Students can also work on 1 or 2 pages of a Maths Book each day, using a text from a previous year.
Social Studies Project
Topic: “My Family and I”
Task 1. Draw up a clear diagram showing your family tree. Research and collect information so that
you are able to display key information about each person. This could be published on an A3 page or a
large piece of card.
Task 2. Draw up a timeline that shows the sequence of important events in your family's history and in
your own life so far. You may have 20 or more events dated with a brief description placed along this
timeline. Choose 10 events and illustrate 4 or 5 events from before your birth and 4 or 5 events from your own life.
Task 3. Interview a senior member of your family.
Ask:
What was life like when you were my age and what has changed?
What were your future hopes for the family and subsequent generations?
How has technology changed your life?
Think of two or three questions of your own…
Use a tape recorder for your interview and write a report. Younger students
will report on the main points discussed in the interview (around 100 to 200 words for Grade 4). Older
students will work in greater depth (around 600 to 800 words for Grade 8).
Science
Complete 1 to 2 interactive science experiments per week. Students in Grade 4-6 should select from
ask your own experimental question and design your own experiment to find an answer. If you
are new to experiments try to follow the process model below.
Write a reporting on each experiment covering: Topic, Question, Hypothesis, Method, Observation,
Result and Conclusion.
An example done by a Grade 5 student appearsbelow:
Topic: Recovery Rates
Question: What happens to your heart rate after exercise?
How long does it take for your heart to return to normal after exercise?
Research: We know the heart speeds up to supply the body with oxygen.
Method:
We will send Donnelly and Sam for a run to speed their heart rates. We will take their pulse rate
before and then after to find their beats/minute for every 30sec after the run.
Hypothesis:
We think that it will take about 1or 2 minutes for Donnellys heart to go back to its normal speed
and Sam’s about 4 minutes to go back to normal.
Data collection table:
Don Sam
Time since ex.
| Beats per 15 sec
| Beats per min
| | Time since ex.
| Beats per 15 sec
| Beats per min
|
| 0 | 38 | 152 | | 0 | 35 | 140 |
| 0.5 | 19 | 76 | | 0.5 | 33 | 132 |
| 1 | | | | 1 | 25 | 100 |
| 1.5 | | | | 1.5 | 27 | 108 |
| 2 | | | | 2 | 26 | 104 |
| 2.5 | | | | 2.5 | 22 | 88 |
| 3 | | | | 3 | 24 | 96 |
| 3.5 | | | | 3.5 | 22 | 88 |
| 4 | | | | 4 | 21 | 84 |
| 4.5 | | | | 4.5 | 20 | 80 |
| 5 | | | | 5 | 18 | 72 |
| 5.5 | | | | 5.5 | 19 | 76 |
| 6 | | | | 6 | 20 | 80 |
Report on graph:
This graph shows that Sam’s heart rate went down a couple of beats and then went up again. Sam must have been breathing a lot harder than he normally does. Sam’s heart rate went back to
normal after about six minutes.
Donnelly’s graph shows that his heart rate went down quite fast and after about one minute his
heart was back to normal.
Results:
Our hypothesis was almost correct.
Conclusion:
We found out that Sam is not as fit as Donnelly. We found this out by sending Donnelly and Sam
for a run around the top field, and when they got back we measured theie heart rate. This study
shows that not everybodys' heart rate turns back to normal straight away because everybody has
different levels of fitness. We could have improved this study by measuring the course that Sam
and Donnelly ran. We could also have improved this study by having different people at different
points along the run so that Sam and Donnelly could have run the same distance.
Note: The Science and Social Studies assignments will run across 2-3 weeks.
This work will need to be monitored by your Parent Teacher and will be marked by your teacher.
Please send in your assignments when you have finished.
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