Nature / Pre- Knowing / Knowing / Understanding / Applying / Analysing / Creating / Evaluating
Verbal – I enjoy reading, writing and speaking /
  1. Explore weather and natural disasters at
Add your info to the Blog / 2. Make a poster of what items can and cannot be recycled. / 3. Compile a glossary of weather related terms. / 4. Write a brief description of diff cloud formations & forms of precipitation.
(Attribute Listing) / 5. Make a Photo Story3 about how pollution effects environments
(Skills of Search) / 6. Write a description of an imaginary land describing its latitude and longitude, geographical layout, climate , plants and animals / 7. Use an ARC to show how environments are destroyed.
(Evaluative Situations)
Mathematical – I enjoy working with numbers & science / 8.Watch Robbie the Raindrop and list the parts of a water cycle / 9.Choose a weather phenomenon or a natural disaster or weather instrument and explain how it works.
(Attribute Listing) / 10. Classify animals from a continent as birds, fish amphibians, mammals or reptiles / 11.Use a timeline to show how Franz Josef GLACIER in New Zealand has changed over time / 12.Draw a labelled diagram to show the levels of the atmosphere.
Explain what happens in each level / 13. Prepare flowcharts showing how human activity impacts on the environment
(Adjustment to Development)
Kinaesthetic – I enjoy doing hands-on activities / 14. Draw a picture to show the changes that occur when habitats are destroyed by natural disasters / 15. Survey at least 6 people to find out what environmental issues they know about (what things are damaging the environment?) / 16. Make a cloud, rainbow, tornado or raindrop
Write up the experiments using the proforma provided. / 17. Choose at least one other activity from
Write up the experiments using the proforma provided. / 18. Make new paper from paper that has been used for other purposes. / 19. Use a Venn Diag to compare & contrast your paper and the paper initially used including texture, colour, appearance, ease of use.
Interpersonal – I enjoy working with others / 1a. What is extinction, what are endangered animals? / 20. With a partner list renewable energy sources. / 21. In pairs, draw a concept map to show the food chain of a ecosystem / 22. Write a list of facts and opinions about the impact of global warming / 23. Research extinct animals from one continent and make a one slide power point presentation / 24As a group, create and present a commercial to convince people to recycle.
(Assessment Task) / 25. Create a table to show environmental & other advantages / disadvantages of using renewable energy sources
Intrapersonal – I enjoy working by myself / 26. Brainstorm what you can do to stop a species becoming extinct / 27. Visualise yourself as an endangered animal. Use anX chart to tell what it is like
(Visualisation Skills) / 28. Prepare a journal describing your life as a raindrop / tornado.
(Creative writing skills) / 29.Choose a habitat, and describe how it has changed in the last 100 years.
(Examples of Change) / 30.Research what happens when an animal is taken out of a food chain & present to class
(Evaluative Situations) / 31. Use an ARC to show how animals become extinct
(Evaluative Situations)
Naturalist – I enjoy caring for plants and animals / 32. List disasters caused by weather. / 33. Explain how Global warming contributes to natural disasters
(Examples of Change) / 34. Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast plant /animal life in different climates / environments / 35. Investigate animal behaviours as a prediction to changes in weather. / 36. Create a list of the types of plants and animals that could live in your land from activity 6. / 37. TAP
How might my life be different in a warmer world?
Show in a mind map/power point presentation/ cartoon etcEvaluative situations
Visual/Spatial- I enjoy painting, drawing & visualising / 38.Make a nature mural on the back wall / 39. Copy and label a diagram of the water cycle – link to activity 8 / 40. Make an nature collage / 41. Look at a picture from “Jungle Drums” – select a small part of this and use the grid to enlarge that part.
(Assessment Task) / 42.Make creatures using heads or faces from magazines. Then draw the environment where they live / 43.Create 2 backgrounds– one hot and one cold – then add animals and plants to each to create a landscape scene / 44. Choose an artist who draws/paints pictures of nature – use the proforma to evaluate this artist
(Skills of Search)
Musical- I enjoy making and listening to music / 45.Use percussion instruments to show understanding of rhythm, tempo, and beat / 46. Discuss group work and dynamics, focus on the need for co-operation, negotiation, patience and tolerance. / 47.In groups of 4 create a piece of music to represent some part of nature / 48.Create symbols to record your group’s music from 47. / 49.Select / organise a list of songs about nature / 50. Create and perform a 1 min rap about a natural disaster
(Assessment Task) / 51Use a rubric to evaluate other people’s raps
(Evaluations)

