Section outline


  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

      • EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions

        • We are EXPLORING...
          • to understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments
        • We are EXPLORING...
          • our prior knowledge in Maths, Science, PE and Health and English to understand that events have causes and effects and use this knowledge as a foundation for our Global studies context on Keeping ourselves safe.

        Success criteria:  How humans are born to explore the Earth and the sky to discover ways to constantly evolve and grow. Students are creating a knowledge bank into their long term memory using cross curricular pollination. They should then be able to hook and build on this as they focus on solving a problem within a context in global studies, Keeping ourselves safe.

        •    to link graph's x. y axis to the earth's equator and the prime meridian
        •  to link coordinates on a graph to the GPS grid onplanet Earth
        • using Latitude and longitudes to find location on a map
        • using longitude to calculate time difference 
        • using the tropic of Cancer, Capricorn and the equator to understand the seasons
        • using angles to calculate Longitudes and latitudes
        • locating true North and magnetic North to find directions
        • locating the North star, Polaris and its use to find true North in the northern hemisphere
        • Locating the Southern Cross and Archenar to locate true South in the souther hemisphere in Auckland's nigh sky
        • locating Orion constellation in Auckland's night sky
        • locating the constellation Matariki in  Auckland's night sky
        • sunlight - Infra red, royGbiv UV, vit D, melatonin,photosynthesis, foodchain, food CHNOFe.
        •  Life on Earth - Periodic table from 1 to 10 and 26 Iron,MrsCgren. Air, Co2, Ozone, Methane, Nitrogen, oxygen.
        • Moon - 28 days cycle, month, tides, menstrual cycle.

        Task: Introduction -  A student introduces, when another student hears a common factor with the speaker the student will take the speaker's place till every has a turn. 

        World map: A3 world map to each student. Locate the continents, oceans, countries, directions, equator, Prime meridian, tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer, NZ co ordinates. 

      • Note taking and mindmapping skills. Diagrams in Google classroom. 

      • HW: 1hour daily to create a habit. 

      • HW check during session - long term memory.