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General Activities

Longest fingernails

Imagine having fingers nails so long that you couldn’t pick your nose!

1. Read about Lee Redmond from USA who holds the Guinness World Record for the longest fingernails.
2. Think about how Lee could get around doing normal everyday things. Write down your ideas on a Word document (Word 27KB).
3. Cut lengths of string or wool to match the length of her individual finger nail lengths and tape them to each of your finger. Try typing on the keyboard, doing up your shoe lace, or dialling a phone number.

Extreme body facts

The Guinness World Records is one of the most famous books in the world.

1. Read about some of the amazing and weird records about the human body.
2. Choose one record and write about it using Word or PowerPower.
3. Remember to use colour, give it a catchy heading, and, if you can copy a photo of the incredible record.
4. Print it out or send it to us to publish in the Student Gallery.

How do you spell that word?

Learn the definitions of words, and have a go at spelling them

• Play the Spelling Bee game.

Gross stuff

Ever wondered all about the gross and cool stuff human bodies create – burps, snores, gas and more? Of course you have. Read about some yukky stuff here.

1. Choose one of two facts to create a ‘Did you know?’ for your classmates on one or more of the gross and cool items.
2. Use PowerPoint or a Word document to create a poster, booklet or slide presentation.

Make a body puzzle

Using words from one type of system, or general body words.

• Create a word search.
• Create a crossword.

Mystery riddlers

Make up riddles about the heart, lungs, oxygen, blood vessels, carbon dioxide or any other body concept, for example:

• I am part of the air.
• I enter your lungs when you breathe in.
• Your body needs me.
• What am I? (Oxygen)

1. Open a new Word document to write your riddle in.
2. Post it on the Wicked talk forum for others to answer.

Name that body part

Do you know the words for the different parts of the body in Māori?

1. Play this game with friends to learn the different words.
2. Now see how many words for body parts in Māori you know by completing this wordfind (Word 53KB).

Match the body part

Every organ in our body has an important role to play in keeping everything ticking along healthily.

• How accurate are you at placing the correct body organ in the correct place? Try this fun interactive activity

Body quiz

Have you ever wondered how everything works inside your body? The body is an amazing machine. Buckle your seatbelts and have a go!

Take this quiz about your body.

Me Pūrei te Kēmu ‘Odd Tinana’

He mea harikoa ki te ako i ngā wāhanga o te tinana ki roto i te reo Māori. Āta pānui i ngā tohutohu kātahi me pūrei i tēnei kēmu i te taha i ōu hoa, ā, me kimi kei a wai te manawanui kia tae atu ki te mutunga.

Whakaingoatia tērā Wāhanga Tinana

Ko te ngohe tuarua kei runga i te whārangi ipurangi nei kia kimihia i ngā wāhanga rerekē o te tinana ki roto i te reo Māori. He whārangi whakautu tā tēnei ngohe mō rātou kaore i paku mōhio ki ngā whakautu.

He Kimi Kupu

He kimi kupu te ngohe whakamutunga hei whakamātau i tō mōhiotanga o ngā kupu Māori mō ngā wāhanga o te tinana (Word 50KB).

Mahia ngā kupu i riro koe i te kimi kupu ki te hanga he pikitia nui A3. Whakingoatia ngā wāhanga rerekē o te tīnana i whiwhi koe i tāu kimi kupu. Ka taea hoki e koe te tāpiri i ōu ake kupu kia ‘Scientific’ te āhua.

Ko Ngā Tikanga Māori me te Tinana

He mea nui te tinana ki roto i te Ao Māori. I ngā wā o mua he tikanga tinana tō te kāinga, tō te marae hoki, arā, ko ngā mea e tika ana, ko ngā mea e hē ana. Ko te pūtaketanga o ngā tikanga ko ngā whakaaro tika. E tāpiri ana te kupu ‘tapu’ me te kupu ‘noa’ ki aua tikanga. Ko te tapu, he mea aukati, ko te noa he mea wātea. Ahakoa he rerekē ētehi tikanga tō tēnā iwi, tō tēnā iwi, ko te nuinga e whāia ana e ngā iwi katoa.

1. Mahia te whakamātautau (Word 41KB) ‘Tapu’ me ‘Noa’ ki te whakamātau i tō mōhiotanga tikanga i te marae, i te kāinga rānei.
2. Ināianei, me mahia i tāu ake tēpu kupu o ngā mea tapu me te noa ki roto i tōu kainga, kātahi, me whakautu koe i ēnei pātai;
   • I ahu mai ōu tikanga kei runga i te whakaaro pai? Aha rānei?
   • He ōrite he rerekē rānei ōu tikanga ki tā te tikanga Māori?
   • Mēnā he rerekē, he aha i pērā ai?

Kupu hou

• Tikanga – custom
• Tapu – restricted
• Noa – not restricted

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