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READING WRITING MATHS INQUIRY/OTHER Learning intention Learning intention Learning intention Learning intention

We are learning to read and understand non-

fiction texts. We are learning to understand plurals.

We are learning to classify lines.

We are learning to get into the Olympic spirit

Success Criteria Success Criteria Success Criteria Success Criteria

I can answer questions to show my

understanding of a non-fiction text.

I can use information to form an opinion and

justify it with reasons.

I can pluralise singular nouns. I can apply the plural rules.

I can determine if lines are parallel,

perpendicular or intersecting.

I can define and identify parallel and perpendicular lines.

I can find important information about an

athlete

I can draft an interesting and engaging letter

Task Task Task Task

Today you will be reading a news article on

Herald Sun Kids-

Australian university students invent drone

to help pollinate plants.

Read the article carefully and then answer

the questions. Make sure you go back to the

article to help you find the answers when

completing the questions.

When responding make sure you cite text

evidence and write your answers in complete

sentences.

Remember there is a glossary at the end that

can help you to understand some of the

challenging words in the article.

Copy of all the Readings and Questions

*20 minutes of independent reading is still

expected to be completed today in addition

to today’s reading activity.

Task 1 - “Peace in the community”

(Complete this before we meet today)

During our meeting today we will be

brainstorming ideas for writing tomorrow.

Think about an answer for each of the

following questions.

1) What does peace mean to you?

2) What & who is your community?

3) What does Peace in your community look

like / feel like?

Task 2 - Plurals

Video lesson with audio.

The plural of a word means more than one

(singular) of a noun.

Using the table below showing the rules to

turn single nouns into plurals. Write each of

the follow words as singular and the correct

plural form.

For example, dog = dogs knife, colony, volcano, watch, child, ship,

buoy, radio

Lines are the building blocks of all shapes and

angles. Today we are going to learn about the

three different types of lines we will

encounter.

Watch this video to learn what each of the

types of lines are called and what they look

like. See examples and definitions below.

For each pair of lines below, label them as

parallel, perpendicular or intersecting and

explain how you know this. Access digital

copy of task here 😊

Did you know that the Olympics are right

around the corner? There are 487 athletes

representing Australia across 33 different

sports, and 307 of them are making their

Olympic debut!

These athletes are a long way from home,

and they are about to compete on the

biggest stage imaginable so we think it might

be nice to write them a letter to wish them

good luck.

Pick an athlete representing Australia at the

upcoming Olympics and find out some

information about them using this website:

https://www.olympics.com.au/games/tokyo-

2020/team/

Make sure you include the following things in

your letter:-

- an introduction of yourself and your

background

- three interesting questions about what it’s

like at the Olympics

- a concluding message of good luck in their

specific events

For most nouns, just add s.

For many nouns ending with a consonant + y, change the y to i and add es.

For nouns ending with a vowel + y, just add s.

For nouns ending with ch, sh, ss or x, add es.

For many nouns ending with f or fe, change this a v and add es.

For nouns ending with a vowel + o, add s.

For nouns ending with a consonant + o, add es.

For some nouns, there is no particular rule. These are irregular plurals and you just need to learn them!

When you have completed these, check your

answers to this link Plurals Table.

Using the plural table, write each rule in your

book and give an additional 3 different

correct examples for each plural rule.

This can be completed in an exercise book or

on your netbook, but make sure it is set up

like a proper letter! For example:

Date

Dear Athlete,

Introduction...

Questions & Comments...

Conclusion...

From,

Student

Too hard? Too hard? Too hard? Too hard?

Read the news article on Herald Sun Kids and

answer the questions.

Debate over new Australian logo of gold

wattle but no kangaroo.

Too tricky? Try to add at least 1 word for

each rule. Re-watch video explaining rules.

Use the posters above to help you to

determine whether each pair of lines are

parallel, perpendicular and intersecting.

Post in your Maths Channel any questions

you are unsure of and ask during your class

call 😊

If you don’t know who to write to or can’t get

on to the website, pick one of these athletes

and write them a letter with three clever

questions about the Olympics:-

Patty Mills Cate Campbell

Basketball Swimming

Too easy? Too easy? Too easy? Too easy?

Read the news article on Herald Sun Kids and

answer the questions.

Black Hole Swallows Neutron Star

Make sure the words you choose are ambitious and interesting.

Digital copy of task Label each pair below as perpendicular,

parallel or intersecting and justify why.

You might like to do some extra research on the Tokyo Olympics to ask an athlete some specific questions about their time there. You could also try to find an athlete that has already won a medal at a previous Olympics. Try to find some more information about their previous performances and include that in your letter.

Don’t have _________? Don’t have _________? Don’t have _________? Don’t have _________?

Complete task as set. Complete task as set. Complete task as set. No additional resources or materials are required. Complete in a book or on a device.

