Relief Teaching Themes: The Home by Teacher Superstore

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Contents Teachers’ Notes

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Section 1: English

Dwelling Types Family History Families Worldwide Back in Time Palaces Palace Designs Work from Home Building Homes Home away from Home Water for the Home Design Your Dream Home Safety Around the Home

Section 4: Science Animal Home Building Homes Power Sources Edible Garden Sharing our Homes Micro Homes Keeping Clean Home Pools Sinking and Floating Domestic Pets Fixing up the House Water Fun

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Home and House Search and Cross Card Games Word List Challenge Hangman’s House Home Sweet Home Television at Home Advertising Home Products Interviews Comprehension Discussion Description Exposition Narrative Explanation Recount Procedure Poetry Information Report Keeping in Touch

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Section 3: The Humanities

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Section 2: Mathematics Home Food Budget Board Game Home Sharing Perimeter and Area Floor Plans Tipis Lunch Time Rebound Angle Position Journey to School What to Watch? Creative Block Houses Backyard Pools Tessellating Shapes

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Looking In, Looking Out Interior Design Wall Art 3D Home Design Answers

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Teachers’ Notes Relief Teaching Themes: The Home is specifically designed to help relief teachers deliver lessons which are engaging, motivating and related to the theme of the home. This book is divided into five sections: English, Mathematics, The Humanities, Science and Visual Arts. This division allows teachers to locate suitable lessons quickly and easily. The lessons in the book are suited to children aged nine years and above, but can be simplified for younger children. Students with a wide range of learning and thinking styles are catered for.

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The lessons are presented as task cards which enables teachers to plan their day to suit their own teaching style. It is advisable to copy sets of the task cards from the book and laminate them for future use. Sets of cards can also be copied in A3 size for effective whole class display. This will save time at the beginning of the day by avoiding queues for the copying machine. Some of the lessons require the students to research information. Lessons which do require students to make use of materials other than a pen/pencil and paper are clearly marked with appropriate icons. You could borrow a set of books on the theme of the home from the school library so that the students may have access to information throughout the day. You could also book a time in the computer room for students to conduct research. If there are classroom computers, set up a class timetable for shared use of the computer. select tasks from each section. The © ReadyEdand P u b l i c a t i o n s groups then set up a timetable for the day and begin working on their tasks. •f orr evi ew pu r posesonl y•

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Take six simple house designs and cut each one into five jigsaw pieces. Place them in a box and jumble them together. Each student selects a jigsaw piece. Silently they have to match their jigsaw pieces with others to find the group to which they belong.

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Lesson Option Ideas The teacher selects a set of task cards to use for the day. Display the cards to the class and discuss with the students each activity. Allow students to select their tasks and copy them in their order of preference. Each student then creates his/her own timetable for the day. Students are placed into groups to collectively sit down and read through the activity card selection given to them by the teacher. Allow the students time to discuss

Establishing Groups Creatively

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Individual Work Book Provide each student with at least five sheets of A4 paper or ten half A4 sheets of paper to staple together and construct their special daily work book. Provide a piece of coloured card or paper for the cover of the booklet. Allow the students ten minutes at the beginning of the day to begin a cover for their work book. Using this individual work book allows relief teachers flexibility and creativity and does not intrude on the established class work book set out.

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Write the numbers one to five on pieces of paper. Place them into a box and jumble them up. Students each pull out a number. Their group will be the other students with the same number.

Classroom Management Ideas Managing a new class is often a challenge. By using a few simple management strategies you may find that your day runs more smoothly and that students are motivated to complete tasks given.

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When marking the roll, select a word with a home theme for the students to say as they indicate they are present in the classroom e.g. kitchen.

At the end of each session discuss the activities completed and mark appropriate work.

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Have a set of short break games to play, to provide the students with stretch and rest time.

Provide time limit incentives to complete work. If work is completed by a designated time the individuals or groups can be awarded points which are tallied on their individual booklets.

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At the end of the day ask students to reflect on their day in written form. They can write down or talk about: what they enjoyed, learned, achieved, could do better next time, what they’d like to learn about another day, what activity they would like to do next time.

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Students make name tags to display on their desks and place in front of them.

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Play a name game at the beginning of the day. Roll a ball to each student as they sit in a circle and ask them to take turns in saying their names and saying one thing they like to do in their spare time.

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Section 1: English

Task Card

Home and House

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Complete the following on a separate piece of paper.

Work in pairs

• Define the words ‘home’ and ‘house’. What is the difference? Look up definitions in a dictionary.

