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 * Links to Different Machines **
 * Hopefully, these links will take you through to websites that explain how these machines work. **

The information children need to find out from various sorces are ; - What force is applied or necessary for the motion to occur or for the machine to work. - What actually happens to the machines when they force is applied. - How the machine works (sequence of actions) - Describe the motion - Explain how the motion helps people.

__ **Journey through Unit of Inquiry 3!** __





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__**Week 6**__ **This is the final week for our UoI. Children have been very busy finishing off their written information. They also had to check their work against the criteria, which were decided and agreed upon at the beginning of our Unit. They also had to take some time to practise presenting their research. What I have been emphasizing is that a good presenter will be able to talk about their chosen topic rather than reading information straight off the chart as this tends to get boring for the audience. So children had to work very very hard.**

__Week 5__ Throughout this week we have also incorporated our 'Language Arts' time to work on our UoI. Children spent a lot of time reading information, pulling our the key ideas and concepts then with my help learnt to summarize ideas and rewrite the information in their own words. This is something they all found very difficult.

Using a highlighter was another idea to keep children focused on the main ideas. This gave me the direction on what I could/should be focusing for their reading and writing skills as their next step.


 * __Week 4__ **
 * This week we sat down and discussed our summative assessment. Children were told that they were to be given a challenge to do a research on one kind of machine and present it to the class. Prior to that we came up with what we call __'Success Criteria' (Please come in and see what they look like if you are not sure of what this means or what it looks like.)__ With the help of this 'Success Criteria' we now know what a successful presentation should look like. This way, children have some good ideas about what they need to work on to make this happen. **
 * In pairs, children selected some machines like, 'Warcraft', 'Snowmobile', 'Elavator', 'Helicopter' and 'Ski Chair Lift'. We went over the process of researching. Children have been very busy taking notes, gathering information, trying to work out what those information mean and now they are trying their best with my help to rewrite them/summarize them in children-friendly language. **

__ **Week 3** __ **We also had a look at a few videos on what force / motion can look like on youtube. Please see the embedded link. Children liked it so much that we decided to create our own switches for fun later in this UoI.**

media type="youtube" key="K2C-PWHpPoI" width="425" height="350"media type="youtube" key="AGdebJilFgo" width="425" height="350" __ **Week 2** __ **This week we brainstoremd around the word of 'object and things that move' to identify what things are around us.** **Using one of the website Mr Goto found, we studied different types of forces around us. We found that looking at the pictures when we were trying to work out what the information was telling us was very useful.**

__ **Week 1** __ **- We spent the first week defining what 'Forec' and 'Motion' mean. We also looked at where we see these phenomenon. Children drew pictures to show what some of the forces and motions could look like. Children had to choose a simple everyday-life machine and find out** **- how it's structured,** **- what force and motion can be seen,** **- what jobs/responsibilities they have and they do and** **- how it helps us.**

Ski Chair Lift __ [|Helicopter / Aircraft] __ __ [|Elevators] __

__**These websites give allow children to play games that teach children the concepts of different types of forces/motions.**__ Forces and Motion Kids' Fun Site

Forces and Motion Activity Site

Types of Forces