Monday 30 November Room 13 Task

Your task this week is to create your 'habitat information sheet'

To do this you need to research your habitat and put all the relevant information together into one A4 page.  You also need a photograph/drawing or image of your habitat.
You can choose to do a specific habitat i.e. amazon rainforest, peak of Mt Everest, Antarctica, Cheronobyl Disaster Area, etc

IF YOU DO NOT FINSIH DURING THIS TIME IT IS YOUR HOMEWORK TONIGHT!!!
Remeber you must include the following if it is relevant to your habitat

Climate (Temperature, Day length, sun time/exposure, rainfall, air pressure, gravity, weather, wind, grass/sand/snow/soil what does it walk on etc, night hours, dark/light, seasons)

Challenges  
Advantages
Plants/vegetation (that grow there)
Animals/organism (that live there)
Common adaptations

Where can it get...

Shelter/Temperature

Food

Water
Air
Sun

Also remeber your MRS C GREN- Your creature msut be able to do all of these life processes!

Example information sheet(This is very basic- Yours will be a lot more detailed, with more information)
Example 1- Information Sheet

Examples of animal adaptation information sheets:
Example 1
Example 2
Example 3
Example 4
Example 5

Class Newspaper, Week 2, News Article

Within the pages of a newspaper, the reader will find a wide variety of writing styles. These styles vary depending on the type of information and the purpose of the message. This week each student in Room 20 will be choosing a topic/event/focus and writing a News Article.

News articles cover the basics of current events. They answer the questions: who, what, where, how, and when?

Hard news stories/articles - Term 4 Week 2 List of Possible Stories

The following is a brief summary of the major characteristics of this.

• Inverted pyramid structure; 5 Ws and H (Who, What, When, Where, Why and How) in lead, other details in descending order of importance
• Adheres to accepted grammatical conventions
• Written by reporters
• Objective, facts-only reporting (No I's)
• Purpose is to inform
• can be local, national or international
• Uses quotes
• A local news article focuses on what's going on in your neighborhood. An example of a local news story would be an article on a city council meeting or news at Berkley e.g. new principal or news happening at Berkley.
• A national news article focuses on what's happening in the United States. An example of a national news article would be an article on the U.S. Senate passing a new bill.
• An international news article focuses on news that's happening outside the United States. A story on an influenza outbreak in Chile would be considered an international news story.

You will need to:

Read several newspaper articles and identify/describe the common conventions of this writing genre.

Create and ask questions in an interview to gather information and detail for a newspaper article.

Write a simple newspaper article with paragraphs to separate the main ideas.

How to Write a News Article

      *See the Room 13 page for your task today