Solar system presentation
Instructions:
1.
Choose a planet in our solar system, but not the Earth.
You could choose Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn,
Uranus or Neptune.
2.
Research your planet. Use the internet, your school
library or books you have at home.
3.
Find out as much as you can about your planet. In your
group, choose two questions each to research. For
example:
a.
how big is it?
b.
what the temperature is?
c.
how long it takes to orbit the Sun?
d.
what gases are found in the atmosphere?
4.
Print out or draw and colour some pictures of your
planet.
5.
Get together with the other members of your group
to make a fact- le poster with information and
pictures of your planet.
6.
When your poster is nished, present your planet
to the class. You could display the poster in class so
that your classmates can read all the information
you have found about your planet or you can make a
PowerPoint presentation.
You need:
• Internet access or reference books
• Printer or coloured pencils
• Large sheet of paper
• Computer
16
Let’s work
together!
The world around us
Pass it on
1.
Work in groups of three or four.
2.
Each group chooses 16 di erent names from the list on
the template. Each member writes a clue next to a letter
until they are all completed.
It’s an autonomous community in the … of Spain.
It has … provinces.
It’s coastal/inland/an archipelago.
3.
Make copies of your group’s de nitions and give them to
the other groups.
4.
Each group chooses a captain who reads the clues from
other groups. The captain asks the same group member
until they can’t answer a question and say ‘Pass!’. Each
group has ten minutes to try and answer the clues.
5.
Groups get a point for each correct answer and lose a
point for each wrong answer. The group with the most
points at the end of each round of ten minutes wins.
6.
Groups change their clues around (but they must never
have their own) and play more rounds of the quiz.
Materials:
Templa e 1.1
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TEMPLATE 1.1
SPAIN
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A:
Aragón, Álava-Araba, Albacete, Asturias, Almería, Atlantic Ocean, A Coruña,
Andalucía, Andorra, Alicante, Ávila, Ajo
B:
Barcelona, Bilbao, Badajoz, Burgos, Baleares, Bidasoa
C:
Cáceres, Cabrera, Cuenca, Castellón, Ciudad Real, Córdoba, Castilla y León, Castilla la
Mancha, Cantabria, Cordillera Costero Catalana, Ceuta, Canarias, Ciudad Real, Castellón,
Cantábrico, Cádiz Catalá
D:
Duero
E:
El Hierro, Ebro, Estaca de Bares, Euskara
F:
Francia, Formentera, Fuerteventura, Fisterra,
G:
Galicia. Gran Canaria, Guadiana, Guadalquivir, Girona, Guadalajara, Granada, Gipuzkoa,
Gata
H:
Huesca, Huelva
I:
Ibiza J: Jaén, Júcar L: Lugo, León, Lleida, Lanzarote, Llobregat, Lérida, La Palma,
Logroño, La Rioja, La Gomera, Nao
M:
Macizo Galaico, Mallorca, Menorca, Madrid, Mérida, Mulhacén, Melilla, Murcia,
Machichaco
N:
Navarra, Nervión
O:
Ourense, Oviedo, Ortegal
P:
Palencia, Portugal, Pontevedra, Palos
R
: Rías Altas, Rías Baixas, Roses
S:
Soria, Segovia, Sevilla, Salamanca, Santander, Sistema Central, Sistema Ibérico,
Segura
T:
Teruel, Tarragona, Toledo, Tajo, Tenerife, Trafalgar
V:
Valladolid, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Valencia, Vizcaya, Vizcaya (province and gulf)
Z:
Zaragoza, Zamora
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