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Dictionary

- Write the meanings of ten challenging words in your list.

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• Brainstorm with your friend words relating to your home life, house, family and neighbourhood. Create a list of words.

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- Sort the words into nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives. - Write the nouns in blue, adjectives in green, verbs in pink and adverbs in orange.

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Search and Cross

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Brainstorm words relating to your home life, house, family and neighbourhood. Create a list of words.

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• Create a word search using the word list that you have created. Draw a grid (like the one shown). Write your words on the grid and surround them with other letters. Make a list of your hidden words. Give your word search to a friend to complete. E.g. f a m i l y • See if you can create a f a t h e r u word cross by writing i m o t h e r all of your list words down, across and up e from one root word. n i c e Look at the example d to help you.

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Ruler

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Card Games

Task Card

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Create a snap or memory game by cutting a piece of card into twenty equal squares. Select ten words to do with the home and write each word onto two cards.

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Memory GAME

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Working in pairs, mix up the cards and turn them face down. Take turns in turning over two cards at a time in an attempt to find two matching cards. If your cards match, put these cards to one side and take a second turn. The player with the most pairs wins.

Divide the cards equally between you and your opponent. Take turns to place the cards on the table, face up on top of each other. If two matching cards are placed on the table, the first person to place his/her hand on the cards and say ‘SNAP’ collects all of the cards. The person with the most cards in his/her hand, when there are no cards left on the table, wins.

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Brainstorm words relating to your home life, house, family and neighbourhood. Create a list of words and complete the following:

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Sentence Challenge • Write ten sentences using the words from your list.

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Unscramble • Scramble the letters of ten words from your list. Give them to a friend to unscramble.

Word Shapes • Experiment to see if you can write some of your words into shapes which make them look like their meaning. E.g. love- in the shape of a heart, home-in the shape of a house. Look at the examples to help you.

Section 1: English

Task Card

Hangmans ‘ House

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Think of words relating to your home life, house, family and neighbourhood and play a game of Hangman’s House.

Pencil & Paper

• One person (leader) selects a word from the list and draws a number of short lines for each letter of the word e.g. ___ ___ ___(c a t).

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• The group members have to take it in turns to guess each letter and discover the whole word. If they guess an incorrect letter, then the leader begins to draw a picture of hangman’s house (as shown).

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• The leader should draw one part of the picture for each letter guessed incorrectly. When there are only two remaining lines left, the group can try to guess the word.

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Home Sweet Home

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Think about your home. Write a description of your home by including the following information:

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• What it looks like from the outside.

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• One thing that you would change about your home or surroundings if you could. • How many people live in your home and who they are. • The colour of the walls. • The colour of the floors. • What is in the back garden.

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Task Card

Television at Home

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Think about television programs which are based in people’s homes. Select two programs. Pencil & Paper

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Similarities

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• Compare and contrast the home designs in the programs. Record your information on a Venn diagram. (See the example).

Advertising Home Products

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Select two television commercials which advertise home products and answer the following questions:

• What home product is each commercial promoting?

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• How do the creators of each commercial try to make their advertisements memorable? • What adjectives do the commercials use to persuade you that the home products are worth buying? • Do you think television advertising works? • Recreate the jingle/song/catchphrase used in one of the advertisements.

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Interviews

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Compile a set of ten questions to interview two students. • You need to find out about the students’ houses and what they do around the home. Construct your questions carefully. Some sample questions are: Do you have computers and computer games at home? Do any animals live in your house? What time does everyone eat dinner in your house? Who lives in your house with you?

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S • Compare the students’ answers. Record one difference and one similarity. Try to illustrate this difference and similarity.

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Comprehension

Choose one of the following to complete:

Option 1

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Choose a book from the school or class library with a home theme. Select a passage in the book to read and then write a set of comprehension questions. Give the passage to a friend to read. Then ask them to answer the questions. Mark your work together.

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Books or Newspaper Articles

Option 2 (Group Activity)

Select a newspaper article with a home theme. One person from the group should read the text aloud to the other group members. The group members should then discuss what has been read and record the information in their own words.

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Discussion

Task Card

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Discussions show both sides of a topic by outlining the arguments for or against an issue. They end with the writer revealing which point of view he/she is in favour of.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S Write a discussion to review the positive and negative perspectives of one of the following:

• Living in a big house.

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• Living in a small house.

• Moving house.

• Renovating an old house. • Having a ‘house party’.

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Description

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Descriptive texts draw attention to the characteristics of a particular thing. They start by introducing the topic and then give details about the topic. They are usually written in the present tense.

