The World of Flags topic

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

Social Studies

Strand: Place and Environment
Level: 2–4
Aim: How and why people express a sense of belonging to particular places and environments.

Strand: Time, Continuity, and Change
Level: 2–4
Aim: How the ideas and actions of people in the past changed the lives of others.

Strand: Culture and Heritage
Level: 2–4
Aim: Ways in which communities reflect the culture and heritages of their people.

Strand: Social Organisation
Level: 2–4
Aim: How and why groups are organised within communities and societies.

Related activities:
Our flag
Union Jack
Commonwealth flag family
Pacific flag families
Commonwealth family reunion
Olympic flag
Flags at Waitangi
History of the New Zealand flag
World flag families
Explores' flags
Commonwealth Games quiz

English

Sub strand: Expressive Writing
Level: 2–4
Achievement objective: Write on a variety of topics, shaping, editing and reworking texts in a range of genres, and using vocabulary and conventions, such as spelling and sentence structure, appropriate to the genre.
Processes: Processing Information, Thinking Critically

Sub strand: Viewing and Presenting
Level: 2–4
Achievement objective: Respond to meanings and ideas, identifying and describing the verbal and visual features.
Processes: Processing Information, Thinking Critically

Sub strand: Listening and Speaking
Level: 3–4
Achievement objective: discuss and interpret spoken texts, considering relevant personal experiences and other points of view
Processes: Processing Information, Thinking Critically

Related activities:
Famous flags
Boat flags
Flying a flag
Flags at Waitangi
Hot debate

Technology
Technological Knowledge and Understanding
Technological Capability
Technology and Society

Related activities:
Coat of arms
Design a new flag
Sew a new flag