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WALT: Understand vocabulary that is more difficult and specific,

WALT: Use prior knowledge with information from the text to help our understanding

A History of Rock, Connected 2 2003, Written by Alan Bagnall

Read through the article again carefully and note down any words that you do not understand. We will go over these together.

Answer the following questions:

1. What are two ways magma can erupt from a volcano?

2. What happens if magma is blocked?

3. Describe in two sentences what the mantle looks like beneath the earth’s surface

4. Explain what ‘tectonic plates’ are

Create a short movie 1:30seconds (no bloopers) or a google presentation to share your understanding and answers of the above questions. Share another interesting fact that you've learned from reading this article.

Vocab Questions

WALT: Identify how early Maori used rocks for daily living

WALT: Use prior knowledge with information from the text to help our understanding

Read through the article again carefully and note down any words that you do not understand.

Activity One:

Answer the following questions

Answer the following questions:

• 1. What have scientists found hidden near early Maori villages and along the Wellington coast? (3 things)

  2. Where were they from?

  3. List 3 different ways early Maori used these rocks and for what purposes

1. Explain why some of the sites were precious rock are found are known only to local hapu

Maori Rock Science A History of Rock

Reading Book

Links for Early Maori Pa sites

Wikipedia Video

Teara

WALT: Understand vocabulary that is more difficult and specific,

WALT: Use prior knowledge with information from the text to help our understanding

Instructions:

Activity One Activity Two

Read through the article again carefully and note down anything that you do not understand

WALT: Understand vocabulary that is more difficult and specific,

WALT: Use prior knowledge with information from the text to help our understanding

Instructions:

Whakaari - Online book

Activity

1. Read your story carefully

2. Meet with Miss Lavakula

- If you have not been called, continue with your task from last week.

3. Follow these instructions to begin your Google maps task.

- This task is on going, so you can add more to it throughout the term!

- Post this onto your blog with 1 paragraph explaining the task and what the main thing was that you learnt about 'Whakaari'

How the South Island was formed

WALT: Retell the story again in our own words

Answer the following questions

• 1. What had Aoraki and his brothers set out to do?

  2. Explain why was Aoraki distracted while he was chanting his karakia?

  3. Which part of the canoe was stuck in the ocean and which part launched into space?

  4. Why couldn’t they return back to the sky?

  5. Explain why the brothers turned to stone

1. Where are Aoraki and his brothers now?

Te Waka o Aoraki - Online story

Write a paragraph (3-5 sentences) retelling the story again in your own words

Walt: Find interesting facts about Kiwifruits

Instructions

Use sumopaint to draw a picture of a Kiwifruit

Blog Post Title: Kiwifruits

Copy the WALT to your blog

Insert your answers and questions and your picture to your blog

Kiwifruits Activity

Crocodile Creche

Complete each part of your activity. There are three parts.

Part One - Questions and Answers

Part Two - Fact File Presentation about saltwater crocodiles

Part Three - Use sumopaint to draw a picture of a crocodile

Blog Posting Instructions:

Give your post an appropriate title

Write a short paragraph with 3-5 sentences that explains what you have learned about Crocodile Creche

Embed your Fact File presentation and your image to your post

Copy your URL and paste it into Miss Lavakula’s Literacy Blog Log

WALT: Gather information about saltwater crocodiles and present it on our blogs