Our ancestors used to gather food from the sea with instruments that are not used today.
Seniors – Produce a resource as an archive of how our ancestors gathered food.
Juniors-Create an ancient food gathering implement
 | Size must be no bigger than a shoe box |
| Must be sturdy and easily carried |
| Use environmental materials |
Objective: Level 1.3 share ideas about how a particular group of people carry out technological activities such as emergency services
Level 2:3 describe how particular groups of people carry out technological systems such as emergency services
Learning Experiences:
| What do we know chart (brainstorm using Inspiration and Kidspiration) |
| How do we gather food today? List all the different ways we collect food today. |
| Visit the Auckland museum, prepare a recording instrument to document what new information you learn on that day |
| How did our ancestors gather food/preserve food (research this by using the Inspiration/Kidspiration Research file. Assess |
| Survey parents/whanau of how food was gathered |
| Add all the previous information to a time line to show the changes and comparisons in food gathering/preserving |
| Discuss and identify aspects of gathering in tidal zones and mangroves |
Objective: Objective: Level 1:6b identify and gather necessary resources and model or make their preferred solution
Objective: Level 2:6b identify and gather necessary resources and model or make their preferred solution
Learning Experiences:
Juniors-
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Plan a utensil/food gathering equipment Assess |
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Make utensil |
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Test and evaluate the effectiveness |
Seniors-
| Brainstorm ways of how to archive information |
| Decide on form of archive, storyboard information |
| Collect information (photos, videos, text, graphics) Collect resources from Te Papa museum website, MOTAT, guest speakers Assess |
| Make presentation |
| Present archive to school |
Objective: Level 1:8 share ideas about the ways in which familiar technologies affect their lives
Objective: Level 2:8 explore and compare the roles of some example of technology in daily life in their own and in other time and place
Learning Experiences:
| Discuss tikanga/values in food gathering and preserving |
| Focus Questions – How has the cultural values and attitudes towards food gathering and preserving changed? |