Oil Free Aotearoa/Teaching and learning plans
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Teaching Plan
Goals
Students will:
- Learn about deep sea oil drilling off the coast of NZ
- Understand the possible consequences of deep sea oil drilling on
- People and environment
- Climate change
- New Zealander's right to protest
- Plan for a future based on clean energy
- Be able to express an informed opinion based on their learning
NZ Curriculum Objectives:
Social Science - Level 3
- Understand how groups make and implement rules and laws
- Oil Free Otago, DCC, Chamber of Commerce, parliament re deep sea oil drilling
- Understand how people view and use places differently
- Tangata whenua, locals, visitors, council, government and corporations
- Context of using our coastline
- Tangata whenua, locals, visitors, council, government and corporations
- Understand how people make decisions about access to and use of resources
- Tangata whenua, locals, visitors, council, government and corporations
Science - Level 3 Nature of Science - Participating and contributing
- Students to use their growing science knowledge when considering issues of concern to them.
- Explore various aspects of an issue and make decisions about possible actions.
- Ecology - explain how living things are suited to their particular habitat and how they respond to environmental changes, both natural and human-induced.
Activities:
View and respond
- Prime Minister John Key talking about mineral exploration
- Discuss what this means for NZ, Dunedin and for ourselves
- Oil Free Otago - local perspective
- Stopping at the end of each speaker to recap themes
- Discuss where oil comes from and what it is needed for - historic/future
- Types of oils - vegetable etc
- Determine what individuals believe the aim of "Oil Free Otago" is
- Brainstorm and partner activities - public transport, bicycles
- Mix and mash simple but modern technology - electric bikes, dog drawn buggies
- An eyewitness to the Gulf of Mexico disaster
- Discuss content during viewing
- Create a word bank in response to images and commentary
- Select a word from list to write as a heading that captures the essence of the video
Identifying local flora and fauna
- Linking students to their immediate surroundings
- Take students on a bird spotting expedition
- Create a local bird spotting guide
- Aimed at children from 2+
- Images are Creative Commons licenced then digitally altered via Gimp
- Aimed at children from 2+
- Blueskin Bay Birds
- NZ Science Hub Flight of the Godwit
- What does the Godwit eat?
- National Geographic - Ocean Acidification
- How could ocean acidification effect the Godwit's food supply and its ability to migrate?
Environmental Action
- Beach clean-up to allow for familiarisation of the coastal environment
- Collecting rubbish and then sorting into categories:
- Washed up etc
- Plastic etc
- Potential hazard to animals, environment
- Use of beach by ancestors - kai moana, seaweed storage bags, recreational etc
- Viewing and discussing habitats of birds - dead and alive
- Discuss range and food supply
- Migration v permanent residents
- Reasons for finding dead bird/s
NOW WHAT?
Social Activism
- Tatarakihi - The Children of Parihaka (3min)
- Use this as a starter to finding out about
- Parihaka - past and present
- Te Whiti o Rongomai and Tohu Kakahi and their nonviolent resistance
- Women suffragettes
- Springbok Tour - Flour Power
- Flour Bombs on Eden Park
- Why did these protesters try to stop rugby games?
- Many of the protesters were arrested, were they criminals?
- Who blew up the Rainbow Warrior?
- Why was the Rainbow Warrior blown up
Compared with
- Get Free - NZers speaking out about climate action
- Why are these people putting their reputation "on the line"?
- What have these people achieved for NZers?
- Martin Luther king
- Nelson Mandela
- Gay rights activists
- Animal rights campaigners
Kaikoura Class Rap - No drill no spill
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