put newspaper on your table to catch any spillage.
Step 4: Carefully hold the top of the balloon so you can measure it at it’s widest point which is the diameter. The diameter is the widest point around the belly of your balloon. Record your results.
Step 5: Slide your balloon into the freezer but before you do that put your initials, the first letter of your name and your first letter of your second name on the balloon. This will help you find it and get the right balloon that you made.
Step 6: Wait overnight for it to freeze in the freezer.
Step 7: Take your frozen water balloon out of the freezer and measure it again record your measured balloon. How wide is it now?
Step 8: Take your results, compare the measurements to find out which one is bigger than the other?. what happened? Did your balloon get bigger or smaller or stay the same after you froze it?
By Cody Storer
Room 15
Year6
Age 10
