DESIGN YOUR OWN THEME PARK
This task is designed for 3 weeks worth of
Foundation learning lessons.
During this task you will develop your maths and English skills.
You will use the following numeracy skills when designing your theme park:
1. Using tally charts
2. Calculating costs
3. Estimating revenue
This theme park project asks you to get creative and use your literacy skills
by:
1. Coming up with a name for your theme park and some thrilling rides
2. Designing a brochure to advertise the theme park
3. Designing web banners or a billboard
4. Writing a script for a television or radio ad
5. Writing a magazine article about the theme park
Your theme park will take 3 weeks to design. You should aim to complete
the stages below each week.
Week 1 – Planning the Theme Park and budgeting
Week 2 – Theme park brochure, budget, ticket prices and costs
Week 3 – Advertising and magazine review
PLAN YOUR THEME PARK
What will be the name of your theme park?
A Potential Name For Your Theme Park
Your name may depend on your ‘target market’ The name for my theme park is
(the main people you hope will visit your theme
park).
Will your park just be for thrill-seeking adults?
Will it be a place suitable for a family of all ages?
Or are you just going to create an attraction for
children?
What themed areas will you have within your theme park?
My 3 themed areas are
1. _______________________
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2. _______________________
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3. _______________________
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How much do you have to spend?
Time to plan your theme park
READ what you can include in your theme park and what you MUST
include
How to plan your theme park
1. Remember you only have £4 million (£4,000,000) to spend.
2. You MUST have 3 themed areas
3. Each area MUST have a place to eat
4. You MUST have a first aid booth
5. You MUST have 10 bins
6. You MUST have 20 benches
7. Below is how much each type of ride costs, the colour it needs to be
shaded on your plan and how many squares you need to use for it.
You have a BUDGET sheet. Keep track with a tally on how much you are
spending. You could plan your spending FIRST to make sure you don’t
spend too much.
You also have an outline MAP of the land you have to build your theme
park on. Each square on there is 50m² MARK your rides onto the map. If
you don’t have access to colours you can use different markings with a pen
or pencil. E.g. dots, stripes, stars etc.
HOW ARE YOU DOING SO FAR?
Complete the statements below to make sure you are ready to move on.
The name of my theme park is ___________________________________
The main audience I am aiming at is ______________________________
The 3 themed areas I have are ___________________________________
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I have spent £____________________ on my build cost this is less than £4
million
Can you answer yes to these?
• I have planned for toilet blocks
• I have planned for first aid blocks
• I have planned for an eating place in each of the 3 areas
• I have planned for 20 benches
• I have planned for 10 bins
YOUR THEME PARK BROCHURE
Now you have planned your theme park it’s time to tell your customers about it in more
detail. You will do this through a brochure/leaflet.
Your brochure should have 4 pages.
1. Front cover
2. A telling the customer about the 3 themed areas
3. Details of the rides and attractions
4. Information on the food outlets.
For more details read the information below
This can be done on paper or on the computer
NOW YOU HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION GET DESIGNING
RUNNING YOUR THEME PARK
Now that you have planned your theme park it is now time to
make sure it makes money so its time to look at the costs and
prices.
What will you need to spend money on
Guide to completing your running cost
Write in here how many of
this type of ride you have
have. You may not have any.
The total cost is
staffing costs + electricy etc.
costs x number of the rides you
have.
SO if you had 3 thrill seeker
rides it would be
£800 + £300 = £1100
£1100 x 3 = £3300
The amount from the box above
– total for two weeks of
£5000000 – the overall total above operative – as calculated above
HOW MUCH PROFIT WILL YOU MAKE?
WHO IS YOUR TARGET AUDIENCE?
Draw images of your target market and annotate them to provide a clear view on who you
expect to visit your theme park.
Think about
• Their age
• Will there be families?
• Remember if you are aiming at your age – who provides all the money and gets them
there. Is it better to have families or young adults etc.
How much will you charge?
YOUR TICKETS
Now you have decided on the price of tickets. Design a sample online ticket. This ticket could be booked online and printed off to avoid
lengthy queues on the day.
The example should be for 2 adults and 2 children.
It should include;
• Date
• Cost
• Be colourful
MARKETING AND ADVERTISING
Advertising Advantages Disadvantages
method
Billboards
Print
Radio
Television
Internet
What advertising will you use?
Marketing Budget
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TIME TO DESIGN
Now you have decided on how you are going to market your
theme park. Its now time to create the adverts.
Speaker/Character Lines to perform
Speaker/Character Lines to perform
Read this xample
to help you write
your own on the
next pag
Mega Drop Magazine Review
