Moral Stories - Daisy's Designs

Weekly comic strip called Daisy's Designs as a series of "moral stories". This is a follow up to the Just So Stories of Rudyard Kipling.

Use Daisy the Curly Cat as a basis for writing ideas.

Challenge: New Biscuit Recipe

Name of my Recipe ___________________________


Ingredients




Instructions:

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Comments and improvements for next time:

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Challenge: Dog Washing Machine

Invent a new way to wash dogs without getting your hands dirty.

Maybe you could use:

- robots
- pull switch hoses
- flexible poles

Draw a picture and write a short paragraph of writing about it.

For example:

My dog washer has a hose with three compartments in it. One is for soap, one is for water and one holds air. There are also three buttons, one says soap, one says water and one says dryer. You push what you want and hold the trigger, and wash the spot! This is my hose.




Posted by a student.

Challenge: Bird Table

Design and custom build a bird table for any bird.

Consider:

The weight of the bird

Food storage

Shelter.

Then, once you have designed the table write a short paragraph about the table.

For example:

My table has a flat board with four poles. These poles help hold the triangular prism shaped roof up. The roof has two windows on either side, for light and shelter. On the flat board I have made a box for food storage and shelter. This is my bird table.

Challenge: Remote Island Shelter

Design Proposal

Think how you can:
- Build a shelter to protect you from
wild animals and likely weather
conditions

- Gather or hunt for food. Can you make
a device for catching animals or fish?

- Collect and store water.

- A campfire

Then design your island shelter and write a paragraph about it.

Computing Activities

Typing tutor

Smartboard, is used as an interactive whiteboard for many of the teaching activities. Worksheets are scanned instead of being photocopied. Children then do the work orally and in their work books, instead of gluing in the photocopied workheet.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is used to teach resizing of pictures, filtering with effects, working with elements of photographs to combine two or more pictures together and to enhance and improve pictures.

Kahootz is an animation programwhere students make Xpressions based on themes worked on in class. Students manipulate worlds and images to create an animated learning activitity which can be placed online.