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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 L2 How we communicate
Task Purpose: To identify different ways we communicate with one another, and the key elements needed for successful communication To understand that when people communicate they can misunderstand each other for a number of reasons. To identify the common message about communication that links the two texts and why that message is important.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goal : To learn how to improve relationships with others by listening carefully, checking what the other person/people mean, and by thinking carefully about what we say and how we say it. Social Science Goal: To understand how the ways people communicate is different depending on the time, place, technology available and the people themselves.
Literacy Learning Goal: Find clues in the text and draw on background experience to make inferences about underlying messages in the texts. Listen to others’ ideas and discuss own and others’ ideas to clarify my thinking.
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 L3 Pictures and Words
Task Purpose: To discover how visual art is an important form of communication. To use visual tools to send a message.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goal To identify how our actions can enhance the wellbeing of others and the community we live in. Visual Arts Goal Describe the ideas communicated in different types of visual art.
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate and summarise ideas in the text. Use the text structure of a comic to share a message.
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.
Off the Grid L2 Electricity
Task Purpose: To understand what electricity is and how we rely on it in our daily lives. To understand why we need to save electricity and how we can do so.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explore electricity as an example of everyday physical phenomena. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Use personal experience and knowledge to make meaning from texts. Use written language features to create meaning and effect for an audience.
Off the Grid L2 Growing your own food
Task Purpose: Identify that food can be grown or bought and that people get food from different places for a variety of reasons. Identify what plants need to be able to grow.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Recognise that living things have certain requirements so they can stay alive. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Read and interpret key messages from written and visual images. Communicate ideas clearly in both oral and written form.
Off the Grid L3 Solar Energy
Task Purpose: To understand how solar electric power is generated, stored and used. To compare solar power to other sources of electric power.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify and describe how solar energy is used to create solar power. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Compare and contrast ideas using evidence. Use visual language to communicate ideas.
Off the Grid L3 Water sources
Task Purpose: To understand where water from the tap comes from. To identify some of the problems people face when trying to access clean water.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Appreciate that water is one of Earth’s resources. (Science) Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of water as a resource. (Social Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Justify a point of view with evidence.
Off the Grid L4 Electricity Sources
Task Purpose: To understand what electricity is. To identify and describe different ways electricity can be generated and understand that each of these has its pros and cons.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Use science knowledge when considering issues of concern. Identify and describe everyday examples of sources of energy, forms of energy, and energy transformations. (Science) Review sources of electricity to identify those which are better for environmentally sustainable living. (Technology)
Literacy Learning Goal: Identify and organise key information to apply to new situations. Locate, evaluate and synthesise information within and across a small range of texts.
Off the Grid L4 Living off the land
Task Purpose: Understand why some people choose to live in the wild and identify the safe choices they need to make to help them survive.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand the safe choices people need to take when visiting the outdoors in New Zealand. Health and Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate, evaluate, analyse and synthesise information and ideas across a small range of texts to meet the curriculum goals. Express an opinion, drawing on supporting information to explain why the opinion is held.
Summer Safety L2 Water safety
Task Purpose: To find out why people should wear life jackets when they are on the water. To think about safe practices near the sea. To create a safety message for class members and parents.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goals Know and use safe practices when near, in or on the water. Contribute to and us simple guidelines that promote safe, local environments.
Literacy Learning Goal: Summarise water safety information by listening for and identifying important points and sequencing them. Find clues in the text and draw on background knowledge to make inferences.
Summer Safety L2 Water safety at the pool and at the beach
Task Purpose: To find out about how to stay safe near or in the water
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goal Identify and use safe practices in or near the water.
Literacy Learning Goal: Recalls main ideas from video and discussions with others Makes decisions with others to identify key information to share with an audience.
Summer Safety L3 Sun safety
Task Purpose: To capture feelings about summer. To find out about our skin and what happens to it when we get sunburnt. To understand what being sun-smart means.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goals Identify risks when out in the sun and describe sun-smart practices to manage these.
Literacy Learning Goal: Scan to locate and summarise key ideas. Select precise and descriptive words that create a picture in the mind of the audience. Revise and proofread writing to clarify meaning and add impact. Create ideas that are relevant and fit for purpose.
Summer Safety L3 River safety
Task Purpose: To understand how to stay safe when swimming in a river. To understand the steps to take before jumping or diving into a river. to understand ways to keep yourself and others safe near or in rivers
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goals Identify risks and their causes and describe safe practices to manage these.
Literacy Learning Goal: Scan to locate and summarise key ideas. Draw on a range of related ideas to infer the feelings of the narrator.
Summer Safety L4 Risks
Task Purpose: To understand some of the increased risks of warmer weather. to find out ways to protect ourselves and inform others.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goals Locate and use information to identify risks and action safe choices during summer. Identify and find ways to share safe practises during summer with others in school and the wider community.
Literacy Learning Goal: Ask and answer questions to meet specific learning purposes across the curriculum. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts. Use key skills of scanning to locate relevant information for specific purposes.
Summer Safety L4 Water safety
Task Purpose: To find out what can happen during a rescue and to understand how to be prepared and know what to do. to read and interpret graphs and locate key information about water safety.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Health Goals Locate, and use information to identify risks and action safe choices during summer. Identify how individuals can work together to take action to keep others safe.
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate, evaluate and synthesise information for specific purposes across a small range of texts. Write and use visual information to persuade an audience. Create content that is relevant to the curriculum task, using carefully selected details that elaborate on the main ideas. Shape text by revising and proofreading, checking that the text meets the purpose and is likely to engage the intended audience.
Celebrations and Festivals L2 Celebrating with our Families
Task Purpose: To find out how families celebrate special days together.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goal Understand how people celebrate what is important to them and what they believe in.
Literacy Learning Goal: Listen to others’ information and discuss own information to find what is similar and what is different. Identify key steps in the way that people celebrate by summarizing and ordering main ideas.
Celebrations and Festivals L2 Planning a celebration
Task Purpose: To find out what is involved in celebrating birthdays around the world. To find out what is involved in planning a celebration. To find out what is involved in planning a celebration and managing a budget. To understand why written invitations are important.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goal : Understand how celebrations reflect and express people’s traditions and values. Financial Capability Make simple budget choices that prioritise 'needs' and 'wants'
Literacy Learning Goal: Express an opinion and listen to those of others and negotiate to reach an agreement Sequence and organise information clearly so that a reader can understand and act on it.
Celebrations and Festivals L3 Celebrating Local heroes
Task Purpose: To find out what it means to be a hero. To define what makes an everyday local hero. To identify who might be an everyday hero in your community.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social science goal Know and recognise how individuals’ contributions can make a positive impact on others.
Literacy Learning Goal: Use precise, descriptive language to clearly express thoughts and ideas for a particular audience. Plan and organise ideas and information into an appropriate structure to meet the writing purpose. Locate, select and evaluate information from print and digital texts to meet the curriculum purpose.
