Giraffe Class Other Subjects Term 6 Week 3

Activities

This week:

Geography – Map Skills

D.T. – Researching Products

P.E. – Dance Routines, plus Joe Wicks

This Week: Geography: Map Skills

Geography – Map Skills

• This week, we’re going to be looking at map skills again, and how to understand direction and location, focussing on the following skills:

• Using maps – Using compass directions (North, South, East,

West, North East, South East, South West, North West);

– Reading maps;

– Finding and giving simple grid references.

Task 1: (15 minutes) Pirate Directions

• You will need the separate PDF document called ‘Geography Pirate Directions’. You can either print it out, or you can have the map on the screen and write the directions down into your book/onto your paper.

• You need to direct the pirate to the treasure. • You cannot tell him to go into any square that has the

spooky forest, the lake, the swamp, or the bottomless pits in any part of the square.

• You can only tell the pirate to move North, South, East or West, and a certain number of squares, e.g. Go four squares west past the trees.

• When you think you have planned a safe route, ask someone else to check it. If you need to change the route, please do so! (There is no fixed answer!)

Task 2:

(15 minutes)

Town Map Directions

Read the town map carefully, then fill in the correct direction

in each sentence.

(North, East, South, or West)

The answers are on

the next page for you to check if you

got them right!

Answers:

Task 2:

(15 minutes)

Town Map Directions

Read the town map carefully, then fill in the

correct direction in each sentence.

(North, East,

South, or West)

NORTH

SOUTH

EAST

SOUTH

EAST

WEST

SOUTH

WEST

Task 3:

(15 minutes)

Acorn Park Directions

Fill in the

direction for each of the questions.

Use the

intermediate directions as

well this time

(NW, NE, SE, SW).

10. The picnic area is __________ of the ice cream stand.

Answers:

Task 3:

(15 minutes)

Acorn Park Directions

Fill in the

direction for each of the questions.

Use the

intermediate directions as

well this time

(NW, NE, SE, SW).

1. NW or North West 2. NE or North East 3. SE or South East 4. NE or North East 5. NE or North East 6. W or West 7. N or North 8. S or South 9. NE or North East 10.SW or South West

Task 4: (15 minutes) Introduction to Grid References

• You will need the separate PDF document called ‘Geography Introduction to Grid References’. You can either print it out, or you can have the map on the screen and write the answers down into your book/onto your paper.

• You need to write down the grid references for the places shown.

• The answers are on the next page – check and correct your work when you have finished.

Answers: Task 4: (15 minutes) Introduction to Grid References

1. Grid references: Radstock: B5

Wellow: D4

Dunkerton: C3

Combe Hay: D3

Camerton: B4

2. Grid references: Two tunnels on the Somerset Coal Canal: D3 and D4

3. Grid references: The three aqueducts: C3, E3 and G2

This Week: Design Technology

Design Technology Task (1.5-2 hours)

• Your task this week is to choose a product to research. • Choose a product that has had a major impact on the world – for

instance, a piece of technology. • Research the product, using the Internet. Use a search engine,

such as ‘Google’, and type in phrases to search for, such as ‘history of the light bulb’, or ‘who invented the light bulb’. Write lots of notes down – perhaps using a mind-map.

• Make a factsheet about the product you have chosen. • Include some images, (you could draw these), and some factual

information, such as who invented it, a brief history, some facts, or information about how and/or where it is made.

• Lay out the information on your factsheet in a clear and organised way, using boxes and sub-headings to group the information.

• Here are some ideas to get you started: the bicycle, the car, the plane, the television, the computer, the mobile telephone, the telephone, the watch, the toilet, the pen, the washing machine.

• There is an example factsheet on the next page, about the light bulb, to help you.

P.E. This Week: (30 minutes) Just Dance 2018 - Shake It Off - Taylor Swift

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3u_gaOPCGk Have a go at joining in and learning this dance routine.

Think about the kind of movements the dancers do, and the way in which patterns of movements are repeated.

THEN! Pick one of your favourite songs and make up a dance

routine, with similar patterns of movements. Try and teach it to a member of your family!

P.E.

• PE with Joe Wicks daily at 9am weekdays! (30 minutes)

• https://www.thebodycoach.com/blog/pe-with-joe-1254.html or https://www.youtube.com/user/thebodycoach1

• Plus, family walks, cycling, playing in the garden, anything physical that gets your heart rate going and your breathing upping!

• Try to do another 30 minutes per day of physical exercise as well as Joe Wicks – so an hour altogether per day!