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o c . che e r o t r s super Write a description of one of the following: • Write a detailed description of your neighbour’s home or your friend’s home. • Write a description of your bedroom. • Write a description of your favourite celebrity’s home. • Write a description of a famous family home which is shown on TV.

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Exposition

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Expositions try to persuade people to adopt a particular point of view on a topic. They begin by outlining the point of view on a topic and proceed by stating the reasons for the point of view.

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• Air conditioning is the best form of cooling.

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Consider some of the following points of view. Select a side to argue and write an exposition.

• Bed time restrictions are a good thing.

• Children should be paid for doing jobs around the house. • Parents should monitor what their children watch on television.

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Narratives are fictional stories which generally contain an opening, middle and ending. The opening usually introduces the characters and the setting(s), the middle usually introduces a complication (a problem) and the ending typically describes how the problem is resolved.

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Illustrate your story with pictures that will help younger children to relate to the narrative.

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Explanation

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Explanations describe how or why something happens or works. They begin with a statement, e.g. how a television uses light to project images, and follow with a series of explanations in paragraph or dot point form. They are usually written in the present tense and in the third person.

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• Toaster • Microwave • Coffee maker • Security system

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Write an explanation to show how some of these items that you find around the home work:

Go to: 4www.whyzz.com for ideas on how things work.

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Recounts tell the reader what happened in an informative or entertaining way. The information usually appears in the order that it happened and the recount includes personal comments throughout, such as, ‘I had’ and ‘I thought’.

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Write and illustrate a recount about a time when you had fun at home. Brainstorm ideas before you start. Make sure that your illustrations relate well to the information.

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Colour Pens

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Procedure

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Procedures tell a reader how to do or make something in the present tense. They are written in steps and can also include an equipment or material list and diagrams or pictures to help make the instructions clear. Each step usually begins with a verb such as: ‘put’, ‘place’, ‘sit’, ‘tie’.

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• How to cook one of your favourite meals or snacks. • How to wash your clothes. • How to wash a pet. • How to operate the dishwasher. • How to mow the lawn.

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Poetry

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The words in a shape poem are written to look like the subject of the poem.

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A haiku poem consists of three lines. The first and third lines have five syllables, and the second line has seven syllables.

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Write four home themed poems. Write two shape poems and two haiku poems.

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Illustrate your haiku poems.

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Practice reading your poems and then read them to a friend. Have your friend comment on your reading performance. Re-perform your poems, with improvements.

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I just love my home My home is where my heart is Please don’t make me leave.

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Information Report

Task Card

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An information report presents information on something. Usually the information is organised under headings. Choose one of the options below.

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Select a home appliance (e.g. electric egg beater, air conditioner), and write a report about it under the following headings: details of invention, development through history, popularity, cost.

Write a report about an animal which people can keep as a pet under the following headings: temperament, coat type, colour, diet, exercise requirements, health issues and life span.

These websites might help you: 4www.askkids.com

This website might help you: 4http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/ themepark/pets/index.htm

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Keeping in Touch

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Receiving a personal letter in your mail box is exciting. Most people don’t mail letters anymore because they use the Internet to keep in touch.

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Try writing a personal letter to a member of your family who doesn’t live with you.

website for ideas on how to set out a letter correctly: 4www.learningplace.com.au/ deliver/content.asp?pid=36832 Click on sample one or two.

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Home Food Budget

Task Card

You will need:

Calculate how much it would cost to feed your family for a day.

• List how many family members live in your home. • Write down how many meals and snacks a day your family eat. You may like to organise this information in table form. See the bottom of the page.

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• Estimate how much you think it will cost to buy all the food on the list. • Go to an online shopping website and record prices for the food and products that you need. • Were any of your items on special? How much did you save on special items? • Calculate your total bill. Did your shopping go over or under your estimated cost?

Good shopping link: 4http://www.greataussiefood.com.au/

Board Game

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in pairs, design and construct a Snakes and Ladders board game for two of your class mates to play.

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• Write a list of food that you need to buy to feed your family for the day.

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• Create a set of mathematical question cards based on the home for players to pick up and answer when they land on particular spaces. (E.g. If Annie gets twice as much pocket money as her sister Louise, who gets $1, how much does Annie get?). You must also provide the answers to the questions.

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Template (p25)

• Add pictures of snakes and ladders to the board game template. Swap your board game with another pair. •

Roll the dice and begin playing. Players climb up ladders and slip down snakes. The player who reaches the end first wins.

