A few of our KS3 students have excelled with home learning and kept up to date with lessons and tasks supplied to them. Therefore I came up with a list of tasks that enrich the topics that they've been learning about, or won't have the opportunity to learn as it's no longer in their curriculum.
Task 1: Using longitude, latitude and maps to track hurricane paths - supplied by the American Hurricane Center. This gives an insight into the impacts of data modelling, albeit manual, but the idea is the same. There's also further activities relating to protection and preparation.
https://aamboceanservice.blob.core.windows.net/oceanservice-prod/education/for_fun/FollowthatHurricane.pdf
Task 2:Tours of USA national parks. These include 2 of my favourites: Yellowstone and Crater lake. All you have to do is go to the website and explore the virtual webcams, watch videos of the tours etc. They can then pick their favourite national park and create a poster to advertise it in school (e.g. why is their chosen park special, what does it offer visitors, what features does it have (human and physical geography). An additional activity is they can send a postcard from one of the national parks, to explain what they are doing and what they can see.
https://earth.google.com/web/@2.45133915,-98.61144059,-5192.98031784a,27413757.13498593d,35y,-0h,0t,0r/data=Ci0SKxIgMzVhNjc1YmQ0NjVjMTFlOTg0Yjg1NTMyNWRjMDk2MzQiB3ZveV90b2M
https://www.nationalparks.org/connect/blog/take-virtual-visit-national-park?gclid=Cj0KCQjwirz3BRD_ARIsAImf7LNHnPYLHtZMnPk5Px2AhUm3aTP-jlWkktDYDsocAgzfWPj0jEthq7oaAjiwEALw_wcB
I also have colouring pages of the national parks official posters, if you'd like these as a mindfulness activity afterwards.
Task 3: Make a model volcano (template below) and find out additional information about the stratovolcano (also known as composite volcano). Add the information, including any examples of active composite volcanoes around the world and any other interesting facts for students to learn from.
Task 4: Gapminder card game (link at end of point). Students can research any countries they don't know about first and write the info on the back of the cards (life expectancy and GDP). They can then use the cards and the information to make a live graph (where you make the graph using the cards in front of them) to show how GDP impacts life expectancy. An example of the graph is on the last page of the pdf, but it's always interesting to see what the pupils come out with first. This is also a slight maths lesson about correlation. Here
Task 5: Create a comic strip about the weather during lockdown. Those that can, link the weather to high or low pressure. How it's changed, what we have/haven't been able to do in the weather. They may need to see past forecasts (bbc weather) and they can use the following websites/apps to create comic strips:
https://www.storyboardthat.com/storyboard-creator (creates the strips)
The website below creates characters and strips:
I will add more to this as i go along, but for now, have fun!
Kind Regards,
Miss Cox
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