Term 4 - Literacy hand in form

Make sure you get the SHAREABLE link!

INQUIRY

INQUIRY!

DUE TOMORROW (Friday) - BLOCK 2

Check the whiteboard/Google Classroom to make sure you have completed all requirements. 

Download your publication to you Google Drive. Get the SHAREABLE LINK and use the hand in form to submit your hard work!

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 6

4 Inquiry lessons left!

You need to work towards completing your itinerary.

Remember:

You need to visit two cities (minimum)

You need to participate in a minimum of 5 tourist attractions, including:

• A free attraction
• An organised tour
• An adventurous activity
• Visit a historical site

You need to add all costs to your budget

Helpful hints:

- search "your city visitor information"

- search "your city lonely planet" (lonely planet is a travel guide book and website)

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 5

Today you need to carry on with your day to day itinerary.

Try searching your city and visitor information to find tours, activities, sites to see etc (Eg "Hong Kong visitor information").

Your day to day itinerary should include:

• Your activities including
• Cost (include this in your budget)
• Time needed
• Location
• Remember to include; something that is free, an organised tour, an adventure activity and visit a historical sited)
• Transportation between locations

• Means of transport (hire a car/bus/train/walk?)
• Distances
• Time

• Accommodation including
• Cost (remember to include this in your budget)
• Type (eg motel, backpackers etc)
• Contact details (address, phone number, email)

Make sure you keep a record of the amount of money you will need to spend to cover expenses. 

This should be recorded in your budget

Week 6 Numeracy - Graphs

DOT PLOT GRAPHS

ACTIVITIES :

Dot plots - explanation 

Khan Academy: Line plots videos and activities 

Create line plots activity

Dot plot graph game

Class activity - graphing whole class favourite two fast food restaurants....click here to create a dot plot graph based on class data collected:

https://www.geogebra.org/m/HD6hhQ75

BOX AND WHISKER GRAPHS

Click on this link to help explain box and whisker graph\

https://www.brainingcamp.com/lessons/box-and-whisker-plots/lesson.php

ACTIVITIES :

Quartiles and box and whisker graphs - explanation and activities

Quartiles Activity

Interpret box and whisker graphs activity

Box and whisker graph game

Statistics - Alpha workbook mahi  

Please complete this work in your maths book…

Pg 121 (31.02) - dot plot graph activities

Pg 123 (31.04) - stem graphs

Box whisker activities IXL - https://www.ixl.com/math/algebra-1/interpret-box-and-whisker-plots

• Statistics

Click here for - ANSWERS

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 4

By now you should have completed the following:
1 - Continent page
2 - Country page
3 - Day 1 and 2 itinerary

Today you need to make a start on your budget. I have shared a document on google classroom that you can use.
Add more lines as you need to.

You also need to work towards completing your 1st city page

Lastly continue to work on your day to day itinerary

3 weeks remaining = 6 more inquiry lessons

Literacy

Your new literacy skill is "Key into reorganisation". This skill helps you find deeper meaning in the the texts you are reading.

Please read the whole text, then the questions, then read the text again.

You need to complete the following:

ALL levels, ALL paragraph cards plus the conversation card.

Level 1 Short texts

3 Fiction and 4 Non-fiction

Level 2 Short Texts

3 Fiction and 4 Non-fiction

Level 3 Short Texts

2 Fiction. For Non-fiction you must complete: News (S6); Sports News (S7); Leisure Reviews (S8); and Advertising (S9) plus one other non-fiction.

When you have completed Paragraphs and Short Texts you will begin Texts

World Travel Inquiry - Lesson 3

By now you should have the following completed.
  1. Page on your continent
  2. Page on your first country
  3. Information regarding flights to your first country/city

Make sure you are up to speed and not falling behind

Put your phone away... move away from people who distract you... stay off Facebook/YouTube/Games... Do what YOU need to do to complete the work! Make good choices

Today we are going to start our itinerary.
An itinerary is a detailed plan of each day. Things to remember to include...

  a) Your flight information for arriving in your first city (Flight from NZ)

  b) What are you going to do for the remainder of your arrival day? (Go site seeing? Go to a hotel and sleep?)

  c) What you will do for your first full day in that city?
- Tourist attractions / Site seeing
- Accommodation for that night (Address, cost, type of accomm etc)
- Transport options (Hire a car? Catch a bus/train? Walk?)

  d) Make sure you keep a record of the amount of money you will need to spend to cover expenses 


Here is ONE example of a BASIC itinerary, there are other examples on Google Classroom and you can search the internet as well. The more detail you include the better... Notice how this does not include costs, transport, accommodation etc.