Year 6- Curriculum-Summer 1-Week 2 You can choose the order of the learning or do it in the order given.

Activity 1 Activity 2 Activity 3 Activity 4 Activity 5

Subject RE

For many people, some places in

the world are special. For

others the whole world is

special. We all feel a need to

look after what is special to us.

Sometimes it is easy to explain

why things are special. At other

times it might be difficult to

put into words why something is

special.

Q What are your special places and why?

Q Can you recall an occasion when you were

hurt or angry by the way

your special place was

treated by others?

Why were you hurt or

angry? What did you do?

Q Do you know any groups who campaign because

of the way people or our

world are being treated

today?

See below for Word of God

relating to these questions.

Science: Orange Experiment.

See below for information on the

Titanic.

Complete the following experiment

and record your findings.

Equipment needed:

2 small oranges/ satsuma/

small citrus fruit.

Bowl of water

Pen and paper

Instructions:

1. Get a bowl of water.

2. Get two small oranges

3. Write a prediction of what

you think will happen when

you put both oranges in the

bowl of water.

4. Place one orange in the bowl

and write down what you

observe. Did the orange sink

or float?

5. Now peel the other orange

and write down what you

think is going to happen when

you place when you put the

second orange in the bowl.

6. Place orange in the bowl.

7. Write down what you have

History: Why Should

We Thank The Ancient

Greeks?

Read the story of the

Wooden Horse from the

Mycenaean period

below.

Use the information

below to find out what

the Mycenaean’s did

and read information

on the poem ‘The

Iliad’ by Homer.

Why do you this this

was called the ‘heroic

age’?

Create a poster/

story board retelling

dither The Wooden

Horse or another

Greek Myth.

Alterative Greek

Myths include:

Medusa

Theseus and

the Minotaur

Pandora’s Box

Odysseus and

the Cyclops.

DT

Design a new

sweet for Willy

Wonka!

Design an

advert for your

sweet as well as

the packaging.

PSHE

What are thoughts,

feelings and

behaviours? How do

they influence each

other?

Think about positive

and negative

thoughts that you

may have.

Create a paperchain

of positive thoughts

using the template

below.

See the information

about the Cognitive

Triangle for the

extension activity.

Choose a scenario

from below. Use the

sheet to write down

the thoughts,

feelings and

behaviours that the

person in the

scenario might

experience.

observed. Did the second

orange sink or float?

8. See information below

explaining the science behind

the experiment and write a

conclusion.

The unpeeled orange

floats because the rind

is filled with tiny

pockets of air. Even

though you’re removing

mass when you peel the orange,

the peeled orange is denser and

sinks in the water.

Additional

activities.

RE

Where is your favourite place in

the world? Why? Draw a picture

showing your favourite place.

Science: The Launch of The Titanic

Use the link below OR (if you are

unable to view the video) see the

images below and answer the

accompanying questions about the

Titanic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

U2heZZ0aq1M

History

Use the Mythical

Story Planner below

to write your own

Greek Myth.

DT

List the flavours,

ingredients and

nutritional

information.

PSHE

Design a poster to

show how people can

help in the local

community.

RE

Word of God

“See, the body is one, even if formed by many members, but not all of them with the same function. The same with us; being many, we are one body in Christ,

depending on one another. Let each one of us, therefore, serve according to our different gifts. Do you have prophecy? Let the deacon fulfil his office; let the

teacher teach, the one who encourages, convince. You must, likewise, give with an open hand, preside with dedication, and be cheerful in your works of charity. Let

love be sincere. Hate what is evil and hold to whatever is good. Regarding brotherly love, have love for one another. Regarding respect, judge others as more

worthy. Regarding your duties, do not be lazy.

Be fervent in the Spirit and serve God.” (Romans 12:4-11)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2heZZ0aq1Mhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2heZZ0aq1M

Prayer and Reflection

Creator God,

in your hands you hold the depths of the earth

and the heights of the mountains,

for all creation belongs to you.

Grant us grace to cherish your world

and wisdom to nurture its resources.

