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PRODUCE APPLY FIND
SUCCESS
CRITERIA
PRINCIPLES VALUES
KEY
COMPETENCIES
LEARNING AREAS WORD BANK
RESOURCES
REQUIRED
Ocean Landscapes and Biodiversity
NEW ZEALANDS UNIQUE MARINE ENVIRONMENT
ESSENTIAL QUESTION
If I were a sh what would be my view under the sea?
WHAT ARE WE LEARNING?
Components of a marine environment
Hydrospheres are one of the earths geo-spheres
The ocean supports a great diversity of life and landscapes
View How big is the ocean? and
Underwater Footage of Coral.
Discuss surprising facts and new
vocabulary. Did students know there
are waterfalls in the sea?
Dene the terms hydrosphere, marine
environment, biodiversity and Benthic
Protection Area.
Complete a Bubble Map showing the
components of a marine environment.
Include underwater landscapes.
Predict what might be found in an ocean
that isnt part of a marine environment.
How does it get there and what impact
might it have?
Compare the size of the ocean with the
size of New Zealand. How many times
would New Zealand t into the ocean?
View Journey Across an Underwater
Landscape. Discuss the biodiversity
in the clip.
Choose a sh found in New Zealand.
Conduct research to nd out about
the sh. Where does it live in
New Zealand waters?
Which other sh live there? What
underwater physical features are in the
same area? Is there any human activity
in that part of the marine environment?
Locate images that represent the
information about the sh species.
Try to keep these authentic to New
Zealand but there might be generic
underwater images that will t.
Justify the inclusion of images with
the group where necessary.
Review Journey Across an
Underwater Landscape.
Compose a short clip showing the
view the selected species would have
in their environment under the sea.
Use Present.me or similar.
Select images from the groups collection
and decide on an order to use them.
Prepare a voiceover or presentation
which matches the images and explains
the view using the shs voice. Include
humour or interesting facts, all from the
shs point of view of course!
Remember the purpose of the clip is
to replicate a shs view and show the
audience what a marine environment
looks like under the sea.
Label
Generalise
Discuss
Classify
Review
Locate
Discover
Rank
Categorise
Distinguish
Elaborate
Correlate
Create
Hypothesise
Speculate
Prove
Compose
Adapt
TRY THIS WITH
Years 7 - 9
Students who have an interest in the
environment and sustainability
Students who love knowing how things
are connected
Students can check that they have successfully completed the task by:
Selecting images that represent
the underwater environment of
the chosen species.
Including facts about the physical
landscape in their clip.
Researching the habitat of the sh so
that it is accurately portrayed in the clip.
Inclusion
Community engagement
Ecological sustainability
Integrity
Respect
Thinking
Relating to others
Participating and
contributing
Science
English
Seamount
Biodiversity
Hydrosphere
Biosphere
How big is the ocean? video
Hydrospheres Marine
Environments Fact Sheet
Underwater Footage of
Coral video
Journey Across an
Underwater Landscape video