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Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Reading Monday 98 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

What are Climate zones Read the text provided and

answer the attached questions

httpsscijinksgovclimate-zones

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

All about climate Read the text provided and

answer the attached questions

Only read the sections ndash Climate System Climate Features Micro

Climate Influence of Climate and Climate Change

httpswwwnationalgeographicorgarticleall-about-climate6th-grade

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Learning about climate from wildlife

Watch the video provided and answer the attached questions httpswwwfunkidslivecomlearnmarina-venturaclimate-explorerslearning-climate-wildlife

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Asia Read the text provided and

answer the attached

Only read the sections ndash introduction land amp climate plants amp animals and people

httpskidsbritannicacomkidsarticleAsia346086

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Bush Tucker Watch the video provided and answer the following attached

httpswwwabcnetaubtnclassroombush-tucker-garden11724674

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Writing Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Your task this week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research Use the writing sheet in your pack to complete this task

Follow this QR code to find

information about Australia

Informative Poster Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research Turkey

Use the writing sheet in your

pack to complete this task Follow this QR code to find information about an Asian

country Indonesia China

Informative Poster Using the information you have collected on Monday and Tuesday you will now be creating an informative poster which compares the geographical differences between Australia and your chosen Asian country You can choose to present your work on papercard or create a poster online (Word PowerPoint Video) Examples

Persuasive Writing (Plan and Compose)

Using the poster from the previous day you are going to write a persuasive text about your chosen country and why you believe it is the best place for someone to live To be successful

bull Identify the place features climate and culture

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text

bull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types (Simple and complex)

bull Use persuasive techniques (High modality words such as strongly agree highly recommended strongly believe) rhetorical questions

bull Ensure that you are using the information that you have previously collected on your chosen country

Persuasive Writing (EditingPublishing)

Continue composing an article on your natural disaster of your choice To be successful

bull Edit your writing by ensuring you have used a range of complex sentences to persuade the reader

bull Ensure you have used a variety of persuasive language devices (Modality words rhetorical questions)

bull Make sure that you are writing in proper paragraphs

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Numeracy Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Where you from The

Monday maths starts with a workout Today you will be strengthening your ability to calculate area Use todayrsquos numeracy resources to complete the lsquoLarge Arearsquo task sheet Before you begin watch lsquoPerimeter Around the Area You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=qU8aWpRd6Qw

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

This week you are learning about climate change You are also investigating life Asian countries Use todayrsquos resources to help you complete the lsquoMeteorology Mathsrsquo task sheet Part of todayrsquos task asks you to create a scattergram Watch this video as a refresher You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=NcgRa0uotXs

Angles

Today you will be focusing on and learning the characteristics of different angles and using this information to identify and draw the angles Watch the video using the QR code or link below before completing your tasks for today

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Angles on a straight line

The tasks for today will be focusing on angles on a straight angle measuring angles and finding the sum of angles Angles on a straight line add up

to 180deg Use this link or follow the QR code to play a quick warm up game on angles on a straight line httpswwwstudyladdercomau

gamesactivityangles-on-a-straight-line-

36555backUrl=gamesmathematicsau-year-sixmathematics-

angles-677

Multiplication Matters

As we learn to multiply larger numbers it is very useful to learn new tools for getting the job done Today we will learn the area method for multiplying Watch lsquoMath with Mr Jrsquo to see how this very easy method works You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=6oZsR5-hbhA When you feel you understand attempt the Multiplication task sheet found in your resources

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Fitness Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Egg and Spoon Task

Draw 3-4 2D shapes using different sizes on the floor near

each other Students are to place a small sock rolled into a ball on a spoon and are to walk and balance on the line of their drawn shapes See if you make

it the whole way around the shape

Challenge

Draw other shapes and trial this

T-Zone Task

Students are to place shoes to form a T-shape zone (like the

picture above) Students begin at the bottom of the lsquoTrsquo and run upwards towards the center of the lsquoTrsquo They are then to run left

and then back right as fast as they can whilst recording

themselves They are then to record their time for each run in

the table below No Of runs

Time recorded (mins)

1 2 3 4 5

Challenge Make the T-shape zone bigger after the first five runs and record your time in another table You may want to record yourself Donrsquot forget to post your results on Dojo

Basketball Practice Task

Students are to place a washing basket (or any type of large

basket) against a wall Students are to stand a far distance (at

least 3 metres) from the basket Students are to aim the ball at

the basket using underarm throw and see if they can get it in Record the amount of times

the ball goes in the basket

Challenge Students are to make the ball bounce once before landing in

the basket

Overcome Obstacles

Task Select 5-10 objects (such as mini table chair plate pillows toy book etc) within your house

and place them outdoors Create an obstacle course with

the objects Use the fundamental movements such as jump go under go around

hop skip dodge run gallop etc to overcome the obstacles that you have created Record your time of completing the course

Challenge Rearrangeuse

different objects and record the time required to complete the

challenge Which obstacle course was faster Why Record or write down your answers and

send through Dojo

Chalk your Walk

Task Students go for a walk with

a family member around their area The family member is

to map their walk using a chalk Students are

encouraged to use their chalk track to run back home under a timer and record themselves

Challenge

Use a bike or scooter to complete the same track and

time yourself

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

Home

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TOPICS

Storms

Tides and Oceans

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Newsletter

Educators GOES-RSearch SciJinks

Reading - Monday 9821

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

Home

Videos

Games

TOPICS

Storms

Tides and Oceans

Atmosphere

Water and Ice

Satellites and Technology

Weather Forecasting

Space Weather

Last Updated July 13th 2021

About Us

Contact

Newsletter

Educators GOES-RSearch SciJinks

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

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2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

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Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 2: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Reading Monday 98 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

What are Climate zones Read the text provided and

answer the attached questions

httpsscijinksgovclimate-zones

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

All about climate Read the text provided and

answer the attached questions

Only read the sections ndash Climate System Climate Features Micro

Climate Influence of Climate and Climate Change

httpswwwnationalgeographicorgarticleall-about-climate6th-grade

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Learning about climate from wildlife

Watch the video provided and answer the attached questions httpswwwfunkidslivecomlearnmarina-venturaclimate-explorerslearning-climate-wildlife

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Asia Read the text provided and

answer the attached

Only read the sections ndash introduction land amp climate plants amp animals and people

httpskidsbritannicacomkidsarticleAsia346086

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Bush Tucker Watch the video provided and answer the following attached

httpswwwabcnetaubtnclassroombush-tucker-garden11724674

Remember to post on to ClassDojo Portfolio

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Writing Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Your task this week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research Use the writing sheet in your pack to complete this task

Follow this QR code to find

information about Australia

Informative Poster Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research Turkey

Use the writing sheet in your

pack to complete this task Follow this QR code to find information about an Asian

country Indonesia China

Informative Poster Using the information you have collected on Monday and Tuesday you will now be creating an informative poster which compares the geographical differences between Australia and your chosen Asian country You can choose to present your work on papercard or create a poster online (Word PowerPoint Video) Examples

