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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 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 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.
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.
Treaty of Waitangi L2 Treasures
Task Purpose: To understand the different reasons WHY our treasures are important to us. To find why sharing a Pepeha is important to Maori.
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand that people have cultural practices which express what is important and valuable to them (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Make a prediction using the images in the journal and drawing on background knowledge and confirm predictions by reading the article.
Kiwiana L3 being a kiwi
Task Purpose: To think about, discuss and define what is special about living in New Zealand To find out about the attributes of New Zealanders as a group. To find out about the various attributes of New Zealand. To identify what it means to be Kiwi growing up in New Zealand
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand that being Kiwi is having a sense of belonging and valuing what the society and the land has to offer. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: To gather, evaluate and integrate information from a small range of texts. To listen for and identify key information to meet the curriculum purpose.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Migration L4 Voyagers & Navigators
Task Purpose: To find out how early voyagers explored new areas. To investigate the use and importance of navigation through the ages. To find out what impact navigation has had on migration to new lands.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how exploration and innovation paved the way for others to settle in newly discovered places. (Social Sciences) Understand how technological development expands human possibilities. (Technology)
Literacy Learning Goal: Analyse and synthesize information to identify similarities and differences related to the curriculum goal. Make and organise notes to achieve the curriculum goal.
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.
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.
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.
Migration L2 Life in a new country
Task Purpose: Understand what it is like to live in a new country and identify some of the changes people may need to make to settle in.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that while cultural practices may differ from one country to another, there are also practices that are the same. (Social Sciences)
Literacy Learning Goal: Use words and phrases that clearly tell the reader about the writer’s ideas. Structure ideas using a cinquain framework. Read and revise writing to better meet the purpose for the writing. Organise and sequence information.
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.
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.
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.
