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Communication, Language and Literacy and Numeracy links are strong in this activity and teachers may like to develop those in other curriculum areas.  In literacy lessons there is scope for follow up activities on developing the use of connectives (so, because, but) as part of an explanatory text such as a recount of the investigation or a non-chronological report about the performance of toy cars.  In numeracy the opportunities for measuring, recording, data-handling and, particularly for younger children, comparison of number value in terms of distance and use of the necessary comparative and ordinal language.
Communication, Language and Literacy and Numeracy links are strong in this activity and teachers may like to develop those in other curriculum areas.  In literacy lessons there is scope for follow up activities on developing the use of connectives (so, because, but) as part of an explanatory text such as a recount of the investigation or a non-chronological report about the performance of toy cars.  In numeracy the opportunities for measuring, recording, data-handling and, particularly for younger children, comparison of number value in terms of distance and use of the necessary comparative and ordinal language.


== How to use this resource: ==
== Types of Learning ==
 
Teachers might use this resource as a single, stand alone lesson or expand it in to a much longer topic encompassing the links outline above.  It can be used with all primary age ranges with appropriate differentiation.  Teachers in the foundation stage might, for instance, focus on developing the children’s comparative language when collectively discussing a shared set of results whilst those in upper Key Stage 2 might place expectations on their pupils to develop an full written argument with reference both to their initial predictions and hypotheses, their final data and also to the possibility of biased or unreliable data based on their control of the variables at hand.
 
'''Types of Learning:'''


There is scope within this activity for a number of different methods of learning. Here are some examples:
There is scope within this activity for a number of different methods of learning. Here are some examples:
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