Competition
closed Friday 29th June 2001
WEBQUEST
Two major prizes of digital
cameras for the best answers to the Webquest
Webquest runner-up prizes of 8 wireless keyboards and mice (kindly donated
by Protech Australasia)
Competition
closed Friday 29th June 2001
MAXMAZE
Over 100 copies of 'South
Australia - H orizons Beyond' a beautiful pictorial history of SA in hard
cover (kindly donated by Information SA). Minor prizes including books, Tshirts,
CDs for each Maxmaze
Quiz.
Competition
closed Friday 29th June 2001
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The Rations
The campsite at Roper
River
Notes for the teacher:
BAND: Middle
Years
LEARNING AREA(S):
Health and Mathematics
TOPIC / CONCEPT:
The Rations
TIMELINE: 1
- 2 weeks
SACSA information
STUDENT
TASK:
How do you set
about provisioning a large body of men to work for eighteen
months in unknown country? Men doing hard physical work. Men
on the move. In a country that hits the intruder with heat,
hardship and dehydration.
Charles Todd, in his
careful and methodical manner, worked out an interesting scale
of rations.
Per man per week, it
allowed 9 lb of flour, 1 lb biscuit, 8 lb meat, 2 lb sugar,
1/4 lb tea, 1/2lb peas or oatmeal, 1/2 lb rice or pearl barley,
1 gill vinegar, 1/2 gill lime juice, 2 oz salt, 1/2 oz mustard,
and 1/2 oz pepper.
As well, each man was
permitted 1/2 lb of soap and 1/4 lb tobacco per week, and two
pipes and two boxes of matches per month.
QUESTIONS
- Some of the quantity measurements described above may seem
strange to you. What do the symbols lb, oz, gill mean? What
are their equivalents we use today? The website http://www.gumbopages.com/metric.html
can probably assist.
- Do a conversion
between the old measurements and today's measurements and
re-write the diet into today's measurements. With technology
enhancements what new measurements may be required to describe
quantities of food in the future?
- Would this diet
be sufficient to supply the energy needs of a worker on the
Overland Telegraph Line?
- Would you say this
is a balanced diet containing the main food groups
we recognise as essential for healthy living today?
- What perhaps is the
chief weakness of the diet based on today's standards?
Would these standards
need to change in the future?
- You are employed
as the leader of a catering firm. You have been asked to manage
the 130th Anniversary celebration of the Overland Telegraph
Line in South Australia with a "dinner in the outback"
event. You need to consider all aspects for catering for a
meal and celebration party.
Such things
as:
- entertainment,
- location,
- tables,
- setting,
- theme,
- menu,
- goods,
- staff,
- shipment of these
goods etc.
Remember you will be
catering for a similar size as the original construction team
on the Overland Telegraph Line. Cost the celebration and work
out how much this will be for each person, per head if you were
a non-profit organisation.
Created by Kate Dibben, Open
Access College, South Australia, Australia
email:
kdibben@oac.sa.edu.au
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