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О lga Romanova Marina Vorontsova “Hands-on” approach to speaking English. Did you know? Discovery Club is for lower-secondary students aged 10-12 topic and task-based learner-centred based on authentic English uses “hands-on” approach
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ОlgaRomanova Marina Vorontsova “Hands-on” approach to speaking English
Did you know? Discovery Club is for lower-secondary students aged 10-12topic and task-based learner-centred based on authentic English uses “hands-on” approach develops learner autonomy, independence and cooperative skills helps students use English meaningfully
Did you know? At Discovery Club we explore and discover The Living World Animals and their Habitat Prehistoric Animals Challenges of Life Adaptation and Behaviour and do Science Experiments Make a rainbow Make a shadow clock Shadow Portrait Colour Wheel String Mobile Phone How sound travels Surprising Senses Touch test Why you need two eyes Make a tongue map How your nose helps your taste
The Living World Find 5 mammals. Find 2 animals that can fly. Find 4 cold-blooded animals. Find 4 animals with wings. Find 5 animals that lay eggswith hard shells.
If you were a dinosaur, would you be friendly or vicious,meat-eating or veggie-loving? What dinosaur are you? http://www.nhm.ac.uk/kids-only/dinosaurs/what-dinosaur/index.html
“Prehistoric Animals” “Adaptation and Behaviour” In Explore and Discover activities at the museum or zoo children are challenged to: make choices based on observation write short answers choose appropriate descriptive vocabulary make sketches discuss answers with a partner extract information from exhibits and their information boards find examples of certain adaptations Follow-up activities: Award ceremony Discussion Project work
Museum of Palaeontology Explore and Discover… Prehistoric Animals
Did you know?Paddle-shape limbs are useful for moving through water. Foot shapes are useful for moving on land. Find the great, great, great, great, great,grandfatherof the Loch Ness Monster.
Draw the nest of the PROTOCERATOPS. How many eggs are there?
Many plants and flowers that the dinosaurs may have eaten can still be seen growing today. Find one of them and write down its name.
Did you know?The long hollow crest on the skull was a “resonator", through which the dinosaur could hoot. Who had a crest on its head? How many ribs has the diplodocus got? What dinosaur looks like an ostrich?
Could they fly? What are their ancestors? What did they feed on?
Imagine you can choose your favourite dinosaur to take to school.Which one would you pick?
Moscow Zoo Explore and Discover… Animal Adaptations
Did you know? Sea lions, like many marine mammals, can see well both above and below the surface of the water.Sea lions hear both above and below the water's surface, although they hear better under water.Sea lions cannot smell underwater but, above water, smell is a highly developed sense. What do they feed on? Are they in danger?
What birds can you see on your left? How many species of them are there?
Did you know? In spite of their name, flying squirrels and flying lizards don't fly, but glide.Gliding is a low-energy way to travel. Find a fish that walks! LOOK OUT! A shark! Why can’t it stop moving? What is it doing?
Did you know? Capybaras are highly adapted to an aquatic lifestyle. Their eyes and ears and nostrils are high on their heads, so they can easily be kept above water when the capybara is swimming. Webs between their toes help them swim.
Sounds interesting… Bong!
Can you taste the difference? Where is the sound?
“Can you find the big, thick square?Ready, steady, go! One… two…”
“If you hold an egg in a candle flame until it becomes sooty and then dunk it in water it looks …SILVER! Why?”
Useful links www.nhm.ac.uk/ www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/ www.talkscience.org.uk/resources/ www.bbc.co.uk/nature/animals http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngexplorer/0604/quickflicks/