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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.
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.
Gold mining L4 Chinese Goldminers
Task Purpose: To find out about the experiences of the Chinese miners on the Otago goldfields during the 1800’s. To understand how differences in culture and language can lead to prejudice and intolerance. To find out how the laws made in the 1800’s affected the Chinese people.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how individuals and the New Zealand government made decisions that had consequences for the Chinese community who arrived during the late 1800’s. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: o think critically and discuss how the New Zealand poll tax affected Chinese miners arriving during the gold-rush of the late 1800’s. To gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts.
Volcanoes L4 Rock Detectives
Task Purpose: To explore the different ways people use rocks to support our way of life. To understand the different types of igneous rocks and how they are formed. To understand the different purposes for which different types of igneous rocks are used.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand how igneous rocks are formed and their different uses. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: To use prior information to form a hypothesis and revise it in the light of new scientific information. To locate and evaluate information across several texts and consider what information should be used to achieve the curriculum goal.
Antarctica L4 Food Webs
Task Purpose: To understand that food webs are made up of producers, consumers and decomposers. To identify what a food web looks like in Antarctica. Understand the multiple purposes that producers play in the health of our world.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human induced. Build on prior experiences, working together to share and examine their own and others’ knowledge. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Draw on prior knowledge and textual and visual information from the texts to interpret abstract ideas. Locate, compare and connect ideas within and across a small range of texts.
Healthy Eating L4 Eating to maintain good health
Task Purpose: To find out how individuals monitor their risk to food allergies and what we can do to help. To find out what it is like to have food allergies and how those with food allergies feel about it. To consider how to assist others who have special dietary needs to stay healthy and feel included within the class and the school.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To build and strengthen understanding that to stay healthy some people have special dietary needs. To identify how students monitor their eating to maintain the quality of their health, and to know how to take action to assist in the care and nutritional safety of others. (health)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use the structure of a text to help identify the main ideas. Analyse information to reflect on the ideas presented and consider how they link to other ideas and to prior knowledge and experience. Compare different ideas and information to create new knowledge.
Kiwiana L4 great New Zealanders
Task Purpose: To identify and discuss what makes someone stand out and be considered great in New Zealand society. To find out the reasons why some New Zealanders have been judged the greatest. To find out what they said and have been remembered for. To make some generalisations about the similarities and differences of the people featured.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand how and why people influence and make contributions to New Zealand culture and society. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Students will be able to: - gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts to achieve the curriculum purpose - build and extend an understanding of the curriculum purpose by asking and answering questions - create written content that is relevant and includes selected detail that supports the main idea.
Understanding Difference L3 River
Task Purpose: To understand how changes in rivers affect animals living in them. To identify different reasons we have for using a river and understand how these impact upon the health of the river.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how people view and use places differently. Social Sciences
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by using clues in the text and drawing on prior knowledge to reach a conclusion. To synthesise key information from more than one information source.
Our star L4 solar size
Task Purpose: To identify the components of the solar system. To be able to describe and explain some of the components of the solar system. To create a model of the distances experienced in our Solar System and the observable universe
Curriculum Learning Goal: To investigate the key components of the solar system. To explore and develop simple scale models to create explanations of the components of the solar system and gain some sense of the distances involved. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: To locate and evaluate information that will help to achieve the reading purpose. To summarise information and compare and contrast it in order to develop new knowledge and understandings.
