Here's your place to share your knowledge and experience with others. Lessons, unit plans or good ideas will be available here for teachers to share in a number of curriculum subject areas. This online resource contains a teaching unit and links to Internet resources for Level 6 secondary students fitting the Visual language strand, and also the written language strand and the Processing information strand. Whatever Happened to the Paper Boy - written by Alastair Wells. A unit for year 7 and upwards.
Students research and develop an online newspaper.
This unit also intregrates well with the Technology curriculum area. Activities include learning about Maori Legends , Plate Tectonics, Earthquakes, Volcanoes and rivers, valleys, and coastal landforms and provides excellent links between Internet resources, other resources and even a field trip. This delightful teaching and learning interactive unit involves teams of students using the Internet to report on an Eruption for their locate paper, or other media. Students research the topic from a particular New Zealand perspective and wearing the hats of various experts such as Anchor Person, Volcanologist, Local Expert, World Expert, Geologist, Seismologist, Civil Defence expert and others. Written for lower secondary students by Jess Roddy.