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Endangered species

Teacher Mehar Nabi, Abdul Hameed

 

YEAR

LEVEL

DURATION

7-8 4 4 weeks

 

Achievement Objective Being Assessed

Transactional Writing Is able to write a factual account about an endangered species, express a personal viewpoint, and organise and link ideas logically.

Processes

Processing Information Is able to gather, record and present structured information using different technologies.

Supporting Achievement Objective

Learning Outcomes

Presenting Is able to use visual and verbal features to communicate information, using HTML code. Is able to publish a web page.

 

Teacher background reading

Teaching and learning activites

Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

The aim of this unit is for the students to develop information research study skills through a variety of reading approaches, gathering and ordering information, action planning, question setting, resource selection, skim-reading, note taking, summarising , and use of electronic resources, eg websites to enable students to use information to write a report .

Learning task 1

Learning task 2

Learning task 3

Links for Students

Collaborative online projects:

Assessment

Using multimedia presentation students will write reports using appropriate language features.

assessment (RTF 7KB)
self_assessment (RTF 5KB)
exemplars (RTF 302KB)

Resources

Electronic

New Zealand Links

International Links

Print

  • The Illustrated New Zealand Encyclopaedia
  • Hutching, Gerard. The Natural World of New Zealand.
  • Sharell, Richard. The Tuatara, Lizards and Frogs of New Zealand.
  • Moris, Sandra. Discovering New Zealand Birds.
  • Walker, Ormiston. The Tuatara.
  • Brownlie, Betty. The Life Cycle of the Kiwi.
  • Schneider, Dean. Helping the Hoiho.
  • Climo, Gideo & Ballance, Alison. Hoki, the story of the Kakapo.
  • Pierce, Ray. Black Stilt.
  • Mother Earth publications
  • DOC pamphlets
  • Series of books on Endangered Species by Jenny Jones, Published by Heinman Education: Reeds Publishing (NZ) Ltd.

Other

  • Videos already in the school library/National Library.
  • CD ROM TVNZ Encyclopeadia

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