Children you might like to:<br />
<ul>
<li>List some of the transformations that take place as you get
ready for school.</li>
<li>Sort these transformations into different categories of
change.</li>
<li>Find different words that mean the same as transform or
transformation.</li>
<li>Discuss things that transform more than once - going from one
state to another then another...then another. What is the most
transformations you can think of?</li>
</ul>
<div>Parents you might like to...</div>
<ul>
<li>Talk through the idea of things that change gradually/
quickly.</li>
<li>Work through some examples of a physical transformation e.g.
tidying up iii. Consider things that change with time. With heat?
Things that chemically change.</li>
<li>Investigate those things that DO NOT change.</li>
<li>Explore other words that mean transformation.</li>
</ul>
<div>Teachers you might like to...</div>
<ul>
<li>Consider some of the (many) different mathematical
transformations -e.g. reflections, rotations,.....multiplying by
three and adding one, squaring,...</li>
<li>Illustrate the idea of transformation using Lewis Carroll's
idea of "Doublets", whereby one word is gradually changed into
another word by altering one letter at a time...e.g. pig, wig, wag,
way, say, sty.</li>
<li>Discuss and classify the different types of transformations
that we can have.</li>
<li>Consider multiple transformations.</li>
<li>List and develop the different words associated with
transformations.</li>
<li>In the above - look for aspects that do NOT change within the
transformation. </li>
</ul>
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