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Spend the 12 days of Christmas encouraging creative, playful and immersive learning with your students. This variety of activities ranges from hot cocoa experiments, to engineering challenges and is designed to meet your students at their level, with endless possibilities.
Generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning, to expand topic knowledge and ideas, and evaluate texts
Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Use comprehension strategies such as visualising, predicting, connecting, summarising, monitoring and questioning to build literal and inferred meaning to evaluate information and ideas
Experiment with a range of ways to use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials
Use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment
Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate
Use visual conventions, visual arts processes and materials to create artworks that communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning
Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions, including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place
Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate
Plan and conduct repeatable investigations to answer questions including, as appropriate, deciding the variables to be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests; describing potential risks; planning for the safe use of equipment and materials; and identifying required permissions to conduct investigations on Country/Place
Interpret and create two-dimensional representations of familiar environments, locating key landmarks and objects relative to each other
Select and use suitable materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
Generate, iterate and communicate design ideas, decisions and processes using technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
Use comprehension strategies when listening and viewing to build literal and inferred meaning, and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Use equipment to observe, measure and record data with reasonable precision, using digital tools as appropriate
Locate positions in two-dimensional representations of a familiar space; move positions by following directions and pathways
Identify, plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer questions and solve problems using equipment and materials safely and identifying potential risks
Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions
Interpret simple maps of familiar locations and identify the relative positions of key features
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
With guidance, plan and conduct scientific investigations to find answers to questions, considering the safe use of appropriate materials and equipment
Generate, develop and communicate design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Investigate food and fibre production and food technologies used in modern and traditional societies
Select appropriate materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and apply safe procedures to make designed solutions
Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways
Identify, plan and apply the elements of scientific investigations to answer questions and solve problems using equipment and materials safely and identifying potential risks
Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
Decide variables to be changed and measured in fair tests, and observe measure and record data with accuracy using digital technologies as appropriate
With guidance, plan and conduct scientific investigations to find answers to questions, considering the safe use of appropriate materials and equipment
Develop and apply techniques and processes when making their artworks
Use materials, techniques and processes to explore visual conventions when making artworks
Describes how adding or removing heat causes a change of state
Investigates the effects of increasing or decreasing the strength of a specific contact or non-contact force
Describes mathematical situations and methods using everyday and some mathematical language, actions, materials, diagrams and symbols
Represents and describes the positions of objects in everyday situations and on maps
Explains how energy is transformed from one form to another
Explains how the properties of materials determines their use for a range of purposes
Explains the effect of heat on the properties and behaviour of materials
Uses an increasing range of skills, strategies and knowledge to fluently read, view and comprehend a range of texts on increasingly challenging topics in different media and technologies
Explains how food and fibre are produced sustainably in managed environments for health and nutrition
Examines how the environment affects the growth, survival and adaptation of living things
Plans and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Plans and conducts scientific investigations to answer testable questions, and collects and summarises data to communicate conclusions
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
Uses simple maps and grids to represent position and follow routes, including using compass directions
Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes
Describes how contact and non-contact forces affect an object’s motion
Describes the characteristics and effects of common forms of energy, such as light and heat
Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
Uses an integrated range of skills, strategies and knowledge to read, view and comprehend a wide range of texts in different media and technologies
Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
Estimates, measures and compares areas using square centimetres and square metres
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Performs transformations by combining and splitting two-dimensional shapes
Compares two-dimensional shapes and describes their features
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
Identifies angles and classifies them by comparing to a right angle
Measures and estimates lengths in metres, centimetres and millimetres
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
Uses grid maps and directional language to locate positions and follow routes
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through genre and theme that reflect perspective and context, argument and authority, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Represents and describes the positions of objects in familiar locations
Analyses representations of ideas in literature through narrative, character, imagery, symbol and connotation, and adapts these representations when creating texts
Identifies and describes how ideas are represented in literature and strategically uses similar representations when creating texts
Fluently reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes, analysing text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
Communicates to wide audiences with social and cultural awareness, by interacting and presenting, and by analysing and evaluating for understanding
Interpret simple maps of familiar locations and identify the relative positions of key features
Select and apply visual conventions, materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to different art forms when making artworks
Explore visual conventions and use materials, techniques, technologies and processes specific to particular art forms, and to make artworks
Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to produce designed solutions
With guidance, plan appropriate investigation types to answer questions or solve problems and use equipment, technologies and materials safely, identifying potential risks
Create and interpret simple grid maps to show position and pathways
Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
Apply safe procedures when using a variety of materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to produce designed solutions
Investigate food preparation techniques used in modern or traditional societies
Investigate food and fibre production used in modern or traditional societies
Generate, develop, communicate and document design ideas and processes for audiences using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
Use formal measurements in the collection and recording of observations
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning to expand content knowledge, integrating and linking ideas and analysing and evaluating texts
Use comprehension strategies to build literal and inferred meaning and begin to evaluate texts by drawing on a growing knowledge of context, text structures and language features
Use comprehension strategies to analyse information, integrating and linking ideas from a variety of print and digital sources
Decide which variables should be changed, measured and controlled in fair tests and accurately observe, measure and record data
Safely use appropriate materials, tools, equipment and technologies
Many of these activities can be done by students of any age. Try pairing and grouping students, to complete some of the more complex challenges.