The Oldershaw Academy Resources For Pupils Working At Home Year 9 Summer Half Term 2 – Weeks 35 & 36 The Oldershaw Academy is committed to providing pupils with activities and resources which will continue to support their learning during this period of enforced closure. Whilst we recognise the challenges that working at home presents for young people and their parents and carers, it is vital that pupils continue with activities which support their learning but also their wellbeing. As the ‘lockdown’ continues, we understand that it presents many difficulties and we have designed this booklet to balance academic content with activities which support children’s emotional wellbeing. Pupils and parents / carers will be able to contact their class teachers via Academy email or Microsoft Teams to discuss the work set and ask questions. We hope that this period of enforced closure is as short as possible and we are looking forward to pupils returning to school. Core Subjects Your teachers have produced a recommended timetable to help you try and stick to a similar structure to school. We believe you should be spending at least 30 minutes working on English, Maths and Science each day. Some students may want to complete more work and extend their learning. To do this, we would recommend using BBC Bitesize which provides daily lessons. You can watch them on television or through their website: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize You can post any work you complete on Teams for your teachers to view. We would also like you to rest and relax at the end of your work; you could talk to family or friends about what you have done and make sure you feel proud of yourself for completing your work to the best of your ability. WEEK 35 - Monday June 15th to Friday 19th June MONDAY ENGLISH Write a short story about a dystopian world where air pollution is out of control. Try to include as many language and structure devices as you can. Follow the outside, inside, main event and fight or flight. MATHS Estimate the distance of one lap of your garden or living room. Measure the distance (you could use a piece of string). How close was your estimate? How many laps would you need to do to walk the distance of the Great Wall of China (21,196km)? TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Investigate how fast objects of different mass fall. Write a hypothesis (prediction) for whether you think mass does affect how fast something falls. Take 3-5 objects about the same size with different masses (e.g. ball of paper, ball of foil, balled up pair of socks,etc.) drop them from a specific height and time how long it takes the objects to hit the ground. TUESDAY ENGLISH Create a leaflet that encourages young people to take up gardening. Include a range of reasons why young people should take up the hobby and pictures/drawings to engage the reader. Ensure you use persuasive language. MATHS Draw 10 different angles. What type of angle are they? Now estimate the size of each angle, getting someone in your house to also estimate. Compare your answers. TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Write a scientific method for the mass drop investigation. Someone should be able to follow your method. Use numbered steps, include names of any equipment, and include how you would make it a fair test (what do you keep the same each time you do it). WEDNESDAY ENGLISH If you were to leave an ‘Earth capsule’ on a distant planet for other life forms to find, what would you place in it to represent our planet? Write a description for each of your choices (you must include at least six) to explain to aliens what they are and why they’re significant. MATHS Collect 5 objects around your house. Estimate their weights and put them in order from lightest to heaviest. Weigh them. How did you do? Did anything surprise you? TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Construct a table you could use to record your mass drop results. What headings would go in it? Do you need units? Should you repeat the experiment? How many times? THURSDAY ENGLISH Invent your own game that could be played in the garden. Write a list of instructions, rules and diagrams of the game being played. MATHS A bag of sugar weighs 1kg. How many bags of sugar would you need to weigh the same as: a) a car, b) a whale, c) a favourite animal. TAKE A BREAK! SCIENCE You decide to repeat the experiment on the moon on mars and on Jupiter. Do you think the rate the objects will fall would be faster slower or the same (they may be different on each planet/moon)? Explain your answer. FRIDAY ENGLISH Write a poem with the title ‘Yesterday’. Try to make your poem rhyme and try to include as many poetic techniques as you can. MATHS Measure the length of 5 objects around your house. Convert their lengths into millimetres, centimetres, metres and kilometres. Which units are the most suitable to use for each object? TAKE A BREAK! SCIENCE You are planning the first human led mission to Mars. Explain why it is important for you to understand how fast objects fall when landing a space craft on the surface of Mars. WEEK 36 - Monday 22nd June to Friday 26th June MONDAY ENGLISH Write a short story (no more than 500 words) where you are the hero. Remember to use language and structure devices and lots of description. MATHS *DO THIS EACH DAY* Count how many steps you do each day (you can use the Fitbit app, Samsung Health, etc.). How many steps do you think you will do each day? How many steps do you think you will do over the whole week (5 days)? If 100 metres = 125 steps, what distance do you think you will walk each day? What distance do you think you will walk over the whole week (5 days)? TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Write a definition for the following words: 1. Melting 2. Freezing 3. Boiling 4. Evaporating 5. Condensing 6. Sublimating TUESDAY ENGLISH What hobby is the most important to you? Once you have decided, write a speech about why it is important that would persuade other people to try it out. Use our DAFOREST devices. MATHS Whilst you're out for a walk, tally up how many dogs, cats, yellow cars, squirrels and people you see. Produce a bar chart showing this data. TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Describe as many differences as you can between solids liquids and gases. WEDNESDAY ENGLISH Write a positive news article. The positive event can be real or made up (e.g. someone winning the lottery). Include all the features of a newspaper article and the DAFOREST devices. MATHS Produce a questionnaire connected to the lockdown, e.g. what have you done during lockdown? Have you exercised more during lockdown? Display your information in any form you think suitable, e.g. poster, pie charts. TAKE A BREAK SCIENCE Draw a diagram of an atom and label the different particles. THURSDAY ENGLISH Write a letter to someone who inspires you. In the letter explain to them why they inspire you and how it has impacted you. Make sure to use the features of a letter and DAFOREST. MATHS How many ways can you represent the number three? E.g. dots, people, sticks, etc. Which one is the most useful? Which one is the easiest to understand? TAKE A BREAK! SCIENCE Speed = distance ÷ time Invent 5 exam questions (and answers) using this equation. FRIDAY ENGLISH Create a holiday brochure to persuade people to visit the Wirral. It can be any area of the Wirral you like. Make sure you use descriptive language to persuade people. DAFOREST devices. MATHS How many steps have you actually done this week? Draw a bar chart for the number of steps you have done each day. What distance have you walked in total? TAKE A BREAK! SCIENCE Draw and label as many electrical circuit symbols as you can remember. Try and use them to draw a circuit diagram. Menu of Activities We also understand that working at home is much harder than being in school in many ways. We know it can be difficult to ‘stick’ to your regular timetable sometimes, and also working without your teacher is difficult. Therefore, we have put together a range of activities for non-core subjects – you can choose when to do them and in what order to do them. Some of them are ‘thinking’ exercises about a topic or idea, others are trying a new activity, and some are practising something you’ve already learnt. French Week 35 (15/06/20 – 19/06/20): With a focus on spelling and pronunciation, try and learn the following tongue twister, which focusses on the pronunciation of “oi” (pronounced wa): “Poisson sans boisson, c’est poison!” (translation: Fish without drink, it is poison!). Then create a poster or mind map with words of words you know containing “oi”. “Oi” can be anywhere, e.g. noir, poisson, oiseau, noix, etc. Week 36 (22/06/20 – 26/06/20): List as many infinitives as you can, e.g. regarder, aller, faire etc. Now, using the verb “aller” in its correct form + infinitive (future form), create as many sentences as you can! Some examples: Je vais aller au cinéma. Nous allons faire une pique-nique. Mon père va regarder “Match of the Day.” History Week 35 (15/06/20 – 19/06/20): The Jack the Ripper case has remained an unsolved mystery since 1888.