Gifted Awareness Week
Catherine Jetson and Michelle Wall
This week we are celebrating Gifted Awareness Week Australia. The week aims to raise awareness of giftedness and promote activities that celebrate different forms of giftedness.
To celebrate the occasion at Mount Carmel, students have had the opportunity to participate in a school writing competition Entries close tomorrow and winners will be announced in Week 6.
Fuzzy problems are ambiguous. They are missing data. They have lots of right answers, but (more importantly) they also have wrong answers.
Which of these countries is not like the others:
- Canada
- The United States
- England
- Australia
Look each country up, digging for a fact that will separate each one. Perhaps it’s England, because all of the other countries were once under the British Crown. Or maybe it’s Australia because it’s the only one in the southern hemisphere. Is it Canada, because it’s the only country with an officially French-speaking region?
Can you write your own Fuzzy Problem?
Lateral Thinking
- A woman had two sons who were born on the same hour of the same day of the same month of the same year. But they were not twins. How could this be so?
- Five pieces of coal, a carrot and a scarf are lying on the lawn. Nobody put them on the lawn but there is a perfectly logical reason why they should be there. What is it?
Palindromes
Do you know what palindromes are?
They are words (or numbers) that can be read the same forward and backwards.
Some clever people have even invented palindromic phrases which can be read both ways! Look at these examples:
- Top spot
- Was it a cat I saw?
- Step on no pets
Your job is to go on a palindrome search....how many can you find?
Can you find a palindrome that is:
- a girl's name?
- a boy's name?
- a noise?
- a kind of sheep?
- a religious lady?
- a type of Indian bread?
- a thing that rotates?
Science Challenge
At the website called switchzoo you can find out about animals as well as mixing them up to create new creatures. Visit the site and make a few weird animals.
Choose your favourite one, write about it and make a biome for him or her.