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Home Sharing

Task Card

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Think about when you would need to use fractions or division in your home, e.g. sharing a block of chocolate, sharing the computer.

• Brainstorm and make a list of different situations.

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• Select five examples from your list and create a mathematical problem (and answer) for each one. See example below. • Swap problems with a friend.

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Example: Problem: You have four packs of juice cartons. Each pack contains six individual 250 ml cartons. There are three of you. Share the cartons equally between you. Are there any cartons left over? If so, how could you then divide the remaining cartons so that each member receives an equal amount? Solution: 4 x 6=24 There is a total of 24 juice cartons. 24÷3=8 Each person receives 8 juice cartons each. No cartons are left over.

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Perimeter and Area

Think about when you would need to use area or perimeter in your home, e.g. buying bedroom furniture, buying carpet and/or painting walls.

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• Make a list of different situations when you would need to know the perimeter or area of an object or space at home.

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Bedroom

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Imagine that you are decorating your bedroom (see diagram). • Calculate the perimeter and area of your bedroom. • You are going to put skirting around the room. How many metres will you need? • You are going to lay carpet in the room. How many m2 will you need?

Perimeter = the measurement around the outside of the room. Add together all four sides of the room. Area = length x width (L x W). Expressed as m2.

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Floor Plans

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Your Estimate Length Width

Length

Perimeter = the measurement around the outside of the room. Add together all four sides of the room.

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Area = length x width (L x W). Expressed as cm2.

Results Width Area

ROOM 1 ROOM 2 ROOM 3

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On an A3 piece of paper draw a simple house floor plan with rooms of different sizes. Select three rooms and record the following in a table format (see example below).

Perimeter

Tipis

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Tipis are traditional homes of nomadic Indian tribes. Create a scene that includes different size tipis. • On a sheet of art paper, draw a horizon line and the sun (see example). • Sketch different size triangles on the art paper. These will represent tipis. Decorate and colour with interesting patterns. • Add extra detail to your scene with coloured pens: a chief, tribe of Indians, plants, etc.

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(pronounced Tepees)

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o c . che e r o t r s super • Measure and record the dimensions of the tipis on your picture, then work out the area of each tipis.

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Calculator

Section 2: Mathematics

Task Card

Lunch Time

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Lunch time in your home in Australia is 1pm. Use this information to work out the following:

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2. Breakfast time is at 8am. How many hours before lunch and dinner is breakfast?

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1. If dinner time is five hours and 20 minutes after lunch time, what time is dinner? Show your answer on a clock face.

3. Supper is three hours after dinner. How many hours after breakfast is it? Show what time it is on a clock face.

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Rebound Angle

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Draw the top view of a pool or billiard table, including six pockets (see diagram) and complete the following:

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• Draw five pool balls in random positions. Label or colour each ball differently.

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• Imagine sinking each ball into a pocket with only one rebound off the side of the pool table. Draw a line to indicate the direction each ball would travel on its way to the side cushion and then pocket. • Measure each ball’s angle of deflection off the side of the pool table. Record on your diagram.

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Protractor

(x = angle of deflection)

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Position

Task Card

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Visualise the location of the television in your home.

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• Describe the position of the television in relation to each object using north, south, east and west, e.g. The television is in the north western corner of the lounge room. It is sitting on a small table. It is to the west of a large indoor palm tree. Hanging above and to the east of the television is a photograph of my family.

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• Draw a floor plan that shows its location in a room. Include at least four other objects around it.

Journey to School

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Draw a road map of the journey that you take to school from your home each day. • Include as many features as you can, such as; the main roads and smaller roads, houses, local landmarks and traffic lights and/or roundabouts.

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• Mark the path from your home to school. Write a set of instructions for your route.

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• Draw a path from your home to another landmark located on your map. Write a set of directions for a friend to follow to get them to that location. Colour Pens

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What to Watch?

Task Card

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Make a list of four TV shows that are set in family homes and survey the class to find out how many students watch them.

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• Record the information in bar graph form.

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• List the shows’ titles along the bottom line (horizontal axis) and the number of students up the vertical axis. • Remember to give your graph a title.

Show Titles

• What information can you deduce from your graph results?

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Creative Block Houses

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Build a house using ‘unifix’ blocks (interlocking building blocks or cubes). Your house must be a solid shape. Count how many blocks you have used for your house to find out its volume.

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• Change the shape of your house without changing the number of blocks.

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• How many different house designs can you make out of the same number of blocks?

• Do your houses still have the same volume?

