Caring for Earth activity sheet

Before starting on activities each day complete your

Repeat reading booklet. Then read up to chapter 2
(pg12)

Knowledge
1. What is topsoil? (pg 5)
2. What do plants use nutrients for? (pg 5)
3. What is erosion? (pg 6)

Understanding
4. What is terracing used for? (pg 6)
5. What is Tachas wall for?

Using
6. Draw a terraced wall on a hill for growing a garden.

Organising
7. Look at the small picture on page 6 then draw a
diagram showing the types of erosion that could
efect this paddock.

Making
Design and draw a way to stop erosion on the
paddock in page 6

Repeat Reading

Wheres Our Clean Air? activity sheet

Before starting on activities each day complete your
Repeat reading booklet. Then read up to chapter 3
(pg20)

Knowledge
What did most of the factories burn during the
Industrial revolution? (pg12)
What did the coal burning cause?
What was the worst killer fog in terms of people
killed? (pg 14)

Understanding
Name 4 fossil fuels (pg 17)
What is being done to prevent killer fogs?

Using
Draw modern city with causes of air polution.

Organising
Draw a solar or electric car label parts to show how
it works.

Making
Design solar heating units for the school







Is It Safe to Drink? Activity sheet

Before starting on activities each day complete your
Repeat reading booklet. Then read up to chapter 4
(pg28)

Knowledge
What can pollution in water kill? (pg 21)
What do millions of people each year get sick from?
(pg 21)
Where did most doctors think cholera came from in
1850? (pg 22)

Understanding
How could you catch cholera?
Name three ways to clean drinking water?

Using
What could you use in Methven to clean drinking
water in an emergency?

Organising
Where does our drinking water come from?

Making
Design and draw a way collect and use rain water in
the school. Look up google images on rainwater
collection systems.