{"id":316919,"date":"2025-03-19T11:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-03-19T07:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/?p=316919"},"modified":"2025-03-20T14:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T10:50:46","slug":"grade-6-wk-25-roller-coasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abisoman.com\/broadcaster\/2025\/03\/19\/grade-6-wk-25-roller-coasters\/","title":{"rendered":"Grade 6 WK 25 – Roller Coasters!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A short but actioned packed week in Grade 6 as we start to unpack our very exciting new How the World Works unit of inquiry. The central idea and key physics laws that we will be exploring are below.<\/p>\n

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This is a very engaging unit of inquiry that really allows us to look at many deep and tricky conceptual ideas, such as how energy cannot be destroyed or created and how energy can dissipate. To kick off the unit we spent lots of time sorting and classifying the different types of energy in our world. We then looked to find suitable definitions and good examples (see your child’s seesaw this week for more information).<\/p>\n

After that we started looking at roller coasters, as they are a great way to explain how all energy is either potential<\/strong> or kinetic<\/strong>. We unpacked ideas such as velocity and mass, then we had a go at designing and testing our own roller coasters. A really awesome engagement – again, see seesaw for more examples. This roller coaster example will also be used to help us form our first explanation writing next week, after we have unpacked in more depth the feature of a strong explanation text.<\/p>\n

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Mathematics<\/strong> – this week we have been fine tuning our knowledge of angles and how to accurately use a protractor. As well as this we have been looking at how to make estimates of angles using reasoning skills and how to calculate missing angles.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Next Week:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Literacy:<\/strong><\/p>\n