Sunday, 24 February 2008

Help with your projects.


Your country projects: (Click on the map to see some great maps of the world from different points of view).

This map shows countries by the size of their population.

This is your homework for week 2.

You MUST

· Find out about some typical food or clothing from your country and include pictures.

You SHOULD

· Include some recipes of typical foods.

· Find out what the national anthem of the country is called and include some of the words.

You COULD

· Have a go at making a typical food and take a picture of it (or bring it in for munching!).

· Get a recording of the national anthem, or all the words.

· Find out about famous musicians / actors / entertainers from your country.

· Make a doll wearing an example of typical clothes



If you are looking for some cultural information about a country try this great site:

http://www.geographia.com/

If you do want to make something from your country, this website may be a good starting point:

http://www.recipeatlas.com/

School Facilities Research

You should now have completed your questionnaires and are starting to put your plans together. You may want to look at what other schools have done and also look at companies that make playground equipment.

Learning through landscapes offer lots of advice on what can be done to improve school grounds. See the articles at:

http://www.ltl.org.uk/schools_and_settings/resources/articles.htm

What do
you think are top 3 most important things to sort out for our school grounds and why? Leave your comments.

Saturday, 16 February 2008

JUSTICE, LAW AND ORDER

CLICK ON THE LOGO TO GO TO THE UNICEF CHILDREN'S HOME PAGE

Welcome back and now for our next topic...Justice (fairness). You probably know that there are lots of things that are unfair in the world but there are great examples of people working together to bring about change.

We're not just going to talk about change - you are going to go through the process of:
  • Identifying a problem
  • Collecting data to show others
  • Coming up with solutions
  • Presenting the solutions to those who can really do something about it.
Look at the links for information to help you with your school based project but also your homework project.

For now I'd like you comments please.
The 10 most important words to describe your ideal school.