Summer Learning Journey-Day 4-Week 1

Day 4 – Packing Up

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It’s official! You’ve chosen your country and bought your ticket. Now it’s time to pack for the big adventure! Think about where you are going and what the weather is going to be like when you arrive next week.

Activity 1

To find out more about the weather in your chosen country log onto the Accu Weather website [http://www.accuweather.com]. Type the name of the capital city of your country into the search bar. It will tell you what the weather is going to be like in your country of choice. On your blog, provide a five day forecast for the weather in the capital city of your chosen country.

Germany weather

Day 1, Dec 21- Partly cloudy (32°F)

Day 2, Dec 22- Cloudy, then sun (38°F)

Day 3, Dec 23- Periods of sun (41°F)

Day 4, Dec 24- Cloudy with a passing shower (45°F)

Day 5, Dec 25- Cloudy with spotty showers (51/48°F)

Activity 2

Before you start packing your suitcase you will want to create a list of everything that you will need to bring with you. Most airlines let you bring one big suitcase with you so you’ll have to think carefully about what you want to bring…

On your blog site, post a list of everything that you need to pack for your trip. Put a star (*) beside the 5 items that you think are the most important.

Clothes, shoes (Clothes that are suitable for the weather climate in Germany*)
Guide book*
Passport, Money, credit cards*
If you are on medications or anything (Medicine)*
Toiletries*
Family ;)
Phone, Camera

Bonus Activity

Make a word poem called a ‘wordle’ using your packing list (i.e. the list of of things you are taking with you on your trip). To make a wordle you need to go to the Wordle website [http://www.wordle.net/create]. Enter the words for all of your items into the box provided and click ‘Go.’ The website will create a wordle for you. Save the wordle and then post it on your blog.

Glen Brae Weather Forcast

For Today's Math session we were given an merely impossible word problem, temperature scale and a map. We had to help a "very rather clumsy" weather man figure out the temperature for suburbs and cities in NZ. With very little clues. At the end of our lesson we actually accomplished our work and got I would say 90% of the temperatures right(one wrong).

Word Problem
W.A.L.T Use appropriate units for temperature
This morning Dan Corbet (TVNZ Weather man) has to report the temperatures for different cities in NZ.
Unfortunately a gust of wind has just blown his notes away, and he only has a few clues about today's lunch times temperature in the wrong order. Can you help him piece the puzzle the facts together and then label the ma with the correct information.

Afterwards we took a video of each math group presenting their information as a weather women/man.

Here is the link to our NZ map that show each temperature for each city/suburb listed in our word problem.
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1U6kJY9aA0gcD3EwXnKtgQXZFfB0