COGS Timetable

Week / Monday / Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
1 / Introduction / 1 - Explore weather / 2 – Imaginary Land
2 / 8 & 39 – Robbie the Raindrop & water cycle / 16 - Experiments / Free choice / 16 - writing up experiments
3 / 18 & 19 – making paper / 27 – Visualising – endangered animal / Free Choice / 33 – Global warming
4 / 41 – Picture Enlarging / 45 – Percussion instruments / Free Choice / 46 & 47 – group work to create a piece of music
5 / 48 – musical symbols / 50. – Rap - creating / Free Choice / 50 & 51 – presenting & evaluating raps
6 / 50 & 51 – presenting & evaluating raps / 11 – Franz Josef Glaciers / Free Choice / 24 Recycling commercial - Planning
7 / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
or
Free Choice
8 / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
or
Free Choice
9 / 4324 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice / 24 - Recycling – filming
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Free Choice
10 / Present Commercials / Present Commercials / Free choice / Present Commercials
  1. Explore weather and natural disasters at Add your info to the wiki
  • Logon to the internet and go to
  • Choose a topic from the list on the left hand side:
  • Hurricane
  • Tornadoes
  • Winter storms
  • Clouds
  • Rain & floods
  • Thunderstorms
  • Lightening
  • Wind
  • Temp
  • Wildfires
  • Earthquakes
  • Volcanoes
  • Climate

Read the information and add information to our class wiki.

6. Write a description of an imaginary land describing its latitude and longitude, geographical layout, climate, plants and animals

Name of your land
Longitude
Latitude
Geographical Layout (Mountains, rivers, beaches, ....make sure it matches your latitude and longitude)
Climate (make sure it matches your longitude and latitude and geographical features)
Plants – (match your climate, features, longitude and latitude)
Animals – (match your climate, features, longitude and latitude)

8. Watch Robbie the Raindrop39. Label a copy of the water cycle

Use the terms on the following page to label the diagram

Water Cycle:

Accumulation - the process in which water pools in large bodies (like oceans, seas and lakes).

Condensation - the process in which water vapor (a gas) in the air turns into liquid water. Condensing water forms clouds in the sky. Water drops that form on the outside of a glass of icy water are condensed water. (This term appears twice in the diagram).

Evaporation - the process in which liquid water becomes water vapor (a gas). Water vaporizes from the surfaces of oceans and lakes, from the surface of the land, and from melts in snow fields.

Precipitation - the process in which water (in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail) falls from clouds in the sky.

Subsurface Runoff - rain, snow melt, or other water that flows in underground streams, drains, or sewers.

Surface Runoff - rain, snow melt, or other water that flows in surface streams, rivers, or canals.

Transpiration - the process in which some water within plants evaporates into the atmosphere. Water is first absorbed by the plant's roots, then later exits by evaporating through pores in the plant.

16. Make a cloud, rainbow, tornado or raindrop Write up the experiments using the proforma provided.

Experiment Title:
Aim of the experiment
Materials
Procedure
Observations
Explanation

16. Make a cloud, rainbow, tornado or raindrop Write up the experiments using the proforma provided.

Experiment Title:
Aim of the experiment
Materials
Procedure
Observations
Explanation

16. Make a cloud, rainbow, tornado or raindrop Write up the experiments using the proforma provided.

Experiment Title:
Aim of the experiment
Materials
Procedure
Observations
Explanation

18.Making Paper

Aim: To make recycled paper from newspaper

Materials

  • Used paper
  • Screen on a frame
  • Tub or bucket
  • Blender or hand mixer
  • Water
  • Old newspapers
  • rolling pin,
  • Sponge

Procedure:

  1. Tear paper into 2cm squares. Soak in water several hours or overnight.
  2. Scoop out 1/2-cup of paper and put into blender, add about two cups water from the soaking container.
  3. Blend about 30 seconds - Blending breaks the paper into pulp.
  4. Over a sink, pour the pulp onto the screen and let the water drain out.
  5. Place a layer of newspaper over the pulp and gently press out the excess water.
  6. Turn the screen and newspaper over (so the newspaper is at the bottom) and set it on a table (cover the table first!).
  7. Carefully lift the screen off the paper.
  8. Place another layer of newspaper onto the wet paper and gently press out more water.
  9. Turn it over and remove the layer of newspaper & add a new dry piece – press out more water. Repeat this step a few times.
  10. Gently peel off the newspaper.
  11. Place the paper you have made on dry piece of newspaper
  12. Use a rolling pin to help flatten or press the paper.
  13. Dry overnight.

19. Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast the texture, colour, appearance, ease of use of a normal price of paper and your paper.

27.Visualise yourself as an endangered animal. Use an X chart to tell what it is like

Feels Like

Sounds likeSmells like

Looks like
33.Explain how Global warming contributes to natural disasters

Natural Disaster / How Global warming makes this happen?

41.Look at a picture from “Jungle Drums” – select a small part of this and use the grid to enlarge that part.

44. Choose an artist who draws/paints pictures of nature – use the proforma to evaluate this artist

Artist Evaluation
Name of Artist
Why did you choose this artist?
When and Where did this artist live?
Choose one painting by this artist that you like. What do you like about it?
What contribution do you think the artist made to Visual Arts?

11. Use a timeline to show how Franz Josef GLACIER in New Zealand has changed over time

47. In groups of 4 create a piece of music to represent some part of nature

48. Create symbols to record your group’s music from 47.