1) Main Task Reading

Australian university students invent drone to help pollinate plants

Taking tips from nature, a team of mechanical engineering* students has invented a

pollination drone that could one day replace bees.

Together with collaborators* in South Korea, the University of Adelaide students are

perfecting their small aerial vehicle, which has a probe* to transfer pollen from one

flower to another.

James Cartwright, 22, said the Adelaide group of students is mainly working on the

flight control system.

“It will at least hover when we’re finished,” he said.

“The overall goal is for it to approach a flower and pollinate it, but we have a lot of work

still to do.”

William Foster-Hall, 22, has enjoyed applying his knowledge “outside of the

classroom”.

“The project has been challenging but also quite exciting,” he said.

“We’re at the forefront* of current research in mechanical and aeronautical*

engineering, using technology that has not been tested or widely adopted*. There’s

only a handful of other projects like this in the world.”

The Australian team of four, also including William Tam, 23, and Harshil Vinod, 22, has

already put in a combined total of more than 400 hours work on the project.

They are working towards Ingenuity, an annual event organised by the Engineering,

Computer and Mathematical Sciences Faculty at the University of Adelaide for

students to showcase* their projects to the public, which is usually held in October.

Supervisor Associate Professor Rini Akmeliawati is excited about the potential for

technology to meet growing demand for automation* in agriculture*. She’s especially

looking forward to flight tests of the pollination drone next month.

“It’s very good, they’re progressing really well,” she said.

“They managed to manufacture the prototype*, put in and program the electronics

including sensors, vision, control and communication systems, and get it to flap its

wings accordingly*, which is really quite an achievement.”

Mr Cartwright said the flapping mechanism was based on the biology of the rhinoceros

beetle, rather than that of the honey bee.

The pollination drone up close. Picture Mark Brake

GLOSSARY

• mechanical engineering: designing solutions to problems to do with mechanics or machines • collaborators: people you work with on a project • probe: bit of equipment that sticks out from the body of something, such as the drone or an insect • forefront: the most important or leading position • aeronautical: to do with getting things to fly • adopted: took up, began using • showcase: show something to others so they can see its benefits

• automation: making things automatic • agriculture: science and role of growing plants and animals and looking after the soil • prototype: first model so more can be made later on • accordingly: as a result

QUICK QUIZ 1. What is the drone designed to do?

2. Why could we need a drone to do this?

3. Which university are the inventors from?

4. What course are they studying?

5. What other country is involved in this project?

2) Too Hard Reading

Debate over new Australian logo of gold wattle but no kangaroo

The gold wattle logo to promote Australia.

A new logo developed to promote Australia to the

world has been criticised as confusing by

advertising experts who say the wattle design

looks more like a luxury perfume label than an

official national logo.

A kangaroo design was rejected in favour of an abstract* gold wattle design in a report by

Australia’s Nation Brand Advisory Council and accepted by Trade Minister Simon

Birmingham.

Several versions of the new logo will be made available to be used by business, industry

and government agencies, replacing the current one with two orange boomerangs that

form a rough outline of Australia.

The council of business and cultural leaders said in their report the kangaroo only

emphasised what foreigners already knew about Australia, while we should be pushing

our other lesser known assets like technology and education.

But University of Canberra brand expert Adjunct Professor Dr Petra Bouvain said the

wattle logo was too abstract and looked like generic* luxury perfume labelling that could

have come from anywhere.

“It needs to be clear what it is, to me it looks like expensive gifts, like a new perfume, it

doesn’t look like business to me,” she said.

“I have a PhD*, two other degrees and I work in marketing — if it is a wattle, you could

have locked me up for a week and I would not have guessed it was a wattle.”

She also said the new “only in Australia” tagline* was misguided because gold could be

found elsewhere in the world, as could wattle, which also grows in Europe.

“The AU (lettering) doesn’t make it clear it is Australia … people could mistake it with

Austria.

“Lots of the stuff we sell, you can get from a whole lot of other countries. Gold comes from

other countries, wattles grow in other countries, it doesn’t make sense.”

Advertising expert Dee Madigan gave the new wattle logo the tick of approval because

she said the kangaroo had been overused.

“Anytime I see the kangaroo on any piece of Australian stuff I feel like it is made in China,

it has been appropriated* by the kind of cheap tourist stuff which usually is made in China

(so) it has been devalued* as a logo,” she said.

In a Daily Telegraph reader poll of almost 7000 respondents*, 96 per cent said they

preferred the kangaroo over the new logo.

One said it looked more like a dandelion than wattle while many were quick to note the

unfortunate resemblance* of the new logo with the coronavirus molecule.

“I don’t see wattle at all, I see some gold dots. And as for the AU, everyone in Europe will

think of Austria,” one reader wrote.

“$10m for that? It could have been done online for $10. It’s awful, uninspiring, and (reeks*)

of someone wanting change to make a name for themselves,” another reader said.

