Townsend Fields Reserve by Sarah Lafleur

Townsend Fields Reserve by Sarah Lafleur https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve en-us 2023-09-25 19:58:50 UTC 2023-10-07 21:50:38 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/2154206168/6dd83c1b4c0c12477a88e24a130418f9/lake_clipart_md.png Townsend Fields Development History 🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720037990 The link above provides some background information about the development of the Townsend Reserve and residential building project.

Below is a link to the engineers of the Townsend Fields Reserve. It briefly provides an overview of the project challenge and solution with some beautiful photography to give a snapshot of what has been created. https://www.eliotsinclair.co.nz/projects/townsend-fields-2

This is another interesting article about the development. This could also be used when linking in to the Global Sustainable Development Goals of 6.Clean Water and Sanitation and 11. Sustainable Cities and Communities. https://townsendfields.co.nz/townsend-fields-nominated-for-environmental-step-change-award/]]> 2023-09-25 21:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720037990 How to get to Townsend Fields Reserve slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720060767 This map plots the safest and quickest route for students at Te Matauru Primary and the Maukatere Centre to access the reserve. There is an entrance off Townsend Road but as this is a busy road it is probably safer to use Angus Place.]]> 2023-09-25 22:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720060767 Ruataniwha/Cam River Topographical Map 🗺️🔍 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720064862 The green marker on the topographical map of the Cam river marks the Townsend Fields Reserve. It shows the contributory waterways to the river and the location of the reserve in relation to the South Brook arm of the Ruataniwha. Once you open the link just click on the map and it becomes interactive.

Great to use this with making meaning of the Kaiapoi Catchment Topographical Map and creating meaning in the 'Catchment Collage Creations' Learning Experience.]]> 2023-09-25 22:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720064862 Waitaha Wai - The Kaiapoi Catchment 🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720076174 This is an incredibly useful resource which details the Natural History of the Catchment, The Maori History, European History, The Ecology of the catchment, the state of the contributory streams and main waterways as well as how the catchment is managed.]]> 2023-09-25 22:56:42 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720076174 Puketeraki Kāhui Ako Localised Curriculum Project - Manu 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720089719 This resource was a collaboratively constructed resource by the Puketeraki Kāhui Ako Within School Lead teachers and in partnership with Mātauraka Mahaanui. It provides information, resource links and activity ideas for all the manu found in our area. It is hoped that by using this resource, all the students in the Kāhui Ako gain a sense of belonging (tūrangawaewae) and develop understandings about the uniqueness of our special place in the world. It would be advantageous to make a set of ID cards as field trip guides to help students with identification.]]> 2023-09-25 23:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720089719 Puketeraki Kāhui Ako Localised Curriculum Project - Trees 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720092082 In addition to the Manu resource the Puketeraki Kāhui Ako Within School Lead teachers and in partnership with Mātauraka Mahaanui also collaborated on this Trees of the Puketeraki Kāhui Ako resource. It also provides information, resource links and activity ideas for all the trees and plants found in our area. It would be advantageous to make a set of ID cards as field trip guides to help students with identification.]]> 2023-09-25 23:22:35 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720092082 Build a Model of the Kaiapoi Water Catchment 💦🪣🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720116439 This Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths Learning Experience could either be conducted by small groups of 2-3 or as a whole class.
Using a range of different materials, students design and build a model water catchment. There are a couple of examples in the resource section of this padlet on what resources you might need to source prior to the students building a catchment and you will need to use the students 'Catchment Collage Creations' from their understandings of the topographical map of the Kaiapoi Catchment to identify the mountains, hills and flat areas relevant to the Kaiapoi Catchment.

Key features to have in their water catchment models are
● The Puketeraki Mountain Ranges from Mt Oxford through to Maukatere

● The Rakahuri, Ruataniwha and Waimakariri rivers and main contributory streams and the connections between them as well as how they enter the ocean at the mouth of the Waimakariri river

● Undulations in the land such as the Cust plateau and the Oxford Plateau.

