Energy Poetry
Overview
topic
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OVERVIEW OF TOPIC 22
OVERVIEW

Explore different sources of energy, talk about what energy is. Explore technological systems, speed and temperature, making models, finding out how they work and how they connect to energy. Explore some aspects of sustainable development. Explore and convey texts through writing poetry, by hand. Play with rhythms in the language, using the language in creative ways. Present work. Explore, describe and compare properties of three-dimensional figures. Investigate properties of materials and share sensory experience.

SUMMARY

Students get to know energy by learning to make an energy-powered model and then teach this to others. The students then work to convey their knowledge of energy through various forms of poetry. Both the models and the poetry are shared together. In the warm-up, they practise thinking and writing freely about energy, and the reflection gives examples of quick ways to get the students to think about what they have learned from the session and to question. The information also provides teachers with insight as to what the students are curious about. This theme lays the foundation for the work in Theme 23. In addition, the theme also relates to Themes 15-16 Viruses where they worked with energy in the body exploring bodies as factories