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Detectives L2 detective work
Task Purpose: To identify ways to find evidence and clues that help solve problems or mysteries. To identify how fingerprints can help solve crimes and the processes involved.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal: To understand how careful observation of clues and evidence can be used to solve mysteries and puzzles.
Literacy Learning Goal: To make connections between what we read, what we already know and what we observe. To find key information in what we read and use it for our learning.
Detectives L3 detectives of science
Task Purpose: To find out the meaning of tricky and topic specific words, to make sense of the text. To show how scientists use clues/evidence to prove or disprove their hypotheses and/or explain things from the past or the present.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal: To understand how scientists create hypotheses, and gather evidence to explain their theories about the world as it once was.
Literacy Learning Goal: To integrate and evaluate the information in and across different texts. To use prior knowledge and information in the text to work out the meaning of new or technical words.
Detectives L3 detectives and crime
Task Purpose: To find out how a detective mystery story is constructed To identify the parts of a detective mystery story and use these to create our own.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal: To understand how people ask questions, find evidence and carry out investigations to develop possible explanations.
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by making connections between clues in the text and what is already known. To recognise and use the structure and language features of a detective mystery text.
Detectives L4 detectives in science
Task Purpose: To understand how scientists use observation and ask questions of themselves and others to solve puzzles about things that happen in the world. To reach a conclusion about what scientists do.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Science goal: To understand how scientists create theories then gather evidence to prove or disprove those theories about the world.
Literacy Learning Goal: To make connections between prior knowledge and information across different texts and make sense of increasingly complex ideas.
Friendship L2 How to be a friend
Task Purpose: To find out ways to be a good friend. To plan what you will do to be a friend.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health and Physical Education goals Identify and show ways to make friends.
Literacy Learning Goal: Select the most important ideas and make notes.
Friendship L3 Sometimes friendships change
Task Purpose: To learn how to identify that a friendship is changing. To identify what makes a good friend. To find out ways to talk to a friend after you have had a fight with them.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health goals Identify ways of managing a changing relationship.
Literacy Learning Goal: Actively listen and then discuss own and others’ behaviours to reduce feelings of anger and hurt. Support personal opinions by identifying and recalling main points of what is said or read.
Friendship L3 Racism and discrimination
Task Purpose: To think about what you might do when someone is being treated unfairly. To identify what is racism and the impact it has. To think about how to treat others.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health goals Identify ways that people may discriminate and ways to act responsibility to support themselves and others.
Literacy Learning Goal: Draw on background experience and clues in the text to identify ways that people may discriminate. Discuss and work with other students to identify problems and explore possible solutions.
Friendship Level 4 Assertive Communication
Task Purpose: To find out how to actively listen and communicate assertively. To teach others what it means to be passive, assertive and aggressive.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Describe and demonstrate a range of assertive communication skills and processes that enable appropriate interactions with others. Health
Literacy Learning Goal: Use prior knowledge, along with information in the text to read and understand abstract ideas. Understand the purpose for writing a text, plan effectively and record key information needed for writing. Create written and visual content that is relevant for the audience and meets the curriculum goal. Actively seek and respond to feedback on their writing.
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.
