CLASSROOM ACTIVITIES

1. Electric Driving

After reading the Kids News article about introducing only electric cars, answer the following questions in as much detail as possible. Try and include the question in your answer.

- Which political party is pushing for this new policy to introduce only electric cars?

- What year would they like to ban petrol and diesel vehicles by?

- If an average new car costs $40,000, and the Greens want electric cars to be 20% less, what cost would you be looking at?

- Which other countries have already introduced this plan?

- How many fast-charging stations are they proposing and how do they work?

- What environmental target is Australia trying to meet?

Extension: Make a list of the advantages and disadvantages of having only electric vehicles on the road.

Time: Allow 15 minutes .

Curriculum links: English

2. Come Fly With Me

Work with a partner to design and make a paper plane with the aim being to fly the furthest in the class. Have a think about some design aspects that might help it to do this.

As a class line up along the same starting point (preferably indoors) and fly your plane to see which one wins.

Extension: After flying all the planes, work on your first design to try and improve its flying distance.

Time: Allow 30 minutes to complete this task.

Curriculum links: Design and Technologies, Critical and Creative thinking.

VCOP ACTIVITY

The glossary of terms helps you to understand and learn the ambitious vocabulary being used in the article. Can you use the words outlined in the glossary to create new sentences? Challenge yourself to include other VCOP (vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation) elements in your sentence/s. Have another look through the article, can you find any other Wow Words not outlined in the glossary?

IN ONE SENTENCE, TELL US WHAT YOU THINK ABOUT TODAY’S STORY

Please do not use one-word answers. Explain what you enjoyed or found interesting about the article. Use lots of adjectives.