Cross Curricular Homework: Japan/(Kensuke S Kingdom) YEAR 6

Cross curricular homework: Japan/(Kensuke’s kingdom) YEAR 6 This half term, we are looking at Kensuke’s Kingdom in Literacy and will be doing cross curricular work on Japan, its history, geography and culture. For each week’s homework, you will need to choose a minimum of one activity within that row. The homework will need to be in on Monday. (Try to push yourself to do some of the choices on the right hand side). Your homework must not be rushed, untidy, printed straight off the internet, or you will be asked to re-do it. We want quality work, please!

Bloom’s Taxonomy: Six Thinking Levels Different Knowing Understanding Applying Analysing Creating Evaluating skil ls Week 1 List all 8 Create a diorama of Construct a map of How is Japan’s landscape Create and record a Britain or Japan? Which is Geography regions in a famous Japanese Japan showing major similar/different to Britain? TV advertisement better? Write a persuasive Japan place. places of industry for tourism in speech to argue your point and /or landmarks Japan.

Week 2 Plot the Convert the Rank cities in Create a graph to show the Create a 24 hour Rank the top 10 cities Mathematical annual currency of Japan terms of the occurrence of volcanoes/ timeline for a according to population rainfall in into pounds population and earthquakes in Japan Japanese person and give reasons why they Japan on a sterling. place the top 10 compared to the rest of the noting the are where they are. block graph. Use a shopping list on a line graph world. differences to to convert into yen. someone who lives in England Week 3 Write your Find a Japanese Draw/label a Look at the legend of Daruma Design and make an Create a mask used in Art full name in recipe, and make a traditional kimono dolls. Design your own origami figure. Japanese theatre. Japanese. Japanese dish. Or costume. Explain Daruma doll and explain (paper folding) Explain the character. create a Japanese when it’s worn. what it represents to you. sushi menu to Draw/label a samurai Write your resolution for Or do a Kirigami display the different warrior your final year in Primary figure (paper types of food costume/armour school. cutting) Week 4 Locate and Describe and draw Write a 200 word Collect photos of Write a Japanese Imagine you are going to Nature show where a a Japanese Crane. report about why beaches/islands of Japan. Tanka poem about visit Japan in 2050. natural earthquakes, Show on a map where they the nature of Japan Write/draw what you disaster has volcanoes and are (think mountains, expect to find when you get happened in tsunamis occur in volcanoes, cherry there. Explain why you Japan. Japan blossoms) believe it will be like this. Week 5 Name the 2 The history of Write a 300 word Conduct a mock interview Create a tourist Rank at least 5 Japanese History cities hit by Japanese lanterns. report on the history with the Emperor of Japan. pamphlet detailing customs according to your the atomic Create your own of religion in Japan. information about own criteria and write a bomb – when lantern and write (Shinto / Buddhism) the festivals and paragraph on each to justify and why? facts on it traditions of Japan your rankings. Week 6 Name all the What are the Create a colourful Compare two traditional Create a poster In which sports did Japan Sport major sports characteristics of spider diagram of sports played in Japan. Find promoting win medals in Beijing 2008. played in karate? traditional and the similarities and traditional sports Thinking of the London Japan current Japanese differences. (Traditions, played in Japan. Olympics, analyse which sport clothing and rules) sports you think Japan will do best in and why.