Topic Grid

For your final task of the day, you can pick an activity from our American Adventures learning quest grid. Not all of the activities link to the topic, but are activities we would have done in school.

How you present your work is up to you; providing you aim for that task.

You do not need to complete all of the tasks.

Subject/Points	10 points	20 points	30 points	40 points	50 points
Art	Create a factfile for Frida Kahlo	Create a collage of photos of the Ancient Maya	Pick a moment of your life to represent in a piece of art	Research surrealism and create a surrealist art piece	Create a self portrait in the style of Frida Kahlo
DT	Research what fruits and vegetables are eaten in Mexico	Make a Mexican 'Day of the Dead' mask.	Make a rainforest scene	Use a recipe to make a Mexican dish	Plan and make an Ancient Maya pyramid
French	Find out the names of 10 rainforest animals in French			Research French Guinea and create an information page for it. Is it a country?	Design a rainforest and label the key features in French.
Geography	Identify places where Ancient Maya ruins have been found	Draw a map of the Amazon and label its tributaries	Write 3 sentences about life in the UK and 2 questions you would like to ask about a school in another country. Send these to me!	Create a set of top trumps cards for cities in South and Central America	Create a 3D map of Mexico showing the places where Ancient Maya ruins have been found.
History	Create a comic strip for the Maya creation story.	Make a Pok-ta-Pok court using whatever materials you want!	Create a profile card for who you believe is the best Ancient Maya god.	Retell the Hero Twins story (follow link) through another medium.	Imagine Ancient Mayan ruins have been discovered and create a news report telling us about it.
Music These will need to be done in order from 10 to 50	Search the internet for photos of graphic scores	Research how to use graphic scores in music	Listen to El Jarabe Tapatio and identify the instruments you hear	Draw each instrument in El Jarabe Tapatio down the left-hand-side if the page ready for your own graphic score	Create your own graphic score for El Jarabe Tapatio. Remember the width of the page is for the whole song!
Science	Coming soon!