Wednesday, 7 June 2017

Minimum content for end of year exams

Here is the minimum content in case you have lost the sheet I gave you in class or want to check online. Make sure you revise each topic well and good luck!

Year 6: Social Science Minimum Content List for the Final Exam 2017
The following list specifies the minimum content for the final exam. This list is taken from the Minimum Contents set down in the subject’s Curriculum document. Please revise from your class book and notebook also! Book: Social Science Vicens Vives digital book Year 6  

Unit 1.Europe’s Landscapes(unit :pages)
  • Land relief of Europe p. 4-5
  • Geographical boundaries and Main physical features p.4-5
  • European rivers  p.10
  • The Rhine p.12-13
  • Climate and vegetation types p.14-15

Unit 2. Spain’s Geography and Landscapes
  • Different types of land relief in Spain
  • The Meseta, plains and mountains p. 21/ 22 /23/24/ 25/26/
  • Major river basins/depressions p.27
  • Spanish rivers, p. 30
  • Spanish climates and vegetation p.32-33.

Unit 3.Human intervention in the environment
  • The degradation of our natural environment p 43
  • Human beings alter their environment. p.44
  • Pollution Overexploitation Deforestation p.45
  • Sustainability p.49
  • Who is responsible for looking after the environment? Government/ Autonomous Communities and Local councils p.52
  • Heritage and Spain’s National Parks p.54-55.
 Unit 6 Industrialisation
  • Agricultural and Industrial revolutionsp.91
  • Changes in agriculture p. 92
  • The birth of industry  p.92-93
  • Working in a factory  p.96-97

Unit 7 From Absolutism to liberalism/Contemporary Spain
  • A new form of government: liberalism  p.109/ 110 /111
  • The Spanish War of Independence  p.112
  • The Cadiz Constitution  p. 114-115
Unit 8 Spain in the 20th century

  • Spain-from monarchy to Republic p. 127 128-129
  • A society at war p.130-131.


Friday, 19 May 2017

Revision sentences to completed for Summative A

Constitution of Cadiz
1.It was signed on the … in …
2.It was signed in Cadiz because …
3.It was called La Pepa because …
4.The Cortes were atended by …
5.The aim of the Constitution was to …
6.Two examples of the principles of … it 
established were … and …

7.When Ferdinand VII returned in … he …

Spanish War of Independence
1.The war was between … and …. It took place between … and …
2.Napoleon invaded because …
3.The different groups in society were
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4. … became the new King of Spain
5. The French suffered their first defeat at … in …
6. The Spanish organised themselves into …
7. The French began their … in …

Differences between absolutism and liberalism
1.Absolutism is when…
2.Liberalism is when …
3.The … War started in … and finished in … . It was between … and …. … represented … and … represented …. … won the war. … was Ferdinand VII’s …. Some people didn’t want … to be queen because she was a … and only ….
4.The … triennium was between … and …. It happened because of a … by Colonel … who supported …. In this time they brought back the …
5.The French Revolution happened in … and represented the ideas of the …. The ideas were written down in the ...

The Spanish Civil War
1.The war started in … and finished in …. It was between … and ….
2.The period before it was the … between … and ….
3.During this time landowners lost …, and power was lost by the … and the … so these groups felt ….
4.On the other hand the … … felt the measures weren’t … enough.
5.The war started because … led a … uprising.
6.… people died. Farms were … and the … was desrtoyed.
7.Opponents had to go into … after the war.
8.After the war Franco led a … that lasted between … and ….

Monday, 15 May 2017

Summative BCD task

You live in Spain during the 20th century; you are excited/frightened/nervous about events//ideas which are happening around you and decide to write a letter to a friend telling him/her about these changes. Read the following situations/events below. Choose one of the topics and you will investigate and prepare this during your free time as homework.

This is an individual summative task

Criterion:  B Investigation        C: Communication         D: Critical Thinking 

You will prepare and write your diary information/letter at home. Remember to use various sources (library books, encyclopedia, internet etc.). You will present your diary/ letter to the rest of the class during class time. You can include pictures, maps etc. on the digital board to support your information. Investigate interesting and relevant facts about events, people, dates related to this topic etc.Choose one of the following situations: investigate this subject and explain what life is like for you living in this moment of time:
1. You are a little boy/girl living in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. (1936-1939)
2. You are the young Prince Juan Carlos I and Franco wants you to go and live with him in Madrid. (1948)You move from Portugal to Spain.
3.  You are a little boy/girl living in Spain during Franco’s dictatorship. (1939-1975)
4. You are a little boy/girl living in Spain during the coup d’Ć©tat of Colonel Antonio Tejero on the 23rd February 1981.
5. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Guernica in the Basque country, your village has just been bombed (26th April 1937).

Read these questions below to help guide your investigation.

1.Why/where /when did this event happen/begin etc? General facts.
2. What is life like in general for you, your family, and friends? A typical day in your life, told in detail.
3. How do you feel about the situation/event? Frightened /hopeful/ disappointed/ angry?   Explain why/why not.

