| Approach:
One to
One |
Level:
Year 4
& year 8 |
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| Resources:
Photographs: Abbotsford
landslip showing wrecked houses, coastline showing erosion; cartoons:
Bogor, Footrot Flats; OHP mylar sheet; red pencil; pencil. |
| Questions
/ instructions:
This activity is about changes
that happen to the land. Some changes happen over a very very long time,
while others can happen more quickly. In this activity we'll look at
some pictures and cartoons. |
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responses |
| y4 |
| Show
picture of landslide at Abbotsford.
1. This picture shows a terrible disaster.
What do you think might have caused this to happen?
Landslide
Earthquake
Wind/rain/flooding |
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| Note:
The question directed attention to causes rather than what happened.
The responses reflect this. |
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Show Burton Silver's Bogor cartoon.
2. Bogor has been very busy cutting down all of the trees on the forest
hills.
All we can see now are the shapes of the hills and
the tree stumps.
What are the changes that could happen, now that
all of the trees have gone?
Prompt: What do you think would happen if it rained
hard for days and days?
Good
or partially appropriate ideas/explanations |
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| Show
Murray Ball's Footrot Flats cartoon.
3. Wal is a farmer. A big crack has opened up on the hillside of his
farm.
Why do you think this big crack happened?
landslide
earthquake
wind/rain |
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57
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| 4.
What do you think Wal could do to stop any more cracks happening on
his farm in the future?
Good
or partially appropriate ideas/explanations |
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| Show
coastline erosion photograph.
This picture shows part of a coastline. You will notice that the coastline
has a shape.
We can easily trace that shape onto a piece of paper.
Teacher traces
the coastline onto tracing paper with (grey) pencil.
Over thousands of years, the coastline would have changed its shape.
It would have been a different shape a long long time ago. They didn't
take photos thousands of years ago, so we don't know exactly what the
shape would have been. In the future the shape of this coastline will
keep on changing. In thousands of years time, the shape of the coastline
will be different from now. We don't know exactly what it will be like
then, but it is interesting to think about what it MIGHT be like.
I would like you
to have a go at drawing what you think it might be like thousands of
years from now. |
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Student draws shape with red pencil.
5. Can you explain to me why you decided to draw the coastline like
that?
Prompt: What would have caused the land
to change its shape?
Good
or partially appropriate ideas/explanations |
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