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Electricity Revision
Here are some sites to help you revise last half term’s Science topic.
- BBC Revisewise
- Woodlands Junior School Electricity Games
- Electric Circuits
- Learning Circuits
- Switched On Kids
Superhero Machines
Here are the two different hero machines we looked at in class today.
- The easier to use Hero Factory
- The trickier but more detailed Hero Machine
Have fun!
Games For The Brain
A wide range of different thinking games to help improve memory and logic skills. Loads of them are good fun but will get you working hard too!
Link: Games For The Brain
Parents – Help with Maths!
Have you ever been stuck helping your child complete their Maths homework? Many parents tell me that the methods children use in school are now so different to the way they were taught at school… well, you’re right! Things have changed but the methods you hear your children talk about are actually quite simple. Heathfield School in Bolton has a few YouTube videos that explain different methods used in Maths.
Link: Heathfield – Helping parents with maths
Ancient Egypt Display Day: Afternoon Task
This is your ICT task for this afternoon.
Board games were very common in ancient Egypt and people from all levels of society played them. Many game boards from ancient Egypt have been found by archaeologists. However, the rules explaining how to play these games have not survived. By studying game boards and other evidence, experts have made some educated guesses about how these games were played.
Ancient Egypt Display Day: Morning Task
This is your ICT task for this morning.
Join the expedition to explore an Egyptian tomb. You will need to decipher hieroglyphs and examine various artefacts including a mummy.
Link edited: 10:11, 14th January 2011.
January & February 2011 ICT Group Task
Explore these two websites. Make notes about them, saying what you have found out.
Cams
Web Links to support our work on cams:
- Northumberland NGfL: A cam mechanism – an excellent presentation on cams.
- Soft Integration.com – Two very different cam applications are animated here.
- Wikipedia’s Cam animation – super animation!
- Welsh NGfL: Cams Activity – investigate the purpose of the different parts of the mechanism.
- Animated examples of cam followers in use
- Wikipedia: Real cams inside an engine
- Rob Ives’ Paper Animated Cams
- D&T Online: Cam definition
- How Stuff Works.com: Camshafts
- Technology Student.com: Cams – An interesting use of a cam to play the cymbals.
Homework Help: Task 11, How To Mummify A Body
This website will tell you everything you need to know to mummify a body. Use your ideas from the lesson to help create your instruction booklet.
Link: How To Mummify A Body