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Communication L2 Signs, signs, signs
Task Purpose: To identify signs around us and what they communicate. To use visual tools to send a message.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To identify how signs are used to inform and keep us safe in different environments. (Health) To share the ideas, feelings and messages of images and signs. (Visual Arts)
Literacy Learning Goal: Scan texts (written and visual) to locate and evaluate specific information. Recognise the features of signs, and their purposes.
Communication L3 Sign language
Task Purpose: To learn about how deaf people communicate in a hearing world. To investigate the history, influences, future and importance of New Zealand Sign Language.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To recognise how Deaf people communicate and why this is important for their wellbeing. (Health) To recognise the similarities and differences between the Deaf and hearing communities in NZ and how these influence one another. (Social Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Scan texts (written and visual) to locate and evaluate specific information. Evaluate information from more than one source, to identify key ideas and use these to form an opinion on the topic.
Communication L4 digital communication
Task Purpose: To identify ways people communicate through digital technologies and how these enhance their lives.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Technology Goal To understand how technological development expands human possibilities.
Literacy Learning Goal: To use prior knowledge and the information in the text to interpret abstract ideas. To work out complex, irregular, and/or ambiguous words by using strategies such as inferring the unknown from the known. To generate and answer questions to meet specific learning purposes.
Celebrations and Festivals L4 At my dinner table
Task Purpose: To find out something of the lives of possible guests.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goals Make connections by thinking about the underlying reasons why people do the things they do. Understand how individuals participate in and seek to overcome challenges.
Literacy Learning Goal: Skim texts to gain a quick idea of what the text is about. Scan texts to quickly identify information needed to meet the curriculum purpose. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts. Create content that is relevant and meets the curriculum purpose and engages the intended audience. Seek and respond to feedback given on presentations developed for an audience.
Choices L3 Being responsible
Task Purpose: To find out what being responsible means and what it looks like in reality. To find out what being responsible looks like To identify strategies to become more responsible.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify ways in which people act responsibly to support themselves and others. Values Know what it means to be responsible and make choices to act responsibly. (Health)
Literacy Learning Goal: Visualising Expand vocabulary knowledge to precisely express what it means to be responsible. Identify and recall main ideas, listening and adding key points omitted by others during discussions. Think critically about what is heard. Plan and write convincingly for an audience about an event, using a clear structure of key ideas and supporting details.
Pests and Predators L4 - People
Task Purpose: To understand why predators were introduced into New Zealand and the effects this has had on people, animals and the environment. To understand that people hold a range of viewpoints on the way the pest and predator problem is dealt with in New Zealand.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental change, both natural and human induced. (Science) Understand how formal and informal groups make decisions that impact on communities. Understand that events have causes and effects. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Identifies particular points of view and recognises that texts can position a reader. Literacy Goal Scan texts to locate and evaluate specific information. Take notes and organise information to express an opinion. Persuade an audience of a particular point of view using an appropriate structure and persuasive language. (English)
Financial Literacy L2 New Zealand Money
Task Purpose: To understand the value of New Zealand money and what makes our bank-notes different from other countries. Understand that technological change and the invention of the Eftpos card has changed the way we pay for things.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that technology both reflects and changes society and increases people’s capability. (technology) Communicate findings based on the data gathered from a simple statistical investigation. (mathematics)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use visual language features to create meaning and effect. Locate, evaluate information and draw on prior knowledge to form a conclusion.
Technology L2 Robots
Task Purpose: To understand the purpose of and some of the uses for robots.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that technology changes society and increases people’s capability.
Literacy Learning Goal: Use oral, written and visual language features to create meaning and effect. Effectively use writing processes of planning, editing and proof reading to meet writing purposes. Express opinions clearly and logically and actively listen to others opinions.
Technology L2 Tech in Nature
Task Purpose: Understand that animals use a natural form of technology and that scientists and technologists have used this to inspire new technology for humans.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that technology both reflects and changes the environment and increases people’s capability. Tech Recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they behave in different ways. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Find, evaluate and use useful information to write about a chosen topic.
Technology L4 Smart Buildings and Cars
Task Purpose: To find out about what future cars might be like and why that might be so. To find out what is smart technology and how it can be applied.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how technological development expands human possibilities. Tech
Literacy Learning Goal: To identify and reflect on ideas read and presented, and consider how these link to other ideas as well as prior and world knowledge to reach a conclusion about uses of technology.
Sustainability L4 Powering up and protecting the environment
Task Purpose: To find out what sustainability means. To find out about renewable forms of energy and learn why fossil fuels are non-renewable. To find out about environmentally friendly alternatives to cars powered by fossil fuels.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To explore, identify and describe examples of non-renewable and renewable forms of energy and their impact on the environment. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: To think about, select, take note of and organise ideas using an appropriate format. To analyse and synthesise information from a small range of sources.
