`Rivers and Mountains`

Explore your mathematical skills:
Develop your creativity:
Make a model of a river and label it
(3 points).
Present information about the heights of
mountains or lengths of rivers in a graph (2
points).
Create a collage or model of a
mountain and/or river animal
(3 points).
Calculate how much it would cost you and
your family to holiday near the Amazon or
River Nile (3 points).
Write a biography for David
Attenborough (3 points).
Make a fact file about Jane
Goodall (2 points).
This half term’s star homework
theme is:
‘Rivers and Mountains’
Calculate how much it would cost you and
your family to have a skiing holiday
(3 points).
Calculate the distance you would travel if
you visited a famous river or mountain and
how long would it take to get there
(3 points).
Write a poem or story (3 points).
Extend your scientific and
Explore:
research skills:
Find out what animals and plants live in
mountain and/or river environments
(2 points).
Find out about mountain climates
(2 points).
Find out about famous mountaineers
who have climbed our highest mountains
(2 points).
Research the ‘Water Cycle’
(2 points).
Use an atlas to draw the major mountain
ranges and/or rivers on a map (2 points).
Choose projects to achieve
your
5 Star Points
You can add with your own
ideas too! Tick off what you
Have you ever been skiing? Make a
scrapbook of photos, postcards, leaflets,
etc (2 Points)
Visit a local river – take photos
(3 points).
have completed to achieve
Explore with an adult the animations of
your points.
different river and mountain animals on
safe websites (2 points).