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Volume = area of base (length x width) x height. Ruler

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Backyard Pools

Task Card

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Design three different 3D backyard swimming pools (they must be square or rectangular shapes). Measure their lengths (L), widths (W) and heights (depths) (H) using a centimetre ruler.

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• Fill the pools with water using coloured pencils. Fill the pool which would hold the most water blue, the second largest amount of water green and the smallest amount of water pink.

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• Calculate the volume of each pool. Volume =L x W x H (depth).

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• Extra: draw some slippery slides running into each pool which are of different lengths and heights. Record the heights and lengths of each slide.

Tessellating Shapes

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Tessellating shapes are shapes which, when placed side by side, have no gaps in between them.

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• Draw a shape (e.g. hexagon, circle, square, etc.) on coloured paper and repeat the shape three more times ensuring that they are all the same size.

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• Repeat with three other shapes. Do they tessellate?

• Paste your tessellating shapes onto some paper to create a pattern. What professions, to do with building homes, would use objects or patterns which tessellate? 24

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Dwelling Types

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Working in pairs brainstorm different types of homes around the world (e.g. igloo, grass hut). Magazines

• Look through magazines and on the Internet to find images of as many of the homes that you have listed as you can.

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• Cut them out and sort them into categories, e.g. according to what they look like or what they are made from. • Paste the houses in their categories on coloured card to display.

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Think about all of the members of your family (aunts, uncles, cousins, grandparents and great relatives).

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• Draw a picture of yourself in the middle of a piece of paper and around the picture list different family members.

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• Illustrate each member of your family and include a short description of their personality and their relation to you.

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Families Worldwide

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Select a family from another very different culture to your own and find out about how this family lives. • Record this information under the following headings:

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- House design.

- How many family members live together in one home. - Types of food that they eat and prepare at home. - Other interesting facts.

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- How they get their food.

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Life was very different for families who lived during the Gold Rush era in Australia. Many people travelled from place to place in search of gold.

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• Research where people set up home during this era and what their houses were like. You could use the following website to help you access this information: www.sbs.com.au/gold/

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Palaces

Make a list of countries that have Kings and Queens. Select one country and investigate their palace/s (e.g. Buckingham Palace in London or Amalienborg and Fredensborg Palaces in Denmark).

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Find an image of the palace that you have chosen and answer the questions below.

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Questions: - Where is the palace? - When was it built? - Who lives in the palace today? - Who has lived in the palace over history? - Describe the palace. - Would you like to live in the palace that you have researched? - What would be the positive and negative things about living in a palace?

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Hint: Search the Internet using ‘palaces of the world’ as key words for your search. Then you can identify the palace you like and narrow down your search.

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Imagine that you are a king or queen. Design your own palace. • In which country will you build your palace?

o c . che e r o t r s super • List all the external and internal features which you think would be important to include in a palace.

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• Select two special features and write a detailed description of them.

• Write a description of where the palace will be built. • Illustrate your palace.

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Work from Home

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Brainstorm paid jobs that people do from home (e.g. family day care, hairdresser, beautician). • Select a job from your brainstorm and write a description of the job. In your description include:

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- What equipment is needed.

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• Design a sign to advertise this business to the public.

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- What working space is needed.

• Create an advertisement to be placed in the newspaper to encourage people to do this job.

• Make a list of the pros and cons of working from home.

Building Homes

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There are many people who are involved in the process of building a home.

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• Beside each profession write down what they do to help build a home (e.g. a plumber fits all of the water pipes, sewer pipes, taps, toilets, baths and showers and makes sure that they all work and drain in the correct places).

• Choose one profession to explore in more detail. Describe the training they need, to be qualified to do their job.

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Home away from Home

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Tents become temporary homes for people on camping holidays. • Look at some designs of tents on the Internet.

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r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S • List the advantages and disadvantages of living in a tent.

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• Create your own tent design. Consider the size, weight, durability and portability. • Label your design.

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• When would tents be used by people not on holiday?

Water for the Home

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Water is a precious resource. Research the following questions about water:

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• Where does the stored water supply to your home come from?

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• What do you use water for in the home?

• How could you and your family reduce the amount of water that you use?

For more information go to: 4www.epa.gov/region07/kids/drnk_b.htm

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Design Your Dream Home

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Think about what your dream home would look like. • Draw the front view of your dream home and use coloured pens to decorate it.

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• Think about the location of your dream home and indicate this location by drawing a flag to display on your home. Colour the flag.

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• Draw three natural features and three built features beside your home.

• Name and label one material that would be used to build your dream home.

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• What could you do to make each area safer?

