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Majda Knezic Fratarcangeli, CETA 20091
CETA 2009:
 
Teaching Science and Literacy
(A Cross-curricular Approach)
Activities:
(based on a traditional Indian fable
Six Blind Men and the Elephant 
)
> Art Dictation (Let’s Draw an Elephant!)> Optical illusions (Find the Hidden Tiger)> A TPR song (The Elephant Is …)> Science: Experiment with senses> Literacy: How To Organise a Story> Science: Feature charts and graphic organisers> Project work: Animals Fact Sheets
 
Majda Knezic Fratarcangeli, CETA 20092 
> ART DICTATION
Let’s draw an elephant!Make a big circle.Make a tail.Make four legs.Make a small circle for the face.Make two big ears.Make a trunk.Make two eyes.
 
(When you finish tell your students to give their elephant a name!)
Teaching tip:
Looking for elephant colouring pages? Simply type
“elephant + template” 
into Google.
 
Majda Knezic Fratarcangeli, CETA 20093
> OPTICAL ILLUSIONS
 Can our eyes play trick on us?
Did you know that …
…. pictures, written words and other things we see (as opposed to what we hear, smell, tasteor feel) account for 2/3 of the information we store in our brains?But sometimes what we think we see may not in fact be real. Here is one way to show your kids how our eyes play tricks on us.
 
The sense of sight: experimenting with optical illusionsTask:
Find the hidden tiger ( a tip: “read between the lines”)
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