This Learning Experiences focuses on the Big Question of

In what ways is the Townsend Fields Reserve part of the Kaiapoi Catchment? (location, indigenous species, movement of water, wastewater)

(see Planning for STEM Learning Experiences at Townsend Fields Reserve, Google Slideshow, Slide 4 on the Padlet)

Links to the Learning Outcomes:
SCIENCE Investigating in science

Design and create a simple model of a water catchment, ask questions, make comparisons, identify similarities and differences explanations between their model and the Townsend Field Reserve to explain how Townsend Fields Reserve works as a water catchment and contributes to the Kaiapoi Catchment
Identify why scientists use models

Earth systems:

Discuss the role of mountains, hills, valleys and flat areas in water flow
Observe and compare slope steepness and velocity of water flow
Observe and discuss the role of tributaries to larger streams and rivers
Observe and discuss the connections between surface water systems - streams, rivers, lakes.

Interacting systems:

Understand the Earth has a limited amount of freshwater which is continuously recycled
Know water goes through physical changes as it moves through the water cycle. The changes are powered by heat from the sun
Know that river catchments are part of the water cycle
Understand that natural features can be changed by human activity
Understand that Earth’s resources are affected by human activity

TECHNOLOGY Technological Knowledge: Technological modelling - Students will: Understand how different forms of functional modelling are used to explore possibilities and to justify decision making and how prototyping can be used to justify refinement of technological outcomes
Nature of Technology: Characteristics of technology - Students will: Understand how society and environments impact on and are influenced by technology in historical and contemporary contexts and that technological knowledge is validated by successful function. understand how different forms of functional modelling are used to explore possibilities and to justify decision making and how prototyping can be used to justify refinement of technological outcomes.
MATHS Position and orientation

Identify coordinates of the Kaiapoi Catchment and Townsend Fields Reserve with the relevant grid references.
Identify main landforms (mountains, rivers, undulations, streams,) on a topographical map of the Kaiapoi Catchment and their location in terms of direction and distance.

Aotearoa New Zealand Natural Histories

KNOW

Know how the Kaiapoi Catchment contributes to Maori interconnectedness to the natural world.
Know the significance of the Kaiapoi Catchment to Ngai Tuahuriri.

]]> 2023-09-25 23:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720116439 What is Water Catchment? 💦🪣🖼️🖌️🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720125667 This is a great website to explore water catchments in Aotearoa New Zealand. There is lots of useful information and videos explaining how a water catchment is shaped and formed.]]> 2023-09-26 00:03:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720125667 What happens to Wastewater once it leaves our homes. 💧🚰🏗️👷 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720163644 Although this clip focuses on the wastewater of Auckland, it shows the processes of how a wastewater management system works. As it is from New Zealand it is a great source of reference for students to make sense of the how the wastewater plant at Townsend Fields Reserve works.]]> 2023-09-26 00:36:12 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720163644 The Kids Should See This! Waste Water Treatment Facility 💧🚰🏗️👷 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720178109 This is a fascinating and entertaining YouTube clip about a large scale Wastewater Treatment System. Links can be made to the Wastewater Treatment System at Townsend Fields as many of the systems and processes are similar.]]> 2023-09-26 00:45:07 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720178109 More complex Water Filtration/Mini Wastewater Treatment Activity 💧🚰 🏗️👷 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720179969 This is a more complex model of a filtration project. Great to use if you are needing to differentiate the learning experience of designing and building a water filtration system for more advanced learners. It is also I great resource to go through prior to the learning experience as it gives you lots of food for thought.]]> 2023-09-26 00:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2720179969 Topographic map reading guide 🗺️🔍 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2723725806 This resource is very comprehensive and detailed but pages 10-19 are particulary useful for educator background knowledge and or use with learners. It helps with developing understanding about, distance, direction, coordinates, orientation, symbols and contour lines.

LEARNZ is also a great 'go to' website when taking students on learning adventures. This page has some great ideas and information about learning how to read and use Topographical Maps. https://learnz.org.nz/highcountry152/bg-standard-f/topographic-maps]]> 2023-09-27 20:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2723725806 Putting the Wai in our Water 💧🚰🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2723866421 I have used the Maukatere Design Process to make a Google Slideshow that could be used with students. I found that teasing out this activity was a really useful task to think through the discipline of Engineering and Technology and how making a water filtration system could be a transdisciplinary approach to all STEM disciplines. It also gave me an idea of what it might ‘look’ at the Maukatere Centre.

