Inquiry Planning - Term 2: 2016

ACTION

Context: “My School - a pathway to the world”

“Ko toku kura he ara ki te ao”
Junior Team

Curriculum Area: Social Sciences Setting: New Zealand and Our World
Level: 1 2 3 4

Developing an inquiry
The changing face of Aotearoa

The ethnic make-up of New Zealand is becoming more diverse. We have moved from a bi-cultural nation to one that is
multicultural. Our challenge is to embrace diversity and take advantage of the opportunities this offers. Other New
Zealanders express their customs, traditions and values through their own cultural practices. By becoming a globally aware
kura we expand our school community’s knowledge and grow as citizens of the world.

At Hillcrest Normal School we have students from many different cultures in the Junior team. We would like to
acknowledge and value the culture that they come from. We want to encourage and support all our students to become
global citizens, capable of thriving in an interconnected world.
Action
To share our learning with another class across the team, looking at differences and similarities between our chosen
culture and New Zealand culture. Its purpose is to...

Achievement Objectives
Students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of…
 How belonging to groups is important for people.
 How people have different roles and responsibilities as part of their participation in groups.
 How the cultures of people in New Zealand are expressed in their daily lives.
 How the past is important to people
 How places in New Zealand are significant for individuals and groups

Learning Intentions: - By the end of this unit the students will be able to…
Understand the contribution of culture and heritage to identity
Understand the differences in the ways culture is expressed
Understand how cultural practices vary but reflect similar purposes.
 Describe groups that they belong to  Describe features of the culture and heritage of their own and
 Name the roles different members of others groups
groups take on.  Describe customs and traditions associated with participation in
 Explain reasons why people belong to cultural activities
groups
 Assessment: Students will identify a difference and similarity between their own culture and a ireland
Culture. (ROL)
Students can ask questions to further their own knowledge and understanding.
Key Competencies
This unit emphasises the following key competencies…
Participating and Contributing Relating to Others
 Call on a range of communities for information and use  Interact, share ideas, and negotiate with a range of
that information as a basis for action people

Using Language, symbols and texts

 Identify some visual ways groups represent
themselves.
Thinking
Managing Selves
 Analyse and consider a variety of possible
 Set and monitor personal goals, manage time frames,
approaches to the issue at hand (creating a Chinese
arrange activities, and reflect on and respond to ideas
Garden)
they encounter
Using Language, Symbols and Texts
 Create texts to record and communicate ideas using
language and symbols appropriate to the relevant
learning areas
School Values: Caring, Respect, Creativity, Curiosity, Confidence & Perseverance
 Deep Understandings Skills Why is this learning important?
Understand how New Zealand Questioning  We are a country with many people from
is connected to ireland Investigation different cultures in is important that children
understand how these cultures are different.
Observing
Develop intercultural skills  Children need to understand why culture is
Exploring important to a person and how it expressed in
and understandings Discussing different ways.
Interviewing
Collecting data – link
to statistics
Drawing conclusions
Locate places on a
map

Key Questions Tools Provocative Statements

What do you know about .
ireland?
What would happen to our
world if we didn’t care about
each other?
What would our world look like
if we were all the same?
 Curriculum Connections

Blended eLearning
Using technology to research
Use of WWW for research
Pic Collage

Cross Curricular Links

English: Interviews and recording ideas, Listening, Speaking, Presenting

The Arts: Dance- folk dancing, visual arts-

Health and Physical Education:

Relationships with other people: Explore and share ideas about relationships with other people
Identity, sensitivity and respect: Demonstrate respect through sharing and cooperation in groups

Learning Tasks

Identifying an issue: The challenges faced by children who move to a new country
Read “The Environment and us” By Jan Pritchett

What other places do people come from in New Zealand?

Have a world map and children put a sticker on the places where their family comes from.
Co-operative groups: brainstorm: What challenges you think a student coming from Ireland may face when they come to Hillcrest
Normal School.
1. Looking at a map and identifying where the two countries are: Looking at Flags, where are they on a map.
2. Brainstorm known celebrations for both New Zealand and Ireland.
3. Look at things the Irish do on traditional days of the year (Christmas, weddings and the new year).
4. Traditions and celebrations in Ireland
5. History of st Patrick’s day
6. Brainstorm how the children in the story celebrated St Patrick’s day
7. Folktales -Tales of the British isles Ireland - by Kenneth McLeish (The pot of gold-leprechauns)
8. Comparing traditional clothing and food.
9. Comparing traditional dance.
10. Interview with someone from Ireland. Students prepare questions
1. Compile a photo fact file of Ireland information.
11. Venn Diagram: Similarities and differences between NZ and Ireland

Assessment – identifying similarities and differences

Ability to ask thoughtful questions using appropriate structures

Learning Celebration - Sharing our photo fact file and folk dancing

Vocabulary to be developed:
Differences
Similarities
Websites/Resources
Book: Tales of the British isles Ireland - by Kenneth McLeish
The pot of gold (leprechauns)
Book: Welcome to my country - Welcome to Ireland by Dora yip/ Shannon spencer
World map
Traditional clothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMyujBjRPtQ Irish wedding dance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oclkkc_s1cY Irish new year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmNc-NTfmPc History of st Patrick’s day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJfaJBxM6SM Digital story the night before st Patrick’s day