Integrated | Science | Technology | Mathematics | Skills& processes |
Children building “cubby houses” using sticks and branches. | Forces related to which branches were strong enough to hold others | Investigate materials, design, construct and evaluate cubby (fit for purpose, aesthetics) | Measuring the branches and sticks to fit the space available. Choosing the best size. | Problem-solving (analysing & creative thinking), estimation and approximation |
Weather watch | Observing clouds, their shapes. Discussion on what causes rain & rainbows | Children creating clouds, rainbows and rain as a room exhibit. | Measuring rainfall | Observation (of clouds), measurement, recognising scales―difference in size, shape |
Doctor & medicine (whole centre themed) | Bone collections, skeletons, human body model, | Adapting a wooden stick as a tool to lever sap out of a tree. | Measuring bones and aligning them to a template. Measuring body parts. | Establishing and justifying sorting criteria of a set of bones |
Balancing on a log―children placed items on a log, counting how many and how long they stayed on the log before falling off. |
| Adaptation of a pair of wooden sticks to form pick-up tongs | Children using beads to create a pattern | Creativity, recognising patterns |
Learning about animals | Finding small animals and their “homes” | Constructing an environment to house them―small container adapted to the purpose | Measuring the sizes of the container to fit the small animal | Animal enclosure―Fit-for-purpose (normative knowledge). Describing key attributes of small animals. |