Mathematics Investigate timelines. Go to this site to find out about the developments in writing and drawing over the centuries. Find out about the major events and transfer this information onto a longitudinal timeline. Use the statistics from this site to make graphs showing the most popular forms of media and the least popular. Children make a survey of the school or community to find out about people's reading habits.
Children design the survey, select a survey sample, collect data and analyse the results.
They can ask questions about how much people read, their favourite authors or genre of book. Technology Investigate paper recycling. Children follow the instuctions at this site to make some recycled paper. Children design a model of a paper-making machine. Write instructions for the machine.