Myths and Legends L2 Landforms
Task Purpose: To become familiar with the grammar features that signal when someone is speaking. To find out how to present a myth using expression, volume and pace to gain and keep an audience’s attention. To find out how myths express cultural values. To understand that myths are sometimes used to explain how landforms were formed.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English : Show some understanding of the ideas presented within a text and make connections with other texts. Social sciences : Understand how retelling myths play an important part in expressing cultural values and beliefs.
Literacy Learning Goal: Use evidence from the text and draw on prior knowledge to make judgments about specific aspects of the stories that have been read. To read expressively with appropriate pace, fluency and audibility so that meaning is clear to an audience.
Myths and Legends L3 Monsters and mythical creatures
Task Purpose: To find out why some of the myths, legends and stories are told.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences To understand that different cultures use storytelling of myths and legends for similar purposes. English : To begin to make connections about the underlying ideas in and between myths.
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by drawing on background experience and clues in the text to make predictions about what may have been happening in the stories. To draw on words in the text and make connections to prior knowledge to create mental images that enable the reader to gain deeper meaning of the text content. To orally contribute ideas and listen to others within a small group setting, in order to generate new ideas or solve problems.
Building Resilience L3 Emotions
Task Purpose: To understand what affects our emotions and learn strategies for independently managing them.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health & Physical Education Identify factors that affect emotional growth and develop skills to manage changes.
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate, evaluate and summarise information drawn from a small range of texts. Make notes to help generate content relevant to the learning purpose. Explain what has been learned to an audience, using relevant content, appropriate language within a suitable text structure.
Building Resilience L4 The brain and mindfulness
Task Purpose: To understand that scientists believe that we can rebuild and change our brains. To compare information and form conclusions about how conscious thinking affects our emotions and feelings and present this to others.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health: Investigate and describe life style factors that contribute to the well-being of people in New Zealand. Science : Appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world and that science knowledge changes over time.
Literacy Learning Goal: To form and communicate ideas clearly, drawing on a range of sources. To analyse and synthesise key information from a range of information sources.
Mini-beasts L2 eco-systems
Task Purpose: To understand the relationship between a honey bee and a flowering plant. To recognise how the behaviours of other living things, including humans, are threatening honey bee survival . To present what you have learnt about honey bees to another audience .
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand how honey bees and flowering plants benefit from each other. To recognise how other species’ actions have a negative effect on bees and the important role they perform in the world (Science).
Literacy Learning Goal: To use visual language features to help understand information in texts. To locate and identify main ideas in different texts. To summarise the main ideas and present this learning in a different way.
Mini-beasts L3 Biosecurity
Task Purpose: To understand the importance of biosecurity in protecting the environment from insect pests. Understand how a species of insect can be used to control weeds and other insect pests. To investigate other examples of biocontrol agents in New Zealand
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how biosecurity can protect ecosystems and the environment. Understand how a species of insect can be used to control weeds and other insect pests (Science).
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate and identify main ideas in different texts. Evaluate and integrate information within, across, and beyond texts.
Mini-beasts L4 Foodwebs
Task Purpose: To understand the interdependence of living things within a particular food web. To explain why invertebrates have an important role in the New Zealand bush ecosystem.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Describe positive and negative relationships between organisms within a particular ecosystem. Understand and demonstrate how a food web shows the interdependence of organisms in an ecosystem (Science).
Literacy Learning Goal: Analyse and synthesise information. Develop and use a wide range of academic and content-specific vocabulary.
Cultural Expressions L4 Examining and creating Hip Hop
Task Purpose: To think about the skills and attributes a Hip hop crew member needs. To examine some Hip Hop moves and describe these using appropriate vocabulary. To be aware of how some dance moves are created and influenced by culture. To draw on the dance knowledge gained and background knowledge to create a short Hip Hop dance.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Arts goal: Describe and record how Hip Hop dance is expressed through movement. Apply Hip Hop dance elements to extend personal movement skills and vocabularies and to explore the vocabularies of others.
Literacy Learning Goal: To locate clues in the text and drawing on background experience to predict what skills and attributes Hip Hop crew members need. To write a clear and succinct description of skills and attributes needed to be a dance crew member.
Gold mining L3 Businesses and Services
Task Purpose: To consider the kinds of businesses and services needed to support miners on the goldfields. To find out about the businesses and services that grew up along-side the gold-rushes. To find out how towns developed from their goldmining beginnings.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that people use places for different purposes i.e. that goldminers came to mine for gold, and others came to create a business or provide a service.
Literacy Learning Goal: To locate, integrate and evaluate information from several texts to gain a picture of the lives of the miners and others working near or on the goldfields.