Through the learning experience, students follow a process of Ask, Imagine, Create and Improve. Transdisciplinary links are made in the notes section at the bottom of each slide indicating possible across curriculum achievement objectives and progressions for Science, Technology, Mathematics and Statistics. In addition to this, Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum links have been added. I have added all possible links to the achievement objectives and progressions so that who ever is teaching this learning experience can pick and choose the ones that fit best at whatever stage of the design process the students are.

This Learning Experience focuses on the Big Questions of

How does the human activity of creating wastewater impact on our environment, now and in the past?
How does a residential area co-exist with a biodiverse ecosystem at Townsend Fields Development?

(see Planning for STEM Learning Experiences at Townsend Fields Reserve, Google Slideshow, Slide 4 on the Padlet).

Links to the Learning Outcomes are made throughout the Learning Experience in the notes section of each slide. Just click on the doc at the top.

]]> 2023-09-27 23:36:36 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2723866421 Townsend Fields Reserve STEM Brain Mapping slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726538280 This Google Slideshow outlines my planning and thinking behind the resource selection and the learning experiences development. It provides an overview of the Big Ideas, Big Questions as well as curriculum links, achievement objectives, progressions and possible Learning Outcomes.]]> 2023-09-29 20:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726538280 Taonga at Townsend Fields Reserve 🗺️🔍🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726556463 I have made this Maths and Science learning experience for students to follow on from the Map Mysteries activity in the resource section. This learning experience focuses on the Big Questions of

What indigenous species of flora and fauna live at the Townsend Fields Reserve?
How does Townsend Fields Reserve represent how the area might have looked in the past - what is the same, what is different (the water, the land, the flora and fauna)

(see Planning for STEM Learning Experiences at Townsend Fields Reserve, Google Slideshow, Slide 4 on the Padlet).

Students use a map of Townsend Fields Reserve to plot the flora and fauna as they discover its location. The students use the table to record their findings.

Follow up activities could include students comparing their findings and making a whole class map of the area with numbers of each species in each location, facts, pictures.

Note that this activity is on Slides 1-4. Slide 5 is a graphing activity for the next Learning Experience 'How Many Manu?'

Links to the Learning Outcomes are made throughout the Learning Experience in the notes section of each slide. Just click on the doc at the top.

]]> 2023-09-29 21:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726556463 Simple Water Filtration Activity 💧🚰 🏗️👷 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726571459 If you are needing to differentiate the learning experience of designing and building a water filtration system this is a simple model to follow. A great starting point to get your head around what might be involved.]]> 2023-09-29 21:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726571459 River Ecosystems 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726590030 This is an outstanding resource that compliments the STEM learning environment of Townsend Fields Reserve beautifully. At the bottom of the page are a plethora of resources for educators - videos, learning activities, fact sheets, identification charts. You name, it's there. What a find!!]]> 2023-09-29 22:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726590030 How to study Macroinvertebrates in a Muddy Bottom Stream 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726591252 This clip shows scientists collecting Macroinvertebrates for study. It is very useful as it demonstrates the 'best practice' for collecting living creatures in an environment that features a muddy bottom just like the Townsend Field Reserve.]]> 2023-09-29 22:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726591252 NIWA Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726597780 This is a really useful field guide to help you are the students with identification. It features step by step cards and a macroinvertebrate community health guide. From Page 26 you will find some step by step identification cards. It would be great to laminate the identification these to have them with us on our field study.]]> 2023-09-29 22:34:11 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2726597780 Guide for Identifying Native Birds/Manu 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732634075 This guide helps students to identify the names of the birds they might discover at Townsend Field Reserve. It is a tick box and go to next screen so it is really easy to navigate.

