Landscapes

Year 5 & 6 research project: **EXTREME HOLIDAYS!** Your task is to create a brochure advertising a holiday in an extreme landscape. Groups will be assigned one of the following types of landscape: You can do this work with a partner but you must share the work equally. If your partner is away you must bring their library folder with you so that you can continue to work on the project anyway. **Task: Using the available texts for your group, choose a place for extreme tourists to visit, then ** (a) How would tourists get there from Melbourne? (b) Where’s the nearest town or city where tourists could get camping supplies such as food and water? (c) What interesting things can the tourists see there? (d) Are any special dangers tourists need to watch out for? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 90pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(e) What’s the weather and environment like? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 90pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(f) What clothes and equipment would they need? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; margin-left: 90pt; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(g) Where’s the nearest city if a tourist gets hurt and needs to go to hospital? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Use the Six Thinking Hats to organise your brochure. You can change the order as long as you include them all. Don’t use the headings on your brochure, just your ideas:** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">White Hat: what facts do the tourists need to know? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Red Hat: how will the tourists feel about their holiday? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Black Hat: what do they need to be careful of on their holiday? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Yellow Hat: what will be great for them on their holiday? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Blue Hat: how will you organise things so that they have a great time? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Green hat: how will you take care of their safety if things go wrong? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Use **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">note taking sheets ** to record your research. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">What has to be handed in? <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(i) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Your research plan, showing who’s doing which parts of the work <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(ii) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Your research notes showing who did the work <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: -18pt; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">(iii) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A brochure (A4 sheet of plain paper folded into equal parts) advertising the holiday destination you’ve chosen, including <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">How to get a good mark for your project:
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Deserts (Milnes)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Mountains and volcanoes (Griffiths)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Oceans and Seas (Kleins)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Grasslands, forests and woodlands (Jennings)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Rainforests (jungles) (Frenchies)
 * OR
 * ====Australian Wetlands====
 * 1) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">make a research plan **
 * 2) <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">read and research to find out **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">List the resources you use as you do your research.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Include **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">all **the publishing details i.e. Title, Author, Publisher, & date of publication.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">DO NOT WRITE SENTENCES. Use single words or dot-points, abbreviations.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">A small labelled map showing where the place is
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">The answers to questions (a)-(g) above, organised to look interesting and fun for tourists
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Pictures (If the laptops are working we can use them for pictures but most of the work will be done by hand.)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Hand in your research plan, your research notes and the brochure on time
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Answer all the questions (a-g)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Use the Six Thinking Hats to think about what the tourists will want to know about the trip
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 16px; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: auto;">Make your brochure look interesting with colourful headings and a jazzy design