STEAM Trail/Rian ETIEM - 3rd & 4th
Added: 19 Oct 2020
Contributor:
PDST
Resource type:
Activity
An exciting STEM trail for 3rd and 4th class pupils to participate in on their school grounds. The PDST STEM team has a range of activities listed in this document to support teachers in planning, preparing pupils, carrying out the activities, and in reflecting on the activities.
How it maps to the curriculum
- 3-4
- Mathematics
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Length
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects using appropriate metric units (m, cm)
- estimate, compare, measure and record lengths of a wide variety of objects, using appropriate metric units, and selecting suitable instruments of measurement
Strand: Data
Strand unit: Representing and interpreting data
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs and bar charts
- collect, organise and represent data using pictograms, block graphs, bar charts and bar-line graphs incorporating the scales 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, and 1:100
Strand: Measures
Strand unit: Area
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- estimate, compare and measure the area of regular and irregular shapes
Strand: Shape & Space
Strand unit: Lines & Angles
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- classify angles as greater than, less than or equal to a right angle
- draw, discuss and describe intersecting lines and their angles
- identify, describe and classify oblique and perpendicular lines
- identify, describe and classify vertical, horizontal and parallel lines
- 3-4
- SESE Science
Strand: Living Things
Strand unit: Plant and animal life
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- discuss simple food chains
- investigate the factors that affect plant growth
- observe and explore some ways in which plant and animal behaviour is influenced by, or adapted to, environmental conditions
- observe, identify and investigate the animals and plants that live in local environments
- sort and group living things into sets according to observable features
- 3-4
- Visual Arts
Strand: Paint and Colour
Strand unit: Looking and Responding
Content objective: This resource should enable a child to:
- look at and talk about his/her work, the work of other children and the work of artists
- 3-4
- Physical Education
Strand: Games
Strand unit: Creating and Playing Games
