Explanations

Today we had to look at an explanations in groups and show what we know, by identifying the structure of an explanation (What are the parts of an explanation?).  Yesterday we read lots of explanations and looked at some power points so we had an understanding of what we needed to find.  We found out there are 2 types of explanations- How things work? and Why things happen?.  We found a title (question), an introduction (big ideas), paragraphs in sequence with information, cause & effect ( complex sentences), connectives, present tense (now), specific nouns about the subject eg honey-stomach, drone, descriptive verbs eg evaporates, technical words eg enzymes and a conclusion (summarise what the explanation is about).