Save us from the desire to control what is not ours

and the impulse to possess what is not ours

and the impulse to possess what is there to share.

Amen. (Annabel Shilson-Thomas/CAFOD)

Science: The Launch of the Titanic

Questions to answer:

How do you know this is

a huge boat?

What were people

wearing?

Why did it have

scaffolding?

How did they think such

a huge boat could float?

Science: Why did the Titanic sink?

It wasn’t a single factor that sent Titanic to the bottom of the ocean, it was a

chain of them.

One hundred years ago, the ship that had been called ‘virtually unsinkable’ struck an

iceberg and sank within three hours, taking many of her passengers and crew with her.

History is clear enough on this point, but a mystery follows- how did the Titanic strike

the iceberg in the first place?

Another question is how did the ship sink so quickly? The water-tight containers meant

that the Titanic should have acted as her own lifeboat, floating until help arrived.

Some of the answers, according to scientists, lie in the physics of her construction, the

climatic conditions thousands of kilometres away and the iceberg itself.

Cutting costs

Science writer Richard Corfield believes the placing of the rivets may have contributed

to the disaster. In an article published in Physics World, he highlights the findings of

metallurgists Tim Foecke and Jennifer Hooper McCarty, who suggest the rivets that held the ship’s hull together were not uniform in composition or quality and

not been inserted in a uniform fashion.

This may have been the result of a cost-cutting exercise and meant that the part of the hull that hit the iceberg was substantially weaker than the main body of

the ship.

The rivets at the bow and the stern were not hydraulically inserted, so they would have been as firmly installed as those in the middle three-fifths of the ship,

according to Corfield. “Since the impact was at the starboard bow and the impact was near a seam of rivets, the rivets, rather than the placing of them,

contributed to the sinking of the Titanic.”

Unseasonable weather

Climatic conditions also played an important role, as the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico were experiencing an unusually hot summer thousands of kilometres

away. This would have created a more intense Gulf Stream, according to Corfield.

This intensified the boundary between the Labrador Current and the Gulf Stream near Newfoundland, creating a barrier of icebergs along the interface. The

iceberg that sank the Titanic was located right at the intersection of the Gulf Stream and the Labrador Current.

“Another way of saying this is that there were more icebergs in a smaller area than usual,” Corfield says. “The Titanic steamed at almost full speed directly into

this ‘minefield of ice’.”

Optical illusions

The icy ‘Labrador’ current may have also played a further role in the disaster, according to British historian Tim Maltin. The air column was cooling from the

bottom up, creating layers of cold air below layers of warmer air.

This phenomenon, known as thermal inversion, causes light to refract in unusual ways, making objects appear higher (and nearer) than they actually are, on a false

horizon. The mirage between the false horizon and the real one prevented the lookout from seeing the iceberg until it was only a mile away.

The distorted air also disrupted the Morse lamp signals between the Titanic and the nearby Californian, so neither ship could see the other’s signals. The distress

rockets fired by the Titanic to appear lower relative to the ship, so the Californian believed that she was sailing away.

http://physicsworld.com/http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/Did-the-Titanic-Sink-Because-of-an-Optical-Illusion.html

The final breakup

In 2000 David Concannon spotted some ‘ribbons of steel’ some distance from the main debris field. This suggested that, instead of just causing gashes to

the Titanic’s side, the iceberg may have ripped open the bottom of the hull.

Another expedition in 2005 revealed these to be a large portion of the hull, which had been torn away from the ship as it sank. The dive team also observed that

the compression to the ship appeared to have occurred at the top of the hull, rather than the bottom, indicating that it sank at a much shallower angle than

previously believed.

The final breakup would have come as a surprise — the shallower angle would have led the passengers and the crew to assume it would float for a few hours more.

History: The Wooden Horse

http://www.davidconcannon.com/news/atitanicadventure.html

History: What the Mycenaean’s did…

History: Information on ‘Iliad’ by Homer.

History: Greek Myth Planner:

PSHE: Paperchain

PSHE Extension: