Use the information provided to place the characters in order, 1 6, depending on who you think is having the healthiest Christmas. Discuss your choices with your friends and explain how and why you made them. Jill Who s having a Healthy Christmas? 1 2 4 5 3 6 This Christmas I will have a glass of wine with every meal and I ll watch TV all day,, every day! Sam Rita Mick Indira Sophia I love Christmas food, especially mince pies, so I ll eat as many as I can. I ll drink sugary drinks and stay up late watching TV! This Christmas I will eat healthily and make sure I stick with my balanced diet. I ll watch a bit of TV but also go for long walks with my dog. This Christmas I will enjoy a few cigars. I will have a few beers with my friends and enjoy a good Christmas dinner. I will still go jogging every morning. This Christmas I will have a glass of wine with my Christmas dinner. I will go swimming every day and make sure I don t eat any fatty foods. This Christmas I will be going to a lot of late night Christmas parties. I ll drink a lot of wine but make sure I go to the gym every morning. Sigma Science Who s having a healthy Christmas? www.sigmascience.co.uk
Cut and paste the foods into their correct food group. Some foods may be able to be sorted into more than one food group e.g. crisps could be placed into either Bread and potatoes or Fats and sugars. You decide which group you will place them into to. Fats and Sugars Christmas food groups Meat and fish Fruit and Bread and vegetables potatoes Milk and dairy Turkey Carrots Cake Crisps Tomato Sausages Cream bun Ice-cream cream Melon Chocolate Bread Cheese Potato Fish Milk shake Sigma Science Christmas food groups www.sigmascience.co.uk
Like all living things, turkeys have adapted to live in their environments. Look at the picture of the turkey, colour it and cut and paste the adaptation text boxes into their correct places around the turkey. Turkey Adaptations Beak A short sharp beak used for pecking and foraging in the ground for insects, berries and seeds. Eyes Located on the side of the head so that it has all round vision. Feathers The feathers are the same colour as the turkey s habitat. This Feet Long toes used for digging and foraging in the ground for f Nostrils Turkeys have a very good sense of smell. This helps them to Snood A flap of skin that hangs over the bird s beak. It turns t helps to camouflage seeds, berries and locate food in the bright red when the the turkey. insects. ground. turkey wants to attract a mate. Sigma Science Turkey adaptations www.sigmascience.co.uk Wings The turkey is too heavy and its wings are too small for it to fly. The wings are now used for display purposes, for example to attract a mate.
Bells Tie These materials are soft Christmas materials These materials are hard These materials are shiny Stocking Helmet Bauble Rain coat These materials are flexible (bendy) These materials are rigid (will not bend) These materials are impermeable (waterproof) Toy truck Balloons Teddy Robot Umbrella Shoes Gift wrap CDs Book Boots Skate board Sort the Christmas presents and items into groups according to their material properties. Some of the presents and items may be able to be placed into more than one group. Try to think of their most important material property and place it into that group. Each group can have a maximum of four presents s or items in it.. Some groups will have fewer than four presents or items. Discuss and compare your groups with a friend to see if your groupings were sensible and accurate. Sigma Science Christmas materials www.sigmascience.co.uk
Look at the images below. All of them are foods or drinks that are either heated or cooled during Christmas. Heating and cooling changes materials. Some of these changes will be permanent and irreversible and some will be temporary and reversible. Sort the images below (all of which have been changed by heating and/or cooling) into their two groups, These are reversible changes and These are irreversible changes. Christmas food and drink - reversible or irreversible changes? These are reversible changes These are irreversible changes Cooked turkey t Baking mince pies Melting ice Hot chocolate Melting butter Roasting chestnuts Roast potatoes Melting ice lolly Sigma Science Reversible or irreversible changes? www.sigmascience.co.uk
Christmas is full of sounds, but how are these sounds made? Look at the images of the sounds you may hear during Christmas and place them (cut and paste) into their correct group depending on how each sound is being made. Blowing Shaking Christmas Sounds Strumming and/or plucking Exploding Cracker Drum Hitting/striking Electronically TV Tambourine Harp Champagne Piano Saxophone Sleigh bells Guitar Trumpet Stereo Fireworks Sigma Science Christmas sounds www.sigmascience.co.uk
Partridge Glue tabs Attach to bird Fold Can you spot the Robin? Christmas camouflage Can you spot the Chicken? Chicken Attach to sheet Turkey Can you spot the Turkey? Can you spot the Partridge? Robin Many animals, including Christmas birds, use camouflage as a form of defence. A well camouflaged bird will be almost impossible to see. This keeps it safe from predators. Colour the Christmas birds, then use the page provided to design a camouflage background for each. Cut out each bird and the glue tab provided. Concertina the glue tab and attach it to the centre of the bird (on the back). Attach the other end of the glue tab to the centre of each bird s habitat The birds should spring out from their habitats but be difficult to see if their camouflage is effective! Sigma Science Christmas camouflage www.sigmascience.co.uk
The foods we eat, including our Christmas foods, are either solids or liquids. Look at the Christmas foods below and try to separate them into liquids and solids. Cut and paste them onto the page provided. Christmas foods ods - solids or liquids? The particles in a liquid are The particles in a solid are loosely packed together and can tightly packed together and find move around each other. When it very difficult to move. Solids poured on to a flat surface a keep their shape. liquid will spread and then stop. These foods are all liquids. These foods are all solids. Compare and discuss your groupings with your friends and explain what it is that makes them either a solid or a liquid food. Custard Nuts Biscuits Gravy Ketchup Chocolate Rum source Sprouts Sigma Science Solids or liquids? www.sigmascience.co.uk
Additional page for any extra tasks or investigations the pupils and/or teachers would like to include in their Christmas booklet. Sigma Science Sigma Christmas booklet additional page www.sigmascience.co.uk
Teacher/pupil notes: The Sigma Science Christmas booklet is designed to be fun while reinforcing some of the key scientific thinking and learning objectives covered in KS2. Teachers decide how to use the booklet. Whole class activities, small groups or individual activities. Pupils do not have to complete every page or activity to make their booklet Teachers and pupils can use the blank to design their own additional Christmas science activities To construct the booklet all the pupils need to do is to cut out each completed page of the booklet and glue them together using the glue tabs. Pupils can design their own Sigma Science Christmas cover Sigma Christmas Investigations By Sigma Science wishes you all a happy Christmas and we hope you enjoy using our booklet. Please visit our website at www.sigmascience.co.uk to find what else we have to offer. Sigma Science Sigma Christmas book cover www.sigmascience.co.uk