2021 Concept

Turangawaewae
“the place where we stand”

Room 11/12/13 Planning

Planning Overview
Term 2 focus: knowledge building Term 3 focus: inquiry through FIDS framework

Week 1 *KOS NZ needs our care today - FIDS

Week 2 *KOS Feel

Week 3 *KOS Feel

Week 4 *KOS Imagine

Week 5 Creation story Imagine

Week 6 Natural attractions - NZ facts Do

Week 7 Native birds and trees Do

Week 8 Natural disasters Do

Week 9 Famous New Zealanders Do

Week 10 Self-identity and belonging Share

Week 5 - Creation Story

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

Introduction to topic: shared reading of chapter ‘Voyages to Aotearoa’ (pg. 6-7). Aotearoa book

Watch The Māori Gods - Book One: The Beginning of the Universe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnOWHeJ
Think/Pair/Share about noticings/wonderings. Reenact in small groups NbZM

Watch Tales from the mythologies of Creation, Maui and Aoraki https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6q8E1la
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Maori creation story sequence cards - put in correct order/act them out/do art Link
based off them

WALHT understand how NZ began. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1

Explore Maori myths/legends about how NZ was fished up.
Explore the important people of founding NZ Kupe, Abel Tasman, James Cook, _dsXxa9HDo
Tupaia,
Explore types of navigation and arrival to NZ Voyagers - Pacific and European explorers
Explore the Endeavour ship
QR code reader required
Week 6 - Early NZ-The First Voyage
Week 5 - Creation Story
Week 5 - Creation Story

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

Voyage to NZ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8w0zjqA3
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Life in NZ before Pakeha settlement; Life soon After Pakeha arrived

Great website around how Maori came to NZ, navigating using stars, etc. https://maatauranga.co.nz/

Treaty of Waitangi
Week 7 - Natural Attractions - NZ Facts
Learning Experiences Links and Resources

WALHT find information on a map. World map (interactive)

Where do we live? Locate NZ on a world map. https://www.mapsofworld.com/#
Maori name for NZ - Aotearoa
Were you born elsewhere? Locate other birth countries on the world map. New Zealand map
Identify and discuss the oceans of which NZ lies between. https://www.mapsofworld.com/newzealand/

WALHT identify iconic symbols that represent a country. Blank flag

What symbols represent NZ that are recognised world wide?
Draw and colour the NZ flag. Coloured flag
● Became official in 1902
● Union Jack symbolises NZ as a former British colony different NZ Flags
● Southern Cross constellation as it can only be seen in the southern hemisphere.
● NZ has white stars, Australia has red due to the brightness of the stars when seen from either
location.

Identify the Prime Minister of NZ and locate where the parliament building is.
● Called the beehive as the building looks like a bee hive

WALHT label a map. Locating landmarks on a map of NZ. Label and discuss
Te Puke - Giant kiwifruit briefly why those landmarks are located there.
Paeroa - L&P bottle
Rakaia - Big Salmon
Otorohanga - Big Kiwi
Ohakune - Giant Carrot
Cromwell - Giant Fruit
Taihape - Big Gumboot
Gore - Big guitar
Week 8 - Native Birds and Trees

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

Teacher does shared reading with the whole class and discusses the different NZ New Zealand birds (big book and small books
birds. Afterwards, the students can choose one particular bird that they are available)
interested in (e.g. their awhina) and complete a fact file sheet about that bird. Link to Animal Fact File sheet

Identify and discuss some of New Zealand’s native animals. Animal clipart

Tuatara Animal photos

Kiwi
Kakapo
Hoiho
Kea
Whio
Week 9 - Natural Disasters

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

Aotearoa Book Pg 28
WALHT: explain the natural Disasters of NZ Activity Book pg
Week 10 - Famous New Zealanders

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

WALHT identify currency. Aotearoa Book

Identify the currency of New Zealand and discuss why each person or image is on them.
Week 10 - Self-identity and belonging

Learning Experiences Links and Resources

WALHT identify kiwiana. Identify and discuss some of New Zealand’s iconic foods.
Feijoa Feijoa
Kiwifruit
Fish and chips
Hokey Pokey Hokey Pokey
Pavlova Pavlova

WALHT identify iconic symbols that represent a country. Identify and discuss some of New Zealand’s iconic symbols.
Jandals
Silver fern
Kiwi
Pohutukawa
Curriculum Ideas - Team Ideas
Links and Resources
● Pūtātara
● Māori History - Te tiriti o Waitangi
● National Library - Resources for Teaching NZ History
● TKI - Māori History

