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Fire L3 After the Fire
Task Purpose: Understand that large fires impact people, places, and the environment. Understand the short and long term effects bush fires have on animal habitats.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to changes created by fire. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Make connections between prior knowledge and different forms of information to achieve the curriculum goal. Form and express ideas and information with increasing clarity for others to understand.
Fire L3 Fire Safety
Task Purpose: Understand what a fire needs to be able to burn. Understand that there are rules around the use of fire and that these rules are enforced by Fire and Emergency, New Zealand. To find why it is important to have these rules. To find out about the purpose of Fire and Emergency, New Zealand and be aware of the roles of firefighters within the organisation. Identify key safety practices and top tips for escaping a fire. Create a safety plan to use in case of fire.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social Science Goal Understand why groups implement rules and laws. Science Goal Explore, and describe examples of physical phenomena such as heat and fire.
Literacy Learning Goal: Make connections by thinking about underlying ideas. Communicate ideas orally to others with increasing clarity
Fire L2 Fire, Culture, Traditions
Task Purpose: Explore legends relating to fire in the Māori and Samoan cultures.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that fire is seen as culturally important for some people, and explain how people see and use fire as part of their traditions and customs.
Literacy Learning Goal: Identify and summarise key information and supporting details to effectively retell a story or legend. Recognise that the purpose of a legend is a way of explaining the actions of a person in the past. Locate and evaluate information and ideas about fire, and generate and answer questions to meet the curriculum goal.
Fire L4 Fire and Climate Change
Task Purpose: Develop an understanding of what climate change is and how it is linked to wildfires and deforestation.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Planet Earth & beyond Develop an understanding that our earth is made up of limited resources and overuse of these is contributing to climate change.
Literacy Learning Goal: Make inferences and provide justifications for these by drawing on prior knowledge and the clues heard or read. Take notes to think about and organise information. Use a range of vocabulary to communicate precise meaning. Recognise the importance of making abstract ideas easy for an audience to understand by using examples.
Disappearing L2 Disappearing habitats
Task Purpose: To understand the importance of the pōhutukawa tree to living creatures. To find out what is being done to save the Pōhutukawa.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goals Understand that many creatures and plants use particular places to live. Know that creatures living in a tree can also be in danger when pests and diseases destroy trees.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Discuss and use key information to inform others about a problem. Make and use notes to help organise information and think about specific ideas. Create relevant content with sufficient detail for the reader to understand.
Disappearing L3 New Zealand's endemic creatures
Task Purpose: To find out about our endemic and native species. To find out why kererū numbers are decreasing on Banks Peninsula. To find out about the importance of the kererū to the survival of native forests. To inform others about some of the reasons why endemic and native bird numbers are threatened.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goals Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and what happens when things change. Appreciate that some living things in New Zealand are quite different from living things in other parts of the world.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Inform an audience how New Zealand endemic and native birds are threatened. Summarise and organise selected ideas into note-form to help build thinking about the curriculum goal.
Disappearing L4 Eco sanctuaries
Task Purpose: To find out the reasons for the development of the first eco-sanctuary in New Zealand. Find out about some of New Zealand’s eco -sanctuaries and how humans are helping to support the survival of our native and endemic species.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to human-induced environmental changes. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Actively listen and ask questions to clarify understanding. Express an opinion and explain why they hold that opinion. Scan to locate information. Locate, evaluate and synthesise information to meet the curriculum goal.
Adventurers and Explorers L2 Strengths and Resilience
Task Purpose: To identify how we can use and develop our strengths to be successful, even when things are difficult. To make connections between texts, to find their common messages.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and PE goal: To understand how recognising and developing personal strengths contributes to our sense of self-worth. Social Science Goal: To understand how people make choices to meet their needs and wants.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals To locate, record, and organise ideas and information using a framework as a guide. To evaluate specific information in terms of its relevance to the learning task, choosing which information to include and which to leave out.
Adventurers and Explorers L3 Venturing Beyond our shores
Task Purpose: To identify how people develop resilience by pushing themselves, even when things go wrong. To identify why explorers choose their paths to do what they do.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Key Competency goal – Managing Self: To identify how people develop resilience and use this to achieve their goals. Social Science Goal: To understand how people view places differently.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals To use several related items of information in the text, to infer ideas and information that are not directly stated.
Adventurers and Explorers L3 Kiwi Kid adventures
Task Purpose: To identify how people can find enjoyment by facing challenges together. To identify why people undertake journeys and what they learn from doing them.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and PE Goal: Describe how participation in enjoyable physical activities, in a range of environments, assists in the promotion of wellbeing. Social Science Goal: Understand why people in the present day want to explore places that are new to them. Languages Goal: Use a Māori-English dictionary to find translations from te reo Māori to English and English to te reo Māori.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Use several related items of information in a text, to infer ideas and information that are not directly stated. Effectively record, organise and use ideas and information gathered from texts to evaluate and integrate information.
Adventurers and Explorers L4 Explorers in space
Task Purpose: To find out about satellites and what they do/are used for. To identify the science behind how rockets work and how they escape Earth’s atmosphere. To identify how and why humans are exploring space as the ‘final frontier.’
