Transcript Who is Giacometti?

Class Three
Class Three
Funny
Bones
We started our topic by focussing
on the famous runner Usain Bolt.
Why is he famous?
Just how fast is he?
We learned that
• His 100m time of 9.58 seconds during the
2009 World Championships in Berlin is the
current world record.
We tried to run as fast…..
We were better at his ‘signature
move.’
We researched how he can run so
fast and discovered that…
John Barrow at Cambridge University who has
previously analysed how Bolt could become even faster,
explained his "extraordinary large stride length", despite
having such an initial slow reaction time to the starting
gun.
He has lots of fast twitch muscle
fibres that can respond quickly,
coupled with his vast stride is
what gives him such an
extraordinary fast speeds.
We wrote reports about his amazing
achievements
This led us on to thinking all about our
own skeletons
We grouped different skeletons
The hydrostatic skeleton,
exoskeleton, and endoskeleton
support, protect, and provide
movement to the bodies of
different types of animals
We thought about how many
bones are there in the human
body? 206
This led us onto
some math work
focussing on word
problems.
And using a
tape measure
to measure
different parts
of our bodies.
We know that skeletons are
very important to make our
bodies work. But we also
thought about the
importance of muscles.
Muscles and joints
What do you think a joint is?
A: A joint is where two bones
meet. It can be movable or fixed.
Q: Why do you think we have joints?
A: If we did not have joints we would find
simple tasks like eating very difficult. Any
movement needing bending would be
impossible!!!!
After learning all about the
skeleton we moved onto learning
about an artist who focussing on
the human form
Alberto
Giacometti
We used the IPADS to find out that
He was also a friend of Pablo Picasso
We decided to recreate our own
Giacometti sculpture
• We initially looked at the different shapes
Usain Bolt’s skeleton made during a race.
We started by bending metal coat
hangers into different running shapes
Next we covered our sculptures in pipe
cleaners…
We then covered them in tin foil..
And then we displayed them around
school
Don’t they look fantastic!
We now really understand just how
clever our bodies are!