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Celebrations and Festivals L4 At my dinner table
Task Purpose: To find out something of the lives of possible guests.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goals Make connections by thinking about the underlying reasons why people do the things they do. Understand how individuals participate in and seek to overcome challenges.
Literacy Learning Goal: Skim texts to gain a quick idea of what the text is about. Scan texts to quickly identify information needed to meet the curriculum purpose. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts. Create content that is relevant and meets the curriculum purpose and engages the intended audience. Seek and respond to feedback given on presentations developed for an audience.
Choices L3 Being responsible
Task Purpose: To find out what being responsible means and what it looks like in reality. To find out what being responsible looks like To identify strategies to become more responsible.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify ways in which people act responsibly to support themselves and others. Values Know what it means to be responsible and make choices to act responsibly. (Health)
Literacy Learning Goal: Visualising Expand vocabulary knowledge to precisely express what it means to be responsible. Identify and recall main ideas, listening and adding key points omitted by others during discussions. Think critically about what is heard. Plan and write convincingly for an audience about an event, using a clear structure of key ideas and supporting details.
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.
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.
Celebrations and Festivals L4 Why and how
Task Purpose: To explore the range of festivals and how they can be grouped To find out why we have festivals
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences goal Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons.
Literacy Learning Goal: To view information and make connections by drawing on background and world knowledge in order to gain meaning and make classifications. To analyse and synthesise information to address the curriculum goal.
Understanding Difference L2 Time Detective
Task Purpose: To practice your detective skills so you can get better at finding information. To discover some of the major changes that have occurred since your grandparents were children.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how time and change affect people’s lives. Social Sciences
Literacy Learning Goal: To ask questions that help locate important information. To identify key information and apply it to a new situation.
EOTC L3 Safety in the bush part1
Task Purpose: To identify some safe practices needed when walking in the NZ bush.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify risks and their causes and describe safe practices to manage these. Apply this knowledge when faced with a challenging situation. Health and key competency goals.
Literacy Learning Goal: Draw on several related items of information to infer ideas and information that is not directly stated in the texts.
Flags L3 NZ's National Symbols
Task Purpose: To understand what a symbol means. To learn about New Zealand’s national symbols and consider why we have national symbols. To express a point of view.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how countries have different symbols that represent their people, values and goals but the symbols reflect similar purposes. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate and evaluate information by making thoughtful judgments about what is relevant and useful in relation to the social science purpose.
Winter Weather Woes L2 Thunder
Task Purpose: To find out how the poet has used particular language features (personification and onomatopoeia) to help the reader visualise thunder and lightning.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Read and identify how the writer has used language features to describe thunder and lightning. To use language features to describe natural phenomena such as lightning, thunder and hail (English).
Literacy Learning Goal: To visualise images created using personification and onomatopoeia. Make inferences from the poem about thunder.
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.
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.
Migration L3 Early Migration
Task Purpose: To find out how scientists use evidence to understand and explain the movement of people. To explore how scientists use evidence to help them work out how early Polynesians migrated to New Zealand.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To learn about clues that early Polynesian people left behind that tell us how they lived and where they came from. (Social Sciences) Identify ways in which scientists provide evidence to support their ideas. Appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use evidence to support ideas. Locate, evaluate and organise information that meets the curriculum goals.
Migration L4 Refugee
Task Purpose: Understand why people become refugees and identify some of the challenges refugees may face. Identify how New Zealanders can help refugees feel welcomed into New Zealand society.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that when people face danger and violence in their home country they may seek safety in another country. Understand that being a refugee creates many challenges for them. Know that refugees have feelings, hopes and needs. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use clues in the text and draw on background experience to make inferences about what is unsaid but suggested in the text. Discuss ideas clearly with a focus on the main points of the discussion. Justify ideas using evidence and challenge the ideas of others where they don’t appear to be supported by evidence.
Perfect Poetry L2 Sound Patterns
Task Purpose: To find out about the sounds used in alliteration To find out about the sounds used in onomatopoeia. To think about the sounds of a particular object and capture it in a poem.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Explore how writers express their experiences and ideas using a particular poetic structure. Build an awareness of how alliteration and onomatopoeia is used for effect, especially within poetry.
Literacy Learning Goal: Recognise and apply some of the sound patterns used in poems. Create a mental picture of a familiar event to recall and organise sound patterns and language into a poetic form. Read aloud fluently with clarity and expression.
Cultural Expressions L3 Traditional Maori musical instruments
Task Purpose: To make connections with what we know about creating and listening to a range of music types. To find out about traditional Maori musical instruments and how they are played. To find out why people use traditional Māori instruments. To create your own traditional musical instrument and musical presentation.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Arts Understand the purposes for and functions of some of the traditional musical instruments used by Māori.
Literacy Learning Goal: To actively listen for key messages and integrate these with key ideas gained from reading a text to achieve the curriculum goal. To discuss ideas and opinions, using relevant Māori vocabulary and make judgments about the most important information needed to convey the curriculum goal. To use new vocabulary that accurately describes the kinds of music and sounds preferred.
Choices L4 Protecting our future
Task Purpose: To find out what is climate change and what is causing it. To identify some effects of climate change around the world. to find out what choices individuals can make to reduce their carbon footprint.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explore various aspects of an issue and make decisions about possible actions. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Contribute ideas that focus on the main points of the discussion. Select and take concise notes of the important ideas read or heard. Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts.
Treaty of Waitangi L3 Principles
Task Purpose: To understand the difference between rules and principles. To apply understanding of principles to the Treaty of Waitangi, Te Tiriti O Waitangi.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how British migration to New Zealand has continuing significance for tangata whenua, in relation to the principles of Te Tiriti o Waitangi (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Make predictions drawing on background experiences and visual clues in the text and confirm them after reading. Integrate information across a small range of texts to build vocabulary knowledge.
Matariki L3 Inferences
Task Purpose: To identify the significance of Matariki within the Māori calendar.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand how cultural practices vary but reflect similar purposes (social sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by using clues in the text and drawing on prior knowledge to predict what is happening in a text.
Winter Weather Woes L4 NZ Weather
Task Purpose: To find out what are the main influences on New Zealand’s weather.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Students will ask questions, find evidence, explore simple models, and carry out appropriate investigations to develop simple explanations (Science).
Literacy Learning Goal: To devise an effective question that fosters a useful investigation. To identify relevant information in a text, and consider how it links to other information, in order to reach a conclusion.
