Assessment timeline and the important dates:

History: Medieval Europe 590- 1500

Week 6: Source analysis test

Week 10: Castles assessment (Mostly In class handed out week 7)

Geography: Changing nations

Week 10: Exam and possible excursion (with assessment task)

English: Is it ethical?

Week 6: In class analytical essay ‘Truman show’

Week 10: Spoken debate

Mathematics: Perimeter and Area

Week 5: Go fly a kite in class assessment task (Perimeter and area)

Week 8: Distributive law exam

Week 11: Volume exam

Science: Energy

Week 6: Rube Golberg machine task completed

Week 11: Research booklet (Kite making/ flammable materials

                                                         Area of rhombus and parallelogram

https://sites.google.com/site/8jmaths/area-and-perimeter

Perimeter of Rhombus 14/10

A rhombus is also a parallelogram, since it has two pairs of parallel sides. A square has two pairs of parallel sides, four right angles, and all four sides are equal. It is also a rectangle and a parallelogram. A rhombus is defined as a parallelogram with four equal sides.

                                                          A kite 

Perimeter of Parallelogram

Area of Rhombus

Area of a Parallelogram

  

Flags of the world and their significance 14/1

This is a task that will help to prepare you for assessment one in week 3.

For each of the flags complete the following questions in your work books. (See questions below)

Answer these questions for each of these flags:

1)  When was it created?

2)  What are the colours and what do they represent?

3) How does this help to represent this country?

4) What symbols are on the flag?

Conversions 13/1

1)   Tony made 14 L of lemonade for a party. His guests drank 9500 ml of the lemonade.

How many milliliters of lemonade did Tony have left over?

2)    The ceiling is 2.3 metres high. The bookcase is 1.845 metres high.

How high, in metres, is the space between the bookcase and the ceiling?

IXL: Converting between units of measurement: L2

                      Reality TV: 7 up questions to answer

1) What do you think is the purpose of this show?
2) Do you think this show is worthwhile? Why?/ Why not?
3) How would you feel if you were an actor on this show at seven years of age? What would be the positives and negatives?
4) From a viewers point of view, how would you adapt this show to make it more entertaining?

More practise: CIRCLES
https://sites.google.com/site/8jmaths/area-and-perimeter