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Rotorua New Zealand February 2008
elearning and Inquiry Learning in a Junior Classroom
Helen Rennie-Younger Northcote Primary school
Fiona Grant Central North Shore ICT PD cluster
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Shaping teaching and learning in the 21st century Ko te whenu hou te tau
Room Three
Year 0/1
2006 School wide theme:
Treasures
Pounamu
Creating a treasure
Kiwi forever
Our grandparents
2007 School wide theme:
Windows
‘Cool schools’
Rain on the window
Water goes around
Colour
The Tangata Whenua
‘The Kiwi’
Room Three
Digital diary
2006
Tuning In
What do you know ?
What questions do you have ?
How could you find information out?
We shared all
the things we
knew about
the kiwi
We sorted all
the facts we
knew into a Y
chart
We had some question’s
How big are Why do Kiwis
kiwi eggs ? Where do have such
they live ? long beaks ?
Why do
they have
little wings?
Why do they
What do they look for food
eat ? at night time ?
To find answers Look in books
Ask ‘experts’ to our questions
we decided we
needed to
Go to the museum or
the zoo Look on the internet
We decided to find answers to some of our questions
How big
are kiwi
eggs ?
We found a
book that
showed us the
actual size of
a kiwi egg.
We used this to
compared the
size of the kiwi
egg with things in
our classroom
Taiga found that
Shea found that
the egg was the
the egg was the
same size as a
size of his hand.
piece of mobilo.
We compared
the kiwi egg
to a hen’s egg.
A Kiwi’s egg is 6 times
bigger than a hen’s
egg.
Shea thought it would be a
good idea to show the size of
the kiwi’s egg with play dough.
Wow
!
We looked on the
internet and
watched a video of
an kiwi hatching
from its egg.It was
so interesting we
watched it twice!!!!!.
We decided to present what
we’d learnt about the size of a
kiwi’s egg on our classroom wall.
We decided to answer
another question
Where
do Kiwi’s
live ?
To find the answer to bo oks
our question we d at
lo oke
watched a video
and ……..
…
We found out that…………….
Where they
Kiwi’s live in live is called Kiwi’s live on
New Zealand their habitat the forest
floor
Kiwi’s live
in the
forest.
We made a display of the kiwi’s habitat in
our classroom
Kiwi
burrow
egg
Leaf litter
We also made a class Y chart which answered
some of the other questions we had about the
Kiwi eg what they ate and why they had a long beak
Finding out
What would you like to learn
more about ?
Do you have any new questions?
http://www.kcc.org.nz/birds/kiwi.asp
We found out the kiwi was endangered
and we wanted to know why ?
Sorting out
What have you learnt ?
How will you record this
information ?
We found out that the kiwi is killed by ……
We passed the
Kiwi around and
shared how we
felt …
mad
cross sad
angry
I feel sad
because the kiwi I feel angry
is getting killed when possum
traps are on the
forest floor
I feel angry when
people take their
I feel angry dogs into the
because the kiwi forest
will be gone for
good
Going Further
What would you like to learn
more about?
Why ?
We looked at an
Interactive book
on the Kiwi
Recovery website
about 006 the kiwi
chick……
……and found out
that people are
helping the kiwi.
To show how ‘006’ was helped by people who
care about kiwis we organised all the photos
we had of ‘006 ’
We put them in order
from when the egg was
taken from the bush
y
ecover
Bird R
to the …
Centre…
where
it
hatche
d and when ‘006’ was
‘006’ th
e chick released on
was loo
ked
after t Limestone Island
o…….
a kiwi reserve
We looked at some
other photos of
people helping the
Kiwi.
To fix the egg they put nail polish on it.
This keeps the germs out of the egg. To help the kiwi a
transmitter is put
.
They take the egg on the leg to track
the kiwi in the
forest.
We wrote about what
we saw in the photos
They look at the egg
with a torch to see if
it is growing
When we ran the school assembly we
shared some of the things we had learnt
about the kiwi and the ways people are
helping to save them.
We sent Perky the pukeko our Northcote
Primary ambassador on a virtual field trip
with Audrie the learnz teacher.
Perky
Audrie
We all got to cuddle him
before he went on his
trip.
Every day for a week we met with
rooms 1 and 2 to look at the pictures
and videos of Perky’s trip with Audrie
We watched them
find Jack a male
kiwi and his burrow
We saw how they
marked a trail to it
so they could find
it when it was dark
We watched them go
back at night time
and lift Jacks eggs
from his burrow
They wrapped the
egg very carefully
and put it in a box
with a hot water
bottle
We also got to see inside Jack’s burrow
it was full of dry leaves and feathers.
The next day we saw a video of Audrie
taking Jacks eggs to the Rainbow
Springs hatchery in Rotorua where they
candled each egg and found only one of
the eggs was viable.
They took the photo of this kiwi that
had hatched in the morning.
The next day they went to Warrenheip
reserve, which is surrounded by a pest
proof fence. The rangers caught a
young kiwi called Cassidy for a health
check.
They showed us where Cassidy’s
ear opening is just behind her eye
They measured her bill and
weighed her.
Then they changed Cassidy’s
transmitter to her other leg.
We really enjoyed watching the videos
so we watched them again in our
classroom.
Throughout the week we received
emails and photos of Perky and we……..
sent him emails to tell him how much we
enjoyed getting the daily photos and
videos.
Reflection
What is the most significant
interesting thing you have
learnt?
We decided that one
way we could help the
Kiwi was by raising some
money for the Bank of
New Zealand operation
Nest Egg programme so…
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ul pic
au t if
w be
re
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se
to
Action
What have you learnt that you
can use in your everyday life ?
How can you apply this
knowledge in every day life
Every class in
the Kowhai team
put their art work
in the hall to sell
Room 2 Room 7
Room 1 Room 3
Room 5
Room 10
Room 6
We raised over $350 and
presented it to representatives
of the BNZ kiwi recovery trust.
Perky returned to
school on the last
day of the term.
We were pleased to
see him back.
We look forward to
sending him off on
another adventure
next year!
The end
Digital diary
using a blog
http://northcote3.blogspot.com
