Year 9 Term 4 Homework Pack
Greenacre Academy intends homework to be diverse in nature, focusing on more project-based work which will be on-going over a number of weeks. This booklet includes homework from each subject that your son / ward studies at school.
Our Expectations Students must complete and submit homework pieces from each project as their teacher directs. Teachers will inform students when each piece of homework is due in and this will be recorded in their Planners. Please also note that some tasks in the booklet are subject to change, and this will be done so at the discretion of the teacher. This would occur on occasions where a different task may be more beneficial to your son/ward’s learning.
As well as the three Homework Tasks, there are some additional activities for each subject.
Reading List Students should read for at least 45 minutes each night. Reading frequently will help students to develop their vocabulary and literacy skills. Please encourage you son / ward to read. Suggested reading material has been included within the projects for each subject.
Stretch & Challenge Students are encouraged to push themselves, completing more tasks where they see fit. If they have a particular interest or gift in a given area, students should be encouraged to complete the stretch and challenge task.
Skills for Life As part of the Academy’s implementation of ‘Skills for Life’, each subject-area has carefully thought about activities and tasks to integrate particular skills into their schemes of work. To help promote this, the completion of the homework tasks will help your son/ward develop these certain skills. The Skills for life focus is EMPLOY ME - Excellence, Manners, Perseverance, Listening, Organisation, You, Motivation and Employability
Bedrock Vocabulary
Bedrock is a new and innovative vocabulary programme which enables students to complete interactive lessons which take between 15-20 minutes. During the lessons, students will learn the definitions of keywords and complete a range of comprehensive tasks to improve their reading skills. As your child progresses through the curriculum, they will study hundreds of words, whilst reading fiction and non- fiction texts regularly. Learning key vocabulary is essential for all subjects in order for your son/ward to access their exams.
We recommend that students complete two sessions per week, some of these may be completed in school, during lessons, but students also need to engage with the programme in their own time too. Students will need to:
- Logon to https://www.bedrocklearning.org/ - Click on login - Put in their username and password (which will be in their student planners) - Click on the first session
We ask that you acknowledge and share your son/ward’s success with the Bedrock Vocabulary programme.
If your son/ward is unable to access the internet from home, they are able to use the library after school every day as part of homework club which takes place from 2.50 pm – 3.50 pm.
Homework Club If your son/ward needs help with homework we run a homework club every weekday from 2.50-3.50 in the Library.
Queries? If you have any queries about the homework projects please get in touch with the relevant teacher using the email address provided for each subject. Thank you for your continued support of Homework.
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Schedule
Your son/ward will be set homework on alternate weeks throughout the term on the week commencing dates outlined below. The ‘hand in dates’ will be set by teachers in class and recorded in student diaries.
Week 20th Feb 27th Feb 6th March 13th March 20th March 27th March Commencing Art and History Art and History Art and History Design Maths Design Maths Design Maths Computing DBE Computing DBE Computing DBE PA RE PA RE PA RE English Science Music Science Music Science Yr 9 Geography Media English Media English Media Photography Business Geography Business Geography Business Engineering MFL Photography MFL Photography MFL PE CBE Engineering CBE Engineering CBE PE PE
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Art and Design [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Task 1 – Please note: you will be issued with a booklet in class. Complete task one from the booklet remember to keep your mark-making accurate and maintain proportion when drawing. Need some help? Use the grid method to help you with scale and proportion. TASK 1
Task 2 2 Complete task two from the booklet. Try to add tone or extra detail to show off your skills! Need some help? Draw a tonal key at the top of your page to remind you of the five tones you need. TASK
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3 Complete task three from the booklet. Could you add a background to draw upon to add a different effect. Need some help? Why not use tea or coffee to stain the page to give your work an aged
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Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings Create an image of your own Illustration Now 4, Grid up a picture of contour city design, it should include J, Wiedemann your choice and tonal some real life drawings or enlarge this. shading buldings that exist. This means For your chosen image features you may have to visit a few in How to draw what grid up 1cm x 1cm, perspective order to draw from life. you see R. De enlarge this onto the proportion Reyna paper by gridding up
http://www.npg.or your paper 2cm x 2cm. g.uk/learning/digit This will make your al/portraiture/self- drawing four times as image/making-a- big!! Use a ruler. self-portrait.php
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Business [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Watch an episode of Dragons’ Den – using two of the pitches, you must choose 1 that you would invest your money in and 1 that you wouldn’t invest your money in. In 500 words you have to give a reason for your decisions explaining clearly why.
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2 Watch an episode of The Apprentice. Whilst watching you need to consider the different ways in which they communicate as a team. Describe the different communications skills that have been used and explain whether or not you think these have been effective. Extension: What would
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3 Watch the news and explain the impact on the economy of the UK leaving the EU. You may want to carry out some of your own independent research as well. Extension: What will the impact be financially?
