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Walt:

Instructions

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Walt: Read and understand interesting facts about sandflies

Answer the following questions:

1. What did Maori use to stop sandflies biting them?

2. What did early Pakeha use to stop sandflies biting?

3. Why aren’t sandflies found above the bushline?

4. In which part of New Zealand can most sandflies be found? Give a reason why this may be

Activity: Create a fact file about sandflies using a google application

Habitat - Where do they live? Where can they be found?

Characteristics - How do they behave?

Diet - What do they eat?

Description - What does it look like?

Sandflies Useful Links: Te Ara, MoH, Suzie's World

Te Namu - The Nuisance Fly

Walt: Read, find and understand facts about a Voyage to Deception Island in Antarctica

Reading Book here

Complete all parts of your activities. Because this article is long, you will read this in two parts.

Activity One: Create a fact file about Deception Bay with 5-10 facts

Where is it? How far is from New Zealand? Who/ what lives there? Other interesting facts

Deception Island

Walt: Find and research facts about the Kakapo

Complete your activity carefully

This article is found in Junior Journal 37 and is written by Bronwen Wall.

Activity One: List all the pests (predators) to a Kakapo

Activity Two: Create a fact file about the Kakapo

Habitat, Diet, Characteristics, Description and any other Interesting Facts

Our Treasure Island DoC

Walt: Use the text to help us answer questions accurately

Complete each part of your activity carefully.

This article is found in Junior Journal 43 and written by Vanessa Hatley-Owen.

Activity One: Discuss the following words with a buddy then match the meanings with the words by dragging them next to the word

Activity Two: Use your answer from question two to insert into this.

Both activities are one blog post. Make sure you write three sentences to explain what you have learned and what your activities are about.

Mokomoko Followup 1 Mokomoko Followup 2