Year 4 Spring Topic

Inventions

Read...
Look out for these books in the Imagination Room or at Brierfield Library!  

Key vocabulary...

archaeologist
brooch
civilisation
convert
invasion
invention
kingdoms
pagan
settlement
tribes

Fantastic facts...

  • The Anglo Saxons came to Britain around the time the Romans were withdrawing.

  • Alfred the Great invented the candle clock, the first way people could tell the time without having to use the sun.

  • During the time of the Anglo Saxons, Britain was divided into many kingdoms.

  • In 2008, Sameual Thomas Houghton became the world’s youngest inventor for his ‘sweeping device with two heads’ at the age of 5.

  • Football was invented in China around 300-200 BC, over 2000 years ago!

Explore...

Visit Wallace's workshop, a place where you can invent, build and crash-test contraptions! 
The official Wallace and Gromit website has fun games to play and lots of information about Wallace and Gromit.

Visit...
Bolton Steam Museum - Bolton
Museum of Science and Industry - Manchester
Picture
National Science and Media Museum - Bradford

Do...

  • Create your own cracking contraption.

  • What is the best invention ever?  Write a persuasive speech to convince anyone who'll listen that you are right!

  • Invent a sweet treat or chocolate bar that Willy Wonka could make in his chocolate factory.      What would it taste like?  What makes it unique?  What would the wrapper / packaging look like?

In school...

Class Novel - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator by Roald Dahl
Trip - Eureka Museum, Halifax