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Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings Write a newspaper article about BBC Bitesize Percentage Profit = Entrepreneur the characteristics of a (profit/cost price) x Financial successful entrepreneur such as Businessed.co.uk 100% Economy Lord Alan Sugar. Impact Question: A Communication hardware shop sells Research dustbins for £12. Independent They originally cost Investment £10. Find the percentage profit made
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Construction [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Job roles in construction. Think about all the jobs there might be on a building site. List 5 and explain in a minimum of 3 sentences what each job entails.
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2 PPE diagram. Create an information guide about all the PPE required on a building site. What is the function of each item? Who needs what PPE and why?
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3 Prepare 10- questions you might be asked in an interview for a job in construction. Make these questions job specific.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Answer the questions Construction and the Work out the Visibilty prepared for interview. Give built environment dimensions of Experience reasons for asking these textbook your current Requirement questions. practical. What Employee Carpentry and joinery is the volume Preparation NVQ and area? knowledge Technologystudent.co m Apparenticeship websites
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Computing [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Spreadsheet modelling worksheet. Write the meanings of the words on the dotted lines beneath each word on the reverse of the sheet.
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2 Spreadsheet formulae worksheet. Clearly work out a formula for each of the shaded cells on the spreadsheet. Remember a formula always starts with an =sign.
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3 Spreadsheet charts and graphs research. Why are chats and graphs used in spreadsheets? Name three types of graph or chart which could be used and find an example of each.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task http://www.w3schools.com/
http://www.teach- ict.com/gcse_new/gcse_ict_quizze s.htm Web design, The internet and WWW and Ecommerce.
https://www.whsmith.co.uk/produ cts/new-gcse-computer-science- ocr-revision-guide-for-the-grade-9- 1-course/9781782946021
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks DBE [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Work is set and assessed on google classroom. Planning Process: Costs
Fill in the missing fees in the table below Access the following website the find the information you will need (alternatively use similar information from your local authority planning department). TASK 1 https://www.gwynedd.gov.uk/en/Residents/Planning-and-building-control/Planning/Planning- fees--how-to-pay.aspx
2 Work is set and assessed on google classroom. Utilities:Waste Questions are on a google form. Worksheet is available from the class teacher.
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Work is set and accessed on google classroom. You are designing an office building for a group of
20 accountants. 3 List all the stakeholders. Explain why their opinion counts. How may having these stakeholders involved affect the design. TASK List the three considerations that you think would be the most important with regards to this building.
Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Complete a block plan of your street. www.google.com/c Complete a Utilities lassroom floorplan to Application scale. Terminology Building Elements Corrections
D&T Resistant Elements Materials Stakeholders
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Engineering [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Draw 3 pieces of P.P.E
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2 Design a tool holder to wear in workshop.
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3 Pick five aspects from the Skills for Life: EMPLOY ME, and say how you have covered it in engineering.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Research all the different careers btec engineering Work out area Vernier Calliper there are in the engineering industry of material for hack saw and explain how you can get into performing the drill gauge. dividers these careers. engineering file operation level 1 emery cloth
gcse engineering Height gauge Bolton
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks English [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Research Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet. Try to find out what makes a Shakespearean tragedy.
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2 Take a scene that you have studied of Romeo and Juliet and turn it into prose like in a novel. You will have to take out the names of speakers and the stage directions and put in description of setting, dialogue and action.
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3 Write an entry for a children's Wikipedia page on Romeo and Juliet as if the story was history. Include dates, place and events. Include things that actual characters say in the play as if they really happened. Use the layout of a Wikipedia page.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Write an extra scene from Romeo and Romeo and Juliet Count the Iambic Juliet that would fit in somewhere in For Kids by Lois syllables in lines Pentameter the play such as Romeo in Padua or Burdett of Shakespeare Solioquy Romeo's parents talking about the to see if they Verse death of Tybalt. Use your Stories from are Apothecary imagination. Try to make it sound like Shakespeare by pentameters or Collier Shakespeare. Geraldine not. McCaughrean
National Theatre: All About Theatre
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks French [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Pretend you are the owner of a restaurant and design your own menu in French.
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2 Write a paragraph in French to say what activities you do to keep fit, using frequency words, likes and dislikes, opinions.
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3 Write a dialogue at the doctors’ in French, using the past tense to say why it hurts and the imperative form to give advice.
