7M1 Science
Weekly outline
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Kia ora koutou!
Ko Hunter te whānau
Ko Simcoe, Canada te whenua tupu
Ko Ms Hunter toku ingoa
Welcome to Science!
Our classes are on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday.
Please meet in F9 on Thursdays but otherwise we are in M11.
You can e-mail me at chunter@mhjc.school.nz if you have any questions.
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING... ecosystems by observing, measuring and analysing data from our local environment to understand how plants + animals interact with each other
- We are EXPLORING... adaptations of plants + animals by exploring and modelling their features / behaviours to discover how they are suited to their particular habitat
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Define ecosystems and discuss their components
- Explored different types of ecosystems (desert, arctic, marine, grassland, etc.)
- Differentiate between living and non-living factors in ecosystems
- Collect data in the school's ecosystem about the biotic + abiotic factors
- Keywords ecosystem, abiotic, biotic, habitat, community, population
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Classifying different ecosystems - making murals to visualise biotic and abiotic factors
- Literacy - 'City of Bugs' article + questions from the Connected Series
- Group work - collect data about our school ecosystem
Mahi Kāinga / Homework: Finish your scientist drawing
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING... ecosystems by observing, measuring and analysing data from our local environment to understand how plants + animals interact with each other
- We are EXPLORING... adaptations of plants + animals by exploring and modelling their features / behaviours to discover how they are suited to their particular habitat
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Use a quadrat to collect data from a range of locations + draw conclusions about populations + communities
- Explored bird beak adaptations
- Compare different types of adaptions to understand how plants and animals are suited to their habitat
- Keywords: adaptation, food chain, types of consumers
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Hands-on: Use quadrats to collect data in the classroom + the school forest, bird beaks adaptations, make a "Cootie catcher" to share adaptations of different animals/ecosystems
- Literacy: Duck Tales article (Google Classroom)
- Digital: Magic School Bus video on habitats
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EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:
- We are EXPLORING... ecosystems by observing, measuring and analysing data from our local environment to understand how plants + animals interact with each other
- We are EXPLORING... adaptations of plants + animals by exploring and modelling their features / behaviours to discover how they are suited to their particular habitat
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Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Define and compare producers, omnivores, carnivores, herbivores and top predators
- Describe how producers, consumers and decomposers are linked in an ecosystem
- Keywords: producer, consumer, carnivore, omnivore, herbivore, top predator, decomposer
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Hands-on: Use photos to identify + compare the types of consumers in different ecosystems, identify types of consumers in our local ecosystem
- Literacy: Word search for new science terms + cloze activity
- Digital: EdPefect "Food Chains", Blooket
- In-class notes: Google Slides
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FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:
- We are FOCUSING... on identifying what lives in Camp Adair and/or the local ngahere so we can explain how they work together to make a healthy ecosystem and describe what may happen if one of these things were removed
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**Week 8 we were at camp for Thursday +Friday lessons
Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Draw food chains using photos of NZ plants + animals
- Read food webs from different ecosystems to identify food webs
- Explain how types of consumers interact in different ecosystems
- Collected scientific data at camp
- Keywords: food chain, types of consumers
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Hands-on: Food chain game, Collect data at camp
- In-class: Draw food chains using photos + online examples (refer to Google Classroom)
- Digital "Food Webs" activity and feeding game on BrainPop
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PLAN & DO / WHAKAMAHI learning intentions:
- We are PLANNING... to construct a food web from our collected data so that we can... visually present how an ecosystem requires support from all the things living in it
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Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Create simple food webs from collected data
- Explain how living things can positively interact in an ecosystem
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Hands-on: Create a food web using photos of NZ waterways (link to VR session with Peter Blake)
- Digital: Blooket
- Assessment work: Use data from camp to complete the assessment task
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Opened: Tuesday, 9 April 2024, 11:00 AMDue: Friday, 12 April 2024, 1:00 PM
You will use data from camp to describe a different habitat and create a simple food web.
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Paearu Angitu / Success Criteria: I can/have...
- Describe the surface of the moon + describe how meteorites have created these features
- Compare cultural stories + myths to learn how different cultures have their own interpretation of the moon's appearance
- Brainstorm + write a moon myth
- Identify + describe the phases of the moon (new moon, waxing moon, half moon, waning moon, full moon)
- Make connections between the moon phases and the calendar month
Hei Mahi / Activities:
- Literacy activities: Read "Night Light" article to uncover basic moon facts, "Manned Missions" reading passage to identify locations of landed Apollo missions, write our own moon myths
- Practical: investigate how meteorites of different sizes have affected the moon's surface,
- Hands-on: moon phases with oreos, role play to make moon phases
- Digital activities: BrainPop "Moon Phases" - video, quiz, challenge + 2 related readings
- Class notes: Google Slides
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