Level:4

Year/s: 7

KVCTerm
Social
Studies
Unit
Date:
2, 2016
Unit Title:
Anima
Plan

Focus: The adaptions that animals make to themselves and their environment, using this knowledge to help us

Opportunity and Success for

Integration of Mori and/or Pasifika Dimension: state the ways in which you will integrate the
teaching and learning about
the bicultural
nature
Identified
SWPB4L/PRIDE
Focus:
Maori/Pa
Use reading resources with a Maori or Pasifika theme.
Greetings and praise in te reo
Participation

Curriculum links
English,
Drama,
Dance.
Placenames
pronounced
correctly.

Respect
Inquiry
Diversity
Environment

Strands (Highlight one)

Continuity and Change
Place and Environment
Identity, Culture and Organisation
The Economic World

Gifted&T

Achievement Objectives

Understand that events have causes and effects.

Specific Learning Outcomes:
Sharing prior knowledge around animals.
Categorize and organize animals into three categories Herbivore, Omnivore, or Carnivore.
How cats have adapted over time.
Pick an animal and use the inquiry model to show your understanding of its adaptations made over time.
Present your information in a compelling way to an audience.

Learning

How does this change us for the future?

NZC

Assessment Overview:

High
Trea
Present information in a group about a land based animal and the adaptions that it has made over time. Group roles: 1. Narrator 2. Slides Manager 3.
&
Cult
Inclu
Lear
Com
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KVC: Opportunity & Success for All NZC Vision:Confident Connected Actively InvolvedLifelong Learners
Our Values: Participation Respect Inquiry Diversity

Environment

Key Competencies Focus: highlight

NZC Values Focus: highlight
Managing Self self-motivation, personal goals, appropriate behaviour, resourcefulness,
Excellence aiming high, persevering
sense of self, importance of heritage
Innovation, Inquiry and curiosity critical, creative & reflective thinking
Relating to others active listening, recognise different POV, negotiate, share ideas
Diversity culture, language, heritage
Participating and contributing balancing rights, roles & responsibilities, responding to others
Equity fairness and social justice
Using language, symbols and text interpreting language and symbols, using ICT,
Community and Participation as actively involved members of society
recognising how language symbol choice affect peoples understanding
Respect for themselves, others, and human rights
Thinking using creative, critical and metacognitive (learning to learn) reflection, drawing on personal
Ecological sustainability care for the environment
knowledge
Integrity accountability, honesty, acting ethically

Evaluation and Next Steps: Teacher Reflection:

What impact did my teaching have on student learning?
What evidence do I have?
What worked well?
How could I improve this unit for next time?

Next steps for students -

This is your opportunity to think about what happened and why (see Teaching Inquiry on page 35 of the Curriculum) and to make comments about what needs to be covered in your next unit of work. You should be
aware of individual students (or groups), as it is rare that a whole class with need the exact same next steps. Your comments should be a reflection of the feed forward you give students.

Learning Intention/
WALT

Teaching & Learning Activities

Resources

Categorize
and sort Big Picture
Group Members:
Animal:
Date:
#David
Food Chain, Animals in Creation Stories, Animals over time, timeline,
Attenborough
Animals Presentation
100-80
79-65
64-50
Endangered Species,
#BBC
has a role,
rolesuntil
are now.
Most people have a role and some
One person does everything
and everyone else
Roles within the group (15/15) FromEvery
#Slides
the person
Beginning
ofthe
time
shared
evenly
and
everyone
knows
people
know
what
they
are
doing.
does
not
contribute
to
the
presentation
at all
-What roles can each person in the
Story telling.
what they are doing.
done
th by a few.
group have?
Christian
Creation Story AdamEverything
and Eveis 5
Day
Noahs Ark
Presentation is well thought out on
Presentation is mostly well thought out,
There is only one or two well thought out
How the information is presented
every
Maori
Creation Story Tane God
over the birds and forests slides, the rest have been rushed and little
slide, it looks good. Great use of
some slides a strong, others let the
(30/30)?
Korean
Creation
Story
has a human
beasts
pictures
and text. The
presenters
wholetaming
presentation
down.
effort has been put in.
-How will you display the changes in the colour,
do
not
read
straight
of
the
slides,
they
Babylonian Creation Story Has monsters that are created.
animal?
thought have
about how
to present the creatures
-Does it look good?
have
Greeks
mythological
information.
The
visuals
are very
prior
-Is it messy Sharing
or clean?
Native Americans
Thought it and it came into being.
engaging.
knowledge
All creation myths account for how animals arrived here. Write your own
around
animals
Very informative
presentation
is you
Goodthink
information,
but missing
Very
little
information and not engaging at all.
The information
itself
(30/30)
Creation
story and
imaginethat
how
animals
camethetobulk
be on
our
earth.
interesting,
captivating
and
engaging.
of
the
information.
Everything
said
is
Everything
is true and written in their own
-What changes have been made to the
Use parts
from
other
stories.
Make true
it your
own.in their own words.
Everything
said
is
true
and
written
in
and
written
words.
physical characteristics of the animal
Snowball earth
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKuoPBbh58Y
their own
words.
Group Name:

over time?
-What are the different type of species of
Dinosaurs Can be discussed if necessary.
our animal?
-Where are the different places it lives?Earth and Animals - http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140912-what-is-the-Is it dying off? Will it go extinct? Have meaning-of-life
Plants and Animals ancestors (cells) other species of this animal gone
extinct?
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140905-meet-the-ancestors-of-all-plants-Are the facts true?
and-animals

Creativity (15/15)

Thinking
outside the
in how
can
Shows some creativity and looks to
Very little attempt to engage the audience in
Longest
animals
onbox
earth
- ithttp://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20140905-the-

be presented. Using role play, engaging

-What can we add to make this a betterlongest-animals-on-earth
their audience, making it fun and
presentation? (A video, pictures, poster,
Herbivore, Omnivore,
Carnivore
exciting.
role play to the class, an activity). Think
Recap last lesson.
outside of the box.

engage the audience.

anyway.

#Toy animals

Role Play.
Get the
act in asubmitted
three on
uptime,
thewell
front,
what
would
a scene
look
Underchildren
10 minutes,to
assignment
prepared,
when
presenting
it isnt the
firstlike
time they have presented it. It has
Management (10/10)
with
these
three
hanging
out.
Will
expose
stereotypes
for
discussion.
been
well
practiced
and
rehearsed.
Is it handed on time? Well practiced
Herbivore - Slow, quiet, weak, Omnivore Second best, loser, Carnivore and prepared?
Aggressive, Strong, dominant. But is this always the case?
Definitions
Carnivore- an animal that feeds on other animals
Categorize and
Omnivore - an animal or person that eats a variety of food of both plant and
organize animals animal origin.
into three
Herbivore - an animal that feeds on plants. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
categories
v=RtnLNmB3ZNE
Herbivore,

Marking Criteria for Presentations.