Persuasive Writing (Plan and Compose)

Using the poster from the previous day you are going to write a persuasive text about your chosen country and why you believe it is the best place for someone to live To be successful

bull Identify the place features climate and culture

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text

bull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types (Simple and complex)

bull Use persuasive techniques (High modality words such as strongly agree highly recommended strongly believe) rhetorical questions

bull Ensure that you are using the information that you have previously collected on your chosen country

Persuasive Writing (EditingPublishing)

Continue composing an article on your natural disaster of your choice To be successful

bull Edit your writing by ensuring you have used a range of complex sentences to persuade the reader

bull Ensure you have used a variety of persuasive language devices (Modality words rhetorical questions)

bull Make sure that you are writing in proper paragraphs

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Numeracy Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Where you from The

Monday maths starts with a workout Today you will be strengthening your ability to calculate area Use todayrsquos numeracy resources to complete the lsquoLarge Arearsquo task sheet Before you begin watch lsquoPerimeter Around the Area You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=qU8aWpRd6Qw

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

This week you are learning about climate change You are also investigating life Asian countries Use todayrsquos resources to help you complete the lsquoMeteorology Mathsrsquo task sheet Part of todayrsquos task asks you to create a scattergram Watch this video as a refresher You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=NcgRa0uotXs

Angles

Today you will be focusing on and learning the characteristics of different angles and using this information to identify and draw the angles Watch the video using the QR code or link below before completing your tasks for today

httpswwwbingcomvideossearchq=angles+video+for+kidsampdocid=608051151722991083ampmid=9F34FBD6DC9682A2750E9F34FBD6DC9682A2750Eampview=detailampFORM=VIRE

Angles on a straight line

The tasks for today will be focusing on angles on a straight angle measuring angles and finding the sum of angles Angles on a straight line add up

to 180deg Use this link or follow the QR code to play a quick warm up game on angles on a straight line httpswwwstudyladdercomau

gamesactivityangles-on-a-straight-line-

36555backUrl=gamesmathematicsau-year-sixmathematics-

angles-677

Multiplication Matters

As we learn to multiply larger numbers it is very useful to learn new tools for getting the job done Today we will learn the area method for multiplying Watch lsquoMath with Mr Jrsquo to see how this very easy method works You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=6oZsR5-hbhA When you feel you understand attempt the Multiplication task sheet found in your resources

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Fitness Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Egg and Spoon Task

Draw 3-4 2D shapes using different sizes on the floor near

each other Students are to place a small sock rolled into a ball on a spoon and are to walk and balance on the line of their drawn shapes See if you make

it the whole way around the shape

Challenge

Draw other shapes and trial this

T-Zone Task

Students are to place shoes to form a T-shape zone (like the

picture above) Students begin at the bottom of the lsquoTrsquo and run upwards towards the center of the lsquoTrsquo They are then to run left

and then back right as fast as they can whilst recording

themselves They are then to record their time for each run in

the table below No Of runs

Time recorded (mins)

1 2 3 4 5

Challenge Make the T-shape zone bigger after the first five runs and record your time in another table You may want to record yourself Donrsquot forget to post your results on Dojo

Basketball Practice Task

Students are to place a washing basket (or any type of large

basket) against a wall Students are to stand a far distance (at

least 3 metres) from the basket Students are to aim the ball at

the basket using underarm throw and see if they can get it in Record the amount of times

the ball goes in the basket

Challenge Students are to make the ball bounce once before landing in

the basket

Overcome Obstacles

Task Select 5-10 objects (such as mini table chair plate pillows toy book etc) within your house

and place them outdoors Create an obstacle course with

the objects Use the fundamental movements such as jump go under go around

hop skip dodge run gallop etc to overcome the obstacles that you have created Record your time of completing the course

Challenge Rearrangeuse

different objects and record the time required to complete the

challenge Which obstacle course was faster Why Record or write down your answers and

send through Dojo

Chalk your Walk

Task Students go for a walk with

a family member around their area The family member is

to map their walk using a chalk Students are

encouraged to use their chalk track to run back home under a timer and record themselves

Challenge

Use a bike or scooter to complete the same track and

time yourself

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

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What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

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2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 3: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Writing Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Your task this week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research Use the writing sheet in your pack to complete this task

Follow this QR code to find

information about Australia

Informative Poster Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research Turkey

Use the writing sheet in your

pack to complete this task Follow this QR code to find information about an Asian

country Indonesia China

Informative Poster Using the information you have collected on Monday and Tuesday you will now be creating an informative poster which compares the geographical differences between Australia and your chosen Asian country You can choose to present your work on papercard or create a poster online (Word PowerPoint Video) Examples

Persuasive Writing (Plan and Compose)

Using the poster from the previous day you are going to write a persuasive text about your chosen country and why you believe it is the best place for someone to live To be successful

bull Identify the place features climate and culture

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text

bull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types (Simple and complex)

bull Use persuasive techniques (High modality words such as strongly agree highly recommended strongly believe) rhetorical questions

bull Ensure that you are using the information that you have previously collected on your chosen country

Persuasive Writing (EditingPublishing)

Continue composing an article on your natural disaster of your choice To be successful

bull Edit your writing by ensuring you have used a range of complex sentences to persuade the reader

bull Ensure you have used a variety of persuasive language devices (Modality words rhetorical questions)

bull Make sure that you are writing in proper paragraphs

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Numeracy Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Where you from The

Monday maths starts with a workout Today you will be strengthening your ability to calculate area Use todayrsquos numeracy resources to complete the lsquoLarge Arearsquo task sheet Before you begin watch lsquoPerimeter Around the Area You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=qU8aWpRd6Qw

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

This week you are learning about climate change You are also investigating life Asian countries Use todayrsquos resources to help you complete the lsquoMeteorology Mathsrsquo task sheet Part of todayrsquos task asks you to create a scattergram Watch this video as a refresher You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=NcgRa0uotXs

Angles

Today you will be focusing on and learning the characteristics of different angles and using this information to identify and draw the angles Watch the video using the QR code or link below before completing your tasks for today

httpswwwbingcomvideossearchq=angles+video+for+kidsampdocid=608051151722991083ampmid=9F34FBD6DC9682A2750E9F34FBD6DC9682A2750Eampview=detailampFORM=VIRE

Angles on a straight line

The tasks for today will be focusing on angles on a straight angle measuring angles and finding the sum of angles Angles on a straight line add up

to 180deg Use this link or follow the QR code to play a quick warm up game on angles on a straight line httpswwwstudyladdercomau

gamesactivityangles-on-a-straight-line-

36555backUrl=gamesmathematicsau-year-sixmathematics-

angles-677

Multiplication Matters

As we learn to multiply larger numbers it is very useful to learn new tools for getting the job done Today we will learn the area method for multiplying Watch lsquoMath with Mr Jrsquo to see how this very easy method works You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=6oZsR5-hbhA When you feel you understand attempt the Multiplication task sheet found in your resources

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Fitness Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Egg and Spoon Task

