Year 5 Learning Challenge: 'Is Planet Earth Dying?'

Year 5 Learning Challenge
'Is Planet Earth dying?'

We are delighted to provide you with the Learning Challenge for this half of the Summer Term. The activities are split into Basic, Advanced and Deep Learning. This allows us to look at learning at Broadford, and is designed to ensure that children not only acquire factual knowledge but also gain a further understanding about how their new skills or knowledge can be applied to their own lives or be used to further their cognitive and social development. 

The theme of the Learning Challenge for the first half of the Summer Term is ‘Is Planet Earth dying?’ It is entirely up to the child whether they select the poem, significant person, music or painting, or a combination of all 4. They can also select the activities that they want to attempt, though we would encourage them to deepen their learning as much as possible. 

	Poem	Painting	Person	Music
Basic	Learn it off by heart	Find out 10 facts about the painting/artist	Draw a portrait of the person	Listen to a piece of music
	Find another poem by the poet	Produce a collage of other paintings by the artist	Produce a timeline of their life	Identify the instruments.
Advanced	Create a performance as part of a pair/group	Draw a picture in similar style	Produce a poster to advertise their achievements	Research the life of the composer.
	Write a short biography about the poet	Transform the medium of the painting: use collage instead of painting	Write a letter asking them about their life	Attempt to recreate the piece of music
Deep	Write your own poem inspired by the topic	Use the image as a stimulus for 100WC	Explain how the world would be without this person	A mind map of different emotions you feel at various points in the piece
	Compare and contrast two poems by the poet	Describe what the painting: what it represents, how it makes you feel, what it is based on	Give five reasons for and against why they should be in ‘The Hall of Fame’	Produce a piece of art/collage based on how the music makes you feel.

Significant Person

Al Gore

Painting

Turner: ‘The Lake, Petworth: Sunset’

Music

Michael Jackson: Earth Song

Poem

David Harmer: Our Tree

Our Tree

It takes so long for a tree to grow

So many years of pushing the sky.

Long branches stretch their arms

Reach out with their wooden fingers.

Years drift by, fall like leaves

From green to yellow then back to green.

Since my Grandad was a boy

And then before his father’s father

There’s been an elm outside our school

Its shadow long across our playground.

Today three men ripped it down.

Chopped it up. It took ten minutes.