Year+7

**Year 7**
__Assessment Test 2 Topics:__ Climate graphs (revise skills from last term) Ecosystems - define and know examples of them Four layers of the rainforest Different types of rainforest plants and their strategies to survive Threats to the rainforest Knowledge and understanding of your chosen endangered species, including the threats to its existence

Working individually, use [|our ‘webs’ page]to create a profile page for an endangered or extinct species. Your page must be written in the first person (i.e. as if you are the animal). **DUE DATE: 7/12/2012**
 * Endangered Species Task:**


 * Each profile must include the following:**
 * Profile Picture & Species Name
 * Personal information in an “About Me” section (age, attributes, offspring, status, diet, location/habitat etc.)
 * Blog with at least 3 entries (of at least 150 words each) including: reasons you are threatened; ways you could be protected; achievements in efforts to save you so far (donations or reserves set up for you etc.).
 * Photo album //with subtitles// (including map of habitat, pictures of threats etc.)
 * Helpful comments on 3 of your classmates’ profile pages
 * Bibliography (including websites & books you used to find the information)

Your profile must demonstrate your understanding of how humans are having an impact on your species, and about how the problems are being, or should be, managed.

1. In preparation for building your website, you need to have the following research completed by next lesson:
 * Homework: due Thursday 29th Nov**
 * Personal information - life span, attributes, offspring (how many babies you can have at one time), location, habitat, diet etc.
 * Different reasons you are threatened - be specific and detailed, find out as much information as you can here.
 * Suggested ways you could be protected
 * Any achievements in efforts to save you so far etc.


 * Topics for Assessment Test 1**

- Drawing and reading climate graphs - Climate regions of the world - Factors affecting climate - Deserts - location & features - Animal & plant adaptations to desert environments - Ecosystems & Biomes

Online games to help you revise:

[|World climates quiz] [|Weather and climate - beat the examiner] [|Climate graphs quiz - challenging!]

Homework: (due Thursday 4th Oct.) 1. Draw the perfect (fictional) desert animal, and the perfect desert plant. You must label the physical features that allow them to survive in the harsh climate of the desert. You must also explain the behvioural adaptations for the animal.

Homework (due Thursday 27th Sept.) 1. Complete any class work you have not completed. 2. Finish your map of deserts of the world. Don't forget to draw in the equator and the tropics, and give a title and a key.



Homework (due Thursday 13th September): 1. If you did not finish Q1-6 in class please complete that first. 2. Use the following climate data for Hannover to draw a climate graph. Don't forget to label your axes and add an appropriate title! 3. Write 5 statements that compare the climate in Plymouth to the climate in Hannover. (i.e. both of your self-made climate graphs) e.g. //Over the whole year, Plymouth receives more rainfall than Hannover//


 * Climate Data for Hannover, Germany **

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year

0.7 1.4 4.0 7.9 12.6 15.9 17.4 16.8 13.8 9.4 4.6 2.0 8.9 (av temp.)

44.6 36.8 42.5 43.4 53.2 65.9 74.1 68.9 48.5 47.8 47.1 49.2 622.7 (rainfall)


 * Lesson - Thursday Oct. 4th - Ecosystems**

1. Watch the following short documentary clip as an introduction to the lesson.

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Questions to discuss as class: - What does 'ecosystem' stand for? What is it? - How big is an ecosystem? - What is a 'biome'? - Which is the biggest biome? - Why is important to protect our forests?

2. Textbooks - open to page 54-55 - Read through the information on both pages. - Complete Questions 2-4 - in full sentences on lined paper (don't forget a heading!)

3. Draw the locations of the world's Tropical Rainforests on to your map of world deserts (you will have to adapt the title and key).



4.Great Climate Graph Match - whole class activity / game / revision

- Go to [|this] link, read out the activity, then click on 'beginner'. - Read out the instructions, tell students they are to work ALONE, and there is to be no talking or signalling. - All students will have to stand up - Start game - Give the students 30 seconds to write down which location they think is correct for each set of graphs. Tell them to cover their answers, no cheating or signalling! - Reveal the answer - get someone who got it right to explain why it is so - All those who got it wrong sit down. - Keep going until the end - those standing up at the end are the winners! Round of applause! :)


 * History**

Test topics:


 * Primary & secondary sources
 * Timeline of the World (know a few examples!)
 * BC & AD (be able to plot events on a timeline)
 * Fall of the Roman Empire (reasons for the fall)
 * Feudalism (structure of society)
 * Knights & heraldry (becoming a knight etc.)
 * Crime & punishment
 * Witches & witchery
 * Weapons & Castles
 * Feasts & food
 * Analysing a primary source

Lesson: Tuesday 20th March

Opening class questions - what do you think are the 'worst' jobs around today? Make a list on the board. What do they have in common? What makes them so bad?

Title: 'Worst Jobs in the Middle Ages' 1. On a piece of lined paper, draw up a table that uses the whole page (double-sided A4 page) with three columns, under the heading 'Worst Jobs in the Middle Ages'. The headings for the columns should be 'Job Title', 'Responsibilities/Tasks' and 'Dangers/Problems'. Leave lots of room to write plenty of notes for each job.

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After the end of the video, reflect on your notes and answer these questions on a separate piece of paper:

1. What do all of the 'worst jobs in the middle ages' have in common? 2. Which do you think was the worst job in the MIddle Ages? Why? 3. Do you think life is easier or harder today? Explain your opinion.

Homework: //due Tuesday 6th March//

1. Compete the 'diamond ranking exercise' with the most important reasons at the top of the diamond, and the least important reasons at the bottom. 2. Write 1-2 paragraphs (underneath or on a seperate piece of paper) to explain why you think those are the most important and least important.


 * Geography**

Assessment Test 2 - Topics to revise:
 * Population growth
 * Population distribution and density
 * Resources & recycling
 * Climate Change
 * Greenhouse effect & greenhouse gases
 * Ecological footprints

Games & Interactive Revision...
[|Population density - match-up quiz] [|Population distribution - match-up quiz] [|Population - fling the teacher!] [|BBC Bitesize revision - Greenhouse effect] [|Greenhouse gases - hoop shoot out] [|BBC Bitesize revision - Carbon footprints]

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