Draw 3-4 2D shapes using different sizes on the floor near

each other Students are to place a small sock rolled into a ball on a spoon and are to walk and balance on the line of their drawn shapes See if you make

it the whole way around the shape

Challenge

Draw other shapes and trial this

T-Zone Task

Students are to place shoes to form a T-shape zone (like the

picture above) Students begin at the bottom of the lsquoTrsquo and run upwards towards the center of the lsquoTrsquo They are then to run left

and then back right as fast as they can whilst recording

themselves They are then to record their time for each run in

the table below No Of runs

Time recorded (mins)

1 2 3 4 5

Challenge Make the T-shape zone bigger after the first five runs and record your time in another table You may want to record yourself Donrsquot forget to post your results on Dojo

Basketball Practice Task

Students are to place a washing basket (or any type of large

basket) against a wall Students are to stand a far distance (at

least 3 metres) from the basket Students are to aim the ball at

the basket using underarm throw and see if they can get it in Record the amount of times

the ball goes in the basket

Challenge Students are to make the ball bounce once before landing in

the basket

Overcome Obstacles

Task Select 5-10 objects (such as mini table chair plate pillows toy book etc) within your house

and place them outdoors Create an obstacle course with

the objects Use the fundamental movements such as jump go under go around

hop skip dodge run gallop etc to overcome the obstacles that you have created Record your time of completing the course

Challenge Rearrangeuse

different objects and record the time required to complete the

challenge Which obstacle course was faster Why Record or write down your answers and

send through Dojo

Chalk your Walk

Task Students go for a walk with

a family member around their area The family member is

to map their walk using a chalk Students are

encouraged to use their chalk track to run back home under a timer and record themselves

Challenge

Use a bike or scooter to complete the same track and

time yourself

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

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Reading - Monday 9821

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

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WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Numeracy Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Where you from The

Monday maths starts with a workout Today you will be strengthening your ability to calculate area Use todayrsquos numeracy resources to complete the lsquoLarge Arearsquo task sheet Before you begin watch lsquoPerimeter Around the Area You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=qU8aWpRd6Qw

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

This week you are learning about climate change You are also investigating life Asian countries Use todayrsquos resources to help you complete the lsquoMeteorology Mathsrsquo task sheet Part of todayrsquos task asks you to create a scattergram Watch this video as a refresher You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=NcgRa0uotXs

Angles

Today you will be focusing on and learning the characteristics of different angles and using this information to identify and draw the angles Watch the video using the QR code or link below before completing your tasks for today

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Angles on a straight line

The tasks for today will be focusing on angles on a straight angle measuring angles and finding the sum of angles Angles on a straight line add up

to 180deg Use this link or follow the QR code to play a quick warm up game on angles on a straight line httpswwwstudyladdercomau

gamesactivityangles-on-a-straight-line-

36555backUrl=gamesmathematicsau-year-sixmathematics-

angles-677

Multiplication Matters

As we learn to multiply larger numbers it is very useful to learn new tools for getting the job done Today we will learn the area method for multiplying Watch lsquoMath with Mr Jrsquo to see how this very easy method works You can use the QR code or follow this link httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=6oZsR5-hbhA When you feel you understand attempt the Multiplication task sheet found in your resources

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Fitness Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Egg and Spoon Task

Draw 3-4 2D shapes using different sizes on the floor near

each other Students are to place a small sock rolled into a ball on a spoon and are to walk and balance on the line of their drawn shapes See if you make

it the whole way around the shape

Challenge

Draw other shapes and trial this

T-Zone Task

Students are to place shoes to form a T-shape zone (like the

picture above) Students begin at the bottom of the lsquoTrsquo and run upwards towards the center of the lsquoTrsquo They are then to run left

and then back right as fast as they can whilst recording

themselves They are then to record their time for each run in

the table below No Of runs

Time recorded (mins)

1 2 3 4 5

Challenge Make the T-shape zone bigger after the first five runs and record your time in another table You may want to record yourself Donrsquot forget to post your results on Dojo

Basketball Practice Task

Students are to place a washing basket (or any type of large

basket) against a wall Students are to stand a far distance (at

least 3 metres) from the basket Students are to aim the ball at

the basket using underarm throw and see if they can get it in Record the amount of times

the ball goes in the basket

Challenge Students are to make the ball bounce once before landing in

the basket

Overcome Obstacles

Task Select 5-10 objects (such as mini table chair plate pillows toy book etc) within your house

and place them outdoors Create an obstacle course with

the objects Use the fundamental movements such as jump go under go around

hop skip dodge run gallop etc to overcome the obstacles that you have created Record your time of completing the course

Challenge Rearrangeuse

different objects and record the time required to complete the

challenge Which obstacle course was faster Why Record or write down your answers and

send through Dojo

Chalk your Walk

Task Students go for a walk with

a family member around their area The family member is

to map their walk using a chalk Students are

encouraged to use their chalk track to run back home under a timer and record themselves

Challenge

Use a bike or scooter to complete the same track and

time yourself

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

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Reading - Monday 9821

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

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2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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______________________________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 5: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Fitness Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Egg and Spoon Task

Draw 3-4 2D shapes using different sizes on the floor near

each other Students are to place a small sock rolled into a ball on a spoon and are to walk and balance on the line of their drawn shapes See if you make

it the whole way around the shape

Challenge

Draw other shapes and trial this

T-Zone Task

Students are to place shoes to form a T-shape zone (like the

picture above) Students begin at the bottom of the lsquoTrsquo and run upwards towards the center of the lsquoTrsquo They are then to run left

and then back right as fast as they can whilst recording

themselves They are then to record their time for each run in

the table below No Of runs

Time recorded (mins)

1 2 3 4 5

Challenge Make the T-shape zone bigger after the first five runs and record your time in another table You may want to record yourself Donrsquot forget to post your results on Dojo

Basketball Practice Task

Students are to place a washing basket (or any type of large

basket) against a wall Students are to stand a far distance (at

least 3 metres) from the basket Students are to aim the ball at

the basket using underarm throw and see if they can get it in Record the amount of times

the ball goes in the basket

Challenge Students are to make the ball bounce once before landing in

the basket

Overcome Obstacles

Task Select 5-10 objects (such as mini table chair plate pillows toy book etc) within your house

and place them outdoors Create an obstacle course with

the objects Use the fundamental movements such as jump go under go around

hop skip dodge run gallop etc to overcome the obstacles that you have created Record your time of completing the course

Challenge Rearrangeuse

different objects and record the time required to complete the

challenge Which obstacle course was faster Why Record or write down your answers and

send through Dojo

Chalk your Walk

Task Students go for a walk with

a family member around their area The family member is

to map their walk using a chalk Students are

encouraged to use their chalk track to run back home under a timer and record themselves

Challenge

Use a bike or scooter to complete the same track and

time yourself

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

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Reading - Monday 9821

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

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2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

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Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 6: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Body amp Mind Monday 0908 Tuesday 1008 Wednesday 1108 Thursday 1208 Friday 1308

