You can contact LEARNZ, part of CORE Education, at:
Postal Address:
PO Box 13 678,
Christchurch 8141,
New Zealand
Resources
Teachers, did you make your own unit or activity or lesson plan for this field trip? If so please email it to us and we will add it to this section.
Teacher PLD
- Watch the recorded web conference PLD for this field trip at http://connect.vln.school.nz/p33npa5jme5/
Student self assessments
Your students can complete the online pre-test and post-test student self-assessment forms for this field trip. Once completed you can email barrie.matthews@core-ed.org to have your class submissions extracted and emailed to you. It's OK if just some of your students have filled them in or if they have submitted either self assessment rather than both.
Contributions
- Generic Planning Sequence for a LEARNZ virtual field trip - Word (610k) | PDF (233k) | Google doc.
- EPIC: Through EPIC The Ministry of Education has paid a subscription on behalf of all registered New Zealand schools to access a range of quality, educational e-resources. For information about how to register with EPIC go to http://www.epic.org.nz/. More information is at https://www.tki.org.nz/epic2. If you are unsure if your school is registered ask your librarian or principal.
- Video question sheet - Word (31k) | PDF (217k) | Google doc to use for each video (based on SOLO Taxonomy).
- Audio activity: Students can work on this activity while they listen to live or recorded audioconferences - Word (25k) | PDF (167k) | Google Doc. Notes from these pages could be shared to help put together the class audioconference summary
- Do a class audioconference summary. Making a class summary of an audioconference is a great way of reviewing the information your students heard. It's easy to do, purely as some text, or as main facts on a picture background. Feel free to use the audioconference summary sheet - Word (29k) | PDF (114k) | Google doc. We'd love to share your ideas so please send your class summary to shelley.hersey@core-ed.org.
- Remember you can listen to the enhanced audioconferences again from the audio recordings if you want to gather more information.
NCEA Resources
- Check out this NCEA Internal Assessment Resource for Geography Level 1 'Applying Spatial Analysis, with direction, to solve a geographic problem using ArcGIS Online'
Downloads
- Get ready with this household emergency plan - PDF (120k)
Activity Answers
Links
- Watch the Drilling into the Alpine Fault video
- Watch the Earthquake and Faultline Model - Caro Begg demonstrates how to make a simple mechanical model to simulate faults, earthquakes and aftershocks.
- Visit the Earthquake Commission's Educational Site to find out how to prepare for natural hazards
- Visit the Civil Defence 'Tsunami - When Minutes Count' page
- Play the disaster simulation game
- Check out all the material on the Science Learning Hub website
- Find out about landslides on the EQC Landslide page
- Go to the Civil Defence page on landslides
- Watch this clip about the theory of Plate Tectonics from the Discovery Channel Preview Videos
- The GNS Science site has links for educators and students and a wealth of information
- Check recent earthquakes and volcano alert levels and when and where the latest earthquake occurred on the GeoNet website
- Try the 'Beat the Quake' interactive game
- Take a look at the Civil Defence site "What's the Plan Stan" to see if you are ready to survive an earthquake
- Check out the learning resources and interactive game "Awesome Forces" on the Te Papa website
- Go to the Earth Learning Ideas website for the latest earthquake, volcano, tsunami and landslide activities
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