Nova’s with Year 5 Science at Cromer PS
This term my class is using the Primary Connections unit, It’s Electrifying for Science. I wanted to imbed more ICT into the unit and am hoping to do that through the use of a flipchart created for my IWB, and the Nova.
I have 31 students in my class who have been placed into 6 science groups. We have the use of 6 Nova’s allowing one per group or 1 between two students for group activities. As my students have never used Nova’s before, I wanted to start with an familiar activity that would introduce the them to the Nova’s.
As one of the initial activities with this unit, the students were required to do cutaway diagrams of a torch. The students used a paint program on the Nova’s for their drawings.
The following is a student account of the activities so far:
“A few weeks ago our teacher was given 6 Nova 5000 to work with in science. We had to explore battery operated devices and work out how each of these worked. We had to record our findings in our science journals.
We then had to draw cut-away diagrams of a torch. After sketching them in our science journals first, we then used the paint program on the Novas to draw the diagrams. We had a lot of fun doing this. Drawing the diagrams using the Novas helped us to get used to using the Nova’s and the stylus. Below are some examples of our cutaway diagrams.”