From NZ History FB Page

● maps of the local area, city and Aotearoa can make good as games to name places, significant landmarks or trivial pursuit
type game.
● a shared lunch with foods that are important to the student( this doesn’t have to be traditional dishes- but could be things
such as fairy bread, or a particular biscuit that Nana always has etc)
● Discussing the way families do things the same and differently can be a surprise for some - use Venn Diagrams to describe
something simple such as getting ready for school or going to bed. Eg some walk to school, some bus . They provide a
micro way into the idea that we belong to a group or groups who do things in a particular way.
● a zoom call with a school in the North Island or somewhere else in the world?
● daily discussion starters to challenge generalisations. eg. All kiwis like tomato sauce or All Dunediners (?) roll their ‘r’s.
● children to interview their whanau about their names; who named them, what significance it has etc. My students loved
learning about this.
LITERACY
Purpose - Writing to Inform Reliable Source of Information
● Pepeha ● Key words, search engines
● Reports ● Tree octopus
● Letters/Posters
● Speech/presentation to others Language Learning
● Census ● Pepeha
● Newspaper reports ● Script writing
● Songs/poems ● Questioning - finding information
● Myths and legends ● Skim and scan
● Reporting and hypothesising ● Key words
● Author's purpose
Personal Understanding/experiences ● Note taking
● Family tree ● Cause and effect ie: farms, no rain, crops don't
● Past, present and future grow, we don’t eat
● Celebrations ● Visualise
● Comparisons - your home to mine
● Native birds Myths and Legends
● Native trees ● Te Reo Language and meaning
● SIgn Language
MATHS - Strand
Measurement Temperature
● Recipes fo NZ Food ● Weather and how it changes throughout
● Plants/trees growth - Tane Mahuta the day

Links to Pepeha Statistics

● Distance to river/mountain ● Where are we all from and our similarities
● Reading data - Population of area/school
Money ● Diversity of the school
● Important people on our paper notes and coins
Timeline - Plotting
Position/Orientation ● Area of population growth
● Map of area
● Instructions for movement Calendar
● Compus ● Important dates in history

Aerial View of the school

● Changes to nature and housing
● Scale - measure 1cm-10m
SCIENCE
Nature of Science Observations
● Research NZ Scientist ● Land, soil, clay, sand etc
● New Zealander of the year ● Air, humidity, moisture, evaporation, temperature
● NZ Scientist in our community
Animals
Planet Earth and Beyond ● Moa (Extinction)
● NZ is an Island ● Native
● Volcanoes - Rangitoto - Pacific ring of fire, ● Imported pests (why, how and knock on effects)
Pacific garbage patch, locating of volcanoes
on map - Locating pepeha mountain on map Botany Howick
● Southern Hemisphere - Continents ● How has the land changed over time
● What was farmed on the land in our area
Water ● Erosion at local beaches
● Lakes, oceans, sea, rivers

Landmarks
● Meaning of them
● Location
TECHNOLOGY
NZ Inventions
● John Deere
● Number 8 wire
● Bungy
● America’s cup
● Zorbing
● Tech Challenges

Recycling
● Paper Making
● Soft plastic recycling - the process

STEAM Challenges
● Possums/pests - Create a trap
● Design boats/waka that float
● DIY solar Ovens
● Weather stations
● Sun dial
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Myths and Legends NZ Disaster
● Gods of Maori ● Wahine Disaster
● Legends ● Napier and Christchurch earthquakes
● Explore, create own ● Erebus plane crash
● Marae, Maori art, weaving - how everything tells a ● Pike River mine
story ● Tangiwai Disaster
● Moko and tattoos
Imigration
History ● Culture change
● Past history ● Diversity in school
● What can we learn from past history ● Language diversity
● How can past history help us change tomorrow
Traditional dress
Whanau ● Past and present clothing
● Pepeha ● Wharekai
● Genealogy/Family tree
● Tribes - Iwi Transport
● FIrst car - now to electric cars
Famous Icons ● Trams, trains, planes
● L&P etc
● Goodnight Kiwi, Footrot Flats, What now, Play school Famous People
● People on our notes
● Kate Shepard, Jean Batten
Digital Technologies
Algorithms
● Get the Maori Waka to NZ
● Mapping - what if I turn left, right
THE ARTS
Visual
● Redesign money - WBS Slogan
● Maps - Map where Maori travelled, local area
today and yesterday
● Create/design a costume for dance, drama
piece - look at traditional materials costumes
and patterns
● Recreate traditional artwork
● Research Maori artist
● Weaving
● Explore meaning of design ie: koru, flax
Drama
● Reenactment of cultures migrating to NZ -
script writing and oral language
● Pepeha presenting
● A moment in time - Hot seat
● Explore traditional Maori characters - become
the character - children questioning - roleplay
Music
● NZ songwriters
● Waiata
● Traditional instruments
● Create musical instruments using natural
things
● Create a music video
● Create and perform a waiata
Dance
● Kapa Haka and its meaning
● Local and cultural dance
● Explore elements involved in traditional dance -
body, action, space, time, energy
HEALTH AND PE
Mindfulness/PBS Iwi
● Self worth ● Connection to the land
● How people use to live - living off the land
Food ● Looking after the land
● Pyramid - Now vs Then ● Kaitiakitanga - guardianship/protection
● Change in diet - New foods introduced
● Hangi Hauora
● Maori dishes ● Mental, physical, emotional, spiritual well being

Movement Concepts NZ Sport

● Motor skills ● Famous players, teams, coaches
● Past and present ● Maori traditional games - Knuckle bones, Rakau
sticks
Relationships
● Land and people

Whanaungatanga
● Connection with people

Manaakitanga
● Extending love and compassion to others