Mr Goodwin
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NZ Native - Estuaries
Walt: synthesise information from across multiple texts.
Key Ideas to find out and understand:
What is an estuary?
Describe an ecosystem within an estuary.
Identify features of the Tāmaki river/ estuary.
Instructions:
Explore through the different texts. Some readings will help you answer specific tasks.
Extra:
Do your own research into pollution, and how it can have a negative effect on the natural environment and ecosystem. Use Tāmaki river/ estuary as an example.
Wikipedia - Tāmaki River
Estuaries
Estuary Food Web
Tāmaki River
NZ Heralad - Omaru Creek
Create a DLO
NZ Native - Ecosystems
Walt: make connections across multiple texts.
Key Ideas to find out and understand:
What is an ecosystem?
What's the difference between an insect and a spider?
What behaviours do spiders demonstarte?
Instructions:
Explore through the different texts. Some readings will help you answer specific tasks.
Extra:
Do your own research, and create your own presentation/ poster/ blogpost about some of New Zealands spiders. What spiders would you like to see around Tāmaki and why? (And what kind of spiders would you NEVER want to see).
Ecosystems
Ecosystems size
Spiders
NZ Native - Bugs
Walt: make connections across multiple texts.
Key Ideas to find out and understand:
What is an insect?
What's the difference between an insect and a spider?
What is a weta?
Instructions:
Explore through the different texts. Some readings will help you answer specific tasks.
Extra:
Do your own research, and create your own presentation/ poster/ blogpost about some of New Zealand native bugs. What kind of bugs would you like to see around Tāmaki and why?
What makes it an insect?
What are insects?
Spiders
NZ Native - Birds
Walt: make connections across multiple texts.
Key Ideas to find out and understand:
What makes a bird "Native" to NZ?
Why are Native birds special to New Zealand.
Instructions:
Read Meet the Kākāpō and be ready to discuss this with your teacher.
- It may be helpful to have read the Kākāpō recovery reading as well.
Explore the other readings, and attempt the identification task.
Extra:
Do your own research, and create your own presentation/ poster/ blogpost about New Zealand native birds. What kind of birds would you like to see around Tāmaki and why?
Meet the Kākāpō - School Journal
New Zealand Birds Online - identification
DoC - Native Birds.
Advice Blog template
Identification Task
Kākāpō Recovery
NZ Native - Trees
Walt: make connections across multiple texts.
Key Ideas to find out and understand:
What does "Native" mean?
Therefore what does "non-native" mean?
Why are Native trees important to New Zealand.
Instructions:
Read and Explore the DoC, Te Ara, and Science Learning Hub readings.
Complete the presentation and blogger task. You can use images from the DoC site, however you will need to attribute them.
Extra:
Do your own research, and create your own presentation/ poster/ blogpost about the type of Plants, Trees,& Birds you can find around the Pt England reserve.
DOC - Types of native plants
Te Ara - Native Plants and trees
Science Learning Hub - Endemic, Native, or Introduced.
Presentation template
Blogger Task
Write a blog post (1-2 paragraphs) to your readers about why you're excited for learning about Te Taiao O Tāmaki.
Pt England Walk - Our Backyard
Why do you think Native Trees are important to Tāmaki?
About my group - iMacs
Walt: follow instructions and present work to a high standard.
Instructions:
Welcome to 2017!
This is a new year, new class, new groups. You are going to spend the year be called by your group name, and because of this you should know a bit about it!
Read all 3 of the readings and watch both videos.
You can read/ watch them in any order.
Complete the presentation and present it to a high standard. See the example to give you an idea on how to make a presentation look professional.
Pt England School Kawa of Care
Wikipedia
Apple iMacs
Presentation template
Example
Youtube Video