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Stretch & Numeracy Reading List Spellings Challenge Task Write a paragraph in J’aime lire Revise numbers Food items – Gender French about the unipresse in French to (masculine and feminine) dangers of drugs and practice prices. Likes/dislikes and opinions alcohol, giving your Le monde des ados Body parts – masculine and opinion. – uni – presse Design a poster feminine on French Past tense of the verbs to Okapi – uni – numbers eat and drink and to play presse between 1 and Keep fit activities 31 then up to 11 Future tense of the verbs to – 10s only) eat and drink and to play
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Geography [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Create a detailed fact sheet about the different types of coastal protection you can find in the UK. Focus on Hard and Soft Engineering.
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2 You have been instructed to come up with a Shoreline Management Plan for Whitstable in Kent. You need to come up with a new coastal protection scheme for the town to ensure that the community and businesses are protected from flooding.
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3 Create a field sketch of Whitstable sea front. Annotate the different types of hard or soft engineering that is used to protect the town. You can use an image online to help you.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Justify why coastal communities need Eduqas textbook Calculate the Protect to be protected from coastal hazards. cost of a new Coastline BBC Bitesize sea wall Management Geography spanning 5 Economic
National miles. Social Geographic Community
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks History [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Quizlet - Tehran, Potsdam & Yalta
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2 Quizlet - Iron Curtain
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3 Quizlet - Truman Doctrine
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Complete a different test on quizlet - End of WW2 Calculate how Iron Curtain Cold War many people Conference War that never died WW2 Revolution happened Blockade
Cold War Crisis Influence
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Mathematics [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Write a hypothesis. An example: ‘Boys spend more time playing sports than girls.’ Then design a set of 5 questions to find out if this is true.
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2 Create a matching game or cards for expanding brackets. Write the question on once card and the answer on another. For example: Question 4(2g+6) Answer 8g + 24 Write 5 or 6 of these to create a matching pairs game.
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3 Create a presentation on factorising expressions. Use BBC bite size or other maths sites to help you. Explain in detail how you factorise an expression.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task 1) To be able to expand and factorise U Hypothesis quadratic expressions. e Research your Know how to Questionnaire s favourite sport and multiply and Discrete 3) To be able to factorise the t find statistics in divide numbers Secondary difference of two squares. i regards to either by 10, 100 and Equivalent o salary, age or their 100. Percentages n achievements. Factorise s Expand .
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Media Studies [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Researching Alibi: Alibi is a digital television channel that broadcasts only crime drama programmes Using the internet and a television listing magazine, find out more about Alibi. (Websites: www.uktv.co.uk/alibi/homepage/sid/500 www.barb.co.uk) Which media institutions own Alibi? What types of crime drama programmes feature on Alibi? What can you find out TASK 1 about the audience figures for Alibi? What is the slogan for the channel?
2 Scheduling: The Head of ITV1 has given you the task of scheduling the following shows. Decide when you would broadcast these shows and explain your reasoning (see the sheet given in class for details)
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Watching the detectives: Create a table of research into popular television sleuths. You might 3 include headings such as: Detective, Programme, Description An example would be Detective: Jonathan Creek Programme: Jonathan Creek Description: Jonathan Creek is an aide to a magician, lives in a windmill and wears a duffel coat. Solves seemingly ‘impossible’ crimes. TASK Sidekick Joey Ross
Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings Research Levi Strauss’ ‘binary Empire’ Research the BBC TV Detective opposition theory’. Choose a magazine/‘Sight show ‘Sherlock’ and Quest television crime drama and and Sound’ find out the following: Conflict apply it to the character types magazine how many series have Scheduling in the show—explain your been made? How Slogan choices. Theodore Boone: many episodes have Research Kid Lawyer – John been made? How Grisham long is each episode?
The Interrogation What was the average of Gabriel James – audience in the UK for Charles Price the New Year’s Day special shown on 1st January 2016
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks PE [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Choose a sport and write a detailed paragraph on how to perform a specific skill within that sport. Then, descibe when you would use it within a game.
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2 Choose a sport and write a detailed paragraph on how to perform a defensive tactic within that sport. Then, descibe when you would use it within a game.
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3 Choose a sport and write a detailed paragraph on how to perform an attacking tactic within that sport. Then, descibe when you would use it within a game.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Want to take things http://news.bbc.co.uk/spo In the last 3 Technique further? Speak to a PE rtacademy/hi/sa/football/ seasons, Tactic teacher about skills/newsid_2071000/20 Chelsea scored Coaching opportunities to help coach 71815.stm 59, 78 and 81 Managing younger pupils at one of goals. Man City Attacking our after school clubs. http://www.givemesport.c scored 77, 62 Defending om/336375-the-pros-and- and 83. Who cons-of-parking-the-bus scored the nost
https://www.quora.com/ and by how What-does-tiki-taka-mean many?