• Do you know where your first aid or medical kit is in your home? If you do, list where it is located. Do you think that it is in a good location? Why?

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Animal Home

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All animals need homes, just like humans. Pencil & Paper

r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S • Select one animal and write an information report about the animal, include: the type of home it constructs and its construction methods. Include illustrations to assist the information presented.

An information report presents information on something. Usually the information is organised under headings.

Websites to explore: 4http://42explore.com/animhom.htm and

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• Make a list of homes belonging to animals (e.g. nests).

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Make a list of some of the materials used to construct houses in Australia.

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• Sort the construction materials into natural and human-made materials.

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• Find pictures of each material and paste these onto a piece of paper. • Underneath each material write down its properties and why it is used for a particular purpose in the home (e.g. glass is transparent and so is used in the home to let in light).

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Power Sources

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List the types of power sources available in the world today which are used in homes (e.g. solar).

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• Find or draw a picture to accompany your information.

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• To help you access information, you may want to go to: 4http://library.thinkquest.org/20331/types/

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Make a list of the types of edible plants that you could grow in your backyard.

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• Find out what time of year they will be ready to eat. Record in table form.

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• Draw a plan for a garden which includes all of the plants included in your table. • Include a key to show the types of edible plants in your garden.

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Sharing our Homes

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An information report presents information on something. Usually the information is organised under headings. Pencil & Paper

You share your home with a variety of animals.

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• Make a list of all of the animals which share our homes and backyards and are considered ‘pests’ (e.g. cockroaches, white ant).

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Many microscopic plants and animals live inside of your home. Some are helpful and some can be harmful to our health. Complete the following questions:

Task 1 – Micro-organisms What are micro-organisms? What are germs? Where do they live? What other interesting information can you find out about micro-organisms or microbes?

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Task 2 – Yeast What is yeast? What are its uses to humans? List some foods that you have eaten which have yeast as an ingredient? To help you with this task go to: 4www.dakotayeast.com/yeast_what.html

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Keeping Clean

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It is important to be healthy and that means keeping clean and free of germs. Conduct the following experiment to determine which foams or lathers up better; saltwater or freshwater.

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• Pour a small amount of freshwater into two containers. In one container add two tablespoons of salt to make it saltwater. Wash your hands with soap in both containers and see which one foams up the best. What happens if you add more salt?

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• Record your results, stating which water is better to wash in and why.

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Building and looking after a pool at home is a big responsibility. Pools need a lot of care and maintenance. Do some research to answer the following questions:

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• What do people have to do to keep pools clean? • What do people put into the water to keep it healthy to swim in?

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• What happens to a pool if the correct care is not given to the pool water? Why? To help you complete this task go to: 4http://home.howstuffworks.com/ swimming-pool5.htm

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Sinking and Floating

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Select five items found in the home, which are able to get wet. Challenge 1 List these items in a table and predict which ones will float and which will sink. Test your predictions and record your results.

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Challenge 2 Can you make a piece of plasticine float? Try to work out how you can.

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Write a list of the different types of pets that people have.

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• Select an unusual type of pet which you would like to know more about. (For unusual pet ideas go to: 4http://babelnet.sbg.ac.at/themepark/pets/index.htm)

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• Draw a flow diagram to illustrate the life cycle of your unusual pet. • How would you create its natural environment in your home to make it feel safe? • What would you feed this pet?

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Fixing up the House

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Think about what tools can be used in the home to fix anything that’s broken. • List them and categorise them into manual and power tools.

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• Select one of the items from your list and write an explanation about how it works, what it does and what you like about it.

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Find the definition of surface tension. Investigate surface tension by performing these two simple experiments with water.

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Experiment 1: • Place drops of water with an eye dropper onto a smooth sheet of plastic. What do you notice happening to the drops of water? Where have you seen this type of water action in your home? Think about objects and clothing items. Experiment 2: • Fill a small bowl with water. Wait until the water is totally still. Place a paper clip on an eating fork and lower the clip into the water. Record what happens. Look closely at the water around the paper clip, what do you notice? What happens when you disturb the water? What happens when a small drop of soap is added to the edge of the container of water?

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Looking In, Looking Out

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Select your favourite room in your house and complete the following tasks: Pencil, Paper & Ruler

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• Sketch the view that you see when you are inside your favourite room and are looking out of the window. Draw a window frame around the border of your picture to make it look like you are looking through a window. Task 2 - Looking inside

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Task 1 - Looking outside

• Sketch the view that you see when looking into your favourite room from the outside. Draw a window frame around the border of your picture to make it look like you are looking in through a window.