Worry Doll Craft

As another week in lockdown begins you may be fine or you may not be coping very well Worry in times like these is completely normal Itrsquos your brain trying to make sense of things Finding ways to cope with worry is very important Worry dolls are small hand-made dolls that originate from Guatemala According to legend children tell their worries to the Worry Dolls placing them under their pillow when they go to bed at night As they sleep the doll takes the worries away bringing the child peace of mind Make your own worry doll using the template in your resources Use your doll to get things off your chest if you need to

Upload a picture of your doll to Dojo

Mindful Observance

Mindful Observance is the practice of focusing your attention on the present moment focusing only on the things around you Mindful Observance helps create stillness and inner peace Do the Mindful Observance task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 Finding ways not to get lost in your head and caught up in worry it is important to find ways to switch off Using your senses and your surroundings is a wonderful natural way to do this Do the Mindfulness 5-4-3-2-1 task found in your resources Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Positivity Fortune Teller

Many of you have made an origami fortune teller for fun They are a familiar sight in our classrooms Using this craft to send positive messages to yourself instead of your fortune is a fun way to self-care Use the fortune teller template in your resources to make your own positivity fortune teller Share your creation on Dojo

Breathing

Learning to control your breathing in times of stress and worry is a wonderful way to build resilience within yourself This skill can be transferred to all parts of your life once yoursquove got the hang of it Practise the breathing techniques found in your resources You can share your experience by sharing your thoughts on Dojo

Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

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Reading - Monday 9821

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

Home

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Tides and Oceans

Atmosphere

Water and Ice

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Space Weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

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0

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Climate is the average weather conditions in a place over a long period of timemdash30 years or moreAnd as you probably already know there are lots of different types of climates on Earth

For example hot regions are normally closest to the equator The climate is hotter there because theSunrsquos light is most directly overhead at the equator And the North and South Poles are cold becausethe Sunrsquos light and heat are least direct there

The snow-covered peaks of the Chigmit Range during winter Credit NPSM Cahill 2015

Using this information in the late 1800s and early 1900s a German climate scientist named WladimirKoppen divided the worlds climates into categories His categories were based on the temperaturethe amount of precipitation and the times of year when precipitation occurs The categories werealso influenced by a regionrsquos latitudemdashthe imaginary lines used to measure our Earth from north tosouth from the equator

Today climate scientists split the Earth into approximately five main types of climates They are

A Tropical In this hot and humid zone the average temperatures are greater than 64degF (18degC)year-round and there is more than 59 inches of precipitation each year

B Dry These climate zones are so dry because moisture is rapidly evaporated from the air andthere is very little precipitation

C Temperate In this zone there are typically warm and humid summers with thunderstorms andmild winters

D Continental These regions have warm to cool summers and very cold winters In the winter thiszone can experience snowstorms strong winds and very cold temperaturesmdashsometimes fallingbelow -22degF (-30degC)

E Polar In the polar climate zones itrsquos extremely cold Even in summer the temperatures herenever go higher than 50degF (10degC)

This is roughly where those climate zones appear on a globe

Weather Forecasting

What Are the Different Climate Types

There are approximately five main climate types on Earth

TropicalDryTemperateContinentalPolar

The Short Answer

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What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

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2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

BIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARY COMPARE COUNTRIES

WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 8: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

What does a map of climate zones really look like

Distance to the equator is only one part of an arearsquos climate Things like the movement of the oceansand Earthrsquos tilt and rotation also affect how weather patterns move around the globe

If you classify the United States into climate zones using all of this information it actually lookssomething like this

This is an illustration of the climate zones within the United States The extra climate zone labeled H onthis map is a special zone called the highlands The highlands climate zone is characterized by weatherthat differs from the surrounding area because of mountains Credit NOAA (modified)

How can information about climate zones be used

Climate zones can be useful for gardening and farming Plants grow best in the climate conditionsthat are found in their native ecosystem For example if you want to plant an apple orchard in yourbackyard you should first check to see which varieties of apples are a good match for your regionrsquosclimate

This is called a Plant Hardiness Zone map Itrsquos a specific type of climate zone map that can help you figureout what kinds of plants will survive in your back yard Image credit USDAAgricultural ResearchServiceOregon State University

How do weather satellites play a role

Weather satellites mostly help with tracking conditions that are happening right now and forecastingweather in the near future However they also collect information that helps us monitor a regionrsquosclimate over time

For example satellites in the GOES-R seriesmdashshort for Geostationary Operational EnvironmentalSatellite-Rmdashcan monitor the sea surface temperature and the Gulf Stream a powerful current in theAtlantic Ocean Both of these things can influence a regionrsquos climate

In addition the temperature of the land becomes cooler at night and there are changes in theamount of clouds The GOES-R series satellites monitor cloudiness and land surface temperaturemdashinformation that helps scientists to understand how the differences between day and night can affecta regionrsquos climate

Satellites in the Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) can also provide information on differencesbetween day and night For example JPSS orbits Earth twice a day in whatrsquos called an afternoonorbit As the satellite orbits from North Pole to South Pole it captures observations in the afternoonon one side of Earth and observations of the early morning on the other side of the planet

While JPSS orbits the satellites provide global observations of many other variables that influenceclimate such as atmospheric temperature and water vapor snow and ice cover vegetation sea andland surface temperature precipitation and more These add important information to our records ofregional differences in Earthrsquos climate

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday ndash Numeracy 1108

Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 9: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Reading 0908

What Are the Different Climate Types

1 What is climate and what are the different climate types mention in the text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What climate would you prefer to live in and why

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Why is it important to be aware of the different climate zone

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How can technology affect our understanding of the weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

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Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

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Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Did YouKnow

BIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARY COMPARE COUNTRIES

WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 10: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday ndash Writing 0908

Informative Poster -Research Australia

Task This week will involve researching Australia and your chosen Asian country You will create an informative poster comparing the two countries Today you will focus on researching Australia You can use the resource provided to support your research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life vegetation and

general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of sentence types

(Simple and complex)bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For example

Continent region Indigenous and settlement

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Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

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0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday ndash Writing 1308

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 11: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Monday Numeracy 0908

Area Workout

The Warmup

To loosen up wersquoll start with something we know

Calculate the area of these three shapes On the line below them explain how you worked them

out

In class we have had a lot of practise calculating the area of regular 2D shapes

Area is not limited to squares rectangles and triangles We can work out the of irregular shapes

too

In Mathematics irregular shapes are known as compound shapes The shapes below are

compound shapes Use the squares to work out their area

Numeracy- Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 12: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Monday Literacy

The word

lsquocompoundrsquo means made up of more than one thing

When we need to work out the area of a compound shape that has no squares we look for the

regular shapes that have been used to create it

That sounds scary but have a look at the next shape and work out the area Yoursquoll see itrsquos actually

very simple An example of how to split the shape up has been provided to help you

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 13: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Monday Numeracy 0908This is a map of Ireland On the map key (white box) yoursquoll see a number scale

