Have you ever been amazed at a firefly or inspired by a sunset? Are you fascinated by rainbows and awed…
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Learning to Interpret Maps
I sometimes cringe when I look at the map reading activities in some math books. These are designed to teach…
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Playful Math Carnival #165
Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers…
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Mixed Media Nature Journal
Our Autumn Easter Holiday project was to create a handmade, mixed media, nature journal. These journals are fun to make….
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Clouds
How would you describe a cloud? Artists describe clouds as ‘the soul’ of all scenery. In the words of a…
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Predict the Weather!
We all need to know what the weather will be like from one day to the next to plan ahead….
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Weather Maps
Weather maps use colours, numbers, symbols and lines to show us what the weather is, or is predicted to be,…
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Are Galaxies Symmetrical?
This week for the 40 week math challenge we were contemplating rotational symmetry. I love to look around in our…
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Stars
Over the Easter break we enjoyed a trip to the Bendigo Planetarium, it is part of the Science and Technology…
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Solar Storms
The Sun’s cycle is ramping up The Sun goes through cycles where sunspot activity increases roughly every 11 years when…
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Floods
The current floods Australia is experiencing gave us a learning opportunity to understand how floods occur, how we can prepare…
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