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Week 7 (Week 9) Climate Change
Week 7 (Week 9) Climate Change
Core objective:
Learn about climate change and how we can contribute to reducing our collective impact
Create and Share
Create and Share
Create a poster that shows why you create about climate change. You can do this in pairs or individually. Share you poster either around our school or on your blog. How can you ensure this has an impact on the wider community? What changes can you make to help with climate change?
Learn
Learn
Week 6 (Week 8) Kaitiakitanga
Week 6 (Week 8) Kaitiakitanga
Core objective:
Learn about Kaitiakitanga and the how to incorporate it into our lives.
Create
Create
Week 5 (Week 7) Marine Week
Week 5 (Week 7) Marine Week
Core objective:
Learn how plastics are damaging our marine environment and take action to reduce this.
Let's Love Our Sea - Song Lyrics.pages.pdf'Let's Love our Sea' lyrics
marine-mammal-poster.pdfMarine Mammals of New Zealand
Week 5 Core Activities
Marine Poster
Marine Poster
Create a poster, either digitally or hard-copy to display around the school. It needs to include a message about looking after our oceans.
Plastic Sculpture
Plastic Sculpture
Each student to collect at least 5 pieces of plastic this week - found around school, on roads, gardens etc. Create a whole class sculpture with all the plastic.
Week 4 (Week 6) - Kauri Dieback
Week 4 (Week 6) - Kauri Dieback
Focus: Learning about what kauri dieback is and why kauri are important to Aotearoa.
Identifying local trees surrounding our school and how they compare to Tāne Mahuta.
Resources
Resources
kd012-2018-kauri-dieback-a3-posters-english.pdfKauri Dieback Poster
Dieback Cleaning Stations
Kauri-page.pdfThe Kauri's Story
Kauri DiebackConnected L4, 2017 - Kauri Dieback
Week 4 - Core Activities
Week 4 - Core Activities
Using Google Draw, create a life cycle of a Kauri tree. Be sure to label and explain each stage of the cycle.
Use Screencastify to explain your life cycle and share this on your blog.
Using Google Draw, create a Kauri forest food web and connect them with lines. Put the kauri tree somewhere near the centre.
Use screencastify to explain what might happen to the food web if you removed:
- The kiwi
- The possum
- The Kauri
- The kukupa
Summary: One of our most popular topics last year, Whio Forever is back with more amazing resources and fun activities for 2019! This is the most comprehensive primary-level teaching resource available for any New Zealand bird, and we’re proud to once again to share this with you. Learn all about what makes the whio duck so special, what habitats it likes to live in, what threats it faces, and ways that you can help. We’ll also touch on some of the more controversial issues surrounding water quality and swimmable rivers.
Week 3 (Week 5)- Whio Forever
Week 3 (Week 5)- Whio Forever
Focus: Learn about the beautiful whio, understand why this unique duck has become endangered and what threats it faces. Explore water quality issues in Aotearoa.
whio-surfing-the-rapids-a3-web.pdfwhio-spot-the-whio-a3-web-3.pdfwhio-meet-the-whio-a3-poster-1-2.pdfwhio-under-threat-a3-web.pdfWeek 3 - Core Activities
Week 3 - Core Activities
Whio Checklist.pdfCall to Action
Call to Action
Whio Checklist. Do you think Lake Ngatu is Whio Friendly? Why or why not?
Week 2 (Week 4) - NZ Birds of Prey
Week 2 (Week 4) - NZ Birds of Prey
Summary: Everyone gets excited about Birds of Prey, and we’re sure that your class will too when they learn all about our ferocious kārearea or crooning ruru, not to mention the legend of the Haast Eagle! Many of our native Birds of Prey are endangered but some are finding unlikely refuge in our exotic plantation pine forests. This week will focus on this unique relationship, why our birds of prey are significant to Aotearoa, and what we can do to help them. Enjoy!
Core objectives:
- Learning about the kārearea and the ruru – being able to identify them and why they are significant to Aotearoa.
- Understanding that these birds are predators too - however have evolved naturally with the other flora and fauna of Aotearoa and thus form an important part of our unique ecosystem.
Prior Knowledge Warm-up: Growth stages of a kārearea and ruru!
Kārearea flying poster - HD.pdfKārearea
Kārearea
Kārearea growth poster - HD.pdfKārearea
Kārearea
Read more about the New Zealand Falcon. What facts can you share with the class?
Ruru growth poster - HD.pdfRuru
Ruru
Read more about the New Zealand Morepork. What facts can you share with the class?
Week 2 Core Activity - Māori and birds of prey.
Week 2 Core Activity - Māori and birds of prey.
Research and share findings with the class.
Research and share findings with the class.
Why are NZ birds of Prey significant to Aotearoa?
What legends and myths can be found in Te Reo?
What significance does the ruru have in Te Ao Māori?
What was the formidable Haast eagle called and what was its nickname?
CREATE a slide sharing the information you have found. SHARE your slide on your blog. (Label - inquiry, conservation)
Summary: Non-native predators have been introduced to NZ over the last few hundred years, and have decimated our native biodiversity. Many animals and plants endemic to NZ have not evolved to protect themselves from the likes of rats, stoats, ferrets, cats, possums and mice - an estimated 25 million native birds are killed each year by introduced predators. This week focuses on our unique birdlife and is designed to stimulate discussion and action towards achieving Aotearoa’s audacious goal of “Predator Free 2050”.
Week 1 - Predator Free
Week 1 - Predator Free
Prior Knowledge:
- Have you seen any introduced pests in your environment?
- Have you had any encounters with New Zealand bird.
- Make a list of all birds seen.
- Organise the list into native and introduced species.
Week 1 (Week 3) Core Activities
Week 1 (Week 3) Core Activities
Core Activity 1: Squawks Squad
Watch this video first.
Core Activity 2: Become a backyard detective!
CORE ACTIVITY 3: Zealandia Trading Card Game!
CALL TO ACTION: Start a school trapping project.
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Resources
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