Egypt Geography Topic

We have been looking at settlements on the Nile in Egypt and the reason for their existence. We researched the use of boats in the upper Nile at Aswan Dam and designed our own group Feluccas. They are designed to carry cargo up and down the Nile.

Our Felucca Challenge was to build a boat that would float and be able to hold 20 individual 1 gram weights.  We were very successful and all managed to pass our challenge.  We really enjoyed thinking about making them buoyant and reliable.

We also researched Cairo as a main tourist attraction and a city based at the bottom of the Nile Delta.  We created a physical map of Egypt and land use maps of Aswan, Cairo and Suez.

We researched Hydro Electric power in Scotland and Egypt, investigated how a hydro electric power plant works and created a map of all the power stations on Scotland. We were very surprised how many renewable ones we have!

We also researched the six different climate zones and made bar charts to show the average monthly rainfall and sunshine in each zone.  We drew world maps showing where each zone was in the world.

Potatoes Topic

We are taking part in Count and Grow this year and had a visit from Carol at the Royal Highland Educational Trust and Willie Officer (a local farmer) who helped us plant our potatoes. We have decided to make potato growing our new topic.