Calamities and catastrophes
Teacher Mary-Ann Hilton
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LEVEL
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DURATION
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| 7-8
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4
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6 weeks
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| Achievement Objective Being Assessed
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Learning Outcomes
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| Close Reading
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Discuss language, meanings, and ideas from a range of texts, relating students understanding to personal experiences, purposes and audience.
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| Transactional Writing
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Use the information in the texts to rewrite factual accounts using a range of styles and contexts from different points of view.
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| Processes
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| Thinking Critically
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Read, discuss and convey meanings, from a range of texts, both the facts and the human drama of six New Zealand natural disasters.
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| Processing Information
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Gather, select and interpret information from a variety of sources then present it accurately.
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| Supporting Achievement Objective
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Learning Outcomes
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| Presenting
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Use a variety of static or moving images to communicate the researched information on a disaster to the rest of the class.
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| Viewing
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Respond to and discuss the effectiveness of each students final presentation.
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Social Organisation
(Social Studies Curriculum)
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Explain how people organise themselves in response to challenge and crisis.
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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:
This unit is in two parts:
Learning task 1
is teacher directed and involves close reading from more than one source then rewriting into a variety of different contexts. The disasters used in Part One are from New Zealand history and all have different natural causes.
Learning task 2
is an independent, student directed research project.
Assessment
assessment (RTF 6KB)
Part one
self_assessment1 (RTF 6KB)
Part two
how_sheet (RTF 21KB)
self_assessment2 (RTF 5KB)
Resources
Electronic
Print
- A set of books for students to browse through and use for information, ie. National Library books.
- Internet access.
- 111 - emergency! 1992 Pt 3 No.2
- The Abbotsford Landslip 1996 Pt 3 No.1
- The Big One 1999 Pt 3 No.2
- A Bit of a Blow 1991 Pt 2 No.1
- A Bizarre Shipwreck 1991 Pt 3 No.2
- The Body Run 1993 Pt 4 No.3
- Christmas after the Cyclone 1994 YPW
- Close Call at Tristan da Cunha 2000 Pt 3 No.3
- Cyclone 2003 Pt2 No.1
- Escape from the Wahine 2002 Pt 4 No.3
- Fire Callout 1996 Pt 2 No.4
- Fire Fighter! 1992 Pt 4 No.3
- The Fire on the 22nd of June 1990 YPW
- A Gift from Tangaroa 1990 Pt 3 No.3
- Gisborne Floods 1990 YPW
- Good News, Bad News 1990 Pt 4 No. 1
- It's Gone 1994 YPW
- Jago Descends 2000 CN No.2
- July 24th 1990: Our School Fire! 1992 YPW
- Life on the Desert Road 1993 Pt2 No.2
- Lost of Sea 1993 Pt4 No.3
- Lucky - or Unlucky? 1990 Pt2 No.2
- Make a Vocanoe 2002 Pt2 No.2
- The Mountain 1999 Pt4 No.2
- The Naming of Rangitoto 2001 YPW
- Nightmare on Anchorage Island 1999 Pt4 No.1
- Waiohine Flood 2003 Pt2 No.1
- Access to a fax machine or telephone.
- Access to computers for presentation.
- Access to a video camera and television.
- Access to a digital camera.
- Art supplies ie. paper, cutting knives, paint, dye, crayons, scissors.
- Gawith, Gwen.(1987) Information Alive. Longman Paul.