This is another really useful link to help students with how to makes identifications. https://www.forestandbird.org.nz/resources/how-identify-new-zealand-birds]]> 2023-10-04 18:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732634075 Everything River 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732763173 If you scroll to the bottom of this page you will find a plethora of activities that relate to STEM learning experiences in a river environment. This is a fantastic resource to support learning in the Townsend Fields Reserve.]]> 2023-10-04 20:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732763173 How to build a Water Catchment 💦🪣🖼️🖌️🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732775911 This link take you to a really useful web page that details everything you need to know about building a model Water Catchment with students. If you scroll to the bottom of the page you will find a docx detailing the process of building the model with lots discussion questions to promote further inquiry. ]]> 2023-10-04 21:11:08 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732775911 Building a catchment and exploring water quality 💦🪣🖼️🖌️🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732808317 This is a 2 minute video that demonstrates how to make a simple catchment and some ideas for how to play with heights of land forms and the impacts of this on soil.]]> 2023-10-04 21:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732808317 Water Catchment Explained 💦🪣🖼️🖌️🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732813219 This little clip is really entertaining to watch. Its quick, about a minute and a half and breaks down what a catchment is in terms of its interconnectivity with the natural world.]]> 2023-10-04 22:05:36 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732813219 Kaiapoi Catchment Collage Creations 🖼️🖌️🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732828006 In this Science, Art and Maths Learning Experience, Students engage with the Topographic Map of the Kaiapoi Catchment and make meaning of distance, direction, coordinates, orientation, symbols and contour lines by creating meaning by making 'Catchment Collage Creations'

Students will need a range of materials, corrugated cardboard, string, rope, anything and everything you can get your hands on to create contour.

Students will select and use a range of different materials to create a collage that tells the story of the Kaiapoi Catchment using the Kaiapoi Topographic Map as stimulus to identify the landforms and features unique to the area. By making a collage, the students will start to think about the 3 dimensional elements of a topographic map and how to interpret what they see in symbols and lines into what it might look like in a real life context.

The Learning Experience will provide the background knowledge for the 'Build a Model of the Kaiapoi Catchment' learning experience so the students will need to include
● The Puketeraki Mountain Ranges from Mt Oxford through to Maukatere

● The Rakahuri, Ruataniwha and Waimakariri rivers and main contributory streams and the connections between them as well as how they enter the ocean at the mouth of the Waimakariri river

● Undulations in the land such as the Cust plateau and the Oxford Plateau and
● Townships
An inital sketch of the key features of the topographic map will provide a 'draft/template' for them to build their collages on.

This Learning Experience focuses on the Big Questions of

In what ways is the Townsend Fields Reserve part of the Kaiapoi Catchment? (location, indigenous species, movement of water, wastewater)
How does Townsend Fields Reserve represent how the area might have looked in the past - what is the same, what is different (the water, the land, the flora and fauna)

Links to the Learning Outcomes:
MATHS Position and orientation

Identify main landforms (mountains, rivers, undulations, streams,) on a topographical map of the Kaiapoi Catchment and their location in terms of direction and distance.

THE ARTS - Visual Art
Select and use a range of different materials to create a collage that tells the story of the Kaiapoi Catchment using the Kaiapoi Topographic Map as stimulus to identify landforms and features unique to the area.

SCIENCE - Earth systems:
Discuss the role of mountains, hills, valleys and flat areas in water flow
Observe and compare slope steepness and velocity of water flow
Observe and discuss the role of tributaries to larger streams and rivers
Observe and discuss the connections between surface water systems - streams, rivers, lakes.

]]> 2023-10-04 22:29:41 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732828006 Colonial History of Townsend Farm 🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732938248 This link takes you to information about James Townsend who farmed the land in 1856 that is now the Townsend Fields development.]]> 2023-10-05 00:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732938248 The Kaiapoi Catchment Artefact Project - Google Earth 🌏💫🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732959499 In this learning activity, students will be exploring Technology, Science and Aotearoa New Zealand Histories Curriculum areas.

This project is a student collaboration learning experience that explores features of the Kaiapoi Catchment, it's history, ecology and cultural significance.
Places of significance have been identified and students in small teams of 2 or 3, populate each 'place of interest' with visual information, creating living 'artefacts' and culminating in an interactive natural history resource to be explored by students now and in the future. This activity can also be done by individuals who like to work by themselves.

