Today for maths, we are continuing our focus on positive and negative integers.

Your Learning Intention: Students are able to connect positive and negative integers to the real world.

Your task will be to complete some research. During Inquiry, we have all been studying different countries. All of these countries will have different temperatures depending on where they are in the world. Your task is to research these temperatures. You will need to answer the following questions as a comment on this post. I expect that each question is answer fully using appropriate evidence. You will also need to copy and paste the website URL that you got your information from.

1. What is the highest temperature reached in your chosen country?
2. What is the lowest temperature reached in your chosen country?
3. What are the temperatures generally like in your country? Why might this be?
4. Are different parts of your country warmer or cooler than others? Why?

 

Watch this video.

Are there any structures from your chosen country?

What do these structures have in common?

What are the differences?

Are these modern structures? Why or why not?

 

 

Today, you will need to revisit what you started last week with your venn diagrams.

By the end of today, your seeds and your venn diagrams should be completed.

Have a look at these photos of structures around Australia. Think about how they compare to structures in your chosen country.

What is a Venn Diagram? What are they used for? How will you use it to complete your Inquiry work this term?

What do these structures have in common?
What are different about them?
What sorts of architecture are used?
Do different countries have different architecture and buildings? Why?
What will you need to consider when you are designing your structures?

Bullring Shopping Mall – UK

Ferrohouse, Zurich

Goetheanum, 1923

Heelen, The Netherlands

Helsinki Olympic Stadium 1934-35

Imperial War Museum, Manchester

Interior of panthenon, Rome

Kosovo-Library

Kunsthaus-Museum

Millau-Viaduct

Moscow State University – Russia

Parthenon – Greece

Reichstag-Berlin

Sicilian Baroque, San Benedetto in Catania

Troitse Sergiyeve Lavra

Valere Castle – Sion, Switzerland, 12th to 13th Century

This is a map of Europe that shows the countries that are a part of the continent and the size and shape of them.

Albania
Andorra
Armenia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belarus
Belgium
Bosnia & Herzegovina
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Italy
Kosovo
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
The Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Portugal
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Serbia
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Turkey
Ukraine
United Kingdom
Vatican City (Holy See)

You will need to select one of these countries to base your inquiry question and topic around. You will need to consider the architecture, the types of buildings, history of buildings, etc.

This term for Inquiry, you have been lucky enough to be selected to be in the amazing Europe Team! We will be spending our time exploring buildings, structures and achitecture from all over Europe. The following tasks will be expected of you:

• Inquiry Question
• Mind Map
• Seed
• Venn Diagram
• Glogster
• Design
• Building
• Voice Thread

You will be given a more detailed checklist which will need to be pasted into your inquiry books to ensure that you don’t lose them. You and your group will need to select a country from within Europe to study and look at their structures. Your building will need to be based on the structures which are seen in your chosen country.

This term, the students of the Senior Unit have excelled again! They have presented yet another amazing exhibition showing off their work.