Integrated+Unit+-+Seeds

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**__ Key Competencies: __**  ** Thinking: ** Using creative, critical and meta cognitive processes to make sense of information and experiences
 * Managing Self: ** Being a self motivator with a can do attitude. Establishing personal goals, making plans and setting high standards
 * Relating to Others: **Interacting effectively with a diverse range of people in a variety of contexts. Having the ability to listen actively, recognising different points of views and sharing ideas **__

Understandings: __** The students will – · Identify the special features of a seed and describe how these characteristics help it to stay alive · Recognise that a seed requires certain conditions to germinate Develop a scientific and physical understanding of the relationship between seeds and ourselves 

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Seeds A - **__Knowledge__** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">
 * 1) Wonderings – what do you wonder about seeds. Ask yourself some questions about seeds and write them down on a post it and stick them on the Wonderings chart.
 * 2) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">With your topic in mind write an acrostic poem for the word **Seeds** (work sheet 1). Illustrate the borders.
 * 3) <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">Compile a list of words from A – Z that link to seeds. Add to this list during the unit.
 * 4) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">M <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-bidi-font-family;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt;">ake a seed collage. Draw/paste pictures that relate to seeds.
 * 5) <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-bidi-font-family;"> <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 10pt; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'mso-bidi-font-family;">Complete the KWL (What I **K**now – What I **W**ant to Know – What I **L**earned) (work sheet 2). This helps you to think about what you definitely know, what you would like to know and at the end of the unit, what you learned.

<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 150%; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Seeds B – __**Comprehension**__ <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 1. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Look at worksheet 2. Read what you wrote in the ‘Things I'm not sure about’ and ‘Things I would like to find out about’ section. Now, write some questions that will help you to find out about these things.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 2. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Research the questions you have asked in Wonderings. Write brief answers to these in your own words.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 3. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Choose one of the questions and answers from question 2 to make a cartoon strip that shows the information you learned.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 4. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Make a colouring-in picture that illustrates some of the new information from your research. Give this picture to another person in your class to colour in. Write what the picture is showing and why you have chosen to include certain illustrations.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gather 10 pieces of paper/card (approx A5 size) for a Mix and Match card game. Write five facts from your topic onto the five pieces and draw/find pictures that match these facts onto the other five. Ask a friend in your class if they can match the facts to the pictures.

<span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Seeds C – __**Application**__ <span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 1. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Complete a list of instructions explaining how to plant seeds.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 2. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Construct a Y chart (with the headings Looks like, Tastes like, Feels like) for your study of seeds (worksheet 3).

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 3. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Examine the Y chart and produce a catchy car bumper sticker/poem/rap to promote an awareness of seeds.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 4. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Use pictures/photos/illustrations to demonstrate topic. Splash key words around pictures.

<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ; msobidifontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msofareastfontfamily: 'Comic Sans MS'; msolist: Ignore;"> 5. <span style="font-family: Comic Sans MS; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; msoansilanguage: EN-NZ;">Make a diorama that shows an aspect of your seeds topic.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-size: 10pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-NZ; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Prepare an interview to someone who has a garden using 5 W’s & 1H questions