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Plan a redecoration of your bedroom and draw some design plans for your room. Label your designs.

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- the overall colour scheme - wall cover/decoration - pictures - type of flooring - storage space - lighting - study space - music collection storage - other elements

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3D Home Design

Design and create your own three dimensional (3D) home.

r o e t s Bo r e p ok u S • Write a plan for your steps, the materials you will use.

Materials from around the classroom or at home

• Write your own critical observation, commenting on your inspiration, construction procedure, if it turned out the way you had imagined, improvements you could make and suggested locations in your home for display.

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• Create your home.

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Hint: A cardboard box is a good building shape to start your project.

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Present your wall art to your class, explaining how it relates to your family home.

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Task Card 1 Q. Make a list of homes belonging to animals. A. Some examples are: burrows, water, trees, thickets, rocks crevices or openings, caves, dens, hollow logs or hollow stumps and shallow indentations in the ground.

Task Card 4 Perimeter of room: 16 metres Area of room: 16 m2 Task Card 7 1. 6.20pm 2. Before lunch: 5 hours. Before dinner: 10 hours and 20 minutes. 3. 13 hours and 20 minutes.

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Task Card 14 Some tessellating shapes are: polygons, squares, rectangles and triangles. Building profession: a tiler, bricklayer and paver.

Task Card 1 Examples of what homes can be made from: brick, concrete, timber, steel, corrugated iron, grass, ice and fiberglass. Task Card 8 Q. What types of jobs (professions) are related to the housing industry? A. Some examples are: builders, architects, designers, interior designers, brick layers, glaziers (window specialists), electricians, plumbers, roofers, kitchen and bathroom manufacturers and installers, flooring specialists, plasterers, horticulturalists or landscape architects, excavators, local council, town planners and land developers.

Task Card 3 Some power sources available: coal power, hydroelectric, nuclear power, steam turbines, wind generators and water generators (using the ocean). Task Card 4 Edible plants that you could grow in your backyard: tomatoes, cucumbers, passion fruit, beans, celery, chillies, strawberries, egg plant, cauliflower, broccoli, potatoes, carrots, pumpkin, oranges, mango, limes, lemons, apples, pears.

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Task Card 2 Some building material examples: concrete, timber, steel, bricks, corrugated iron, glass and coated Styrofoam blocks.

Task Card 5 Some examples of pests: mosquitoes, flies, termites, ants, bed bugs, spiders, centipedes, millipedes, rats, mice, wasps, bees, snakes, lice, mites. Task Card 6 Task 1 Q. What are micro-organisms? A. Micro-organisms are tiny microscopic bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites which live all around us. We are constantly exposed to micro-organisms, both good and bad. Most micro-organisms we come into contact with during our daily lives are harmless. Some even help keep us healthy. But certain micro-organisms, when in the wrong place, can pose real health hazards. Q. What are germs? A. Germs are harmful micro-organisms. Some exposure to germs can help build up our immune systems, helping us to fight infections and stay healthy. Exposure to others, however, can cause food poisoning, sickness and diarrhoea, so it makes sense to practice the good hygiene and cleanliness that will prevent these problems. Examples of germs: bacteria - salmonella bacteria can cause food poisoning. Viruses - rhinoviruses can cause colds. Herpes simplex causes cold sores. Fungi - candida can cause thrush. Trichophyton can cause athlete’s foot. Parasites - giardia can cause diarrhoea. Q. Where do they live? A. Micro-organisms and germs live all around us, inside and outside our bodies as well as everywhere in the environment - in soil, air, water, food, animals, plants and people. The main sources of germs in our homes are people, pets and food. Each type of germ has different needs for survival. Viruses have to be inside a living organism (a person, animal or, in some cases, a plant) to grow and multiply. Bacteria can grow and multiply both inside and outside their host, provided they have some warmth and moisture. Some bacteria even form protective spores that can survive for a long time in the environment while they wait for favourable conditions to return.

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Task Card 9 Advantages of living in a tent: easy to move, small space needed, change locations regularly, meet new people when moving around, cosy and inexpensive. Disadvantages of living in a tent: they can leak or be affected by the sun, can be cold at night as they don’t hold the heat, not secure, can blow away, hail stones can go through them, not permanent, too close to other people at times in van parks.

