Section outline

  • Context:


    * Due to the Covid-19 Lockdown (Level 4), school is closed physically, but classes remain active via distant learning online.  The most important aim is to ensure students stay safe and calm and still experience some level of normality during this period of nationally enforced self-isolation.

    * Introducing Google Meet as our online lesson platform.  Instructions have been given to students and some time is expected for the new format of routine and expectations to be established.

    * Short week due to Easter holidays

    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING on plant biology so as to develop a good understanding of plant adaptation.
    • We are FOCUSING on information web so that we learn how to use it to list and describe the different adaptation features of a specific plant.


    Success Criteria: (Students can...)

    • identify the different adaptation features of a New Zealand native plant
    • describe the key unique adaptation features of the native plant
    • explain how these adaptation features help the plant survive in the environment
    • use an information to clearly map out, label and/or illustrate the above findings


    Activities & Learning Tasks:

    1. Make an information web of a NZ native plant to show its adaptation features.
    2. Focus on Pohutukawa tree. Make an information web with 8-10 adaptation features. 
    3. You may need to research on this NZ native tree before you make your information web. 
    4. You can look at the example as attached.


    https://www.doc.govt.nz/documents/science-and-technical/casn100.pdf