Read about the positive and negative effects of tourism on this website.http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/human_processes/tourism/revision/4/

On a piece of paper write about the positive and negative effects of tourism in Sanabria Natural Park. Do some research about the effects of tourism in this particular place (Sanabria) and then write 5 positive and 5 negative effects in two columns (for the fauna, the flora, the environment, the people) Illustrate with a picture or drawing.

THE ALPS

 Activities: sightsee, hiking, mountain biking, mountaineering, paragliding, swimming, skiing, snowboarding.

Imagine that you are asked to write a script to go with this video. You must highlight all the fantastic activities you can do there. Don’t forget to use powerful verbs that will help to persuade people to visit the Alps: visit, enjoy, walk around, have fun, have a go at (paragliding for example), share (something with friends or partner)… And also adjectives: beautiful, lovely, wonderful, amazing, exciting, charming, world-famous, freezing cold.

CLIMATE GRAPH  ZAMORA

GEOGRAPHY TEST  EUROPE

• You should be able to locate the following mountains, peaks and rivers in Europe:Great Europenan Plane, Eastern ÇEuropean Plane, Scandinavian mountains, Ural mountains, Pyrenees, Alps, Apennine mountains Carpathian mountains, Balkan mountains, Caucasus.   Mount Elbrus, Mont Blanc, Teide, Mulhacen, Aneto, Etna, Musala, Gran Sassa.
• Rivers: Rivers on the map book page 37.
• Climates and vegetation: characteristics of climates and vegetation types  pages 38 and 39 (Study tables in your exercise book).

Homework 24th November

Do activity 1 on page 33. Add the Cantabrian watershed to the table. Below the table add a photograph of three rivers. One for each watershed. Do it on your computer and bring it to school in your pendrive on Monday.

GEOGRAPHY TEST Wednesday 22nd November

• Study map on page 15. The landforms that you will need to locate are the ones named in the different paragraphs of the book. Study from page 14 to 21. 
• Use the worksheets and tables you have done for revision.
• Don't forget to write a question for your partner.
• The test will consist of: a map to label, some short questions and four photographs to locate and describe.

Geography homework

Read through the Spanish coasts. Find pictures for a landmark in each coast.
Think and design in your exercise book a chart or a graphic organiser to organise the information.
You can find graphic organisers in Word Art.

Map of Spain

You are going to create a model of a landscape map of Spain. Materials you will need: A piece of cardboard size A3 A template of the map of Spain Some plasticine Some sweets (gominolas) Some paint Method: Paint the seas and oceans in blue or use some paper to model them. For landscape: Look at the small map in your book for mountain chais and mountain ranges. These you will model using the sweets. For the plateaus and river basins you can use plasticine or clay. you will need to make the rivers using some gominolas too. Don't forget about the Canary and the Baleasric islands. Use your imagination to model them. Bring the model to school on Thursday 15th october and we use some glue as varnish. Then we will take pictures of your models and you will label them on your computer. More insturctions for this will be given in class.

TEST

Do some research on tourism in Sanabria and write down  a piece of writing taking into consideration the positive and negative effects of tourism. Don't forget to plan first. 

Positive effects                                                                            Negative effects

http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/geography/human_processes/tourism/revision/4/           

Find some inspiration on this link but you should also find information about Sanabria natural park

SOCIAL SCIENCE TEST

You are ready for this test if:

• You know the elements in the economy
• The resources of companies and what they are.
• Types of companies
• Structure of companies
• Advertising techniques
• The meaning of:

Cash, debit cards, credit cards, electronic payments,budget,savings, profit, investors, investments.

Hand in the activity on page 50.

SOCIAL SCIENCE HOMEWORK

• Finish off your piece of work about Hamleys
• Page 45 of your book: Do Work with the picture adding two more companies: Google and Facebook. You will also need to find the names of the presidents of these companies.
• Do this work in your notebook. You will have to draw the logos of the companies.

SOCIAL  SCIENCE HOMEWORK

• I shared with you two climate graphs of Madrid and London. Look and them and try to compare the two climates using sentences to compare. Write as many as you can. Make sure that you compare precipitacion, highest temperatures, lowest and when they happen.

• YOUR TEST    There will be a simple Science test on Wednesday, You will just need to revise different climates and vegetation in europe. But there will be a piece of computer work for you to do. Go to page 40 of your book and make sure that you will be able to carry out the task described there.
• Your last task will be to reflect on the following thought and include in your presentation a little reflection about this:

Water pollution kills animals and can destroy whole ecosystems. All the water that people drinks comes from a natural source, usually a river or a lake. Dirty water can make us very ill. People can also be affected by water pollution when they eat fish that have been poisoned.Your reflection can consist of: some photos with comic like bubbles, a poem with some illustrations or a little video clip of you talking about it .

SOCIAL SCIENCE THE WEATHER IN EUROPE

http://www.weatheronline.co.uk/Europe.htm

GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK

Your geography homework is in one drive. you will find it in a folder that I shared with you.

You will need to read the poem, copy it in your copybook and answer the questions.

Social Science Test Tuesday 17th november

SCIENCE TEST PREPARATION:

• Read and study pages 22,23,24 and 25 of your book. Study your graphical organizer on your computer.
• Make sure that you know the names and the location of the highest peaks in Europe and the country and mountain range they belong to.
• You will need to know the names of oceans, seas, penisnsulas and islands in Europe.
• I am going to ask you to compare the reliefs of Great Britain and Spain. 
• You will need to give definitions for gulfs, capes, fjords and straits with two examples for each.
• You will need to complete a blank map of Europe with all the landmarks that appear on page 22-23.
• This time you will need TO BRING  a sheet of paper with 5 true/false questions for your partners. IF YOU DON'T BRING THAT you will not get any questions from anyone and you will fail that question.

You will need to visit Norway or Sweden. You will need to plan your visit and do the planning.

Ex- Sunday- Leave Zamora on coach to Madrid 15:00    Plane leaves Madrid  20:00  Arrive in __________ at.....        You will need to say what you will be doing everyday. Places you will visit, activities you will do there. How you will get there  coach, train, plane???   The first thing to do will be to find information about what you can do in these countries, places you can visit , activities...


Imagine that you have done the journey and you have come back. Write down what you enjoyed best and things that you couldn't do

 because you had no time, or you couldn't do it for some other reason.

Sweet Spain

These maps of Spain have been made by children in year six. They used plasticine and sweets to make them. Then we took the pictures and the last step will be to label them using ITC.

Rivers in Europe

Do a factfile about a river. Include a picture.

Name of river:
Source of the river:
Where it is located:
Cities it flows through:
River mouth:
Human activity there:




Write down a paragraph explaining why you have chosen this river and what you would like to do there if you had the chance to visit the place and the river.

The whole piece of work should be done on a word document.

SOCIAL SCIENCE TEST   Wednesday 29Th October

For this test you will need:

To study the map on page 15 and be able to locate all the mountain ranges, mountain chains and peaks in THE PIECES OF TEXT FROM the book.
Study page 14,15,16, 17,18 and 20 and 21 and also locate on the map those landforms.
Revise the activities in the book and the worksheets I gave you.

SWEET MAP OF SPAIN

Power point
Slide 1-Take a picture of your map. Label de mountain chains and ranges and the plateaus.
Slide 2 and 3. Put some pictures of 8 places in these mountain ranges , chains, plateaus or rivers. Write one sentence below saying where it is and one more sentence about human activity there.

This power point should be shared with me before Tuesday.