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Q. When would tents be used by people not on holiday? A. Some suggestions: to help house people and communities who experience a natural or human-made disaster, people who are without housing, for work related temporary shelter (geologists studying the landforms) or people who choose to live that way. Task Card 10 Q. Where does the stored water supply from your home come from? A. Town water supply, tanks, wells, water makers, waterfalls, springs, dams and bores. Q. What do you use water for in the home? A. Doing the dishes, laundry, brushing your teeth, for showers and baths, watering the garden etc.

Task Card 9 Q. How do you make plasticine float? A. Plasticine will float if you make a boat shape, where no water can enter over the sides. Task Card 10 Some unusual pets: mice, gerbils, cavies, chinchillas, rats, snakes, lizards, turtles/tortoises, snails, hermit crabs, frogs and toads, spiders. Task Card 12 Definition of water surface tension: surface tension is created by the force of attraction of the small molecules of water to one another on the surface of the water. They form a ‘skin’ like surface on the water allowing objects and animals to sit on the surface without sinking. These objects should sink because they are more dense than the water, but the ‘skin’ or surface tension allows them to sit on top of the water. If the surface tension is broken then they will sink. Some examples of surface tension are the drops of water on a car windscreen, puddles on a car bonnet and small streams of water across a smooth surface in your bathroom.

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Task 2 Yeast Q. What is yeast? A. Yeast is a single celled fungi and is related to the edible mushroom. Some yeast can live in animals and humans. Q. What are its uses to humans? A. Yeast can be used to make bread and alcohol. Moulds are used to ripen blue cheese and produce antibiotics for medical and veterinary use. Over 600 different species of yeast are known and they are widely distributed in nature.

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(Information obtained from: http://www.dettol.co.uk/ topic_germs.shtml) Other information: Microbes live in almost every nook and cranny you can think of, from 20 miles beneath the Earth’s surface to 20 miles overhead. They live at temperatures less than -20 degrees Celsius to temperatures hotter than boiling point. Microbes thrive on a huge range of foods including oil and toxic wastes. Every time you walk on the ground you step on billions of microbes. Microbes live in the soil, on rocks, inside roots, buried under miles of Earth, in compost piles and toxic waste, and all over the Earth’s surface. Microbes are found in boiling hot springs and on frozen snowfields. Microbes live in homes, in schools and on statues. They live on your cutting board, on your shower curtain, in your couch and in your carpet. Some microbes “breathe” substances other than oxygen such as nitric acid, sulfuric acid, iron, arsenic or uranium to produce energy. Some microbes live near roots of plants. (Information obtained from: http://www.edu.pe.ca/ southernkings/microhabitats.htm)

Experiment 1: Q. Water really likes staying together. Place drops of water with an eye dropper onto a smooth sheet of plastic. What did you notice happening to the drops of water? A. You would notice the water droplets stick together to form droplets. This happens because water has a ‘skin’. Q. Where have you seen this type of water action in your home? A. Water skin examples around the home: in the bathroom, kitchen bench, on your car windscreen, on your umbrella or weather jacket, on plastic containers and water bottles. Experiment 2: Fill a small bowl with water. Wait until the water is totally still. Place the paper clip on an eating fork and lower the clip into the water. What happened? A. The paper clip appears to be floating however it is actually being suspended by the surface tension of the water. Q. Look closely at the surface of the water around the paper clip. What do you notice? A. You will notice that the surface of the water is indented where the paper clip is sitting in the water. Q. What happens when you disturb the water? A. When the water surface is disturbed the surface tension is broken and the paper clip will sink. Q. What happens when a small drop of soap is added to the edge of the container of water? A. When soap is added to the water the oils move across the surface of the water rapidly breaking the surface tension of the water and the paper clip sinks.

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Task Card 7 Experiment Salt water does not allow the soap to foam up as well as fresh water does because it has different properties to water. If you wash your body or clothes in saltwater it is better to rinse with freshwater. The salty water will be uncomfortable on your clothes and bodies and when the air becomes moist your clothes will feel damp. The salt particles left in your clothes will absorb the moisture in the air.

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Task Card 8 Q. What do people have to do keep pools clean? A. People need to remove the leaves, bugs and sticks, clean the filter, treat the water with chlorine mixes or salt water mixes, vacuum, scrub, keep it full with water, cover it to prevent water evaporation and check the water quality. Q. What do people put into the water to keep it healthy to swim in? A. People need to add chlorine mixes or salt mixes to a pool to keep it healthy. Q. What happens to a pool if the correct care is not given to the pool water? A. If the correct care is not taken of a pool the water will become a home for different types of algae, fungus and bacteria. It will change colour to greens and browns. Without chemicals pool water becomes a breeding ground for plants and micro organisms which can be harmful to people. 44