Choose your assignment

A Tour of Iran

SOURCE 10 Persepolis. More and more tourists are discovering Iran. Together with a classmate you will plan a trip through Iran in this assignment. You will make a digital poster of your trip. For example, you can plan a trip to Persepolis (Source 10), with its impressively tall and striking buildings from the time when Iran was still called Persia. Or to Isfahan: the city with beautiful palaces, mosques and bridges. You could also consider the desert city of Yazd, the religious city of Mashhad or the huge capital city of Tehran. Or make your trip a little more adventurous by going dune driving in the desert, snowboarding in the mountains or visiting Qeshm Island (Source 11). You will also make a handy road map of your trip.

SOURCE 11 The unusual landscape of Qeshm Island.

B Map memory game

This game is all about speed, teamwork, having an eye for space and detail and a good memory. As a group you will try to copy a map by drawing it as accurately as possible. This will be made more difficult by the fact that you may only look at the map for a very short time! Which group will make the best map?

C Distances at school

Sometimes you walk hundreds of metres between the different classrooms at your school. In addition, you go to the canteen during the break or to the gym or the sports field for PE classes. What distance do you cover in a school day? You can use the map of the school to work that out in this assignment.

D Passport power

SOURCE 12 Do you know which countries these passports belong to? Geography helps you discover the world. It teaches you things about countries you have already been to, countries you would like to visit or those that you never want to go to! But did you know that it is much easier for people with a Dutch passport to travel than for people with a passport from most other countries? For this assignment you will explore the internet to fi nd out how many countries you can visit without a visa with a variety of passports.

E Isla Bonita

The beaches are beautiful. The sea is clear and blue. You can go scuba diving or you can drive around the island on a scooter. What island is this? An island that you yourself are going to draw!

Isla Bonita is an island located in the South Pacifi c Ocean. It measures about 20 kilometres from east to west. It measures 15 kilometres at its widest point from north to south but there are narrower parts too. It is very rocky in the north of the island. In the east, a few kilometres from the coast is the Fugo volcano. Fugo is 2,000 metres high. The crater is fi lled with water so you can see a large volcanic crater lake at the top. There are vast forests at the foot of the Fugo volcano. It is a nature reserve for tigers. There are wide palm beaches on the south coast. In the south there is only a holiday park: Palm Village. The holiday park lies between fi elds and meadows in the fl at coastal region. There are two roads leading from Palm Village: one runs along the beach and leads to the lighthouse on the most easterly point of the island. The other road goes through the fi elds to the Fugo volcano. It goes up the side of the volcano and ends at the crater lake. There are a few villages on the west side of the island.

SOURCE 13 Isla Bonita.