Insects
Teacher Anne Girven
| YEAR
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 3-4
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2
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3-4 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Interpersonal Speaking
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Observe, ask questions, share their experiences and investigations relating to "insects".
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| Interpersonal Listening
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Listen to and interact with others in class or group discussion, expressing opinions.
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Science Level 2
Making Sense of the Living World
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Investigate and understand the general functions of the main parts of insects.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Transactional Writing
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Write explanations, state facts and recount events related to insect observations and investigations.
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Teacher background reading
Teaching and learning activities
Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:
Set up an Insect Centre with resources
Teacher and students locate and select information to use throughout the unit, from websites, School Journals
, National Library
, students' own resources, videos. Develop throughout the unit a chart about common insects in New Zealand. Encourage students to add information to this chart as a result of their investigation, observation, reading and viewing.
Learning task 1
Learning task 2
Learning task 3
Learning task 4
Links for Students
Collaborative online projects:
Assessment
Assessment Task
Students to be given the assessment criteria for the oral presentation prior to their investigation and research. Discuss the process of finding and recording information to investigate an insect, to plan questions, eg. What do I want to find out? Discuss how to research using online texts, Internet sites, school journals, texts from the library. Students will record their findings including a detailed labelled diagram to demonstrate understanding of the functions and main parts of an insect. Oral presentation to the class. Teacher or students video the individual oral presentations for oral assessment and feedback. Students self assess their oral presentation and their listening to others.
assessment (RTF 10KB)
self_assessment (RTF 227KB)
RESOURCES
Electronic
Print
- School Journals
- National Library Books
- Gawith, G. (1998) Action Learning Longman Paul Auckland
Videos
- Insects - An Eyewitness Progress Series
- Insects - Life Cycles
