Teachers Page for the Fact File Work

Set the pupils into groups. Each group will be doing their own study about St. Lucia.

You may like to give each group a different aspect to cover. Questions will group under a few simple headings: human geography - learning about the people of St. Lucia; physical geography - learning about the land and land use, maybe the sea as well; climate; the Rainforest; the volcanoes or the coral reefs. If several groups do slightly different studies you could make a book or a PowerPoint presentation from the finished pieces of work.

It is important that the pupils are given an audience for this work, without that they cannot achieve level 4 or above in ICT assessment.

The first things they are asked to do is make a list of questions and to e-mail them to you so that you can check that they are on the right lines. A few questions to start them off:

 

How many people live there? How big is the island? What is the weather like? What crops do they grow? What do they export (sell) to other countries? What is their currency? What sort of landscape is it? What animals might you find there?

What clothes do they wear? What language do they speak? Do the children have schools like us? What work do the adults do? What do their houses look like? Do they listen to music? Do they watch films? Do they read books?

There are several options for presenting this work - the easiest to achieve is a booklet with a chapter for each group, a more exciting one is creating a PowerPoint presentation that could be shown off to the school in assembly or a parent;s evening.