The Widcombe Offer

Locate the world’s countries, using maps to focus on South America, concentrating on their environmental regions, key physical characteristics, countries, and major cities.

Identify the position and significance of latitude, longitude, Equator, Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.

Understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of the United Kingdom and a region within South America.

Describe and understand key aspects of:

Physical geography, including: climate zones, and rivers. 

Human geography, including: land use, economic activity including trade links, and the distribution of natural resources including energy, food, minerals and water.

Use maps, atlases, globes and digital/computer mapping to locate countries and describe features studied

Use fieldwork to observe, record and present the human and physical features in the local area using a range of methods, including sketch maps, plans and graphs, and digital technologies.

Amazon largest rainforest in the world 2.58 million square miles.

The Amazon river is 6,400km long – second longest in the world.

20% of the World’s Oxygen is produced in the Amazon rainforest.

The forest is so dense that rain falling from the canopy can take up to 10 minutes to reach the ground. 

It takes 400 cocoa beans to make a pound of chocolate 

In Britain, we eat an estimated 660,900 tonnes of chocolate a year. 

70% of the World’s cocoa comes from West-Africa.

50% of products in a weekly supermarket shop contain palm oil. 

Each individual piece of fruit from the palm tree contains 50% oil and can be harvested all year round.

Palms can grow between 8 and 20 metres high.

Canopy – The second highest layer of the rainforest which forms a roof

Climate zones - Where different weather patterns are known

Confluence – The point where a tributary joins 

Delta – A small island created by deposited material (soil) 

Emergent layer  - The top layer of the rainforest lots of sunlight

Equator – A line around the earth separating the northern and southern hemispheres 

Fairtrade – Agreements made so that producers in under developed countries are paid a fair price

Floodplain – Area of flat land either side, likely to flood. 

Forest floor– The floor of the forest where it is very dark and very few plants grow

Groundwater– Rain that soaks into the ground. 

Meander – Flowing in a winding, curving course

Mouth – The place where a river meets the sea. 

Ox-bow lake– A lake created when a meander is cut off.

River – A large natural stream of water. 

Source – The beginning of a river. 

Spring – Groundwater that comes up to the surface. 

Stream – A small river. 

Sustainable– Able to be maintained at a certain level

Tributary – A stream or river that joins another river. 

Understorey  - The second lowest layer of the rainforest, little sunshine lots of animals

Poetry - Haikus

Stories from Amazon cultures – narrative focussed on setting.

Balanced argument (letter to supermarket)

Missing chapter Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Narrative – action) 

Sound

Observe and name a variety of sources of sound, noticing that we hear with our ears

Identify how sounds are made, associating some of them with something vibrating.

Recognise that sounds get fainter as the distance from the sound source increases.

Find patterns between the pitch of a sound and features of the object that produced it.

Find patterns between the volume of a sound and the strength of the vibrations that produced it.

Investigative skills.

Sound/Electricity

Electricity

Identify common appliances that run on electricity.

Construct a simple series circuit.

Identify whether or not a lamp will light in a simple series circuit based on whether or not a lamp is part of a complete loop with a battery.

Recognise that a switch opens and closes a circuit and associate this with whether or not a lamp lights in a simple series circuit.

Recognise some common conductors and insulators and associate metals with being good conductors.

Diorama

To make labelling drawings from different views showing specific features.

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.

Frog Beanie

To evaluate products and identify criteria that can be used for their own designs.

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

To join combine materials and components accurately in temporary and permanent ways.

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.

Chocolate Wrappers

To generate ideas, considering the purposes for which they are designing.

To make labelling drawings from different views showing specific features.

To evaluate products and identify criteria that can be used for their own designs.

To measure, mark out, cut and shape a range of materials, using appropriate tools, equipment and techniques.

To use simple graphical communications techniques.

To evaluate their work both during and at the end of the assignment.