Steep streets

Steep streets

Pencil and paper
Overview
Using this Resource
Connecting to the Curriculum
Marking Student Responses
Further Resources
This task is about using information in a text to show your understandings.
Read "How Steep is Steep?", pages 24-26, School Journal Part 4, No. 3, 1996.
Then answer the following questions.
 
a)
What are two things that have been done to help people cope with the steepness of Baldwin Street?
 
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b) 
What does gradient measure? ____________________________________________________
 
c)
Explain what a gradient of 1:7 means?
 
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d)
Do you think that very steep hills should be developed for housing? Yes   /   No     (Circle one)
  
Give three reasons in the space provided to support your position.
 
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Task administration: 
This task can be completed with pencil and paper.
 
Copyright: 
The Steepest Street - Text and images were first published by Learning Media Limited in School Journal, on behalf of the Ministry of Education. © Keith Olsen 1996. 
 
Level:
4
Curriculum info: 
English, Making meaning, Reading
Key Competencies: 
Thinking
Keywords: 
comprehension, School Journal, opinion, supporting ideas, retrieve, inference, SJ-4-3-1996
Description of task: 
New Zealand's steepest street is the context for this resource. Comprehension questions require students to find information and make inferences. The text is provided with this resource. SJ-4-3-1996. Text provided.
Curriculum Links: 
Links to the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading:
This resource helps to identify students’ ability to:
  • infer ideas and information that are not directly stated in the text
as described in the Literacy Learning Progressions for Reading at: http://www.literacyprogressions.tki.org.nz/The-Structure-of-the-Progressions.
Learning Progression Frameworks
This resource can provide evidence of learning associated with
Reading for literary experience, set 5
within the Reading Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Read more about the Learning Progressions Frameworks.
Answers/responses: 
 

Y8 (10/2000)

a)
  • Handrails.
  • Specially grooved concrete to help tyres grip.

2 correct - moderate 
1 correct - very easy

b)

Steepness

moderate

c)

For every 7 m along you go up one metre/To be one metre higher, you have to travel 7 metres horizontally.

moderate

d)

Identify three reasons to support a position, e.g.,
Yes

  • Great views.
  • Different feeling of space.
  • Sections may be cheaper.
  • Would keep you fit.
  • No risk of floods.
  • May be quieter.

No

  • Hard to park.
  • Hard on cars.
  • Not good for old people/toddlers/people with physical disabilities.
  • Danger of land slips.
  • Could be exposed to the wind.
  • Access issues for services and friends.

3 correct -
very difficult
 
2 correct -
moderate
 
1 correct -
easy