Play the plant game Cross-curricular Unit

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1

1  You plant your

2  You plant your
seed and put 3  Your seed has 4  Your seed isn’t
Start here seed and put it in
it in the got a root. growing.
the fridge.
living room.

Finish here
How to play
19  You collect the
You need: 5  You can see
seeds. You can
two seed leaves.
plant them. a board

18  The flowers two counters 6  You move your

have made plant to a sunny
lots of seeds. one coin place.

17  It’s very hot. 7  You go on

The plant’s side A holiday – nobody
side B
soil is dry. waters your plant.

1 Play in pairs.
2 Take turns to throw the coin. Side A = move two
squares. Side B = move one square.
16  There’s a
8  You water
butterfly on the 3 Move your counter and read.
your plant.
flowers. If
 it is good news for your plant, move
forward one square.

If it is bad news for your plant, move back

one square.
15  Your little 9  Your plant
4 The first person to complete the circuit is
sister picks all the has got four
the winner.
flowers. leaves now.

13  There are 11  You put 10  You’re very

12  Your plant has
14  Your plant has insects on the your plant in a busy – you forget
got lots of leaves
got some flowers. leaves. They’re cupboard and to water your
now.
eating them! close the door. plant.

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Make a pie chart Cross-curricular Unit 2
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1 Look and number the sentences.

You need:

pencil paper coloured a protractor compasses a calculator

   pens

degrees in circle a D
 raw a line between the
1 2
two marks.
Favourite sports in Class 6C 360
= 15º b Make the numbers in the tally
sport number angle 24
chart into angles (the size of the
tennis      6 total number angle per
segments). Divide 360 by the
football      8 of children child
number of children. Find out the
basketball      7 angle for one child. Then multiply
15º x 7 = 105º
swimming      3 the angle by the number of
children who angle to
TOTAL     24 children for each sport. 
like basketball draw
3 4 c Draw the other segments.
Favourite sports in Class 6C d C
 omplete the third column of the
sport number angle chart with the angles.
tennis      6 90º e Make a tally chart of the
football      8 120º information. Write the numbers
basketball      7 105º for each group in the number
swimming      3 45º column. Include the total. 1 
TOTAL     24 360º f D
 raw the first segment.
5 6 Use a protractor to draw the
angle correctly.
g Colour the segments and
write a key. Give your pie chart
a title. 
h Use the compasses to draw
a circle. Make two marks in
the circle. 

7 8 Favourite sports in
2 Make a pie chart.
Class 6C
1 Decide what your pie chart is about.
2 Collect the information.
3 Follow the steps in activity 1 to
make your pie chart.
Key
■  tennis ■  basketball
■  football   swimming

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Tutankhamun’s tomb Cross-curricular Unit 3
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1 Read and answer.
1 2 3

The archaeologist Howard He looked and looked, but he They opened the first door.
Carter wanted to find the tomb didn’t find anything. Then on Inside, Carter made a hole in
of Tutankhamun, an Ancient 4th November 1922 a water the wall. He saw animals,
Egyptian king. boy discovered some steps. statues and lots of gold.

4 5 6

They found a room. It had
clothes, games, beds and
jewellery for Tutankhamun.
After that they found It was one of the most
Tutankhamun’s body. There important finds in history. The
were beautiful paintings on tomb had more than 30,000
the walls. artefacts. They’re in the
Museum of Cairo now.

a Who was Tutankhamun? He was an Ancient Egyptian king.

b When did Howard Carter find his tomb?
c What was in the tomb?

d How important was the find?
e Where are the artefacts from the tomb now?

2 Look at the artefacts and match them to the sentences.

1 2 3 4 5 6

From these artefacts we know that …

a they liked playing games. d they used pictures to write words. 1

b they had beautiful jewellery. e they liked perfume.
c animals were important to them. f Tutankhamun was very rich.

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Make an origami sculpture
1 Read and answer.
In origami, the Japanese art of paper
folding, you use paper to make 3D shapes
or sculptures. You can make lots of different
things, like animals, flowers, boxes and hats.
You usually use one piece of paper, but in
Cross-curricular Unit 4
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modular origami you use more than one piece.
First you make lots of basic shapes (modules).
Then you join the modules to make a 3D
shape. You can make lots of shapes and use
them to make a sculpture.

1 Where is origami from? Japan

2 What material do you use in origami?
3 What things can you make?
4 How is modular origami different?
5 How do you make a 3D shape?
6 How do you make a sculpture?

2 Read. Follow the instructions to make your own origami sculpture.

You need six squares of paper in different colours.
1 2 3

     
Fold a square of paper in Fold the sides to the middle. Fold the short sides to
half. Open it, then fold it in the middle.
half again.

4 5 6

     
This is your first module. Make Take two modules. Put them Add a third module.
five more modules. together like this.

7 8

     
Add two more modules to the Make cubes of different sizes
top and side. and colours.

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