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!