Who We Are

Totara Inquiry Plan Creating a Cool Community Level 3

Duration

Term 1

Enduring Learning

Citizenship is everyone’s business

Key Idea

We are all members of communities and within our communities we all have rights and responsibilities.

Key Competencies

Relating to others, using language symbols and texts, thinking, participating and contributing, managing self.

Curriculum area

Curriculum Objective •

English • Health & P.E. Social Studies

Lines of Inquiry

Investigate sources of information, processes and strategies with developing confidence to identify, form and express ideas. Select, form & communicate ideas on a range of topics.

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Express their ideas, needs, wants & feelings appropriately & listen sensitively to other people and affirm them.

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Understand how people make significant contributions to New Zealand’s society Understand how people make choices to meet their needs & wants. Rights & responsibilities are important. We are all members of communities, human & other. Human rights & responsibilities have changed over time. A school is a rights respecting school.

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Specific Learning Intentions We are learning to…

Success Criteria We will know we are successful when we …

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Make a positive contribution to our class and syndicate.

Feel happy and confident in our class and syndicate.

2

Treat others in kind and respectful ways.

Others treat us in kind and respectful ways.

3

Solve our disagreements peacefully.

Use peer mediation to resolve our disputes.

4

Recognize our and others rights and our responsibilities

We can tell someone else about our rights and our responsibilities.

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Respect the rights of others.

Our actions show that we are respecting others rights.

6

Identify definitions and synonyms of keywords.

Use a dictionary and thesaurus to find definitions and synonyms of words.

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Pose suitable inquiry questions

Use the 7 servants and keywords to pose inquiry questions.

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Work cooperatively with others

Contribute ideas and listen to others when they are contributing ideas.

Inquiry Rich Task

Task: In groups you will be responsible for contributing to and helping to organise an event that celebrates our class & syndicate communities and promotes our rights and responsibilities within these communities.

Relevant Learning Week Intentio # n

Possible Learning Progressions Setting the scene: • Establish class Rights & Responsibilities • Develop vocabulary knowledge • K/WV/F chart • Pose, edit and evaluate questions around one or more of the lines of inquiry lines of inquiry 1. Rights & responsibilities are important. 2. We are all members of communities; human & other. 3. Human rights & responsibilities have changed over time. 4. Our school is a rights respecting school. Acquire • Evaluating information sources • Summarising information • Cools –peer mediation skills development • Research class questions using surveying, internet, library etc. Use • Children contribute to a Rights Respecting event for the syndicate Communicate • Participating in the event with parents Evaluate • Self-evaluation

Relevant learning Intention

Assessment tasks •

Self Evaluation of Rights & Responsibilities in their class.