Friday, March 28, 2008

Game on!

Room 11 has energetically leapt into our connected curriculum in the past few weeks.

Our focus is on science and particularly on forces, including gravity, friction, air resistance and push/pull. Phew! Challenging stuff. Luckily, the force is strong with Room 11 and I'm sure they will meet their challenges head-on and persist enthusistically with all their learning.

Our rich task is based on sports and so we are eventually going to be looking at how forces come into play (get it?) in different sports. Then we will form research pods and each pod will be able to design a new sport or piece of games equipment to present to a panel, explaining how their sport/equipment makes use of forces. Wow! The opportunities are ENDLESS!

Game on Room 11!