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Grade 5/6 Learning Tasks Term 3 Week 10 THURSDAY

READING

Learning Intention:I can think critically about a text.Success Criteria:I have used my critical thinking skills to deepen my understanding of a text.Learning Resources Required:Exercise book, pencils and iphone/tablet/computer, newspaper article

Learning Task:Carefully read through the following newspaper article ‘Why your mindset matters’. Identify keydetails and ideas as you go. You may choose to highlight sentences and phrases, or take notesand annotate your thinking as you read. What do you agree with or disagree with? When youhave finished reading the article you will need to answer the questions listed in the learning taskresponse section below (see resources for printable copy of article).

Why your mindset matters

In this photo from 2017, Herbert Robinson (left) and Israel McDonald (right) team up to solve a problem from an interactive mathlesson at Turner Elementary School in southeast Washington. Often, people with a fixed mindset are too embarrassed to ask forhelp, but it is through cooperation that students help each other learn and grow. Photo: Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Imagine that two students, O and Aarti, are taking a really hard math test in September. O has afixed mindset, which means he believes that a person's intelligence is fixed. According to O,you're either smart or dumb, and if you're smart, everything is easy for you. Aarti has a growthmindset, which means he believes that your intelligence can grow. Not everyone can become agenius or a star athlete, but they can improve the skills they have and develop new ones. Sowhich is right? It's Aarti, since, believe it or not, research shows that you really can get smarterby working hard, practicing and challenging yourself.

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How The Brain WorksYour brain is made up of 86 billion cells called neurons. They're literally wired together by axonsin a network that sends electrical and chemical signals. A single neuron in your brain can beconnected to 10,000 other neurons. When you think, feel, move or use your senses, signalstravel through this network.

Brain researchers have found that, when we learn, new connections form between neurons, oldconnections grow stronger and unused connections are destroyed. Learning is like exercise foryour brain. The more you work it out, the stronger and smarter your network of neurons willbecome.

How Mindset WorksYour mindset can affect your performance at school, in sports and the arts, and even how youact and feel. Dr. Carol Dweck is a psychology professor at Stanford University who studies howthe mind works. She has discovered that people with a fixed mindset tackle problems in adifferent way from those with a growth mindset.

People with a fixed mindset are very concerned with grades and how smart they look comparedto other people. They tend to give up on difficult problems. When they make mistakes, theythink it means they're not smart. They're afraid of challenges because, if they don't do well, theymight look dumb.

People with a growth mindset, on the other hand, are concerned with learning, not grades. Theyjump right in and work hard on difficult problems. They learn from mistakes by trying differentproblem-solving methods or asking for help. They like challenges because they want to stretchand improve their abilities.

Look At BabiesBabies are the best example of the growth mindset. In only two years, they learn to walk, talkand feed themselves. They don't worry about looking dumb while they learn, and when theymake mistakes, they just try again.

Many successful people have a growth mindset, too. Dweck and her team discovered thatmiddle school students with a growth mindset do better in math, while those with a fixedmindset do worse. Kids with both mindsets do fine in elementary school, but middle schoolmath is much harder. So while the growth-mindset kids embrace the challenge and work harder,the fixed-mindset kids may just give up, making their grades suffer. But Dweck's team discoveredsomething even more important than that.

Changing Your Mind(set)The team taught those middle schoolers about mindset and how the brain works. They talkedabout the dangers of labeling people as dumb or smart. They discovered that, with some work,kids can choose to have a growth mindset and do better in school. Everyone has some of eachtype of mindset — they're like voices in your head. The trick is to recognize your fixed mindsetvoice and your growth mindset voice.

When you hear your fixed mindset voice telling you you're dumb, or that you'll look stupid if youask for help, or that learning a new skill is hard, talk back to it. You're not dumb, you just haven't

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learned how to do it yet. Asking for help isn't stupid — it's smart. And learning a new skill is hard,but won't it be worth it?

Learning Task Response:Answer the following questions in regards to the article:

1. If the author needed to shorten the article, which sentence would be the MOSTimportant to keep?

a. Not everyone can become a genius or a star athlete, but they can improve theskills they have and develop new ones.

b. When you think, feel, move or use your senses, signals travel through thisnetwork.

c. Kids with both mindsets do in elementary school, but middle school math isharder.

d. They discovered that, with some work, kids can choose to have a growth mindsetand do better in school.

2. Read the sentence from the section “How Mindset Works”

“Your mindset can affect your performance at school, in sports and the arts, and even how youact and feel”.

How does this detail develop the author’s central idea?a. by elaborating on the difference between mindsets.b. by emphasising why a person’s mindset is very important.c. by illustrating that some people are better at sports and art.d. by indicating that people act and feel differently in school.

Independent Reading / Track my thinkingIndependently read for 20 mins

- Record your thinking in your workbook (Remember to include book title and date)- Identify the reading strategy/ies you have worked on and provide evidence of your

thinking- Extra reading resources can be accessed via Reading Eggs. Students can also use their

own readers from home.

WRITING

Learning Intention:I can write a personal reflection.Success Criteria:I have written a personal reflection regarding my learning in term 3.Learning Resources Required:Exercise book and coloured textas or pencils.