The small scale represents distance and surface area on the island

One CM on the map represents 50KM in real life

You have been learning about Asian countries this week

The shapes on the squared paper below represent two different countries

Using the scale provided and the squares inside the shapes to answer the

following questions

1 What is the surface area of each country of each country according to

the images

Thailand

Turkey

2 Which country has the largest surface area and by how much

has the largest surface area by KM2

Donrsquot forget to upload all your work on Dojo

I am a successful learner because

-I know that compound shapes are

made up of multiple regular

shapes

-I can work out compound area

using regular shapes to guide me

-I know that in real life the surface

area of a country is represented on

a smaller scale

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 14: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Monday Numeracy 0908 Scale1cm = 50000km

Turkey

Thailand

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

__________________________________________________________________________________

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

BIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARY COMPARE COUNTRIES

WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

ARTICLES IMAGES amp VIDEOS ANIMAL KINGDOM ACTIVITIES

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 15: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Monday Mindfulness Activity Monday Mindfulness 0908

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder wwwstudyladdercom

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

Wednesday ndash Mindfulness 1108

Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday ndash Writing 1308

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 16: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Tuesday Read 1008

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

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Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

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Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 17: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 How do you think climate change will impact society

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

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Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

1 What is the difference between climate and weather

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2 What are the five different components of a climate systems Identify and provide evidence from the

text

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3 In our own words summaries what climate features is about

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4 How do you think climate change will impact society

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Tuesday Read 1008 All about Climate

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

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Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Informative Poster - Research an Asian Country of your choice

Task Today you will focus on researching an Asian country of your choice Below you can find links and resources for 3 different countries you need to choose ONE country to research

To be successful you must have bull Information about the location climate plant life

vegetation and general facts about Australiabull Ensure your sentences makes sense Use a range of

sentence types(Simple and complex)

bull Using the correct metalanguage from the text For exampleContinent region Indigenous and settlement

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Tuesday Writing 1008

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

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Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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IntroductionIntroduction

Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

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7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

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Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 20: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Water Water Everywhere but Not a Drop to Drink

Therersquos nothing more important to life on Earth than water

Did you know our planet is experiencing water scarcity Water scarcity is a shortage of fresh

water

Hundreds of millions of people around the world struggle to get the clean water they need for

drinking cooking bathing handwashing and growing their food

Watch this short video to find out more You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=vSz9lRbl_0I

So if the earth is 70 water and 30 land how can there be a water shortage

67 of the earth is occupied by salt water Salt water is contained in our

oceans and seas Unfortunately it cannot be used for daily tasks like

bathing and cooking and we certainly canrsquot drink it

Fresh (non-salt) water occupies 3 of our planet Of this 3 2 is the

form of glaciers (land formed from ice and rock) That leaves just 1 in

the form of fresh water in our lakes and rivers

Watch this short video to find out how the water we drink in Sydney

makes it to our taps You can use the QR code or follow this link

httpswwwyoutubecomwatchv=7dYGhjNBl9I

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

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WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

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People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Page 21: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Tuesday Numeracy 1008 Donrsquot forget to upload your work on Dojo

Meteorology Maths

In your resources you will find 2 tables of data lsquoMurray River

Basinrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of South Australia

and the median water levels of the river per year

Similarly lsquoJohore River Bainrsquo shows weather patterns in this region of Malaysia and the

median percentage of the river filled per year

Use the data to answer the following questions

1 Look at the median temperature for both locations each year What does this data showHints Which location is hotter Do temperatures increase or decrease at each location

2 Look at the water levels in both tables What does the data showHints Do the water levels always fall at both locations Does one river appear more affected than the other Which river has

the biggest drop in water level and in what year

3 Do you think these locations were experiencing lsquoEl Ninorsquo Use the data to support your

answerHints What years are the hottest temperatures recorded Are the hottest temperatures at each location recorded in the same

years as each other What happens to the water levels of each river during the hottest years

4 Is there a relationship between the increase in global temperature and the weather

patterns at each locationHints Global Warming Climate Change Warmer water temperatures create lsquoEl Ninorsquo

5 Choose one pattern or relationship you see in the data and show it on a scattergram using

the grid on the next page You could show- the pattern between higher temperatures at the Murray River Basin and decreasing water levels

- annual temperature patterns at each location

- the pattern between increasing global temperatures and decreasing water levels in the Murray River Basin

ExtensionAnalysing data allows us to find patterns and relationships that help us make informed predictions This isimportant

for issues like climate change Predicting what the future might look like based on what is happening in the world now allows us

to take action and plan a healthier future for our planet

You may not realise it but making connections in patterns is a form of algebra

GTI=Y x 001 Use this equation predict how much the global temperature will have increased in 10 years 40 and 100 years

I am a successful learner because

-I can describe and represent

number patterns in a variety of

ways

-I can use rich information from a

text to support my maths skills

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

BIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARY COMPARE COUNTRIES

WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

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Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

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Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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My Scattergram

Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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7-DAY FREE TRIALKIDS LOGIN

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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the 21st century

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Tuesday Numeracy 1008

Tuesday Mindfulness 1008

Wednesday Reading 11082

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

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Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Wednesday ndash Reading 1108

Learning about climate from wildlife

1 What key information can you draw from the video Provide a minimum of 5 keys

ideas______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 How does climate affect the local wildlife Provide an example______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 What information can be gathered from food webs______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Identify an animal and how it has adapted with climate change You can use this to

support your answer or research using a reliable source

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 27: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Angles Work Sheet

An angle is a measure of a turn measured in degrees or deg There are 360deg in a full turn You can find out the size of an angle using a protractor

bull An angle less than 90deg is acutebull An angle between 90deg and 180deg is obtusebull An angle greater than 180deg is reflexbull An angle of exactly 90deg is a right-angle

Task 1

Demonstrate the different angles above using your arms

Your body will be the vertex or the point of the angle and your arms will

represent the angles rays Demonstrate each angle with your arms and ask

a family member to take a photo and upload each photo to your ClassDojo

portfolio naming each angle

Task 2

Use the Angles Poster work sheet provided and create your own angles poster Look around your

home and get creative make sure your posters are colourful and bright You may even like to use

toothpicks to create your angles and glue them onto your poster Make sure to also use the correct

representation of the angle Use a marker to label all the angles

Task 3

Complete the Classifying Angles work sheet

Donrsquot forget to take a photo of your poster and

completed tasks and upload on your ClassDojo

portfolio

Wednesday ndash Numeracy1108

2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

Related Articles

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Land and ClimateLand and Climate

Did YouKnow

BIOGRAPHIES DICTIONARY COMPARE COUNTRIES

WORLD ATLAS PODCAST

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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2D Space c1assifYing ang1es Name _______ _

reFtex obtuse acute StraigJt rigJt revotution

Name tJese types oF ang1es

L

0

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

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ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Wednesday Mindfulness Activity

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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the 21st century

Email address SUBMIT

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

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Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Angles

Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Asia View article for Students ScholarsKids

AsiaEncyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

Asia is the largest and most populated continent It

has nearly one-third of the worldrsquos total land area

and is home to more than half of Earthrsquos people It

also has impressive geographical features It has

Earthrsquos highest point (Mount Everest) and lowest

point (the Dead Sea) Asia also includes some of the

worldrsquos wettest driest hottest and coldest places

The continent was the home of the great early

civilizations of Mesopotamia and the Indus River

valley The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism

Christianity Hinduism Islam and Judaismmdashall

began in Asia as well Today though many people

are farmers and live in small villages Asia also has

enormous cities including some of the worldrsquos

largest Beijing China Tokyo Japan Seoul South

Korea and Delhi India

With an area of more than 17 million square miles

(44 million square kilometers) Asia stretches from

the Arctic Ocean to the Equator It is bounded to

the east by the Pacic Ocean to the south by the

Indian Ocean to the southwest by the

Mediterranean and Black seas and to the west by

Europe In the southwest a narrow isthmus or

neck of land joins Asia to Africa The boundary

between Europe and Asia is generally considered to

lie along the Ural Mountains and the Caspian Sea

The Ural Mountains run through Russia so Russia

is partly in Asia and partly in Europe In the

southeast the islands of Sumatra and Borneo as

well as many smaller islands are parts of Asia

Because Asia is so vast and varied it is often

discussed in terms of regions The regions are

dened in dierent ways by dierent people

Sometimes they are based on geography

sometimes on political boundaries and sometimes

on shared cultural traits In general however the

continent can be grouped into six broad regions

Southwest South Southeast East North and

Central Asia Southwest Asia consists mainly of

countries on or near the Arabian Peninsula such

as Saudi Arabia Iran Iraq and Israel Most of

Turkey is also included in this group (Some of

Turkey is considered part of Europe) The countries

The name Asiamay have come

from theAssyrian wordasu meaning

ldquoeastrdquo

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

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of Southwest Asia are also part of a region known

as the Middle East Much of the land in Southwest

Asia is desert

The main geographic features of South Southeast

and East Asia are great mountains high plains and

islands India and Pakistan are major countries in

South Asia Indonesia Malaysia Thailand the

Philippines and Vietnam are in Southeast Asia and

China Japan and North and South Korea are in East

Asia

Northern Asia also called Siberia is part of Russia

Siberia has mostly frozen plains and swampy forest

Because of the extreme cold few people live there

Most of Central Asia consists of desert but in the

north are vast grasslands

Mountains

The Himalayas in southern Asia include Mount

Everest on the border between China and Nepal

Mount Everest is 29032 feet (8849 meters) high

Also in the Himalayas K2 is the worldrsquos second

highest peak at 28251 feet (8611 meters) Other

major ranges include the Hindu Kush which runs

southwest through Afghanistan the Tien Shan in

the northeast and the Altai in the north

Rivers and Seas

The longest river in Asia is the Yangtze in China At

3915 miles (6300 kilometers) long the Yangtze is

also the third longest river in the world after the

Nile and the Amazon rivers Another major river is

the Huang He or Yellow River also in China The Ob

River in the Asian part of Russia is a long river that

ows through Siberia and empties into the Arctic

Ocean In India the Ganges River is important

because it is surrounded by highly populated places

and is considered holy by the Hindu Indians In

southeastern Asia are the Mekong and Irrawaddy

rivers The Indus River in South Asia and the Tigris

and Euphrates in southwestern Asia were the sites

of some of the worldrsquos earliest civilizations Asia also

contains the worldrsquos largest inland sea the Caspian

Sea

Because of the wide variety of climates and physical

features there are many types of plants In

northern Siberia lichens mosses and some

wildowers grow To the south are evergreen

forests and grasslands China has the most varied

vegetation of any country in the world Palm trees

and bamboo grow in the southern parts of China

South Korea and Japan In South and Southeast

Asia rainforest is the main natural vegetation

though large areas of trees have been cut down to

make room for farming In the mountains of

Southwest Asia there are forests of beech trees

evergreens hollies and creepers

Asiarsquos animals are as varied as its plants Northern

Asia has polar bears walruses moose and

reindeer while wild camels roam the Gobi Asiarsquos

reptiles include crocodiles king cobras and

Plants and AnimalsPlants and Animals

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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the 21st century

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

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40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

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Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 33: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

komodo dragons Animals found only in Asia

include the orangutan giant panda Asian

elephant Siberian tiger Bengal tiger and Indian

rhinoceros However the population of many

animals in Asia has been reduced because of the

destruction of animal habitats and uncontrolled

hunting

Many dierent groups of people live in Asia Arabs

Jews Iranians and Turks are among the peoples of

Southwest Asia South Asia is home to Indian

peoples Southeast Asiarsquos many peoples and

cultures have been inuenced by India and China

The main peoples in East Asia are the Chinese

Japanese and Koreans Northern Asia includes

various Asian groups as well as Russians and other

Europeans

Throughout the 20th century as Asia became more

industrial people moved from villages into towns

and cities where they hoped to nd work and

better services for their families By the end of the

1990s at least 90 percent of the people in such

countries as Kuwait Israel and Singapore lived in

cities In China Vietnam and Nepal however less

than 40 percent lived in cities The lives of some

groups of people had hardly changed for centuries

Yet others saw their countries change greatly in a

short space of time because of the arrival of

Western culture and industrial methods One of the

problems faced by Asia at the beginning of the 21st

century was the fast rate at which its population

was increasing This population increase caused

problems such as food housing and land

shortages for the people

Hundreds of dierent languages can be heard

throughout the continent More than 250 languages

are spoken in Indonesia alone Some of the most

widely used languages in Asia include Arabic which

is spoken in parts of Southwest Asia Hindi spoken

in India and Chinese (Mandarin) spoken in China

Russian English and French are also spoken

The worldrsquos major religionsmdashBuddhism Hinduism

Islam Judaism and Christianitymdashall started in

Asia Today many people in Southeast and East

Asia follow Buddhism Hinduism is the main religion

in India and Nepal while Islam is practiced in much

of Southwest Asia and in Indonesia Malaysia

Pakistan and Bangladesh Judaism is the main

religion in Israel Christianity is practiced

throughout the continent but only in the

Philippines Russia and Armenia is it the main

religion

Israel Japan Singapore and South Korea have

excellent education and health care systems But

most of the rest of Asia is still developing The living

standards of many people are behind those in the

Western world In general problems with nutrition

are common Health and education services are

limited and are generally more available in cities

than in rural areas

PeoplePeople

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

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united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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the 21st century

