Our Mini Adventure is called ‘Dive In’. Please see the Mini Adventure sheet for this topic for all details, but as a brief overview we will be:
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Diving down to discover the different layers of the ocean, discovering what marine life lives in each and how they are adapted to survive in such differing and diverse conditions
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Discovering all about ocean currents: why they occur and the impact they have upon the planet as a whole.
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Finding out about key explorers, such as James Cook, to discover where they voyaged, their motivations for undertaking such dangerous expeditions and the impact their explorations had.
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Reading Treasure Island as our class novel - exploring the text in guided reading and charting the journey upon our world map.
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Being inspired by the combined scientific and artistic skills of artists such as Ernst Haeckel and creating our own drawings and prints of marine animals.
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Being awed and inspired by the scale, scope and wonder of our oceans!
