1. Year 1: Extreme Weather – Block area
English texts/video stimulus:
Rosie’s Hat – Julia Donaldson
Feel the wind – Arthur Dorros
Hurricane – David Wiesner
What will the weather be? - Lynda DeWitt
Hide and seek fog – Alvin Tresselt
Come on rain! Karen Hesse
Rain – Peter Spiers
Cloudette – Tom Lichtenheld
Kipper’s book of weather – Mick Inkpen
Elmer’s weather – David McKee
English Writing Opportunities:
Instructional writing
Fact files
Stories
What did you do to make your wind proof shelter?
Tell me about different buildings in different climates?
What do they look like? Why are they successful?
Design and Technology:
Fixing, fastening and moving parts.
Moving parts to designs.
Specific designs for a purpose.
How would you create a moving part? What materials will you need? Which parts would move? Why?
Do different materials have different uses?
How can you make a material stronger? Does the shape of material make it stronger or weaker?
Science:
Building shelters
Waterproofing
Structures against weather
Exploring materials and their properties
Year 1: Extreme Weather – Block area
Mathematics:
Shapes used in buildings.
Shapes for strength.
What shape does a building have to be to stay safe in high wind?
What do you need to add to a building to keep it dry?
Can you make a shelter to keep you dry?
Do the materials you use make a difference?
Next steps:
Geography:
Buildings and architecture in different climates – hot, temperate and cold.
Comparisons of buildings with different purposes.
Mapping – 2d and 3d.
Continents and seas.
Can you represent the continents and oceans using resources to make them 2d and/or 3d?
What would you use?
How will you show they are 3d?
Are the buildings the same around the world? Why not?
What effects them? Does the weather or climate?
Can you create a building for a hot/temperate/cold climate? What will you include or not include?