Email address SUBMIT

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 34: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Asia has one of the worldrsquos richest countries as well

as some of the poorest The economy of Japan is by

far the most advanced in Asia As other countries

have worked to develop industries and other

sources of income they have prospered as well

Nepal and some of the nations of Central Asia are

still among the poorest in the world As a whole

however Asia experienced steady economic growth

through the last decades of the 20th century

Agriculture is an important part of the economy in

many Asian countries In much of Asia the main

food crop is rice Wheat is important in parts of

northern Central Southwest and South Asia

Crops grown for sale include tea sugarcane

coconuts and rubber Sheep and goats are raised

for meat and wool in most of Asia China Japan

Indonesia India and Russia catch large amounts of

sh

Asia has large reserves of almost every important

mineral The continent has more than half the

worldrsquos reserves of coal mostly in China Siberia

and India Major deposits of oil are found in Saudi

Arabia Iran Iraq the United Arab Emirates and

Qatar Asia also produces large amounts of iron

ore cast iron tin tungsten and rened zinc

Asiarsquos industrialized areas including Japan South

Korea the island of Taiwan and Singapore make a

wide variety of products China and parts of South

and Southeast Asia began developing their

manufacturing in the late 1900s South and

Southeast Asia produce traditional goods such as

textiles as well as technology products such as

computers Oil and gas are processed in Southwest

and Central Asia

Thousands of years ago Asia was home to three of

the worldrsquos rst civilizations Sometime after about

8000 BCE people who had roamed the region as

hunters and gatherers began to settle in one place

and farm the land These farmers eventually joined

together to form societies They developed written

languages and built large cities The rst such

society developed in Southwest Asia in a region

called Mesopotamia about 3500ndash3000 BCE A

civilization developed in the Indus River valley in

what is now Pakistan by about 2500 BCE Historians

believe that Chinese civilization began about 2500

BCE as well

Over time these civilizations changed as they were

taken over by other groups The Mesopotamian

kingdoms became part of the Greek and Persian

worlds In the 600s CE Islam was founded in Arabia

Arab Muslims took over Mesopotamia and then

moved into other parts of Asia

The Indus Valley civilization died out about 1700 BCE

At about this same time a people known as Aryans

invaded what is now India Their religion eventually

evolved into Hinduism The Mauryan Empire

EconomyEconomy

HistoryHistory

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

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the 21st century

Email address SUBMIT

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Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 35: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

About Us Contact Us Privacy Notice Terms of Use

copy2021 Encyclopaeligdia Britannica Inc

united South Asia about 300 BCE though others

eventually took over from them In the late 1100s CE

Muslim rulers took over part of the region

Chinese culture dominated East Asia China was

ruled by a series of dynasties for many thousands

of years from about the 1700s BCE to the 1900s CE

The Mongols a people from northern and Central

Asia ruled much of Asia during the 1200s and 1300s

CE

To take control of Asiarsquos vast wealth Europeans

conquered many Asian countries and made them

into colonies in the 1800s By the end of World War

II the colonies began to seek independence India

became free of British rule in 1947 France fought to

keep control of its colonies in Southeast Asia but

nally withdrew from the region in 1954 Most

Central Asian countries were part of the Russian

Empire and later the Soviet Union They became

independent after the breakup of the Soviet Union

in 1991

China also underwent major changes In 1912 the

last dynasty came to an end and the country

became a republic Chinarsquos government became

communist after communists won a civil war in

1949 Communists in Korea and Vietnam also

fought for control of those countries The Korean

War from 1950 to 1953 resulted in the separation

of Korea into two countries North Korea and South

Korea North Korea had a communist government

but South Korea did not The Vietnam War ended in

1975 with Vietnam united under a communist

government

In 1948 the country of Israel was created in the

Middle East as a homeland for the Jewish people

Arab countries opposed the creation of Israel

however and they and the Israelis fought a series of

wars Southwest Asia was the site of several other

conicts including the Iran-Iraq War (1980ndash88) the

Persian Gulf War (1991) and a US-led invasion of

Iraq (2003)

In the last half of the 1900s many Asian countries

had to deal with problems left over from the period

of European rule The boundaries of the European

colonies did not always match the natural divisions

of peoples cultures and physical regions When the

colonies gained independence they kept those

boundaries but there were often tensions between

the people who had been forced to live together At

the same time however many Asian countries

worked hard to improve their economies

Sign up for our Britannica for Parentsnewsletter for expert advice on parenting in

the 21st century

Email address SUBMIT

BY CONTINUING TO USE THIS SITE YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS OF OUR COOKIE POLICY WHICH CAN BE FOUND IN OURPRIVACY NOTICE times

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 36: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Asia

1 Identify 5 distinct features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 Describe the geographical location and features of Asia______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Explain some of the different ethnics groups that live within Asia Identify how

diversity has impacted Asia as a continent______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Describe a feature of Asias economy Provide evidence from the text______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 37: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

People often confuse weather and climate the difference is really a matter of time Climate is the long-term pattern of weather in a particular area In contrast weather can change from hour-to-hour day-to-day month-to-month or even year-to-year A regionrsquos weather patterns usually tracked for at least 30 years are considered its climate

More than 100 years ago British geographer Andrew John Herbertson described the difference between climate and weather like this Climate is what we expect weather is what we get

Climate System

Different parts of the world have different climates Between the icy poles and the steamy tropics are many climates that contribute to Earthrsquos biodiversity and geologic past

Climate is determined by a regionrsquos climate system A climate system has five major components the atmosphere the hydrosphere the cryosphere the land surface and the biosphere

The atmosphere consists of air and other gases and is the most variable part of the climate system The composition and movement of gases surrounding Earth can change radically influenced by natural and human-made factors

The hydrosphere corresponds to Earths water Its flow is affected by variations in temperaturegttemperature and salt levels Changes in the hydrosphere occur at much slower rates than changes in the atmosphere

The cryosphere is made up of ice sheets and glaciers which reflect sunlight rather than absorb it The thermal conductivity of ice and permafrostmdashwhich is to say the ease with which they transmit heatmdashprofoundly influences temperature The cryosphere also helps regulate thermohaline circulation which is the movement of ocean currents

Vegetation and topographygttopography the physical features of land influence climate They affect what happens to the suns energy once it reaches Earths surface Types of land covermdashsuch as soil sand or asphaltmdashimpact evaporation and temperature as does plant cover

The biospheremdashthe sum total of living things on Earthmdashalso influences climate Through photosynthesis plants help regulate the flow of gases in the atmosphere Living organisms alter the landscape through both natural growth and buildings such as mounds and dams These altered landscapes can influence patterns of wind and temperature

Climate Features

The most familiar features of a regions climate are probably average temperature and precipitation Seasonal variations or changes also help determine climate

Other climate features include windiness humidity cloud cover atmospheric pressure and fogginess Landscape a regions elevation or height and its distance from water can all impact climate

All climates are the product of many factors including elevation and latitude For example higher elevations are typically cooler than lower elevations The location on a continent and distance from the

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 38: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

ocean also affect climate

The rainy tropical climate of West Africa for example is influenced by the regions location near the equator which is the line at 0 degrees latitude Its position on the western side of the continent is also a significant factor The area receives direct sunlight year-round and is located where moist trade winds meet As a result the regions climate is warm and rainy

Microclimates

No climate is the same across a whole region Small variations called microclimates exist in every climate region Microclimates are largely influenced by the presence of lakes vegetation and cities In large urban areas streets and buildings absorb heat from the sun The absorbed heat energy raises the average temperature of the city higher than average temperatures of more open areas nearby This is known as the ldquourban heat island effectrdquo

