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Thinking like a scientist
Task Purpose: To understand how scientists work together to monitor global warming. To collect trend data and make conclusions that help build a better understanding of the ocean currents around New Zealand
Curriculum Learning Goal: Identify ways in which scientists work together and provide evidence to support their ideas. Collect trend data and develop conclusions. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Draw on prior knowledge and information from the text to predict what information you expect to find in the article. Locate and summarise key information from a small number of texts to help answer own and others questions. To listen for specific information and act on what has been seen and heard.
Antarctica L4 Food Webs
Task Purpose: To understand that food webs are made up of producers, consumers and decomposers. To identify what a food web looks like in Antarctica. Understand the multiple purposes that producers play in the health of our world.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human induced. Build on prior experiences, working together to share and examine their own and others’ knowledge. (Science)
Literacy Learning Goal: Draw on prior knowledge and textual and visual information from the texts to interpret abstract ideas. Locate, compare and connect ideas within and across a small range of texts.
Olympics L2 Personal Best
Task Purpose: To identify some things people need to do to improve skills in a physical activity. To understand the link between achieving a new PB, our feelings and our self worth. Make inferences about how a main character thinks and understand the impact of these thoughts on achieving goals. To experience how goal setting can improve your PB and feelings of self-worth.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Personal growth and physical development. To be able to identify the benefits of regular and enjoyable physical exercise and how it helps people think more positively about themselves. To set realistic and achievable goals that provide motivation to attain a personal best achievement in a physical skill. To know that achievement in physical skills also requires mental skills and strength. (Health and Physed)
Literacy Learning Goal: To locate and pull together clues from the text and draw on background knowledge to predict what might be happening in the text. To identify and summarise main ideas (the most important ideas) in a text using visual information to help identify them.
Olympics L3 Mindset
Task Purpose: To find out how people cope with stressful situations and develop a range of ways to help someone better cope with nerves or stress. To find out how to manage negative thoughts, to stay positive about yourself and what you are doing.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Describe how feelings, beliefs and actions and those of other people,contribute to a personal sense of selfworth. (Health and Physed)
Literacy Learning Goal: Make connections between prior knowledge and the clues in the text to make inferences about how a character is feeling Evaluate ideas from several sources and combine these to form understandings about how to develop a positive mindset. Plan, write, edit, revise and present a play that uses key ideas and understandings of developing a positive mindset.
Olympics L3 Courage
Task Purpose: To understand the motivation behind cheating and its effects on those who cheat and others. Identify some useful strategies for being assertive and managing pressure positively.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Interpersonal skills Identify the pressures that people may experience from others,and know about and use assertiveness strategies to manage these. (Health and Physed)
Literacy Learning Goal: Evaluate information by focussing on the ideas and information presented and considering them in relation to prior knowledge and experience and the purpose for reading.
Olympics L2 Adapting
Task Purpose: To understand how athletes overcome challenges to compete in sports. To find out what it is like to compete with a limitation of some kind.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Relationships with other people Describe how individuals and groups share characteristics and are also unique. Identify the personal qualities that enable individuals to be competitive athletes. (Health and Physed)
Literacy Learning Goal: To make inferences by finding clues in the text and drawing on what is known to make a prediction about what a person does and thinks to be competitive. To think critically about the challenges that disabled athletes must overcome to be successful.
Olympics L4 Speed
Task Purpose: To analyse the factors that scientists have found help to increase speed. Understand how the science about wind resistance and technology combine to make things go faster. To understand and apply the principles of aerodynamics to increase the speed of 100 metre sprinters.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Experience and demonstrate how science, technology, and the environment influence the selection and use of equipment in a variety of settings. To understand the factors that affect the speed of an object. (Science and technology)
Literacy Learning Goal: To ask and answer questions as new information is read and viewed to meet the reading and viewing purpose. To record and organise key information and ideas effectively in note form to help build knowledge and understanding.
