Cups Cups Cups

For this challenge, you will need lots of different cups. 

Which might you choose if you wanted a lot to drink?  Why?

Which one would you choose if you did not want a lot to drink?  Why?

Make a prediction. Try to arrange the cups in a line from the one that holds the most liquid to the one that holds the least liquid.

Design a way of finding out if you were right or not.

Did you get the order right? How do you know for sure?

Rank these events from least to most naughty to create a naughtyometer!

Use the following questions to help you make up your mind.

Not doing any homework for a whole week

Is school like a job? Are there more excuses for not doing homework than schoolwork? What counts as a good excuse? Could there be good reasons for not doing any work?

Stealing from the school canteen / Stealing someone's lunch

Is stealing always wrong? Is it worse to steal from a person or an organisation? Who are you stealing from if you steal from a school?

Calling another pupil a bad name - Calling a teacher a bad name

Is calling someone names worse than hitting someone? Would a child feel worse than a teacher? Would you get punished worse for insulting a teacher than a child? Should you?

Hitting someone / Seeing someone hitting someone, and doing nothing about it / Hitting someone back

Can two wrongs make a right? Can you do something to someone that’s done it to you without it being bad?

Is watching someone get hit worse than watching someone fall over?

Make a Living Diagram

Equipment

• A recycled piece of card such as a panel from a cereal box
• Double-sided sticky tape
• Pencils
• An area with a variety of wild plants

Create your own labelled diagram of a plant including the following:

Roots – 

Stem – 

Leaf – 

Flower – 

Bud – 

Explain what each of these parts of the plant does. 

Flowers are an important food source for pollinating insects. Look closely at the flower. Can you extract some pollen on a cotton bud? What is the job of this pollen?

What a fantastic book review Hollie. 

Chloe, what a fantastic book review. 

Play a Game of Nim!

This is a basic form of the ancient game of Nim.

You will need seven objects, such as counters or blocks. It is a game for two players.

Place the 7 counters in a pile and decide who will go first. (In the next game, the other player will have the first turn.)

Each player takes turns to take away either one or two counters.

The player who takes the last counter wins.

Keep playing until you work out a winning strategy.

Does it matter who has the first turn?

If you work out a winning strategy, let us know on dailychallenge@st-barnabs.kent.sch.uk

Extension: What happens when you start the game with more counters?