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Performing Arts BTEC [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Write up your weekly rehearsal logs and complete your skills development sheet.
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2 Independently learn your lines for your script so that you are able to perform without a script for your final assessment performance. Ask parents/carers/teacher to sign your planner to confirm you have completed this task.
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3 Independently learn your lines for your script so that you are able to perform without a script for your final assessment performance. Ask parents/carers/teacher to sign your planner to confirm you have completed this task.
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Stretch & Challenge Reading List Numeracy Task Spellings Attend a dance , drama or Read some reviews from The physical theatre Characterisation music club, through school or some current West End company 'Frantic Stage Directions at an out of school club. musicals. Assembly' are coming Vocal Expression to do a workshop with Exaggeration Research one of your you. They charge £200 Rehearsal favourite actors and for a 2hour session. Improvisation understand a little bit about There are 25 students he got started in acting. participating and the PA department are Any newspaperor magazine paying for half the article relating to musical cost. How much will theatre each student have topay to co
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Photography [email protected] Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Task 1 – Please note: you will be issued with a booklet in class. Complete task one from the booklet remember to use a writing frame and annotation guide to help you.
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2 Task 2 – Complete task two from the booklet remember to use a writing frame and annotation guide to help you.
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3 Task 3- Complete task three from the booklet remember to use a writing frame and annotation guide to help you.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Create an photoshoot based on the http://www.tate.or If one photo contour theme of multiple exposure. You g.uk takes up 1.4 contrast should aim to use all the photograhic megabytes on composition equipment in the depatment. my memory features Remember to use two photos to http://www.moma card, then how perspective create a narruative of your choice. .org many photos exposure
http://www.npg.or xcan I take on g.uk/learning/digit my 2gigabyte al/portraiture/self- memory card? image/making-a- self-portrait.php
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks RE [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Find an example of an extended, step and nuclear family in the media. Explain why they are an example of that type of family.
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2 What would life be like if parents did not exist? How would newborns be cared for? Who would protect the children?
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3 Create a list of five qualities Christians and Muslims believe parents should have and then compare. What are the differences and similarities?
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Use the internet to find out about BBC Bitesize RE In 1979 400,000 Family restrictions put on girls and women in couples were Extended Muslim countries. Do you think these RE:Quest divorced, this Divorce restrictions result form cultural or Modern Worl dropped to Equality religious ideas? Religions 150,000 in 2013 Stereotypes Christianity what is this drop Discrrimination in percentage?
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Science [email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
The science lab which you are taught in is need of a facelift in terms of wall displays. You should design an information sheet [e.g. leaflet/poster] to explain what evidence there is for human evolution. You should also link Darwin's theory of evolution. You may use diagrams, but be sure
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2 A new chemistry book is currently being written and you have been asked to create an information table to educate students across key stage three and four. The table title is Bonding Models. In your table include examples, properties and diagrams.
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3 Produce a revsion flow/mind map on waves and the electromagnetic spectrum. You should include the main parts of a wave, the order of the electromagentic waves and their properties, the uses and dangers of electromagnetic waves and how we measure wave speeds.
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Numeracy Stretch & Challenge Reading List Spellings Task Explain the problems associated to www.bitesize.co.uk Humans can Electromagnetic the use of bonding models. E.g. Why hear sounds Frequency is the use of cross and dot diagrams 9-1 Science revsion with a Covalent not very good? What If?: Serious wavelength of Lattices Scientific Answers 16m. The speed Evolution to Absurd of sound in air is Darwin Hypothetical 330m/s. Questions by Calcuate the Randall Munroe frequency of these sounds.
Year 9 Term 4 Homework Tasks Spanish [email protected]/[email protected]
Students should complete the three tasks listed below in order. The Stretch and Challenge and Numeracy Tasks, as well as books from the Reading List and Spellings are to be completed at the discretion of the class teacher and/or the student.
Pretend you are the owner of a restaurant and design your own menu in Spanish.
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2 Write a paragraph in Spanish to say what activities you do to keep fit, using frequency words, likes and dislikes, opinions.
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3 Write a dialogue at the doctors’ in French, using the past tense to say why it hurts and the imperative form to give advice.
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Stretch & Numeracy Reading List Spellings Challenge Task Write a paragraph in J’aime lire Revise numbers Food items – Gender Spanish about the unipresse in Spanish to (masculine and feminine) dangers of drugs and practice prices. Likes/dislikes and opinions alcohol, giving your The Week Junior in Body parts – masculine and opinion. Spanish Design a poster feminine on Spanish Past tense of the verbs to Que tal? Magazine numbers eat and drink and to play between 1 and Keep fit activities Iguana Magazine 31 then up to 11 Future tense of the verbs to – 10s only) eat and drink and to play