This is a research based project so developing rich information gathering questioning techniques beforehand would be a great way to link in some literacy skills such as using a range of subject specific vocabulary to ask google a question that will give relevant and accurate information.

This project involves sharing the google earth project with the students. The students need to have editing rights to the project and can choose a 'place of interest' to create their artefact which will appear as a 'small card' each time the 'place of interest' is clicked on. They can populate the 'place of interest' with links, pictures, facts and information.

It would be beneficial to discuss the 'copy and paste no no' and how to write in our own words when using information off the internet. Also how to give credit to when using photos and pictures. Lots of room with this activity to explore digital citzenship.

The Google Earth project at the top is an example of how I would start. I have added some 'places of interest' to get the ball rolling and have begun to populate the first few to give students an idea of what to do. Students may need to add more 'places of interest' as they go, or as they find new information. Once the project is opened, go to the 'Slideshow' feature to explore.

Key Resources for this learning experience are the Waitaha Wai - The Kaiapoi Catchment resource and the Google Earth HelpLink. Both of these resources can be found in the resources section above.

This Learning Experience focuses on the Big Questions of

How did Ngai Tuāhuriri use the Kaiapoi Catchment prior to colonisation?
How did the effects of colonisation, agriculture and townships impact on the land that is now Townsend Fields Reserve?
In what ways is the Townsend Fields Reserve part of the Kaiapoi Catchment? (location, indigenous species, movement of water, wastewater)
How does Townsend Fields Reserve represent how the area might have looked in the past - what is the same, what is different (the water, the land, the flora and fauna)? (see Planning for STEM Learning Experiences at Townsend Fields Reserve, Google Slideshow, Slide 4 on the Padlet).

Links to the Learning Outcomes are made throughout the Learning Experience. Just click on the project at the top.

]]> 2023-10-05 00:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2732959499 Google Earth Project Help 🌏💫 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2733015664 This is a go to place when you need help with creating a Google Earth project. There are lots of easy to follow hints and suggestions making using google earth a really easy and engaging project to do with students.

The Google Earth Education Site also has lots of handy hints and examples to explore and support the STEM Learning Experience.
https://www.google.com/earth/education/resources/

]]> 2023-10-05 01:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2733015664 How many Manu? 📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2733193917 In this Maths, Science and Digital Technologies learning experience, students will explore using the data that they have collected in the table for the Taonga Treasure Hunt to make strip graphs and compare their findings between two times of the day, morning and afternoon.

This google sheet shows how data can be entered to reveal different coloured strips. It is in view only mode at the moment but that could be changed to edit for the students. A copy for each student could also be made and shared on Google Classroom. Students could explore Google Sheets as a means of creating a digital outcome to communicate their understandings.

The graph and linked google sheet is also featured on Slide 5 of the Taonga at Townsend Fields Reserve Treasure Hunt Slideshow as well.

The beauty of using google sheets to create graphs is that you can add and subtract information in order to present the graph at different stages of the Slow Reveal Technique. I would edit the graph to only display information 'bit by bit' as we go through the process of the slow reveal. https://slowrevealgraphs.com/
You could also change the graph for other flora and fauna data such as Macroinvertebrates, trees and/or plants. Other benefits of using graphs in Google Sheets is that you can change the type of graph you wish to explore, find percentages and proportions and add different sheets at the bottom. This feature would enable the students to have all the different types of graphs and data they wish to display all lined up at the bottom.

Through this process, students will be able to make inferences as to what time of the day different species of birds are more active and make predictions about the reasons for this. For example, are there more of one species then another in the morning? What could be the reasons for this?

This Learning Experience explores the natural world of Townsend Fields Reserve and focuses on the Big Question of

What indigenous species of flora and fauna live at the Townsend Fields Reserve and how features of the natural world impact and affect their lives?

Links to the Learning Outcomes are made throughout the Learning Experience in notes on the Google Sheet.

]]> 2023-10-05 03:46:28 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2733193917 Ngāi Tūāhuriri: Tuahiwi and Takiwā Educational Resource 🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734437634 This incredible little booklet contains information related to local history and places of cultural significance. This booklet only comes in a hard copy so I have photographed the pages and it is here in its electronic version.

