Y6 Jurassic World Maths Project: Part 1

YEAR 6 JURASSIC WORLD MATHS PROJECT

This Maths project has been designed and developed for Year 6 pupils. Also suitable for a lower Year 7/8 set or an able Year 5 set (if the topics below have been taught).
Elements of the project are cross-curricular and could be done outside of Maths lessons.

Pupils design and create (on a scaled map) their own Jurassic World Island. They are responsible for managing their budget, deciding how and on what to spend their money and the design and layout of their islands.

It’s broken into 3 parts currently. A fourth may well follow soon!

There is no written planning with these worksheets, as the activities are pretty much self-explanatory.
They are numbered in a suggested order but there is plenty of scope to vary.

I have always had pupils working in similar ability pairs for this project - enabling differentiation.

All the activity sheets are Microsoft Word documents so the size/complexity of the numbers can be altered to differentiate the activities.

The project incorporates a huge variety of Maths topics of Year 6 and beyond. These are listed below.

Maths Topics:

• Budgeting and managing expenditure
• Area and perimeter
• Ratio and scaling
• Working with up to 6 figure numbers (or less if adapted) frequently in the context of money
• Four operations calculations, including working with pounds/pence regularly
• Ratios and scaling
• Radius and diameter
• Percentages and fractions of amounts
• Estimation
• Daily income/cost balance sheets
• Distance/time ratio calculations
• Mean, median, mode and range
• Using formulae to describe sequences
• Volume of cuboids
• Area of circles
• Volume of spheres and surface area of spheres
• …And lots more!

HERE’S WHAT’S INCLUDED:

Part 1:

• Designing unique islands with certain features
• Selecting rectangular and/or compound shape enclosures
• Using scaling to draw these enclosures to scale
• Calculating perimeter and then the cost of electric fencing using ratio
• Finding the area of these enclosures
• Filling the enclosures: deciding which dinosaurs to purchase based on space required and space available in each enclosure
• Placing/positioning enclosures on map obeying certain rules
• Recording all spending on budget sheets

Part 2:
See Part 2 files

Part 3:
See Part 3 files