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Learning
Quest > New
Things - New Ways News > Teacher's
Notes > Introduction |
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About | Delivery | Making a Start |
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About
The NEW WAYS NEWS Learning Quest assists
students to explore and try new things. Also
it is important to help students develop
new skills, and new ideas and ways to get
involved as this helps add variety to their
diet and stops them from getting bored. Boredom
can set in when students do the same activities
or eat the same food over a period of time.
This Learning Quest has stages including
introduction, new things, new ways to sport,
new ways with food, news … news,
my job, news time, what have I discovered
and the teacher notes. Each of these sections
are explained further in the ‘Learning
Quest Parts’ in this section.
The main aims of the Learning Quest are
for students to learn more about:
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The importance of
trying new things, especially new foods
and new activities |
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Learning how to write
a news item |
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Work in teams to produce
a newspaper |
Students will learn about exciting new foods
and physical activities. It is important that
students spend as much time planning, discussing,
practising, in the classroom, working on the
computer and also outside.
We have also suggested for students to record
thoughts, feelings, ideas, tables and diagrams
in a New Things Learning Log. We have included
a template if you want students to complete
this via a computer. You could encourage them
to email their New Things Learning Log to you
and to their parents to share what they are
learning. However, you may think it is best
to do this New Things Learning Log in a book.
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Delivery
This Learning Quest, if completed
in full, including students creating a
newspaper, will take approximately five
(5) weeks. If students are going to do
a special edition of the school newsletter
it will only take four (4) weeks. However
this Learning Quest is flexible and can
be broken down into the different sections.
For example, focus on New Things, New Ways
to Sport and New Ways with Food sections,
which will take about two (2) weeks. However,
if you do this then the assessment rubric
will need to be altered.
During
the Learning Quest students will work individually,
as a class, in pairs
and small sharing groups (3 – 4)
depending on the complexity of the activities.
It is up to the teacher how students
work together and with whom. However
we have suggested what we think is the
most effective way of working with a
task within the Learning Quest. You may
like to do a mixture of things eg. let
students choose who they work with, choose
a number at random, table groups etc.
Wherever you see the following icons
they mean:
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The start of a new section
of the New Ways News Learning Quest |
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A student task. The rest
of the information is to support or to
help students do the task |
The Learning Quest does have some expectations
that students will be using a computer for
some of the time. If you do not have computers
in the classroom, make sure that the computing
room is booked for the times you are doing
the Learning Quest. You may like to bookmark
this Learning Quest and the 5 Fun Ways to Kids
Health and Fitness website, to save time on
the computer.
An Internet
site record sheet has been included
in the templates section of the teacher notes
as an option for you to use with students.
This will help record the different sites
students visit and how useful they are.
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Making
a Start
You may need to start this Learning Quest
with a class discussion and get students
to consider :
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What do they think
is meant by new things? |
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Have they tried
any new food or activity over the last
month? |
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How do they feel
about trying new foods and activities? |
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Any ideas on why
it is important to try and get involved
in new ways? |
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What is a Learning
Log? How may they use this? |
Visit the websites given to gather and build
you and your student’s knowledge about
new foods, physical activity and healthy lifestyles.
You may even like to look further for other
resources eg. actual food and physical activity
news articles, other websites or resources
from your teacher resource centre or library.
Students can use a digital camera to capture
photos, draw images, or scan photos or drawings
to include in the newspaper.
Encourage students to try the new things
they identify throughout the Learning Quest.
Also encourage them to plan and implement
new ways to get involved in food and physical
activity. All roles are important to make
the event occur. What would a game be like
if we did not have a mentor or coach or umpires
or referees?
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