Unit Plan

TEACHER  

Teaching and Learning Activities

 

YEAR 11

LEVEL 6

DURATION 3-4 weeks

 

Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed	Learning Outcomes
Culture and Heritage 6.1 How and why cultures adapt and change	Students will be able to: - Describe how Tokelauan culture is adapting and changing; - Explain why Tokelauan culture is adapting and changing;
Social Organisation 6.2 The effects of changes in society on people's rights, roles and responsibilities	- Examine the effects of change in Toklelauan society on the rights, roles and responsibilities of Tokelauans.
Processes	Learning Outcome
Social Decision Making	Students will be able to:  - Identify a variety of social actions that Tokelauans could take in relation to the issue of losing their young people overseas;  - Identify likely consequences of these actions;  - Identify preferred action(s) and justify with reasoned argument.
Requirements
Settings:	Pacific
Perspectives:	Multicultural; Gender; Future
Essential Learning About New Zealand Society (ELANZS):	Characteristics, roles and cultural expressions of the various groups living in NZ;
Assessment	Formative: Achievement Standard 1.1 Summative: Achievement Standard 1.5

TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Getting Started:

1. Watch the video Our Small World.
Either: watch the whole video uninterrupted;
Or: watch Part 1 and Part 2 of Our Small World with a break between sections. 
(Part 1 ends with "We are relying on Puka. It is comforting to know he will always be there."
Part 2 starts with "On Tokelau, the work begins long before the heat of the sun strikes down.")
Take time to discuss the video with your students at the end of Part 1, focusing on the concepts of cultural change and social change. 

As students watch Our Small World ask them to think about and record changes in Tokelauan culture and society. Provide each student with a copy of the Bubble Map, or have it on an OHT for them to copy and fill in.  Stress that notes should be brief (keywords) and that their attention must remain on the video.

2. Some Bits About Tokelau 
Where is this small world? How is Tokelauan society organised?

3. Meet The Musicans
The soundtrack has been composed by Te Vaka. Te Vaka founder Opetaia Foa'i is Tokelauan; he writes his songs in Tokelauan. Students with a particular interest in music might already know Te Vaka, or want to find out more about the group.


4. Meet the people.
There are five key people showing us their small world:
Ioane Puka - the Narrator;
Puka - his brother
Hegalo - his sister
Tolise Liu - the Fakafo Police Sergeant
Falima Teao - elder and former Faipule. 

Create Jigsaws for each of these key people.

5. Tradition or Change?
What do these people have to say about their small world? 

6. Te Faka Tokelau. It's the Tokelau way. 
Maintaining Tokelau culture in the face of change is important. How can it be done? 

7. Change Agents 
Why have Tokleauan culture and Tokelauan society changed?

8. Changed Agents 
How has change in Tokelau affected people's rights, roles and responsibilities?

9. Formative Assessment Task (AS 1.1)

10. Values Exploration: Position Grid Westernise or Modernise? 

11. Postcard from home

12. Consider the options

13. Fono Meeting

14. Summative Assessment

The developers of this resource wish to acknowledge and thank Solomona and Metita Puka of Faka'ofo, Tokelau.