Influence of Climate

Earth has an enormous variety of life This diversity is largely due to the variety of climates that exist and the climate changes that have occurred in the past

Climate has also greatly influenced the development of cultures and civilizations People have adapted in various ways to the many climates where they have settled Climate affects the foods they eat the homes they build and clothing they wear

Climate Change

Climate does not change from day to day like weather but it does vary and change over time Climate changes happen slowly over hundreds or even thousands of years For example glacial periods have covered large portions of Earth with ice caps

Climate change can happen for many reasons For example after the eruption of the island volcano of Krakatoa Indonesia in 1883 winters and even summers in Asia and Europe were colder and darker Volcanic ash blocked the sun Climates around the world were changed for years

Since the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century human activity has been impacting climate Humans began putting massive amounts of waste gases into the atmosphere

Global warming is often associated with a runaway ldquogreenhouse effectrdquo The greenhouse effect describes the process in which certain gases trap solar radiation in a planets lower atmosphere These gases include carbon dioxide (CO2) methane and ozone Greenhouse gases absorb some of the energy from sunlight and trap it as heat inside the atmosphere In this way these gases act like the glass walls of a greenhouse

The greenhouse effect is a natural phenomenon However human activities that include burning fossil fuels and cutting down forests release greater amounts of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere As a result our planets temperature has risen about 2deg F since the late 19th century Sixteen of the last 17 warmest years on record have occurred in the 21st century

Most climate scientists say that we should reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions Changing humanitys impact on the worlds climate though requires long-range planning and commitment

Thursday ndash Reading 1208

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 39: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Main IdeaTitle

Introduction

Argument 1

Argument 2

Argument 3

Conclusion

The main point

you want to

make

Remember evidence

Useful words

Firstly Secondly In my opinion Some believe that

I feel that I am sure that

It is certain Therefore Moreover For this reason

-Reasons for

-Reasons against

-Ask questions to get

the reader thinking

Sum up

the main

argument

twinklcouk

Thursday ndash Writing 1208

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 40: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Angles on a Straight Line

Task 1

Complete the Measuring angles using a protractor work sheet in your learning pack The

protractor has already been printed on the work sheet for you To be successful in

completing this task you will need to write the measurement of each angle in degrees degand

write the name of each angle

Task 2

Angles on a straight line always add up to 180deg complete the angles problem solving work

sheet to find the missing angles marked with an X There is a box on top of the worksheet

which explains the equations telling you how to find the X

You will need to use your addition and subtraction strategies to find the answers

Task 3

Using the grid paper template use a ruler to write your name in pencil on the grid paper without any curved edges Trace over your name with a pen or fine marker then find each of the angles in your name If your first name is short you could use your surname

Extension Find reflex and straight angles

Remember to post completed tasks

on to your ClassDojo portfolio

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 41: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Name --------------

Measuring ang1es using a protractor-----------------t

130 140

150 160

10 170

80 70 60

Weasu reWelt

50 40

30

20

10

conStructing ang1es using a protractor

Draw each an9(e

A 70deg angle

IIOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130

A 165 deg angle

110100 90 80 70 120 60 130

40 30

20

I

0 40 30

20

I

1201

130 140

150 160 170

l IOI00 120

130 140

150 160 170

Weasu reWelt

A 130deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60

130 50

A 35 deg angle

I IOI00 90 80 70 120 60 130 50

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

40 30

20

10

40 30

20

10

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

Page 42: Stage 3 Week 5 Learning from home

Name

Angles on a straight

line add up to 180deg

The sum of the angles

of a triangle is 180deg

80deg

46deg54deg

80deg + 46deg

+ 54deg = 180deg

Find all the missing angles marked

with an x 6

1

x 102deg

7

The sum of the angles of a

quadrilateral (a four-sided

shape) is 360deg

107deg 110deg

107deg + 110deg

+ 75deg + 68deg = 3600

X

90deg 90deg

90deg 90deg

X= o

2 X 90deg

8 120deg

3

x=O o

X

9 134deg

4 48deg

X= o

40deg

10

Copyright 2013 copy Studyladder www studyladdercom

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1108

Mathematics 10-3 05-cm Grid Paper

05-CM GRID-PAPER TEMPLATE

Thursday ndash Numeracy 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

Thursday ndash Mindfulness 1208

JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

Friday ndash Mindfulness 1308

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

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Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

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2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

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______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

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JACK This might look like an ordinary garden filled with ordinary plants But those in the know will tell you its more like a kitchen pantry filled with delicious foods just waiting to be cooked And thats exactly what these guys plan on doing

CLAIRE Jack You know you cant eat that it has to be cooked first

JACK Yeah I knew that

DOUGLAS Well this is our Indigenous edible garden We have lots of Indigenous plants that we like to use for cooking We look after the plants we plant the plants we also put mulch around make the place look nice we water the plants and take care of them Its really fun getting your hands dirty

JACK So what is this

MIA This is warrigal greens theyre a type of spinach They grow like a lot

JACK And we cant eat them

LOGAN You can but you have to cook them first so you dont get sick

JACK Ok well thats good to know

The garden also includes stacks of other native foods like lemon scented grass wattle seed and Old Mans Salt bush

JACK And what can this be used for

ASHLEY Soups and salads

Theyre just some of the almost 6 and a half thousand different types of native foods or bush tucker our country has to offer For the past 60 thousand years Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have been growing and harvesting native plants and not just for food Some are used for healing like Arrethe which can help ease cold and flu symptoms or some are used to make tools like Cumbungi which can be weaved to make nets But the plants in this garden are used for cooking

Friday ndash Reading 1308

JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

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JACK Right so weve got our warrigal greens from the garden what are we going to be making

MIA were going to be making warrigal greens and feta triangles

JACK Yum do you want some help cutting

MIA Yes please you have to do them very fine

JACK I will do them very fine

In the past few years the Bush Tucker industry has really taken off with things like Kakadu plum yogurt bush apples and goats cheese coated in a lemon myrtle and green ant crumb delish Now a group of scientists from the University of Queensland reckon its time Aussies embraced the native foods our country has to offer So theyve been working with local Indigenous communities to try and boost the bush tucker industry in Australia and take it global

MADONNA THOMSON NYANDA ABORIGINAL CULTURAL TOURS It means we get to reinforce that information for ourselves and then share that passion and knowledge Not only with members of our family groups but with the public as well so that we can develop a combined appreciation of just how wealthy Australia is in terms of its native foods

JACK And on that note I think its time to eat

Literacy - Week 5 Learning from Home Pack

Friday ndash Reading 1308

Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

Friday ndash Writing 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

Friday Mindfulness Activity

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Bush Tucker Garden

1 What is the purpose of this text Why______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

2 What are some of the different uses Indigenous Australians have for native plants______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

3 Do you believe it is important for individuals to be aware of how native plants can

be used WhyWhy not______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

4 Can you identify any native plants in your local community Identify its name

location and use______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________________

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Friday ndash Numeracy 1308

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Friday Mindfulness Activity

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