Innovation Development

Learners will gain an understanding of how these machines and the role of chain reactions. They will reflect on the type and purpose of the machine they want to create, sketch out their designs, and gather household items to bring their contraptions to life. 

LEADING QUESTION

How can we create a machine that helps us do something useful or fun in our house?

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Set up a meal for your family like a restaurant including planning the meal, cooking the meal and doing the decoration. Share the meal with the family!

LEADING QUESTION

Since all restaurants are closed, can we make our own pop up restaurant and serve a meal to our guests at home?

Learners will begin to understand the way the Earth is designed as tectonic plates, how mountains form, what earthquakes are and how we respond to them!

LEADING QUESTION

How would you keep your community safe if there was an Earthquake?

Learners will explore celestial bodies and how they are connected to our
day-to-day lives. They will then make their own rockets that can travel to
distant planets and capture details of imagined alien lives that exist on
them.

Leading question:

How are the celestial bodies related to our daily lives?

Learners will explore the steps followed in cultivating crops and growing
their own plants. They will then design an irrigation/ agricultural tool.
Finally, they will set up a farmer's market in which they will sell their
produce and the irrigation/ agricultural tool that they designed.

Leading question:

Can you cultivate and sell your own crops?

Learners will understand and apply the concepts of heat absorption and insulation to design and create a solar water heater. They will also understand the workings of a thermometer and use it to measure the temperature of heated water.

LEADING QUESTION:

How hot can water get if I heat it only using sunlight?

Learners will design their own comic books, illustrating a short story about

the physical, emotional and social changes of puberty.

Leading question:

What happens to our bodies and feelings during puberty, and how does it

help us learn more about ourselves as we grow up?

Learners will explore the importance of biodiversity and the impact of
human activities on it. They will analyse the causes and solutions to water
and air pollution and create a tool to help reduce pollution in their
community. They will then design and execute an awareness campaign to
sensitise community members towards protecting biodiversity and reducing
air and water pollution.

Leading Question:

How can we encourage our community to protect the environment?