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Well
done!! You 've managed to find your homework page .
In
class we were talking about the Old Stone Age ,
the period of hunting that lasted from 2,5 million
years ago to about 10 000 years ago.
This
website shows what life was like for the first Europeans
, 500,000 thousand years ago. Click around the site and
have a look at the pictures.......
http://www.tautavel.culture.gouv.fr/culture/arcnat/tautavel/en/index.htm
Homework
for Monday 15th Sept
Print
off these notes and keep them carefully in your file :
Old
Stone Age Notes
Go
to this
webpage, click on 'Tautavel Man ' at the top and advance
the pages using the arrow right at the bottom , until
you get to 'Fauna'.
Now
print off this questionnaire and answer in full sentences
of your own . The last three answers are short paragraphs:
Tautavel
Questions
Homework
for Friday 19th Sept
Click
here for First
Farmers notes
Fertile
Crescent Map
In ink neatly name the following. Be careful with spelling.
Page 18 in 'Ancient World' may help.
Seas:
Mediterranean
Sea , Red Sea , Caspian Sea , Persian Gulf
Rivers:
Tigris
, Euphrates
, Nile
Regions:
Mesopotamia
, Egypt
Cities:
Ur ,
Babylonia ,
Jericho, Memphis, Thebes
Lightly
colour the fertile crescent green, the mountains brown,
the desert beige or yellow and the coasts blue.
Homework
for Monday 29th Sept
Revise
Old Stone Age notes, First Farmers notes and Fertile Crescent
map for test.
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How to revise:
- Read
through the notes and make sure you understand
the subject.
- On
small 10X14cms note cards write the key vocabulary
(names, dates , places etc) .
- Learn
by heart the vocabulary.
- Ask
someone to test you.
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KEEP the cards in a card file and use them
again to prepare the exams in November
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Homework
for Friday 26th Sept
Complete
your cuneiform drawing using pages 26 & 36 in 'Ancient
World' to see what the 'wedges' looked like.
Complete
answers 1 to 4 of 'Neolithic Man from Otzal' film questionnaire.One
sentence per answer.
Homework
for Friday 3rd October
Click
on First
Writing notes and print off a copy for your file.
Read
the 'Geography' section on the British
Museum's Egypt website and click on 'Story' at the
bottom. Help The boy find his brother somewhere on the
Nile . But which way? By going upstream or downstream.........?
Homework
for Monday 5th October
Map
of Ancient Egypt
On
the map name neatly in ink the following: Nile , Delta,
Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea, Memphis, Thebes, 1. Lower
Egypt,
2. Upper Egypt, Nubian Desert, Pyramids.
Lightly colour the fertile river valley green, land over
1000m brown , desert (all the land that isn't fertile
valley or mountain) beige or yellow and the seas blue.
Homework for Friday 10th October
The
Importance of the Nile in Ancient Egypt
Print
off these notes
and use 'Ancient Egypt' pages 18 & 39 to complete
the missing vocabulary.
Bookshop
is open at lunchtime Thurs & Fri 9th & 10th
Oct. You can buy 'Understanding Geography' with
a cheque (19 euros) payable to REMI.
Homework for Friday 17th October
The
Pharaoh
Click
to open the Pharaoh
section of the British Museum website.
Read the page carefully and then open the explore section
at the bottom. This opens a copy of a relief
of a battle scene in which Ramesses II fights and defeats
the Nubians.
Click all around the relief to answer the questions in
this questionnaire.
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Nov
2003 Exam Revision
These
are the History topics to revise:
Old
Stone Age notes (not Tautavel homework)
First Farmers notes and Fertile Crescent
map
(not
'Neolithic Man from Otzal' film questionnaire).
First Writing notes : cuneiform & hieroglyphics.
Egypt : Map of Egypt and Nile notes.
Pharaoh notes and Gods and Judgement
notes.
(Geography after the November holidays)
These are the Geography topics to revise
:
Planet Earth : solstice diagram.
Map of continents & oceans
Map of heating zones , tropics and arctic circles
Latitude & longitude
How
to revise:
- Read
through the notes and make sure you understand
the subject.
- On
small 10X14cms note cards write the key vocabulary
(names, dates , places etc) .
- Learn
by heart the vocabulary.
- Ask
someone to test you
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Homework
for Mon 3rd November
Print these Egyptian
Gods and Judgement notes.
Bring
'Core Geography' and Atlas to do Geography.
Homework
for Fri 7th November
Planet
Earth and Climate Zones
Click
on this NASA
webpage , read 'A Change of Season' and run the Nasatoon
to see the movie version (make sure your sound is turned
on!).
Then have a look at the south pole at this very moment
through the Antarctic
webcam . Pretty dark, huh?
Finish
colouring your December Solstice diagram. Then complete
your Climate Zones map by writing neatly in ink the following:
In
left-hand boxes from top to bottom : 66.5°
N, 23.5°N, 0°, 23.5°S, 66.5° S.
In middle boxes from top to bottom : Polar Zone,Temperate
Zone, Tropics,Temperate Zone, Tropics, Polar Zone.
In right- hand boxes from top to bottom : Arctic
Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Equator, Tropic of Capricorn,
Antarctic Circle.
Homework
for Mon 10th November
Continents
& Oceans
Complete
your 'Climate Zones' map by colouring land in polar
regions grey (pencil), land in temperate regions yellow
and land in tropical regions red.
Complete
your 'Continents & Oceans' map by colouring
continents different colours (except blue).
Learn
both maps.
Homework
for Fri 14th November
Co-ordinates
Do
the co-ordinates exercises C 1 to 4 on the photocopied
sheet.
Homework
for Mon 1st December
Pyramids
Complete
the two or three sentences on Mastabas , Step Pyramid,
Great Pyramid and Valley of the Kings using
bottom of page 41 and Page 42 in 'Ancient World'.
Mummification
Go
to the British Museum's Mummification
page and read through the introduction . Look at the
'Explore' section and then go into the 'Story' section.
You
need to read both 'Embalming' and 'Wrapping'. Print
this Mummification
questionnaire and write or type the answers carefully
in your own words. Be careful with the drawing sections.
Homework for Friday 12th December
Jewish
Festivals
Look in an encyclopedia or on the internet to find out
about the six Jewish holidays on your worksheet. Write
down when the holiday is and what the celebration
is about (about three sentences on each, in your own
words).
Homework for Monday 05th January
The
World : Mountains & Rivers
Complete
the photocopied map following the instructions. Rivers
can be named along the rivers but mountains, plains etc
have to be named horizontally in ink, not pencil.
Neatness counts !!
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