These would make useful guided reading books and provide additional examples. Includes a letter from wallace as an introduction and inventor cards to wear or carry. Naturally things dont go according to plan and gromit must save the. Year 45 explanation texts complete topic teaching resources. Weekly explanations english planning for wallace and gromit cracking contraptions. Cracking contraptions is a showcase of 10 short films about wallaces wonderfully eccentric ideas, which include everything you might need to make life easier. Cracking inventions y4 explanation emma rogers education. Inspired by wallace and gromits cracking contraptions, ms wrays english set decided to write an explanation of how wallaces turbo diner machine works. His 525 crackervac is just the ticket and will save gromits time plus it has a cracker sensor. A collection of downloadable worksheets, exercises and activities to teach wallace and gromit, shared by english language teachers. Cracking ideas winner meets his cracking contraption.
As things dont go according to plan, the pair of them learn that good ideas. Watch wallace and gromits cracking contraptions prime video. The series of wallace and gromit cracking inventions can be found at. Shauns cracking ideas design challenge called on students across the uk to enter a ewenique invention to transport shaun and his. Retro is short for retrospective which means to look back. This text references an aardman animations short film from the wallace and gromits cracking contraptions series. As well as this years exciting competition there are downloadable lesson plans for ks1 ks4 students. Wensleydaleloving inventor wallace knows just how powerful a great idea combined with only a little bit. A cloudy lesson a cloud maker and his apprentice grandson are busy making clouds but everything doesnt happen as it should. Get your team aligned with all the tools you need on one secure, reliable video platform. The 201920 cracking ideas competition includes a host of fun activities for children aged 5 to 11 plus guidance for teachers to kick start your childrens cracking idea. They have a very retro look because they are inspired by machines, devices and contraptions from the 1930s through to the 1960s. Gromits cracking contraptions give endless opportunities for fun machines to write about.
But why bother cooking yourself when you have an autochef, the combined cooker and waiter on wheels. From the soccamatic to the 535 crackervac, wallaces inventions are truly imaginative if not always the most efficient. He started acting as an amateur after joining the royal air force during world war ii. Children invent their own machine then explain how it works. Online shopping from a great selection at books store. Cracking ideas winner meets his cracking contraption gov. Wallace and gromits cracking contraptions ardman is a short animation ideal for use in literacy as an explanation text, talk for writing and scaffolding writing, story board, ks1 lower ks2, sen, powerpoint of film screen shots. Many other good explanation texts can also be found by following the above link. From the bun vac 6000 to the mind manipulationomatic 1st first edition by smith, derek published by haynes publishing 2011. This explanation unit uses until i met dudley by roger mcgough as an example, then children write their own explanations inspired by wallace and gromits cracking inventions. Before you get cracking on the second part of the worksheet, analyse the style of wallaces contraptions. The theme is wallace and gromits cracking contraptions.
The best of aardman animations, which runs through july 7. Wallace and gromits cracking contraptions complete series. Year 234 explanation text planning and original resources. Imagine a cracking idea that can help get mundane jobs done quicker, better and most importantly from the comfort of a warm armchair. Here is all of the planning and resources i produced for an explanation texts topic for a year 4 class. Aardman animation activity, create a cracking contraption. The soccamatic the tellyscope the autochef the snowmanotron a christmas cardomatic the snoozatron the turbo diner the bullyproof vest the 525 crackervac behind the scenes all rights belong to.
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