Week 9 & 10
Fiafia Groups:
Time to find out about our Fiafia Groups. Where do they originate from?
Where are these groups from?
What do they have in common with other groups?
What makes them different?
Research: Find out some facts about the different groups in Fiafia
For example: Samoan Group
1.Where in the world is Samoa? Ocean?
2.What is the capital city?
3.What language(s) do they speak there?
4.Currency
5.Population
6.Special traditions around cooking? Celebrations? Performing Arts?
7.Extra: special roles for only boys/girls/men/women?
Select one of our Fiafia Groups to select the above information on. It needs to be presented digitally via an iMovie, published ready for PENN.
Go here to list your group and what you will carrying out research on. Go here for the rubric.
Week 1: No Extension Classes
Week 2: Extension Classes begin.
Week 3: Completion of visual mihi
Week 4: ROW introductions
Task: Make up lyrics to go with the tune “Row row row your boat” to introduce your group to the global classroom of ROW - Rock Our World.
Some facts to help with your lyrics:
a.ROW is a collaborative challenge-based project where students from around the globe
b. compose music in GarageBand work on a challenge to better our world!
c. This season we are working on preparing for emergencies.
Week 5: New Zealand Census
As a country we run a census that helps all types of agencies. It's another method of keeping track of NZ's heritage, what's stayed and changed.
Have a go and finding out answers to the following questions:
1.When is NZ's next census?
2.What is the census?
3.Why is the census important for governments?
4.How much does it cost to run the 2013 census?
5.What can happen if you refuse to take part in the census?
Read this Census NZ article
Quiz: make your own copy and answer away!
Week 6: Checkpoint:
1.Have you completed Mihi mihi task - use rubric to help you check
2.ROW - preparation for natural disaster.
We need to decide on which disaster we would like to plan for:
dangerous insects/spiders/snakes
electrical fires
famine
land slides
pollution safety
traffic disasters
school medical emergencies
Overview of term:
Achievement objective:Level 3 & 4
You will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
Understand how people remember and record the past in different ways L3
You will:
1. Understand mihi to be a method to record your past, inform the present and support your future.
Learning experience: Learn, create and share a visual mihi online that projects the above understandings with a global community. Task guidelines and rubric.
2.Understand how people pass on and sustain culture and heritage for different reasons and that this has consequences for people. L4
Learning experience: participate in Fiafia and be able to articulate via blog and visual presentation the links between culture, heritage and consequences. For example: Student can explain the role of boys and girls in Samoan society through to how they celebrate as seen in Fiafia. How celebrations reflects some protocols and ways of life in culture. What has changed? Remained the same? Consequences?