Year 4 Learning Challenge (Spring 2) Who helps us more: engineers or scientists?

Why do we have a Learning Challenge?

• Foster love of learning - We believe that it is a vital way to foster a sense of inquiry in our children, to develop a curiosity about the world and to take pleasure in learning something new.
• Cultural entitlement - We believe that the our Broadford pupils are entitled to a wide range of cultural opportunities.
• Parental support - We believe that it is important for us to provide guidance for parents on how the children's learning can be extended at home.
• Celebration - We believe that we should be celebrating the work and projects that children choose to do in their own time.
• Challenge - We believe that we should offer enrichment that provides challenge for all learners (basic, advanced and deep understanding)

How does it work?

• Half termly - there is a new challenge each half term focusing on either an aspect of the curriculum being taught or an enquiry question e.g. 'Who is the greatest woman of all time?'
• Slow learning - because we always have high expectations for their work, it is anticipated that the children will take six weeks to complete the activities.
• Pupil choice - children can choose how they present their learning challenge outcomes to their teacher or class.

What do they have to do? 

	Poem	Painting	Person	Music
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the piece of music
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe what the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

Significant Scientist 

Marie Curie 

Painting

Vesuvius by Andy Warhol

Music

Earth - Micheal Jackson 

Poem

Sir Isaac Newton’s laws of motion by Celia Berrell

Newton was a clever man.

An avid scientific fan.

He questioned many things he saw.

Like ones we had no answers for.

He thought them through right to their cores.

Then gave us many handy laws.

Newton’s First Law Of Motion:

Without a force of push or pull

an object will remain quite still.

With just one push at just one time

that object moves in one straight line.

Newton’s Second Law Of Motion:

A bigger Force accelerates

an object that is heavy-weight.

While objects of a smaller mass

don’t need much Force to move them fast.

So Newton noticed they obey

that Force will equal m times a.

Newton’s Third Law Of Motion:

Now bend a stick. Before it cracks

you’ll feel its force of pushing back.

For every action there will be

an equal one – opposingly.

Without his formulas in place

we’d soon get lost in outer space.

So Isaac’s Laws help us traverse

the reaches of our universe.