r16+t1+w2+homework

Due Monday 16th February
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Task One: Health and Physical Education: Beach Safety
Danger Signs: Design and create an A4 poster warning the public of 3 dangers at the beach that we have talked about in class. Think about layout, format, colours, graphics, symbols, fonts and text, composition, background. You may use a computer to create your poster if you wish. Your poster must be suitable for EVERYONE, that is including visitors to NZ who don't speak much English! Please do not glue this into your homework books as they will be displayed in class!

Task Two: Social Sciences and Inquiry: Citizenship (Rights and Responsibilities)
Visit the BBC Schools site:[| Citizen X]. View Parts 1-4 of the //Me Responsible? Yeah Right!// Answer the discussion questions at the end of each part in your homework books. Answer the following questions in full in your books as you view each part: Part 1 1. What does Mr Wedon ask the students? (list 5 rights and 5 responsibilities). Write your own answers to this. 2. What would you do now if you were Donny?

Part 2 3. Why is Guy rude to adults and children? Does he have the right to say what he thinks, regardless of the outcome? 4. How does Ms Simpson use the guy? (to make up school situations).

Part 3: 5. Write your own definitions for 'rights' and 'responsibilities'. 6. Make two lists - of the rights and responsibilities of people in schools.

Part 4: 7. Make a table for 'students' rights' and 'teachers' rights'. 8. How would you try to convince Donny about his rights and responsibilities?

Part 5: How does this relate to me?
 * 1) What rights do students at BBI have?
 * 2) What rights should they have?
 * 3) What responsibilities should go with each of these rights?
 * 4) What rights and responsibilities should teachers have?
 * 5) Are rights of people at BBI different from rights of students in other Intermediate schools that you know? Explain...
 * 6) Complete a venn diagram to show the similarities and differences of the rights and responsibilities you had at primary school compared to Iife at BBI? [[file:venn-1.pdf]]

Task Three: For those who did not do the multiple intelligences quiz last week.
Get to know you! Take this online [|Multiple Intelligences Test]to see how you learn best! Print off your results and glue them into your homework book.


 * Explore** the teamdstuff wiki pages (Student Resource Area and Cool Tools for Schools). Write down the top 3 tasks you tried and write a brief explanation of how you think they could help advance your learning. Be prepared to share this in class. If you know of any other cool learning sites, please write down the address and let me know so I can put them up in the Student Resource Area for everyone to use!