Term 4 Y5 & 6
Week 7 - 8
Thursday:Planning for Tuesday
What creations can your team come up with. Carry out some research online to refine your ideas. Create a list of ingredients and gear your team will need next Tuesday to complete this masterpiece.
Be sure to share your doc with Mrs Tele'a. Mark clearly the items you need Mrs Tele'a to help you find.
Symbolism
HOKULE'A UPDATES
Science update - go here to help you find out the answers to the following questions. You will have to do a little research of your own too!
1.Where in the world is Kermadec Trench?
2.What does 'Tectonically active' mean?
3. Draw a quick illustration using google draw to show the 'Pacific plate subducts below the Australian plate'.
4.How is the molten describes when seen from the surface of the sea?
1. Hokule'a has arrived in Aotearoa!
Find out what parts of New Zealand they will be visiting.
3. When Hokule'a arrived in Aotearoa - 1985
4. Television video clip from 1985
5. Why is there a special connection with Aotearoa and Hokule'a? Watch the following movie.
Videos of art with fruit
What Hokule'a means for Maori.
Tuesday: Art with fruit
- creating your masterpiece!
- capture images as the masterpiece unfolds
- post to your blogs with an explanation of how you decided through to your step by step creation.
Week 4
Hokule'a - star of gladness
Read the following article to find out
1. What Hokule'a is
2. What you think this waka is symbolic of for the people of Hawaii
The Story of Hokule'a
Week 5-6
Thursday:
a. Watch 3 films from 'Outlook for Someday', click on thumbnail to see selection of winning movie entries.
b. Complete a post with hyperlink to movie that explains how sustainability is addressed in the movie. What is the problem? What is the solution?
Week 1-3
Symbol: something that stands for or represents something else, for instance a skull and crossbones representing poison or pirates, an "zebra stripes" representing a pedestrian crossing, a pumpkin for Halloween, silver fern for the All Blacks.
Activity 1:
a. warm up - see how you score with logo/symbol quiz
b. list all the symbols you know, attach a description in text or an image you draw
c. draw any symbols that are important to your and your family and explain why.
Symbols in art - body - tattoo:
Learn and Creat:
a. Do people in your family have tattoos?
Is there a common element to the tattoo's you see?
Location?
Size?
Colour?
Symbolic?
Activity
a. Draw the most common tattoo you have seen
b. Post on your blog post with your explanation of why you think people have tattoos
Learning:
Please read this following article titled The Truth about the Samoan Tattoo - Tatau' in preparation for our learning around symbolism.
Sustainability:
a. What does this word mean?
b. What are some examples of sustainability in our local environment?
c. What do you think the image below is symbolising?
One Samoana Blog
d. “they used to harvest the coconuts and send them off. It was a very successful industry because they always planted more coconut trees than the ones they took off.”
Explain why this was classed as 'successful' according to sustainability.
Sustainability video: introduction to sustainability
Symbols in the Pacific
Part 1: Tatau journey of Samoan brothers. Tufuga Suluape, Auckland University
Tuesday:
a. share our findings from last week's research.
b. Hokule'a animation, using the Hokule'a updates. Read with a partner entry from October 31st.
c. Plan animation with partner
d. Google doc to show who is which part alongside script from Hokule'a update.
Part 2: Tatau Journey