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The Sky
Levels 1 and 2
NZC Achievement Objectives
Te Mātauranga o Aotearoa
Earth Science: Learn how volcanoes and earthquakes change the appearance of the landscape, particularly the effects on mountains and rivers.
Papatūānuku: Ka ako haere me pēhea te rū whenua me te puia e huri ai i te āhua o te takiwā, me ngā pānga ki te maunga, ki te awa hoki.
Learning Intentions
Integration Ideas
Learning Intentions are from the Ministry of Education
Integration ideas are from the Ministry of Education
Level 1
Share ideas about obvious features and patterns in the environment.
Students can make a model of their immediate local landscape and locate places of significance on it.
Students can suggest how their model of the landscape may be different to the landscape in the past
Level 2
Investigate obvious features and patterns in the environment and discuss how people affect them.
Students can explore local landscapes and environments and identify easily observable physical features.
Students can suggest some of the processes that slowly change landforms.
English (Reading and Viewing): Observe signs and symbols used to identify environmental features and discuss the way in which visual signs convey their meaning.
Related Topics
Resources
Air is invisible, and it can push things around. Air, like everything else in the universe that you can touch, is made up of molecules, tiny pieces of stuff.
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
A Wing and Some Air
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Air is invisible, and it can push things around. Air, like everything else in the universe that you can touch, is made up of molecules, tiny pieces of stuff.
Suzy visits the Queenstown Airport to find out what makes things fly. Maybe she'll find a way to help herself fly!
Level
1-2
Type
Video
Aerodynamics: What makes things fly?
Suzy's World
Suzy visits the Queenstown Airport to find out what makes things fly. Maybe she'll find a way to help herself fly!
When we measure atmospheric pressure, we’re measuring the weight of air above us. When the droplets stick together, we get rain or snow. We measure atmospheric pressure with an instrument called a “barometer”. Build your own!
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Barometer in a Bottle
Bill Nye The Science Guy
When we measure atmospheric pressure, we’re measuring the weight of air above us. When the droplets stick together, we get rain or snow. We measure atmospheric pressure with an instrument called a “barometer”. Build your own!
How climate change is affecting Canterbury is what this booklet is all about. We investigate what it will mean for you, your family and friends, and the natural environment.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity Book
Canterbury's Changing Climate: an educational resource for schools...
Environment Canterbury
How climate change is affecting Canterbury is what this booklet is all about. We investigate what it will mean for you, your family and friends, and the natural environment.
Changes to the land and sky occur all the time - what do you see from day to day? Observe and investigate the effects of human interaction on the school environment.
Level
1
Type
Unit
Changes all around
Primary Connections
Changes to the land and sky occur all the time - what do you see from day to day? Observe and investigate the effects of human interaction on the school environment.
Erosion is going on all day, all the time. It’s happening right now!
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkralMlDmSA
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Erosion
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Erosion is going on all day, all the time. It’s happening right now!
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkralMlDmSA
“Flight” is the very first Bill Nye the Science Guy episode in the series, and it’s where Bill Nye really took off… literally.
Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVPOTv1O7k&list=PLC1A0KOYvlM4Xqyn3GdQqjVm2-THJY-ZH
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Flight
Bill Nye The Science Guy
“Flight” is the very first Bill Nye the Science Guy episode in the series, and it’s where Bill Nye really took off… literally.
Link for video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJVPOTv1O7k&list=PLC1A0KOYvlM4Xqyn3GdQqjVm2-THJY-ZH
Watch Bill Nye go with the flow in the “Fluids” episode.
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtETy5eW1M
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Fluids
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Watch Bill Nye go with the flow in the “Fluids” episode.
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWtETy5eW1M
Make a barometer to measure changes in air pressure and help predict weather changes. How good will your weather predictions be?
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Make a Barometer
Science Kids
Make a barometer to measure changes in air pressure and help predict weather changes. How good will your weather predictions be?
Make your own paper helicopter and test it with a number of different challenges. Learn about important flight concepts and use those ideas to perfect your designs.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Make a Paper Helicopter
Science Kids
Make your own paper helicopter and test it with a number of different challenges. Learn about important flight concepts and use those ideas to perfect your designs.
Windy days are obvious but knowing the wind direction can be a little harder. Make your own weather vane to help solve this problem.
Level
1-4
Type
Experiment
Make a Wind Vane
Science Kids
Windy days are obvious but knowing the wind direction can be a little harder. Make your own weather vane to help solve this problem.
Learn more about the causes and effects of moisture with this fun lesson plan and activity. High levels of moisture aren't always easy to notice but if left unchecked they can have an impact on both your home and health.
Level
1-4
Type
Activity
Moisture
Science Kids
Learn more about the causes and effects of moisture with this fun lesson plan and activity. High levels of moisture aren't always easy to notice but if left unchecked they can have an impact on both your home and health.
Learn about why the Sun is so important. Investigate the Sun’s heat and light energy and how it influences people on Earth.
Level
1-2
Type
Lesson Plan
Our Amazing Sun
Genesis School-Gen
Learn about why the Sun is so important. Investigate the Sun’s heat and light energy and how it influences people on Earth.
This episode doesn’t stink, even though it’s about pollution.
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3kjFRLpWs
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Pollution
Bill Nye The Science Guy
This episode doesn’t stink, even though it’s about pollution.
Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h3kjFRLpWs
This activity encourages the students to learn about the data coming from the solar panels and how weather and season influences their performance. The data tells the students how much electricity the solar panels are generating.
Level
1-2
Type
Lesson Plan
Solar Data – what can it show us?
Genesis School-Gen
This activity encourages the students to learn about the data coming from the solar panels and how weather and season influences their performance. The data tells the students how much electricity the solar panels are generating.
Because children can easily observe the changes that occur during spring (such as trees blossoming, baby animals being born, and bulbs flowering), this season has been chosen as the topic of this book.
Level
1-2
Type
Activity Book
Spring: Observing Seasonal Changes
Ministry of Education NZ
Because children can easily observe the changes that occur during spring (such as trees blossoming, baby animals being born, and bulbs flowering), this season has been chosen as the topic of this book.
Bill’s grabbing his galoshes and his slicker to weather the “Storms” episode.
Link to video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill%20Nye%20Storms/1_kbogvt51
Level
1-4
Type
Video
Storms
Bill Nye The Science Guy
Bill’s grabbing his galoshes and his slicker to weather the “Storms” episode.
Link to video: https://www.schooltube.com/media/Bill%20Nye%20Storms/1_kbogvt51
Curriculum resources to promote deep learning based around safe travel, citizenship and big events.