Week 10
WALT - Researching and analysing: the elections are over - what can we make of the results?
INSTRUCTIONS
Task A: Let's research and analyse data from the elections.
Work through the following slide deck to find out what all the numbers from votes mean.
*text set you will find throughout slide deck
VIDEO: Parties and their policies (some call them promises)
Check out this link for an example.LEARNING EVIDENCE: Decision making - Elections 2017 series
MMP
Election series video
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
Week 9
WALT - Reflecting - on writer and audience appeal in news articles and campaigning (advertising)
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can discuss with a peer the influence in written and visual information
INSTRUCTIONS
Task A: What is the writer communicating? Is it true?
1. Read this article
2. Purpose of report:
a. Complete the set of questions that follow
Task B
1 - Read text set
2 - Meet with your teacher when called
3 - Complete the LEARNING EVIDENCE presentation
4 - Check your work is complete. Post to your blog with the WALT
and 2-3 sentences about your learning.
Add blog link to TURN IN sheet
TEXT SET
1. Kiwi Kids News: YOU vote - have your say!
3. Video: Elections in the UK
4. Your choice: choose written text and show title and link in your learning evidence slide deck.
VIDEO: Parties and their policies (some call them promises)
Check out this link for an example.LEARNING EVIDENCE: Decision making - Elections 2017 series
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
Week 9
WALT - Reflecting - understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can discuss with my small group how leadership impacts my community
INSTRUCTIONS
1 - Read text set
2 - Meet with your teacher when called
3 - Complete the LEARNING EVIDENCE presentation
4 - Check your work is complete. Post to your blog with the WALT
and 2-3 sentences about your learning.
Add blog link to TURN IN sheet
TEXT SET
1. Kiwi Kids News: Elections announcement Feb 2017
3. Video: Elections in the UK
4. Your choice: choose written text and show title and link in your learning evidence slide deck.
VIDEO: How to enrol to vote
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
LEARNING EVIDENCE: Decision making - Elections 2017 series
Week 7 & 8
WALT - Reflecting - understand how the ways in which leadership of groups is acquired and exercised have consequences for communities and societies.
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when I can discuss with my small group how leadership impacts my community
INSTRUCTIONS
1 - Read text set
2 - Meet with your teacher when called
3 - Complete the LEARNING EVIDENCE presentation
4 - Check your work is complete. Post to your blog with the WALT
and 2-3 sentences about your learning.
Add blog link to TURN IN sheet
TEXT SET
1. Kiwi Kids News: Elections announcement Feb 2017
3. Video: Elections in the UK
4. Your choice: choose written text and show title and link in your learning evidence slide deck.
VIDEO: How to enrol to vote
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
LEARNING EVIDENCE: Decision making - Elections 2017 series
Week 5 & 6
WALT - Structure: Show a developing understanding of text structures AND metacognition - the process I take when thinking through things!
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when
- I can locate information in the article using subheadings, photographs and diagrams
- I can explain how the structure helps me as a reader
- I can share understanding of why Pluto is / is not a planet
INSTRUCTIONS
1 - Read 'The Problem with Pluto' and rest of text set
2 - Meet with your teacher when called
3 - Complete the LEARNING EVIDENCE presentation
4 - Check your work is complete. Post to your blog with the WALT
and 2-3 sentences about your learning.
Add blog link to TURN IN sheet
TEXT SET
1. The problem with Pluto. SJ February 2012
2. Video: 5 dwarf planets
3. Video: planet song
VIDEO: Planet in solar system song
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
LEARNING EVIDENCE: NIGHT LIGHT
VIDEO: Dwarf Planets in the solar system
Week 3 & 4
WALT - Identify features of a non-fiction text
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I know I can do this when
- I can locate information in the article using subheadings
- I can explain how paragraphs help the reader
- I can name three types of visual images used in non-fiction texts
INSTRUCTIONS
1 - Read NIGHT LIGHT
2 - Watch the 3 videos
3 - Meet with your teacher when called
4 - Complete the LEARNING EVIDENCE presentation
5 - Check your work is complete. Post to your blog with the WALT
and 2-3 sentences about your learning.
Add blog link to TURN IN sheet
TEXT SET
1. NIGHT LIGHT by David Hill
2. Video: Facts about the moon
3. Video: Phases of the moon (Southern Hemisphere)
VIDEO: Facts About the Moon
VIDEO: Phases of the Moon (NASA) - Southern Hemisphere
FAST FINISHERS
Have you completed ALL of your reading tasks for the week?
a. Visit the KiwiKids News site - click on image below
b. Complete the 'Recall' and 'Thinking' questions posted alongside the
article(s) you read.
c. Post your answers in a presentation you create, name by using the
headline(s) of articles you read.
d. Post blog hyperlink on the Reading turn in sheet!
Week 1 & 2
WALT - Connecting: I make sense of new information before, during and after reading by connecting it to myself, texts I know and my world
SUCCESS CRITERIA: I will know I can do this when I can create a solution to the issue of space junk.
Instructions
1) Read/watch the text set
2) Complete the Learning Evidence presentation including right up
CREATE and SHARE task.
3) Be prepared to share your learning evidence with group and class members.
TEXT SET
Text 1: School Journal, Part 2, #2, 1991 'Space Junk'
Text 2: National Geographical for Kids
Text 3: A solution? Video
Space Junk
Early Finishers: Choose an article that interests you and use this presentation to show your understanding.