GLOSSARY

• abstract: doesn’t attempt to be realistic but represents an idea • generic: standard, could apply to lots of things • PhD: a doctorate, a university research qualification • tagline: short slogan or phrase to go with a logo or photo • appropriated: taken for themselves • devalued: lost value • respondents: people who responded • resemblance: similar to or reminds you of • reeks: smells really strongly; used to mean strongly suggests

QUICK QUIZ 1. Which animal was considered instead of the wattle?

2. Describe the logo the gold wattle logo will replace?

3. What sort of product does Petra Bouvain think the wattle is advertising?

4. Does Dee Madigan like the wattle logo? What is she an expert at?

5. What country could some people think AU stands for?

3) Too Easy Reading

Black hole swallows neutron star

An artist’s drawing of the neutron star as it is about to be swallowed by the

black hole. Picture: Carl Knox, OzGrav-Swinburne University

Talk about a heavy snack. For the first time,

astronomers have witnessed a black hole

swallowing a neutron star, the most dense* object in

the universe — all in a split-second gulp.

And Australian scientists have helped lead the discovery.

Although the cosmic crash occurred some 900 million light-years away, the evidence

has only just reached Earth, picked up by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave

Observatory in the US and the Virgo gravitational-wave observatory in Italy, and

analysed by an international team including Australia’s Monash University and the ARC

Centre of Excellence for Gravitational-Wave Discovery (OzGrav).

Astronomers witnessed the last 500 orbits before the neutron star was swallowed, a

process that took far less than a minute and briefly generated as much energy as all

the visible light in the observable* universe.

They saw the same thing 10 days later, on the other side of the universe. In both cases,

a neutron star – a teaspoon of which would weigh a billion tons – orbited ever closer

to the black hole, until they finally crashed together and the neutron star was gone in

a gobble.

“It was just a big quick gulp, gone,” said study co-author Patrick Brady, an

astrophysicist* at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in the US.

Professor Brady said the black hole “gets a nice dinner of a neutron star and makes

itself just a little bit more massive”.

The collision was discovered when gravitational waves, created by the massive objects

in motion, were spotted by detectors on Earth. The gravitational waves are ripples of

energy soaring through space and time, as first theorised* by Albert Einstein*.

The waves were detected in January 2020, but the study analysing the data by more

than 100 scientists was published in Astrophysical Journal Letters on June 29, 2021.

Australian and international scientists have for the first time witnessed

the collision of a neutron star and a black hole.

While astronomers had previously seen

gravitational waves from two black holes

colliding with each other and two neutron stars

colliding with each other, this was the first time

they had seen a neutron star and a black hole

crash together.

Neutron stars are what’s leftover after a big star dies in a supernova* explosion.

Professor Brady said they were so dense that they had about 1.5 to two times the

mass* of our sun, but were condensed* to about 10km wide.

Some black holes, known as stellar black holes, were created when an even bigger

star collapsed into itself, creating something with such powerful gravity that not even

light could escape.

Scientists think there should be many of these neutron star and black hole collisions,

but they’ve yet to find one in our own galaxy.

“Mergers* of neutron stars with black holes dramatically warp* space-time – the fabric*

of the Universe – outputting more power than all the stars in the observable Universe

put together,” said OzGrav’s Dr Rory Smith.

“We will learn a great deal about the fundamental* nature of space-time and black

holes, how matter behaves at the highest possible pressures and densities, how stars

are born, live, and die, and how the Universe has evolved throughout cosmic time.”

GLOSSARY • dense: containing a lot of matter within a space • observable: able to be noticed or seen • astrophysicist: scientist who studies a branch of astronomy dealing with the behaviour,

physical properties and processes of objects in space • theorised: formed a theory about something • Albert Einstein: famous physicist and mathematician born in Germany in 1879

• supernova: massive explosion of a star at the end of its life • mass: a large collection of matter • condensed: reduced in volume, area, length or scope • mergers: combinations of two things • warp: bend or twist out of shape • fabric: the structure of something • fundamental: of central importance

QUICK QUIZ 1. How many light-years away was this collision?

2. How many orbits did the astronomers see before the neutron star was swallowed?

3. When were the gravitational waves caused by the collision seen by the astronomers?

4. How much would a teaspoon of neutron star weigh?

5. How are neutron stars created?

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Parallel, Perpendicular or Intersecting?

Are the following pairs of lines parallel, perpendicular or intersecting lines?

1-10 93 87 80 73 67 60 53 47 40 3311-15 27 20 13 7 0

1) 2) 3)

4) 5) 6)

7) 8) 9)

10) 11) 12)

13) 14) 15)

1. parallel

2. parallel

3. perp & inter

4. parallel

5. inter

6. perp & inter

7. inter

8. parallel

9. perp & inter

10. perp & inter

11. perp & inter

12. inter

13. inter

14. inter

15. parallel

Use 'parallel', 'perp'(perpendicular) or 'inter'(intersecting) to describe the lines.

Identifying Lines

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