Below is also a link to the Tuahiwi Education website which is also an amazing asset to have for these STEM learning experiences at Townsend Fields Reserve. It provides many rich resources that unpack many aspects of cultural significance specifically for our area.
https://www.tuahiwieducation.co.nz/]]> 2023-10-05 18:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734437634 Figure it Out Maths Resources to support STEM Learning Experiences 🗺️🔍📊🦆 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734458344 Mapping Resource
The link below takes you to a fantastic resource for teaching the students about maps. Learning how to read coordinates, identify directions and locate specific places of interest. It would be advantageous to use this resource in the classroom before venturing out and using the Taonga at Townsend Fields Treasure Hunt Learning Experience.
https://nzmaths.co.nz/resource/map-mysteries

Strip Graphs Resource
This resource will assist with students taking their findings and recordings from their Taonga Hunt table and presenting this information in the form of a strip graph.
https://nzmaths.co.nz/category/glossary/strip-graph]]> 2023-10-05 18:51:21 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734458344 Mahinga Kai Field Trip along the Cust River 🗺️🔍📊🦆🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734602947 This is a really neat little video of a group of volunteers identifying the different Mahinga Kai in the Cust River which is part of the Kaiapoi Catchment. It would be great to use this with students as it relates to Aotearoa New Zealand Histories in society, linking the past to the present.]]> 2023-10-05 21:45:05 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2734602947 Townsend Fields Reserve Photo Gallery slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2735875859 The link below takes you to a collection of photos that I took. They feature some of the flora and fauna at Townsend Fields Reserve.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1MrubGqjR9Nx6IXMVGPnPemFOvATwC8os?usp=drive_link]]> 2023-10-06 16:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2735875859 Landscapes for Belonging - Townsend Fields Reserve Imagination Stations🏗️👷🪶 slaf351 https://padlet.com/slaf351/TownsendFieldsReserve/wish/2736646147 This is a highly motivational learning experience that I created with students at my previous school. It was so much fun and the levels of engagement were very high as it focused on the discipline of Technology where the learning grew through the students following the Engineering Design Process to design and develop a solution to a 'real world' problem in an authentic context. I would love to do this again but integrate more Maths, Science and Engineering into it in a more deliberate way.
Background
During lunchtime play and conversation, the senior students discovered that the junior students wanted to have an interactive activity wall that had some water play elements to it. They then conducted interviews with the junior student stakeholders and got an idea of what they wanted to play with in an activity wall.
We had access to some pallets and when the students saw these they decided that they could engineer them into a cube with castor wheels on the bottom so they could be moved around the school and into the shaded areas when needed.
In small groups the students then designed and painted background scenes on the pallets that represented elements of Aotearoa - their Landscape for Belonging. They then sourced and gathered a range of recycled 'junk' that they adhered to these to the pallets to create moveable Imagination Stations.
This Learning Experience would fit beautifully with STEM at Townsend Fields Reserve as the Imagination Stations could represent all the Big Questions. Students could feature the landscape, natural features, history and places of cultural significance that they have learnt about in all the learning experiences featured on this padlet.
STEM integration that would enhance this Learning Experience:
Links to Science: Students will be able to,

Link their knowledge of water in the Water Catchment and Water Filtration Activity to create water play that teaches about these elements in a 'show you know' way.

Links to Engineering: Students will be able to:

Identify ways of constructing a cube from pallets, thinking about the stability of the construction, the ways of securing the pallets together, the overall weight and ease of the cubes being moveable, the size of castor wheel required and the need for locking devices on the castors.
Explore ways of catching the water from the water play elements so that the school ground don't become a swamp and a 'waste'.

Links to Maths: Students will be able to,

Explore measurement to position the 'play' activities at the right play height for the junior students.
Explore angles and how different sized angles impact on the flow of water through the water play activity.

Links to Technology: Students will be able to,

Undertake prototyping in the form of models prior to final product development.
Seek ongoing feedback of design ideas from Stakeholders and make adjustments to the physical and functional attributes on the final product.

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