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    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING...on selecting the best dates to plant by explaining how maramataka is linked to the whenua
    • We are FOCUSING... on identifying and describing what plants require to grow via photosynthesis

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    Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...

    • Identify + label parts of plant and animal cells (cell membrane, cell wall, chloroplast, mitochondria, nucleus, cytoplasm, vacuole)
    • Compare the difference between plant + animal cells
    • Write simple observations to describe how water moves through plants
    • Write the equation for photosynthesis + identify what's required for plants to grow

    Hei Mahi / Activities:

    1. Kaitiakitanga: Trees for Survival weeding + planting our own microgreens
    2. Literacy: cell part definition matching, crossword puzzle for the parts, taking observations using the celery activity 
    3. Hands-on: building model cells 
    4. Practical: Explore water movement within a cell using celery, use the microscopes to view celery cells 
    5. Classnotes: introduction to photosynthesis

    Mahi Kāinga / Homework:
    Keep watering your microgreens