Nov 01, 2014
An integrated unit of inquiry Here’s the plan the kids (and their
families) were given
Clothing unit – Room 3 2011
(and this is how we used ICT) Word, publisher, excell, powerpoint,
internet – search engines, google images, digistore, digital camera flip video scanner – wiki page
We will find the answers to our own questions
What are shoes made of? Where does cotton come from? Why do Scottish people wear tartan? What can clothing be made of apart from cotton and wool? How does wool get made into clothing?
We learnt about using a search engine – (Ask Jeeves)
We found some useful information on Encarta
We ‘Presented’ our findings using publisher
Research Task
We will give a short prepared talk about an item of clothing we like.
We used the Flip Video for feedback and viewed exemplars from 3 years ago (we got to see how some of the older students did this task)
English –
We will write about clothingArgumentWhat is good about wearing a uniform? What is bad
about wearing a uniform?‘When we go on trips we can see who is from our
school because of their clothes’. RyanPersonal RecountClothes we like to wear‘My ballerina dress makes me feel like a princess
when I put it on’. ShayReport writingClothes that keep us safe and healthy‘Gumboots keep your feet warm when you go out in
the winter’. CalebWe published our writing using word
English
We will read library books and journals to learn more about clothing.
‘The Smartest Giant in town was about a giant who gave away his flash new clothes to animals who needed help. Then he wasn’t flash but he was kind.’ By Maata
We did some Arb tasks which our teacher put into our student folders (this saved paper!)
We used publisher to complete some reading responses
Our teacher set up a learning pathway on digistore
English
Geometry What designs and patterns do people use
on clothing? Why do they do this? We used the scanner to save our work
Maths –
Statistics How do you find out and record information
about types of clothing people wear?Eg. What type of shoes are we wearing
today? What colour clothes did people wear to mufti day?
We used Microsoft excel to create bar and pie graphs
Maths
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Material worldHow do fibres get made into fabrics? We used a Digital Microscope to see them
up close
Science – Fibres and fabrics
Do groups of people dress differently? Why?We found out about this through our research
topics and the articles and stories we read ‘Tartans are made out of wool. Every
Scottish clan Has their own design. It shows they
are Scottish and which family they belong to. They wear them on special occasions.’
By Sean and Ryan.
Social sciences
We used a Publisher template – we found images on the internet about traditional clothing for different nationalities
Can we create a piece of clothing? What would we need to be able to do this?
We used the digital camera to show how we created our clothing.
Technology
How can we use clothes as props to ‘get into character’? How do we build belief?
What gestures and expressions should we use when we dance to the silly hat store?
We used the Flip Video – this gave us instant feedback
Drama and Dance
What are the Maori words for clothing?We created Powerpoint presentations and
used animation – we found clip art pictures then made our
words make an ‘entrance’.
Te Reo
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How do items of clothing keep us safe and healthy?
We used publisher to create posters to remind people to wear protective clothing.
Here’s Maata’s poster. Ryan created this table.
Health-
We took photos of what we wore on Mufti Day, recorded our voices and put together a powerpoint. Here’s one of the slides….
ICT
This is Shay on Mufti Day.
Shay
I think this unit worked well because it’s an age appropriate, relevant topic. There were also plenty of resources.
ICT use helped us to work faster, create better quality work, get instant feedback, see things close up, access information easily. It helped lots!