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Navigation
Walt: understand how technology changes and continues to change over time.
Walt: make connections between ideas found across a number of texts.
Focus:
Ngā mihi o Matariki! Happy Matariki! Following on from our Matariki/ Māori New Year celebration last Friday, we are going to be exploring the stars and the important role they played in navigation for Pasifika and Māori voyagers.
'Navigation' is our final mini focus for this term! We are going to be exploring a range of technologies used for navigation, and creating our own DLOs to share our learning.
1. Read texts 1-3
2. Add any new words into the vocab padlet.
3. Learn about a number of different navigational technologies.
4. Create a DLO to share your learning.
Fast finisher?
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu
2. South by the Southern Cross
(Keith Olsen, School Journal P4, N1, 1998)
BOOK
ARTICLE
Attributions:
Youtube: Sun, Stars, Swells: Sailing the globe using nothing but nature (Great big story), 27 July 2016
Youtube: How to find South with the Southern Cross (Lotsafreshair), 29 June 2015
Youtube: How to make a homemade compass (Hooplakidzlab), 6 December, 2013
Boat technology and America's Cup
Walt: understand how boats float
Walt: understand that different boats are designed for different purposes
Focus:
We are now into our second mini focus for the term. We are now inquiring into transport and travel. In particular, we are finding out about technology used by Māori to travel around Aotearoa and beyond. This week, we are looking into boat technology which has been, and continues to be used by people from around the world.
1. Read texts 1-3
2. Complete the vocab padlet task
3. Complete the follow up task
4. Check out this interesting article which links to our topic!
Fast finisher?
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu
1. Get into pairs, and then find another team member from Maungarei.
2. Read the text together.
1. Fill a bucket up with water.
2. Choose a number of waterproof objects from around the classroom.
3. Do they float?
Fast finisher?
Design a boat, thinking carefully about what helps a boat to float!
Background (setting)
Attribution: Youtube video - How do ships float? Buoyancy! (learnbiologically, 28 Feb 2012).
Boat technology from around the world
Walt:
Focus:
We are now into our second mini focus for the term. We are now inquiring into transport and travel. In particular, we are finding out about technology used by Māori to travel around Aotearoa and beyond. This week, we are looking into boat technology which has been, and continues to be used by people from around the world.
1. Read texts 1-3
2. Complete the vocab padlet task
3. Complete the follow up task - advice column
Fast finisher?
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu
Background (setting)
Attribution: Youtube video - How do ships float? Buoyancy! (learnbiologically, 28 Feb 2012).
Poetry
Walt: read and make sense of poems.
Walt: look at language features while reading.
Focus:
This week, we are having a look at a number of poems, paying special attention to the language features which are used and the meaning of each poem.
Instructions:
1. Read poem 1.
2. Complete a google drawing task for poem 1.
3. Read poem 2.
4. Complete a google drawing task for poem 2.
5. Read poem 3.
6. Complete a google drawing task for poem 3.
Complete the task and post it on your blog.
Fast finisher?
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu: Reply to comments written on our class blog.
- Continue with your animation.
Background (setting)
Attributions:
We are voyagers
Walt: make inferences
Focus:
This week we are beginning our second mini focus for the term. We have just finished three weeks inquiring into resources which were used by Māori before European settlers arrived, and before transport between different countries became easier.
We are now going to begin inquiring into transport and travel. In particular, we are going to find out about technology used by Māori to travel around Aotearoa and beyond. During this inquiry, we will look at the resources used to create these methods of transport, and also changes to navigation over time.
Instructions:
1. Read text 1. This is the text which you will read with Miss West.
2. Read texts 2 and 3. These will provide more information for you to complete the task.
3. Complete the task and post it on your blog.
4. Fast finisher?
- Silently read a book
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu: Reply to comments written on our class blog.
- Continue with the background of your animation.
Background (setting)
Attributions:
Youtube video: Te Waka: Our great journey (NZMaritimeMuseum) - 17 Dec 2013
More examples of Māori technology
Walt: work with a range of texts to pull ideas together and form opinions and new knowledge.
Instructions:
We are looking into the history of technologies which were created and used by tangata whenua in Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.
This week, we will continue our first mini focus which is looking at resources, tools, and techniques which were used in order to provide food and shelter. We will then look at what resources, tools, and techniques we use today and how these compare.
1. Read text 1. This is the text which you will read with Miss West.
2. Read texts 2 and 3. These will provide more information for you to complete the task.
3. Complete the task and post it on your blog.
4. Fast finisher?
- Silently read a book
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu: Reply to comments written on our class blog.
- Continue with the background of your animation.
Video focus questions:
1. What is technology?
2. What technology is being explored in this video?
(by Kiwa Hammond)
Background (setting)
Attributions:
Youtube video: Māori fishing technology (DunedinAquarium), 28 Jan 2014
Now that's thinking!
Walt: work with a range of texts to pull ideas together and form opinions and new knowledge.
Instructions:
Welcome back! This term we are looking at technology. Team 4 are going to be looking into the history of technologies which were created and used by tangata whenua in Aotearoa hundreds of years ago.
In room 10, our first mini focus is going to be on resources, tools, and techniques which were used in order to provide food and shelter. We will then look at what resources, tools, and techniques we use today and how these compare.
1. Read text 1. This is the text which you will read with Miss West.
2. Read texts 2 and 3. These will provide more information for you to complete the task.
3. Complete the task and post it on your blog.
4. Fast finisher?
- Silently read a book
- Tuhi mai, tuhi atu: Team Moana @ Ohaeawai Primary School
- Begin your Animation
Video focus questions:
1. What is technology?
2. What technology is being used in this video?
1. Catch of the day (Kathy Taylor)
SJ Part 3, No 3, 2009
Background (setting)
Attributions:
Youtube video: Trad Maori fishing lure catches fish (Craig Ahipene) - 14 Sept 2016
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