I believe that the experts will succeed in launching humans to the Moon and Mars!

Learning Intention: We are learning to identify key information.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use information from the article 'Mars ship test flight successful' to answer thinking questions correctly.

Argentina are Trying to Find the Lost Submarine and the Survivors!

Learning Intention: We are learning to identify key information.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I use the information from the article 'Argentina Submarine missing' to answer thinking questions correctly.

Watch Your Step When You are At the Poles Otherwise You Might Fall Into a Hole!

• The pole is icy and cold and windy. 
• The ice is so slippery that you could fall.

• It is mountainous with clouds covering the peaks.

• It’s isolated and far away from anywhere that is warm.

• The pole is rugged with holes in the ground and you can’t see the holes because it’s covered with snow.         

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write six descriptive sentences to describe the poles using appropriate adjectives and record it using Screencastify.

Nothing lives on the moon because there is no oxygen!

• The moon is isolated and its far away from the earth.
• It is weightless because it has no gravity.
• The moon is quiet and empty because nothing lives there.
• Its grey and rugged because the moon has deep holes in the ground.
• There are some deep holes but also shallow holes.
• Sometimes  the moon can be yellow, red or white. 

Learning Intention: We are learning to write a description.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I write six descriptive sentences to describe the moon using appropriate adjectives and record it using Screencastify.

Whangarei city has a clock museum that has 1,300 clocks!

Learning Intention: We are learning to follow clues to find a destination and identify key information about a place.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I locate Whangarei on a map and research to find interesting facts about Whangarei. 

The Red Cross helps people who are struck by disasters!

1. The Red Cross helps people who have been struck with natural disasters around the world.

2. They offer food, water and shelter to the homeless and the hungry.

3.   People from the Red Cross give money to the poor that doesn’t have any money.

4.  Volunteers in the Red Cross provides the rejected with small homes.   
 

5. The Red Cross gives injections and medical supplies to those who are suffering from illnesses or diseases.

6. The Red Cross helps people and prisoners in wars by sending them packages of supplies such as food, water and medical equipment.

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of how charities around the world helps people living in poverty and suffering from injustice.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record six ways that the Red Cross help those suffering from disasters using screencastify.

You can use the sun to generate power through solar panels!

• The sun is a natural resource.
• The sun can provide us with heat and warm up our homes.
• The sun can be used as a power source through solar panels.
• The sun is always there.
• It is a renewable resource.
• It can use its heat wave and its light to heat our world because if we didn’t have the sun our world will be dark and cold. 

Learning Intention: We are learning to develop our understanding of natural resources.
Success Criteria: I know I can do this when I record 6 key information about the Sun as a natural resource using Screencastify.