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LOST IN TIME

Wiki has scrambled the events on this time line. Can you help her re-order the events?

  1. Download the timeline document and save it to your My Work area.
  2. Re-organise the pictures and words so that they are in the correct time periods (the first time they appeared). Use this website to help you.
  3. Send your finished timeline to wiki@tki.org.nz

TIME DETECTIVE

Earth hasn't always looked as it does now. Use this fun game to explore the history of our planet.

  1. Complete this tectonic plates puzzle.
  2. Take a screen shot of your finished puzzle: press the Print Screen button on your keyboard.
  3. Answer the questions on the plate tectonics document and paste the screen shot into the picture frame. Use this website to help you answer the questions.
    • place the cursor in the picture frame
    • press Ctrl V (paste)
  4. Send your answers and screen shot to ed@tki.org.nz

DISAPPEARING ACT

While travelling back to the 18th century, Wiki discovered a couple of strange native birds. Can you help her identify them?

  1. Read Wiki's notes.
  2. Use the Kiwi Conservation Club website to help you identify the extinct birds.
  3. Email wiki@tki.org.nz your answers.

THE LAST MOA

Check out this website about the extinct moa and answer these questions from "Top ten things".

  1. Some moa were as big as what?
  2. Name two other ratites related to the moa.
  3. Where can you still find their bones?
  4. Name two other New Zealand animals that are extinct.
  5. Where did most moa live?
  6. Email your answers to wiki@tki.org.nz.

TE MOA WHAKAMUTUNGA

Tirohia tēnei pae whakaata mō te manu nei o te moa kua mate noa atu, ka whakautu i ngē p#275;tai mai i te "Top ten things".

  1. He rite te nui o te moa ki te aha?
  2. Whakaingoahia mai kia rua ngē momo he whanaunga ki te moa.
  3. Ki hea koe kite ai i ngē kōiwi?
  4. Whakaingoahia mai kia rua ngē kararehe kua matemate nei, i roto o Aotearoa.
  5. I hea te nuinga o ngā moa e noho ana?
  6. Imērahia mai o whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

PREHISTORIC TIMES CROSSWORD

Open the Time Warp crossword. Finish the crossword, then take a screenshot to send to Ed:

  • press Print Screen on your key board;
  • open a Microsoft Word document;
  • press Ctrl V (paste).
Send the document to ed@tki.org.nz.

MATHEMATICS - QUIZIT

Choose which version of the quiz you would like to do: Tahi or Rua. Finish the quiz then take a screen shot to send to ed@tki.org.nz

  • press the Print Screen button on your keyboard
  • open a Microsoft Word document
  • press Ctrl V (paste)
  • Send your screen shot to ed@tki.org.nz.
  • BACK IN TIME

    Play the Crusty Stuff interactive and find out the answer to this question:

    1. New Zealand was a part of a continent 75 million years ago, what do we call that continent now?
    2. Email your answer to wiki@tki.org.nz.

    NGĀ WĀ O MUA

    Whakamahia te ngohe tauwhitiwhiti o Crusty Stuff ka rapu i te whakautu mō tēnei pātai:

    1. He wāhanga a Aotearoa o tētahi whenua tino whānui nei, he aha te ingoa o taua whenua ināianei?
    2. Imērahia mai ō whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

    PAST EARTHQUAKES

    Play the Plate Action interactive and use the seismic record tool to answer this question:

    1. When and where did a major earthquake happen in New Zealand?
    2. Email your answer to wiki@tki.org.nz.

    NGĀ RŪ O MUA

    Whakamātauhia te ngohe tauwhitiwhiti o Plate Action ka whakamahi i te mīhini rongo rū ki te whakautu i tānei pātai:

    1. He rū tino nui i tau ki roto o Aotearoa nei, i tēhea wā, ā, i tēhea rohe hoki te rū nei?
    2. Imērahia mai ō whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

    AOTEAROA ANIMALS

    Play the Pests and Predators interactive and find out what it was like in Aotearoa many years ago, before the introduction of certain animals.

    1. Which of the introduced animals killed off the weta?
    2. Email your answer to wiki@tki.org.nz.

    NGĀ KARAREHE O AOTEAROA

    Whakamātauhia mai te ngohe tauwhitiwhiti o Pests and Predators ka tiro i pēhea rawa te ao o Aotearoa i ngā rā o mua, i mua i te kōkuhutanga mai o ngā kararehe kē.

    1. Ko tēhea o ngā kararehe kōkuhu i patupatu haere i te wētā?
    2. Imērahia mai ō whakautu ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

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