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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.
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.
