Activity 1 - What we know about our landscape

What we already know

Learning intentions

  • Establish 'before' ideas about landscape, rocks, fossils, geological time, and changes in the local landscape

  • Share words and ideas about the landscape around our Owhiro Bay

Success criteria:

  • You are able to show what words or ideas you have contributed to the class 'before' ideas.

Activity

  • Go to the shared Google doc

  • Assign a colour to each group (2 per group)

  • Students access the Google doc (anyone can veiw and edit) and brainstorm their ideas (putting their ideas into the appropriate colour cell)

  • Have the Google doc on the data projector to monitor progress and provide a motivator / audience for all contributors

  • After 10 minutes get students to look for common ideas and words and duplicates.

  • Publish the tidied-up Google doc.

  • You may find it useful to look at a Google map of Owhiro Bay, or the photo of Wellington below to help you brainstorm ideas.