{"id":1300,"date":"2019-11-21T09:12:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/wp\/?p=1300"},"modified":"2019-11-21T09:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:12:20","slug":"year-1-science-and-art-lesson-investigating-materials-and-textures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/?p=1300","title":{"rendered":"Year 1 science and art lesson: Investigating materials and textures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

contributed by Ms Joanna Giordmaina, Class 1.2<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Over the last few weeks, during our year 1 science classes,\nwe are speaking about the 5 senses.  Last\nweek, in particular, we focused on the sense of touch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In preparation for this lesson, the boys were asked to bring\ndifferent kinds of materials from home. This was an opportunity to involve the\nwhole family in a discussion about different kinds of materials and textures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the science lesson, there was an interesting discussion\nabout the properties of these materials and their use.  It also involved some critical thinking. For\nexample, we argued that the window pane of our classroom had to be made from a\nmaterial which was transparent. Otherwise, the light would not enter our\nclassroom. We imagined what it would have been like, if the window pane had\nbeen made of wood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also learnt from where we can get these materials, eg\nwood and paper from trees, silk from the silkworm and cotton from the cotton\nplant, etc.  We looked at the materials\nthe boys had brought from home, observed the properties of each material and\nasked questions about them: \u201cIs it smooth or rough? Is it shiny? Is it\ntransparent?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, in groups, the boys designed a collage with their\nmaterials. They tried to include different textures and properties, as well as\ndifferent colours in their collage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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contributed by Ms Joanna Giordmaina, Class 1.2 Over the last few weeks, during our year 1 science classes, we are speaking about the 5 senses.  Last week, in particular, we focused on the sense of touch. In preparation for this lesson, the boys were asked to Read More …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1313,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions\/1313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maltaseminary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}