Section outline

  • Learning intentions: We are... 

    Learning this week about integrating my interests with science.

    Learning this week about defining identity and personality and to identify key features of both.

    Learning this week about working collaboratively in groups.


    Success Criteria: I can...

    • Communicate effectively with others.
    • Engage in activities collaboratively with others to complete tasks.
    • Identify and define identity and personality.
    • Create artwork related to identity and personality.
    • Create a story related to identity and personality.
    • Create a title page of "100% Pure New Zealand."

    Activities:

    Monday

    • I will start the "Identity Vs Personality" lesson first by telling the students an idea to think about below:
      "A ship goes on lots of long journeys and over time it gets damaged and needs repairing. Slowly part by part is replaced to a point where not a single original part of the ship is in it anymore. Is it still the same ship?

    • I will give the students 3 minutes to talk to each other about it and will hear their ideas afterwards.

    • I will then tell the students about the difference between identity and difference in relation to the analogy of the ship.

    • The students will do an activity where they see a list of vocabulary on a grid and will have to decide whether it is in relation to their identity or personality.

    • They will then do the first task where they draw their identity and personality in a picture frame.

    • The students will then do a personality test to see what type of personality they are.

    • Once the students have done the personality test they will do the second task which will involve them creating a coat of arms that shows what they view as the four types of personalities and identities.

    • The third task will involve the students creating a flag that they think represents their identity.

    • Finally, the fourth task will be the students creating a comic strip where 4 different characters with 4 different personalities and identities work together or encounter situations/issues where they all help each other and learn from each other.

                                                                                                         Tuesday


      • I will introduce the students to the "Castaway Island Activities" by telling them about the scenario.

      • The students will do the first task where they must get into groups and choose the number of items they will get from the wreckage of the cruise ship which must be maximum 10kg and explain why they chose those items.

      • If the students have finished the task then they will get into groups of 4 where they will draw the shape of the island on paper and draw and label what is in the island.

      I will tell the students throughout the lesson how science can be used to help with survival on the island and how the task relates to Matauranga Maori. That is, what it would have been like for the Maori to first come to New Zealand in the period of pre-European contact. What knowledge would they have brought with them and what resources they used to survive. What would their life be like compared to the lives of people today?


                                                                                                          Wednesday 


    • I will give the students 2 minutes to talk to each other about what they know about the water cycle.

    • They will then share back as a class so that I can write on the whiteboard a brainstorm of what they already know about the water cycle.

    • Then they will create a title page for "100% Pure New Zealand."

    • They will then put words around of the different branches of science we will touch on.