DAY 4/20th December
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.
JAPAN
Day/Date
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Weather
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Tuesday - 20 December
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Partial Sunshine 53°HI
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Wednesday - 21 December
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Partly Sunny 52°HI
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Thursday - 22 December
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Partly Sunny 56°HI
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Friday - 23 December
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Sunny 57°HI
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Saturday - 24 December
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Partly Sunny 53°HI
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CANADA
Date/Day
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Weather
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Tuesday - 20 December
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Cloudy with occasional snow and flurries 22°HI
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Wednesday - 21 December
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Snow 32°HI
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Thursday - 22 December
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Clouds and Sun 32°HI
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Friday - 23 December
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Partial Sunny 31°HI
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Saturday - 24 December
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Clouds breaking for some Sun 31°HI
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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.
List of things to take on trip
- Passport
- Visas
- Clothes
- Walking shoes
- Medicines
- Make-up
- Phone, charger
- Camera
- Money
- Personal Stuff*
Bonus Round
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.
5 comments:
Hi Cherise,
I am so glad to see that you are participating in the Summer Learning Journey! You are off to such a wonderful start already. I like that you have chosen to investigate two countries in different continents, it will be interesting to see the similarities and differences between them as you blog.
Hi Cherise and Ms Stone,
I completely agree that it is wonderful that you (and Aaliyahna) have chosen to explore two different countries on two different continents. They are quite different and each have their own set of unique customs, cultures, languages and traditions. It's wonderful to see that you are exploring such vastly different places :)
Although they are quite different in many ways, they do share one commonality and that is their weather. Both Japan and Canada will be quite cold in December. In fact, my family was telling me the other day that is -20 degrees Celsius in Ottawa the other day. That is really cold! Luckily, they have lots of snow on the ground so they can go out sledding, tobogganing, skating and skiing. They can also go for a drive around the city to admire the beautiful Christmas lights.
Do you put Christmas lights up at your house at this time of year? We have a small string of lights on our Christmas tree in NZ but, at home in Canada, my family puts lights up all around the inside and outside of the house as well. It makes it look so bright and festive!
Wishing you a lovely Christmas/holiday season. I can't wait to blog with you more over the break.
Keep up the great work :)
Cheers, Rachel
Hi Cherrryy!!
I love all the wonderful work you have done! I cant wait to see what you will be doing over the other days!
Keep up the good work!!
Hi Cherrryy!!
I love all the wonderful work you have done! I cant wait to see what you will be doing over the other days!
Keep up the good work!!
Hi Cherise!
I love this activity because so many of you put Fahrenheit as the unit of measurement. What you might not know yet, is that there are two different measurements for temperature, and much like with metres and feet, the Americans have their own unit for it too. In New Zealand and most other parts of the world, we use a measurement called Celsius.
I have this little story below which explains the difference. I hope you don't mind that I'm copying and pasting it from another student, but it is a really cool story... if you don't want to read it, maybe just skip to the end haha!
A long time ago, a Polish scientist invented the scale of Fahrenheit, using equal parts salt and water to make the temperature of 0 degrees on the thermometer (which was a 200 year old invention at that point, but he made a new version which used mercury - which made it more accurate). Then he used the average human temperature to make the high point of 96 degrees. And that is how the thermometer was marked so people could say what the temperature was. Sounds a bit strange, right?
Celsius, our measurement, was made because a scientist thought 'Fahrenheit is illogical. Salt water, human body heat? What do they have to do with anything? Why don't we just use the freezing and boiling points of something easy, like water?' and so he made ANOTHER scale on thermometers called degrees Celsius!
And that's what we use today! So, 0 degree Celsius is when it is so cold that water freezes, and 100 degrees Celsius is when water boils. Cool eh? In Fahrenheit those are 32 and 212. Such random numbers!
I hope you liked the story! It's a pretty amazing one.
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