YEAR 5 RIVERS and RAINFORESTSHOME LEARNING PROJECT
The project starts on Monday 21st/28th January. All the home learning is due in on Friday 22nd March. This is seven home learning weeks in total. You need to earn a minimum of 60 raindrops. The amount of raindrops earned is shown after each task. Please keep talking to your teacher about how you are doing. It is a good idea to start with some smaller tasks and to get some points earned before starting on the bigger projects. As always, if you have your own ideas, check them with your teacher, the options on this grid are not the only ones. Good luck and have fun!
Word SmartI enjoy reading, writing & speaking / Maths/Logic Smart
I enjoy working with numbers & problems / Picture Smart
I enjoy drawing, painting and making
Remembering Tasks / List ten poisonous rainforest animals. Give them a mark out of ten according to their venomousness. 10
List and give a brief description of ten animals that life in, or near, a river. 10 / Create ten rainforest inspired word problems for a Year 1 mathematician to solve. 10 / Paint a rainforestor river (or both!) inspired picture.10
Understanding Tasks / Create a multiple choice with ten questions about the rainforest or world rivers.10
Create a fact sheet which notes down everyday products that we get from the rainforest. Or your fact sheet could focus on how people use rivers to help us live. 10 / Create a set of five word problems for a Year 5 mathematician involving area and rates of deforestation. Provide answers. 10e.g. If the rainforest is destroyed at a rate of fifteen hectares per year, how much will the area of the rainforest decrease by over five years? If this rainforest was 250 square hectares in 2007, what will it be now? / Create a poster about a rainforest or river animal (or animals). You could focus on endangered animals.
Include text and pictures. 15
Applying Tasks / Research three different rainforest tribes. Make an information leaflet about the tribes. 15 / Research the monthly rainfall and average temperature in two rainforest areas in the world. Present the data in charts and graphs.
Research the length of ten world rivers. Present what you have found out in a diagram showing the correct river length to scale. 15 / Who eats who in the rainforest? Who eats what in the rainforest? Research these questions and present what you find out as a poster. You could do the same activity for a river habitat. 20
Analysing Tasks / List ten essential items you would have in your rucksack to survive a journey down The Amazon. Provide a brief explanation of why you have chosen each item. 10 / Research rates of deforestation in different areas of the world over the past one hundred years. Present what you find out in a PowerPoint. 15 / Draw ten essential items you would have in your rucksack to survive journey down The Amazon. Be ready to justify of why you have chosen each item.10
Creating Tasks / Write a personification poem about the rainforest (or a rainforest tree through its lifetime). 15
Write a 500 word story set in the rainforest. 20
Write a 500 word story about a journey down a river. 20 / Create your own imaginary animal that is adapted to live in the rainforest habitat. Record your ideas as an annotated drawing. 15
Create a board game with rivers & rainforests as its inspiration. 20 / Make a shoe box model of the rainforest and provide a key that labels the contents. 20
Create a pop-up book about rainforest or river plants and animals. 20
Create a photo collage (on paper or on the computer) focusing on the sights and colours of the rainforest. 15
Compulsory Task
Choose one area of our Rivers and Rainforests theme that interests you. Research and prepare a presentation to the class (to be given in the last two weeks of term). It should be between 2-3 minutes long. More information to follow!
Research is good, but any writing needs to be in your own words! This is very important!
Please prepare a folder to keep any paper based tasks in. Decorate it in a rivers and or a rainforest style. It is OK to email your teacher any powerpoints, photostories etc that you want to share with the class. However all your home learning must also be printed and stored in the folder. This is your responsibility!