Curriculum Learning Goal: Technology Goal: To understand how technological development such as rockets and satellites, expand knowledge about space. Science Goal: To understand forces that are involved in launching a rocket, escaping Earth’s atmosphere and maintaining an orbit.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals To link several pieces of information in the text, combined with prior knowledge to make sense of unfamiliar or complicated information. To record and effectively organise ideas and information gathered from texts into graphic organisers and apply these ideas and information into a captivating narrative. To clearly explain how technological developments such as satellites and rockets work to develop and extend knowledge about space.
Disappearing L2 Native birds
Task Purpose: To find out what is causing the numbers of New Zealand native birds to fall. To inform others about why some New Zealand native birds are disappearing.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science learning goals: Recognise that native birds have certain requirements to survive and stay alive. Promote awareness of the steps people can take to stop the numbers of native birds falling.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy learning goals Become familiar with and use language in discussion and writing that relate to the curriculum topic. Select key information, make notes and organize information to achieve the learning purpose.
Disappearing L3 Unwanted visitors
Task Purpose: To find out about some of the reasons why New Zealand’s plants and animals are unique. To find out what is being done to protect New Zealand’s endemic species.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goals Explain how New Zealand native and endemic animals and plants are suited to their habitat and identify what problems they face and what is being done to protect them. Appreciate that some living things in New Zealand are quite different from living things in other parts of the world.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Use a range of clues in the text and prior experience to make predictions about what the reading might be about and confirm by reading. Generate and answer questions to meet specific learning purposes. Skim material using a range of text clues to identify what the material is about. Scan the material for specific information. Locate, evaluate and integrate information across a small range of texts.
Disappearing L4 Poachers
Task Purpose: To find out about the physical characteristics of Pāua. To find out about poaching and their impacts of New Zealand native and endemic species. To influence others to think about what happens when shellfish are over harvested and poached.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goals Explain how New Zealand native and endemic animals and plants are suited to their habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human induced. Appreciate that some living things in New Zealand are quite different from living things in other parts of the world.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Think critically about what is heard; make comments to support or refute ideas, explain why their opinion is held. Locate, evaluate and synthesise information and ideas within and across a small range of texts. Create a text to influence others to think about their behaviours using persuasive language and a convincing argument. Scan to locate specific information that meets a specific learning purpose.
Let's Get Moving L2 What's good about exercise
Task Purpose: To find out the good things about exercise. To investigate some fun activities that help people become fitter.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and physical education Understand how people’s attitudes and actions contribute to staying healthy. Encourage others to participate and enjoy exercise.
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate and evaluate information to achieve the curriculum purpose. Draw on clues in the text and background knowledge to make inferences.
Let's Get Moving L2 Our muscles how they help us move
Task Purpose: To understand how we move. To understand what you can do to reduce the tiredness in your muscles when you exercise. To use information to plan how to make healthier choices.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal Know and use language to describe how muscles help us move. Social sciences goal: Understand how making healthy choices can help people to better meet their exercise and well-being goals.
Literacy Learning Goal: Clearly explain and demonstrate to others what causes muscle tiredness. Create mental images to gain a deeper understanding of the information read. Find clues in the text and draw on prior knowledge to make inferences about making healthy choices.
Let's Get Moving L3 Coaches and Refs
Task Purpose: To find out the attributes of a sports’ or activities coach. To understand what it means to be a coach or a referee.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and Physical education Identify risks and their causes, and identify safe practices to manage them. Develop movement activities that are enjoyable and promote physical and mental wellbeing. Social Sciences Understand how people make and implement rules and why these might be important in organised sport or activities.
Literacy Learning Goal: Express an opinion and explain why the opinion is held. Is willing to negotiate compromise when an agreement cannot be reached. Scan to locate and evaluate information that is relevant to the task purpose. Use appropriate language and structure to clearly describe a person’s role.
Let's Get Moving L3 Moving Vocabulary
Task Purpose: To recall a sporting activity that you have learned. To understand that different sports use special language to explain the equipment they use and activities they do. To identify vocabulary that accurately describes specific actions.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences Understand how people make use of resources to compete in sport and enjoy their leisure activities. Health and Physical education Practise movement skills and demonstrate how these can be linked to create a sequence. English Read and use a range of vocabulary and language features to effectively communicate meaning of various elements within specific sports and activities.
Literacy Learning Goal: Select and use vocabulary and figures of speech to precisely describe what is seen and heard so that others can create mental images.
Let's Get Moving L4 Attributes of an Olympic Athlete
Task Purpose: To find out what characteristics you need to be a successful athlete. To understand the preparation involved in being an Olympic athlete.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and Physical Education Understand what it means to accept challenges, learn new skills and extend abilities.
Literacy Learning Goal: Analyse and synthesise key aspects in the texts which support the Health and Physical Education goal. Select key information, make brief notes to clarify and organise ideas. Use clues in the text and draw on background knowledge to make inferences.
Let's Get Moving L4 New Zealand Olympic team in the past and present
Task Purpose: To find out what it was like for the first team of athletes to represent NZ at the Olympic games. To find out what were the symbols the New Zealand athletes used during the Olympics games to distinguish themselves from other athletes.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences Understand how participation in a world event such as the Olympics has shaped New Zealand athletes’ sense of identity. Using language symbols and codes. Recognise how the use of symbols affects people’s understandings and the way they respond to them.
Literacy Learning Goal: Use clues in the text as well as drawing on background knowledge to predict what might be happening in the article. Analyse and synthesise ideas by considering how they link to other ideas in order to reach conclusions related to the curriculum goal.
