🎯 Learning Intentions
- I can name human activities that harm or help the awa.
- I can match a cause to an effect and suggest one action.
- I can use the cause/effect organiser to plan ideas.
✅ Success Criteria
- I can complete at least two cause → effect → action chains.
- I can explain one local human impact on our awa.
- I can suggest one realistic action for school or home.
🗣️ Kupu / Vocabulary
- parahanga (pollution), rerenga wai (runoff), para (rubbish)
- kaitiaki, pānga (impact), take (cause), hua (effect), rongoā (solution)
🧭 Lesson Flow
- Warm-up (5): Quick gallery of photos: drains, litter, planting, fencing. Thumbs up/down for impact.
- Mini-lesson (10): Stormwater vs wastewater; common pollutants (litter, runoff, soap).
- Organiser (20): In pairs, complete Cause → Effect → Action for 2–3 examples.
- Role-play (15): “Voices of the Awa” — students speak as the awa or as kaitiaki; partner responds with one action.
- Share (10): Groups share one strong action idea; class adds to an action wall.
- Exit (5): “One action we could really do at school/home is…”
🎬 Video Tasks
- From the stormwater clip: write 1 thing that should never go down a drain.
- From the runoff demo: draw the path of clean vs dirty water; add 1 action that would help.
- Use the stormwater transcript fix-up and correct the wrong words.
Prompting
- Before: predict where stormwater goes at school; mark on map.
- During: note one consequence of a wrong item in a drain.
- After: connect one action from the video to your cause/effect organiser.
🧰 Differentiation
- Provide pre-filled causes or effects and have students match.
- Offer sentence stems: “If people ___, the awa ___, so we can ___.”
- Extension: Add a data point from W2 (pH/temp/litter) to justify an action.
✅ Checks for Understanding
- Students can state one cause and a realistic action that fits.
- Action wall shows at least 3 distinct action ideas.