Instructions
—  Create a letter/diary (on paper)
—  Task to be presented in class: 29th May-2nd June 2017.
—  INDIVIDUAL TASK.
—  You must bring in to class your letter, digital images and your bibliography (which you have prepared at home/library on a piece of paper).

v  Letter Minimum 200-250 words.
v  1 digital slide with images.
v  Include a bibliography/your sources.

—  Your teacher will be assessing criteria: B C D.
—  Remember to check your spelling and grammar carefully.
—  Keep numbers approximate (e.g. about 3,000 kilos, not 3,148 kilos)
—  Keep your English simple but correct! Use titles, sub-titles, underline key words to organize your work.

—   Do not copy huge chunks from Internet, E.g. copy and paste. This is PLAGIARISM, the internet is to guide and help you, but you have to do the work in your own words.

Summative A exam content

Exam content
-The constitution of Cadiz
-The Spanish War of Independence
-Differences between liberalism and
absolutism

-The Spanish Civil War

The exam will take place on Thursday 25th 
of May

Monday, 17 April 2017

6C Formative Groups

6C Presentation groups (Group leader is underlined)

Group 1
Angel C
Yi Heng
Maria
Candela

Group 2
David
Felipe
Inma

Group 3
Alejandro
Andres
Ruby
Lola M

Group 4
Magali
Lucia V
Armand
Fernando

Group 5
Lola G
Isabel
Angel L
Miguel

Group 6
Pilar
Paula D
Sergio

Group 7
Fran
Lucia M
Irene

6A Formative BCD Groups

6A Presentation groups (group leader is underlined)

Group 1
Maria Romero
Carlos V
Lucas
Claudia

Group 2
Carlos G
Isabel
Ana
Pablo DLS

Group 3
Daniel
Agustin
Gina
Alba

Group 4
Carla
Maria DR
Alejandro
Fernando M

Group 5
Daniela
Paloma
Nicolas
Pablo M

Group 6
Esther
Inma
Carlota

Sunday, 16 April 2017

Formative BCD Information

You live in Spain during the 19 th century; you are excited/frightened/nervous about events//ideas which are happening around you and you talk to a friend telling him/her about these changes.
 Read the following situations/events below. Choose one of the topics and you will investigate this during your free time as homework. You will then give a presentation in class describing this historic event based on what you have investigated from various sources (library books, encyclopedia, internet etc.). Investigate interesting and relevant facts about events, people, dates related to this topic etc. You can include pictures, maps etc. to support your information. It will be a digital presentation in class.

This is a group(x 4) formative task

Criterion:  B Investigation        C: Communication         D: Critical Thinking

Each group will choose one of the following situations: investigate this subject and explain what life is like for you living in this moment of time:

1. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Cadiz and who likes to gossip about “La Pepa” Constitution (1812). What has happened?

2. You are a little boy/girl living in Spain during the War of Independence/the Peninsular War, Spain (1808-1814). What has happened?

3. You are a little boy/girl living in Madrid and it is May 2nd / 3rd 1808 .What has happened?

4. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Spain in 1898 and people are talking about the 1898 disaster. What has happened?

5. You are a little boy/girl who lives in Spain in 1789, and people are talking about the French Revolution in Paris, France. What has happened?

Read these example questions below to help guide your investigation.

Person 1. What are the general facts about this event? Where /when/why did this event happen/begin?
Person 2/3. Investigate a specific fact: a person/event: eg: Napoleon /Jose Bonaparte/Goya/Generación 1898 /commoners/Revolutionaries etc .
Person 4. How do people feel about the future? What are the consequences of this event? Frightened /hopeful/ disappointed/ angry?? Explain why.

Instructions
—  Create a presentation (digital )
—  Task to be completed in class: 24th -28th April 2017
—  GROUP x 4.
—  2 slides per person = 15 key words per slide, plus pictures, maps and that will help with your explanations.
—  Your teacher will be assessing criteria: B C D.
—  Remember to check your spelling and grammar carefully.
—  Keep numbers approximate (e.g. about 3,000 kilos, not 3,148 kilos)
—  Keep your English simple but correct! Use titles, sub-titles, underline key words to organize your work.
—   Do not copy huge chunks from Internet, E.g. copy and paste. This is PLAGIARISM, the internet is to guide and help you, but you have to do the work in your own words.
—  Include a bibliography/your sources.


Monday, 6 March 2017

End of term exam content

Human Impact on the Environment

- How have humans damaged the envionment?
- How have humans, animals and plants suffered?
- Who is responsible for looking after the environment? (remember individuals and groups)

Industrialisation (19th century)

- How did it affect society? Revise the following areas:

  • Social classes
  • Free time
  • migration
  • cities
  • countryside
  • inventions

Thursday, 9 February 2017

Extension research task

What is a strike?
Find an example of a strike that occurred in the UK or Spain in the 19th century (1800’s).
Why did it occur?
What was the outcome?

Did it become violent?

Wednesday, 8 February 2017

New social order key vocabulary

Write a definition for these key words that came up in class.

•Capitalism
•Social class
•Industrialised countries
•Family
•Wealth
•Industrial revolution
•Bourgeoisie

•Working class
•Capital
•Invest(ment)
•Profits
•Social inequalities
•Prosperous
•Poverty
•Trade Union
•Socialist Party