Year 6 Home Projects
Spring term – Does change always lead to progress? And, ‘The Industrial Revolution’
Dates
Week 1 and 2
Week 3 and 4
Week 5 and 6
Week 7 and 8
Week 9 and 10
Week 11
Wednesday 25th
January
Wednesday 8th
February
Wednesday 22nd
February
Wednesday 8th
March
Wednesday 22nd
March
FRIDAY 31st March
(End of term)
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Decide
Yourself
Take a trip on a train.
Take photos and
write an account of
your journey. Where
did you go? How
long did it take? How
do your think your
journey compared
with the first railway
journeys.
It is 10 years since
the invention of the
IPhone. (The IPhone
is as old as you!)
Interview an adult
about how
technology has
changed in their
lifetime. Write notes,
or record, their
answers.
Find a picture of an
important building or
invention from the
Victorian era. Copy
the picture. Then,
improve your
drawing and draw
another version.
Arithmetic
Challenge. Complete
50 calculations
(addition,
subtraction,
multiplication and
division). Repeat the
challenge – did you
beat your score!
With an adult, take
photos that show
light. You might take
photos of light
sources or reflections
of light outside at
night; reflections of
light in water;
shadows.
Spelling. Choose 20
words that you don’t
know how to spell,
yet. Write them in
your book. Practise
learning them
everyday.
Solve the ‘Reflected
Clock’ maths
challenge
There are lots of
poems about
railways. Choose a
poem, write it out in
your best
handwriting, learn it
by heart and perform
it in class.
‘ Light
it up’
Problem-solving
task
Choose an invention
(e.g. car, telephone
etc). Look at the
history of it. Draw
different pictures to
show how it has
progressed from an
early invention to
today.
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Decide
Yourself
Deisgn and play a
board game about
travelling around an
electric circuit. Use
the proper electric
symbols as part of
your design.
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Decide
Yourself
Conduct a survey in
your house of all the
appliances that are
powered by
electricity. Present
your findings in a
barchart.
Choose a recipe.
Change the number
of people the recipe is
for and change the
quantity of the
different ingredients.
Remember to keep
the proportions of
the ingredients the
same. Now make the
recipe.
Which aspects of
The Industrial
Revolution have
you most enjoyed
studying and why. Write
a report.
Pretend you are an
electrical safety
inspector. Inspect your
home for possible
electrical safety risks
eg. Too many plugs in a
socket; chargers left on
too long;damaged
cables etc.. Do not try
to fix them yourself!
Create your own
pinhole camera. Use
the instruction sheet
to help you. Explain
how the camera
captures the image?
Find out about an
important inventor or
industrialist in the
industrial revolution.
Draw a comic strip or
write a biography of
their life.
Write a detailed book
review on one of the
books you have read
this term.
Draw a poster, or
make up an advert
(like on the TV) to
persuade someone to
buy a product from
the industrial
revolution.
Make a 3D model of
an important
invention from the
industrial revolution
Look at the factory
worker houses in
Lowry’s paintings.
Create a model of
factory worker
housing. You can either
make the outside of the
house or use a shoe box
to show what it would
have looked like inside.
Make a rainbow!
Follow the
instructions to find
out about how our
eyes see different
colours.
Reading Station is one of
the busiest train stations
in the country. Choose a
destination. Using a train
timetable, work out how
long it take to get to your
destination. If you were
to go there and back in
one day, what is the
maximum amount of time
you could spend there?
Choose an invention
from the industrial
revolution and find
out how it worked.
Write an explanation
with labelled
diagrams.
During the industrial
revolution, most
children had to work.
Find out about the
sorts of jobs that
children did in
factories.
Find out about major
events in the history
of the railway in
Reading. Draw a
timeline showing
these events.
Imagine you live in a
world without
electricity. What daily
tasks would you not be
able to do? How would
you occupy your time
when you got home
from school? Write a
diary entry describing
your activities
throughout your day.
Which of the
inventions of the
industrial revolution
do you think was the
most important?
Think about how it
changed the way
people lived then. Is
it still an important
invention today?
Our question this
term has been, ‘Does
change always lead to
progress?’ Now we
have got to the end of
the term, what is your
opinion? Write your
answer to the
question using
examples from your
learning this term.
Reflect on your
learning so far this
term. Make-up a quiz
to show your
learning.
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Decide
Yourself
Imagine you can take
a train to anywhere
(either real or
imaginary). Write a
story about your
adventure.
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Decide
Yourself
You are to complete at least one piece of homework from the grid every 2 weeks. Across the term, you should cover a task from each
learning behaviour. Homework is to be of a very high standard, demonstrating the time and care you will have put in to it.