Section outline


  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    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 skills. Mindmapping.

    • HW 1 hour daily creating a habit  for learning.

    • Longterm memory check every session of previous class lessons.