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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.
Treaty of Waitangi L2 Rules
Task Purpose: To understand why rules help us stay safe and make things as fair as possible for everyone. To understand why the Treaty of Waitangi was signed, and how agreements can be applied in your own classroom.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand and know why rules are created, agreed to and followed (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Offer ideas and respectfully listen to the ideas of others and think critically about them. Identify criteria for making decisions about the important rules.
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.
Treaty of Waitangi L3 Communication Breakdown!
Task Purpose: To find out what happens when communication breaks down. To find out what has been the impact of the two versions of the Treaty
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how people make and implement rules and the impact of these on different groups (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Identify, select and note down key information from several texts to achieve the curriculum goal. Ask and answer questions that extend understanding of the curriculum content. Locate clues in the text and draw on background to predict what may have happened. Skim information to gain understanding of overall ideas contained in a text.
Treaty of Waitangi L4 Protest
Task Purpose: To understand why and how we protest. To find out about the ways that Maori used protest, after having their land confiscated.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that people participate individually and collectively in response to community challenges. Understand that events have causes and effects (Social Sciences).
Literacy Learning Goal: Discuss and compare ideas presented in a small range of texts to reach a conclusion related to the curriculum goal. Think critically about the task purpose, and ask and answer questions that arise from ideas read, viewed or discussed.
Treaty of Waitangi L4 War or Peace?
Task Purpose: To understand why Maori went to war in the 1860s after the Treaty of Waitangi was signed. To understand some of the difficult choices that were made by Maori who went to war.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that events have causes and effects (Social Studies).
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate integrate evaluate and summarise key information. Presents a point of view clearly to a small group.
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.
Perfect Poetry L2 Comparison of poems
Task Purpose: To find out how different poets write about the same topic in different ways. To examine the words and phrases used by the various poets to describe the moon.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Think critically about the messages in the poems and how these are conveyed by the writer.
Literacy Learning Goal: Literacy goals Make connections with prior knowledge and the senses, to create mental images that foster better understanding. Recognise and use descriptive vocabulary and figurative language features to create a vivid poetic image. Read with fluency and expression to convey the meaning of a poem.
Perfect poetry L3 About Poetry
Task Purpose: To create criteria for what makes a good poem. To refine your criteria of what makes a good poem. To use our criteria to locate examples of good poems.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Think critically about the text messages and how these are conveyed by the writer.
Literacy Learning Goal: Read and locate a wide range of poems. Develop and refine a set of relevant selection criteria that supports the evaluation of “good” poems. Read with fluency and expression to convey the meaning of a poem. Justify the selection of specific poems drawing on relevant criteria.
Perfect Poetry L3 Personification
Task Purpose: To identify the key features of personification.
Curriculum Learning Goal: English goals : Think critically about the text messages and how these are conveyed by the writer. Recognise how personification is used for effect.
Literacy Learning Goal: Plan, organise and effectively shape ideas into a poetic form. Be aware of and use language that expresses human qualities. Read fluently with expression, to convey meaning to an audience.
Perfect Poetry L4 Advice from inspiring poets
Task Purpose: To find out how poets get their ideas to write. To apply this learning to future writing
Curriculum Learning Goal: Extend knowledge of how writers generate and refine their ideas and apply this knowledge to their own writing. Extend understanding of language features and structures used for effect within a poem.
Literacy Learning Goal: Gather, evaluate and synthesise information across a small range of texts.
Perfect Poetry L4 Investigating our place
Task Purpose: To find out how some poets describe a particular place. To understand how writers carefully select words to describe a place in a way that can affect the way readers feel about it. To think about and describe the special features of your place. To plan and present published poems about place.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Social sciences Understand how communicating about how people feel about their local environment can create opportunities for people to connect as a community. English goals : Make links within and between texts to examine underlying ideas and themes. Show an increasing understanding of how language features are used for effect.
Literacy Learning Goal: Plan, create and shape ideas into a poetic form. Selectively choose vocabulary that generates a particular mood or atmosphere. Deliberately select and use relevant language features to help readers clearly visualise the images portrayed in the poem.
Technology L2 Robots
Task Purpose: To understand the purpose of and some of the uses for robots.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that technology changes society and increases people’s capability.
Literacy Learning Goal: Use oral, written and visual language features to create meaning and effect. Effectively use writing processes of planning, editing and proof reading to meet writing purposes. Express opinions clearly and logically and actively listen to others opinions.
Technology L2 Tech in Nature
Task Purpose: Understand that animals use a natural form of technology and that scientists and technologists have used this to inspire new technology for humans.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand that technology both reflects and changes the environment and increases people’s capability. Tech Recognise that there are lots of different living things in the world and that they behave in different ways. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Find, evaluate and use useful information to write about a chosen topic.
Technology L3 Animals and Technology
Task Purpose: To find out how scientists use technology to help them understand animal behaviour in captivity. To understand that animals migrate, and that scientists can track these migrations using technology.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how scientists use technology to answer questions they have about animals and the environment. Tech Appreciate that science is a way of explaining the world and that science knowledge changes over time. Science
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate, evaluate and integrate information across several texts. Make connections between prior knowledge and examples found in texts to understand abstract ideas related to the curriculum purpose.
Technology L3 Impact of Tech
Task Purpose: To analyse the impact of new and existing technologies on society and the environment.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in both the past and present day contexts. Tech
Literacy Learning Goal: Locate and evaluate similarities across several texts to help understand the curriculum purpose. Make informed judgments drawing on information located across several texts as well as prior knowledge.
Technology L4 Ethics of Technology
Task Purpose: To find out what a satellite is and what it is used for. To explore the ethics behind the use of satellite tracking and observation technology.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how technological development expands human possibilities and how technology draws on knowledge from a wide range of disciplines Tech Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments. Social Sciences
Literacy Learning Goal: Analyse information to reflect on the ideas presented and consider how they link to other ideas as well as prior knowledge and experience to form ideas about the uses and purposes of space technology.
Technology L4 Smart Buildings and Cars
Task Purpose: To find out about what future cars might be like and why that might be so. To find out what is smart technology and how it can be applied.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how technological development expands human possibilities. Tech
Literacy Learning Goal: To identify and reflect on ideas read and presented, and consider how these link to other ideas as well as prior and world knowledge to reach a conclusion about uses of technology.
Sustainability L2 Citizen Scientists
Task Purpose: To learn about citizen scientists and the important role they have in the science community. To find out how citizen scientists are helping to protect and maintain the environment
Curriculum Learning Goal: To understand that scientists ask questions about our world, that citizen scientists can contribute to, by making observations of the natural world. To know how to participate and contribute to scientific investigations that support and protect our environment.
Literacy Learning Goal: To locate, evaluate and integrate information from several texts. To inform others using key information about the importance of the role of citizen scientists.
Sustainability L3 Guardians for the future
Task Purpose: To find out what sustainability means To understand how Māori see themselves as guardians of natural resources To find out whether other indigenous peoples also follow sustainable practices.
Curriculum Learning Goal: Understand how some indigenous peoples make decisions about the way they access resources to ensure that they do not run out. Apply what has been learned to reflect and change behaviours.
Literacy Learning Goal: Listen for, read and locate key ideas across several resources and look for commonalities in order to reach a conclusion. To extend vocabulary by accurately using specialised and interest words in discussions and writing. Take notes to help select, organise and structure information to achieve the curriculum goal.
