TOTaL Curriculum

Theme: Conquest

Homework Booklet

Geography

Name……………………………….Form………………………………..Class…………………………………

Teacher……………………….....

Homework 1: Complete your ‘Cold blog’ for all the 3 entries you can include photographs or pictures in the blank boxes.

Ideas of things to write:

What is it like here?

How is it different from home?

What is your daily routine?

What do you like?

What do you dislike?

What might be interesting to tell people who have

never have been here?

March 17 2008

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March 15 2008

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Homework 2: Design a poster to attract tourists to Death Valley to see the moving rocks.

Homework 3: Write a piece of creative writing about climbing the Totem Pole..

Some ideas…What was it like?How did it feel?Did you have any problems?Did you get to the top?

Need help? Go to: http://www.larryo.net/RaceTrack.html

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1. Finding out about your 3 fantastic places using books, leaflets, the internet and interviews.

2. Completing work for your poster.3. Keeping your information sources and plan up to date. These are on the

next page.

Preparation Work1) Choose three ‘fantastic places.’2) Produce four pieces of your own writing on the below things in draft.

i) For each place you need to say:(a)Where it is.(b)What it is.(c) How it was formed.(d)How it has/is changed/changing.(e)Why it is important.

ii) Produce writings or cartoons to show young people how to behave when visiting your places. These need to clearly show how young people can help improve places and how they can accidentally damage places.

3) Produce images of your three ‘Fantastic Places. These might be hand drawn, photocopies or printouts.

4) Ask someone to check your writing for spellings and punctuation.5) Plan your poster carefully – it will then look much better. Think about whether or

not your writing will be word processed or hand written.6) Produce neat written work.7) Ask someone to check your neat writing for spelling and punctuation.8) Produce your poster.

Need help? Go to: http://www.paulpritchard.com.au/totem2.htm

Homework 4, 5 and 6: For the next 3 pieces of homework you should be working on your ‘Fantastic Places’ assessment. You should be doing the following…

Information Sources

Books

Author Title Date Produced

Leaflets

Title Organisation that Produced it Date Produced

Interviews

Title Organisation that Produced it Date Produced

Web Pages

Title Web Address Date Used

Plan for Poster on Fantastic Places

Date What I need to Do What I Actually DidLesson 1

Homework

Lesson 2

Homework

Lesson 3

Homework

Lesson 4