Creepy Crawlies topic

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The topics are integrated units with activities from several curriculum areas involving a range of thinking and learning skills.

Science

Strand: Making Sense of the Physical World
Level: 2-4
Aim: Students will investigate and understand the changes that take place in animals and plants during their life cycles.
Aim: Students will explain using information from personal observation and library research, where and how a range of familiar New Zealand plants and animals live.
Aim: Students will investigate and classify closely related living things on the basis of easily observable features.

Related activities:
Creepy crawlies
The creepy and the crawly bits
The Weta
Bug fun
What is a bug
Kauri snail
Huhu beetle
Life cycles
Spectacular Spiders
Poisonous spiders
Insect terrarium
Worm farms
Bug cafe

English

Strand: Reading and Writing
Level: 3–4
Sub strand: Transactional Writing
Achievement objective: Write instructions, explanations, and factual accounts, and express personal viewpoints, in a range of authentic contexts, sequencing ideas logically
Processes: Processing Information, inquiry

Related activities:
Bug fun
Tongue twister tangle
Eatable insect delights
Worm farm

Strand: Viewing and Presenting
Sub strand: Presenting
Achievement objective: use verbal and visual features to communicate information, ideas, or narrative through layout, drama, video, or still photography.

Related activities:
Life cycles
Tongue twister

Visual Art

Students will describe how selected objects and images communicate different kinds of ideas.

Related activities:
Escher's insect art
Carved crawlies
Dream catcher