This writing prompt, ‘Build Your Own Robot’ helps students to write about what power they would give to a robot if they built one. It encourages students to think about robot design and is aimed at broadening students’ writing and language skills.
This reading comprehension activity, ‘Chicken Feathers’ asks students to answer questions about an American chemist, Walter Schmidt, who found ways to make leftover chicken feathers into products such as fibreglass canoes! It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information.
This Reading Comprehension worksheet, ‘History of the Automobile’, features an informational text about the invention of the motor car. It encourages students to use a variety of strategies to interpret the text and includes questions about validity, making an inference, emotional reaction, importance, detail, reasoning, sequence, making a judgment, importance, and author’s intent. Answer sheet …More
The learning activity, ‘Napier’s Bones’ introduces students to John Napier’s fascinating historical discovery that numbers arranged on rods (bones) can be used for calculations. Students can make their own set of ‘bones’ from the template provided and use them to solve multiplication problems. An answer sheet is provided and includes teaching notes with historical information …More
This informational text, ‘The Life of Leonardo da Vinci’ provides a brief summary about Leonardo da Vinci and the simple machines he had to understand before he could be innovative.
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