HOME LEARNING EARLY CIVILISTIONS THE INDUS …...Locate the civilisation using maps, atlases, globes...
Transcript of HOME LEARNING EARLY CIVILISTIONS THE INDUS …...Locate the civilisation using maps, atlases, globes...
SPRING 1, 2018
EARLY CIVILISTIONS
THE INDUS VALLEY
Year 5
Take Off: What was the Indus Valley
Landing: Class Assembly
Audience: School
HOME LEARNING AT EMNETH ACADEMY WE ENCOURAGE CHILDREN TO COMPLETE HOME
LEARNING TO SUPPORT THE TOPIC AND TO DEVELOP THEIR KEY SKILLS.
TOWARDS THE END OF THE TOPIC, CHILDREN WILL BE ASKED TO BRING
THEIR HOME LEARNING IN TO SHOW THEIR TEACHER AND PEERS.
TOPIC BASED HOME LEARNING
Can you make a Power Point presentation about a topic of your choice?
What can you find out about the Indus Valley?
Can you work on adding and subtracting fractions?
Year 5 Expectations
Children are expected to have their ‘Home Contact Books’ with them in class
every day to use the excellent key facts to help support their learning. Each
Monday pupils will have up to 15 spellings to learn for a test on Friday. Chil-
dren read at home every day, including weekends, or 75minutes in a week -
this can be recorded in ‘Home Contact Books’
TOPIC OVERVIEW
Immersive Learning
Place a number of Indus picture
around the classroom to show the
scenes and artefacts,
Images of what the landscape of
the Indus Valley would have been
like in the past.
Questions
Why is the history of the Indus Valley important?
Why did the Indus Valley cease to exist?
What was everyday life like for the Indus people?
Top 20!
Residential—Skiing
Mentoring
WHOLE SCHOOL EVENTS
4th January: Pupils back into school
22nd - 26th January: Scotland Residential
29th January: Story Telling Week
9th February: Finish for half term
Assemblies
Learn about the Indus Valley and where it fits into the historical timeline.
Discover the location of the civilisation, the terrain and climate. Learn about
the way of life of the people that lived there and look at theories as to why it
ended.
Add picture
TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS
SCIENCE
Living things and their habitats—
Make habitats for certain animals.
Research one habitat in depth.
Create a presentation about your
chosen habitat to share.
LITERACY
• Explanatory writing
Recognising and using key features in their writing.
Research and record key topic facts using ICT.
• Reading comprehension
• Spellings
HISTORY
Learn where the Indus Valley civilisa-
tion fits on a world history timeline.
Investigate their society, buildings
and cities.
Look at the theories given to explain
why the civilisation ended.
Think about what it was like to live
in that time.
NON- TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS
BRITISH VALUES
The Rule of Law
Democracy - How does modern de-
mocracy differ from that in the In-
dus Valley
Individual Liberty
Mutual Respect and tolerance for
other and faiths (or no faiths)
PHILOSOPHY
Understanding of what ‘civilisation’
could mean.
Understand how civilisations can
cease to exist.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Gymnastics with a focus on syn-
chronisation, unison and cannon.
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Islam—
Beliefs and questions
Religion and the individual
Religion, family and community
Worship, pilgrimage and sacred places
OTHER LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
NON-TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS
MATHEMATICS
AET Units
7 - Discovering Equivalence
8 - Reasoning with Fractions
SPELLING, PUNCTUATION,
GRAMMAR
Investigating determiners
Looking at expanded noun
phrases.
Relative clauses
Using brackets
LANGUAGES (GERMAN)
Learning to say the days of the
week and months of the year.
MUSIC
Charanga -
Adele—Make you feel my Love
PSHE
Say no to bullying.
Good to be me.
TOPIC BASED SUBJECTS
COMPUTING
Computing this half term will be
linked to topic work for research
and also Science for research and
presentations. Children will be using
Microsoft Power Point for their
presentations.
GEOGRAPHY
Locate the civilisation using maps, atlases, globes and ICT and describe
features studied.
Learn about terrain and climate of the Indus Valley.
DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY
Design and create a ‘shoe box’
habitat using different materials.
ART AND DESIGN
Improve mastery of art and design techniques including drawing, painting and
sculpting. Create some artefacts the have been studied.