Learning Task:This session today is all about reflecting on our success and achievements from the term. Being areflective learner has been shown to have numerous benefits. What do you think they might be?Why do you think it is important to be a reflective learner?

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Being a reflective learner involves making your learning a more conscious process. Ithelps you to become an active learner by asking questions and thinking critically aboutyour own ideas.

Benefits of reflecting on your learning:

- Examine what you have learned and how you have learned it. - Demonstrate how your thinking grows and develops over time - Assist with making connections between what you already know and what you are

learning - Help you learn from mistakes by identifying how you would do things differently next

time - Encourage you to become a reflective and critical thinker in your future career.

This term we have spend time increasing our awareness of a ‘fixed mindset’ versus a ‘growthmindset’:

Learning Task Response:Record the following questions into your workbook and answer them to the best of your ability.

1. Identify and discuss a time when you operated under a fixed mindset this term. Whatwas the outcome?

2. Identify and discuss a time when you applied a growth mindset to your learning. Whatwas the outcome?

3. Identify a mistake that you made this term. What did you do to overcome it? Did you useany learning strategies? What could you do differently next time?

Finish these sentences:- I am most proud of the way I…- I was surprised to learn…- I enjoyed learning about…

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- Next term I want my teacher to...

Extension Learning Task:Set yourself some goals for term 4. What is it that you want to achieve? How will you achievethem? What support will you need? How will you know when you have achieved your goal?

BREAK: ensure students have a well-earned break with a snack, rest and a game/physicalactivity.

MATHS - BIDMAS

This lesson will be taught during our class Webex session today.Please submit this learning task to Compass for feedback and evaluation by 5pm on Friday.Feedback for this task will be provided within the following week.Please refer to the link for instructions on how to upload the learning tasks.https://youtu.be/YWiLyJ0P6CQ Please upload a photo of your Learning Task Response.Learning Intention:I can explain the order of operations.Success Criteria:I have solved equations with multiple operations.

Learning Resources Required:Exercise book, pencils, and iphone/tablet/computer.Learning Task:

BIDMAS is an acronym pneumonic device (way of remembering) what order to do longcomplicated equations. This is also referred to as the order of operations as it tells us the orderin which we should complete mathematical operations.

Here’s what each letter stands for:- Brackets- Indices- Division- Multiplication- Addition- Subtraction

When you look at an equation, make sure you complete these operations in order, or you mightend up with a drastically different result.

For example:4 + 2 x 3 = 104 + 6 = 10

In this equation you have to complete the multiplication part of the question first because thatcomes first in the BIDMAS Order of Operations.

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If you didn’t follow the order of operations you might haveadded four and two to make six and multiplied six by three to make eighteen which is incorrect.

You might like to watch the following video of Mr Jones explaining how we work throughequations with multiple operations below:

https://youtu.be/kdfCTDZI7Xs

Learning Task:4 + 2 x 3 =6 x 4 - 5 =8 + 3 x 4 =12 - 5 x 2 =6 - 16 ÷ 4 =7 + 3 x 2 - 4 =(5 x 3) + 2 - 4 + 6 x 2 =14 - (3 x 3) + 42 x 5 =(8 x 6) + (5 x 7)12 ÷ 4 - 3 + (7 x 2) =

Extension:14 - 6 ÷ 2 + (17 - 3) + 32

POSITIVE BEHAVIOURS FOR LEARNING

Learning Intention: I use positive language in a calm voice, when I speak.Success Criteria: I have understood the impact of a calm and positive voice on those around me.

Today we are working within the value of RESPECT At All Times.

Learning Task and Response:

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1. Take a look at the following image detailing different forms of body language. Can youidentify the different emotions each figure could be potentially feeling?

2. Write the numbers 1 -12 in your workbook to correspond to the 12 figures featuredabove. Record a word or phrase that could typically accompany each figure. Can you inferhow the figure is feeling based on their body language?

For example:- figure 2 - emotion: frustrated, saying: “I don’t want to!” or “Why are you taking so

long?!”

3. Draw up a t-chart like the one below. List 5 negative comments that you have heard beingused within our school environment. Turn the negative into a positive by suggestingthings

BREAK: ensure students have a well-earned break with lunch, rest and a game/physical activity.

P.E.

Learning intention: I can assess flexibility and other forms of fitness through testing.

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Success criteria: I have completed the various fitness tests and recorded my resultsMaterials needed: cardboard box, sticky tape , scissors, 2x rulers, electronic device (iPad/tablet/mobile phone)

Learning task:

1. Watch the video belowhttps://youtu.be/IfxBPMd27qw2. You will need to pause the video at some points, and click the links I’ve attached below

for the tests.- Curl up test audio link : https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=RW6OssVmJBI

- Push up test audio link: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpfPe5OvSH4

Extension: If you're feeling extra motivated, time yourself running a set course in your yard; howmany laps did you complete and what was your total time recorded ?

Please share your results, and have fun!Mr Adnam

PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Please select an activity to complete from the PHYSICAL ACTIVITY GRID (Resourcesection on Compass)