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Connecting ourselves to the world

based on QCA

Geography Unit 18

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Get the message?

How’s the weather?

Swapping and sharing

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Planet Earth.

Surface area: 148,000,000 square kilometres.

It’s 10:30 am in Britain. At St Swithin’s School, they’re sending messages all over the place…

Get the message?

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Get the message?

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Get the message?

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Kids in my class filled in a spreadsheet to show how many different messages we received in one week!

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Kids in my class e-mail kids in a school in Australia every week. We send each other reports about what the weather is like! Have a look at my spreadsheet on the next slide.

How’s the weather?

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How’s the weather?

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Help me send my weather report to Gum Tree School, which is near Darwin in Australia! Go to the next slide to see me type my email.

How’s the weather?

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Want to see how the weather data from our two schools compares? Take a look at the next slide.

How’s the weather?

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How’s the weather?

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We’re making a guide to our area…

… and we’re going to e-mail it to our friends in Australia!

Go to the next slide to see our guide!

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Guide to St Swithin’s School

St Swithin’s School is at one end of Corporation Street in the town of Pickleton. The street is very busy and there’s lots to do. There’s a great gym and there’s the Happy Haddock – a top fish and chip shop! Delicious!

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We’re planning how we’d make a journey to Gum Tree School. It’s near Darwin in Australia…

Get up and go!

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It’s easy! Just type some key words into the search box.

I did an internet search to find a website that would tell me about flights to Australia…

Then click search. Give it a try and see what happens!

Get up and go!

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As well as the internet we’re also using travel brochures and atlases to plan our journey. You could do the same!

Get up and go!

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You could put the information you find into a journey planner like this one…

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How’s the weather?

Swapping and sharing

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Why not plan a journey to somewhere you’d really like to

visit?

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The following slides are designed as template slides and to provide resources for further work.

The red DIY tool box indicates that the slide can be printed out and used as a worksheet, or copied into a new PowerPoint presentation.

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TYPE OF MESSAGE SENDER’S LOCATION DISTANCE MESSAGE TRAVELLED (km)

TOTAL NUMBER OF MESSAGES

TEXT

E-MAIL

TELEPHONE

POST

FAX

OTHER

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LOCATION:

DAY / DATE

TEMPERATURE

(˚C)

RAINFALL

(mm)

TYPE OF WEATHER

tick appropriate box(es)

SUNNY RAINY CLOUDY SNOWY/ ICY

FOGGY WINDY

MON

TUES

WEDS

THURS

FRI

WEATHER WATCHER

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[sketch of area] [map of area]

Guide to ……………………..

DESCRIPTION:

Where I Live

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Flight number / airline

From

(airport) (country)

To

(airport) (country)

Time / date of take-off

Estimated time / date of arrival (ETA)

Stop over / change planes at

Distance

MAP OF ROUTE

Places to visit in ………………….. (destination):

JOURNEY PLANNER

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Glossary

bookmark a record of the address of a file or web page used for quick access.

brochure a small book or magazine with pictures and information about a place or a service.

database a set of data held on a computer.

email messages sent electronically from one computer to another.

fax a copy of a document made by a scanner for transmitting down a telephone line.

internet a worldwide computer network providing information and communication.

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search engine a computer program that searches for and identifies items in a database relating to key words.

spreadsheet a computer program for arranging figures in rows and columns so that calculations can be done easily.

text (in relation to mobile phones) a text message sent from one mobile phone to another.

Glossary