1. Me In My Environment Year 4
Topic: Me In My Environment ‘Considering the world we are a part of and how we can make decisions to manage & improve the quality of the school’s physical & social environment. Level: 2
Key Concepts:
Interdependence Sustainability Biodiversity
Personal & Social Responsibility & Action
Key Dimensions:
IN ABOUT FOR
Learning Experiences:
See Activity Guide in the ‘Me In My Environment’ section, Enviroschools Kit.
Key Competencies:
Thinking, Participating and Contributing, Using Language, Symbols and Text, Managing Self, Relating to Others
Habits of Mind: Wonderment and Awe
Skills: Investigate, observe & experience our surroundings. Share, record and analyse maps & info. Consult with others & make decisions together.
Attitudes/Values: Kaitiakitanga
Co-operation & concern for all forms of life in our community & wider environment. Innovation, inquiry and curiosity, ecological sustainability.
Actions:
To produce a whole school vision map for the creation of a sustainable school environment for people & nature. ( Hard copy and digital for sharing.)
Curriculum Area: Social Sciences
Understand how places influence people and people influence places.
Curriculum Area: Science
Strand: PE&B Explore and describe natural features and resources.
Curriculum Area: English
Strand: All - oral vocabulary, descriptive/personal writing, mapping
Curriculum Area: The Arts
Strand: Visual (photography, sketching, colour/ texture exploration), Sound Arts (environmental)
Curriculum Area: Health & PE
Strand: HCE Contribute to and use simple guidelines and practices that promote physically and socially healthy classrooms, schools and local environments.
Curriculum Area:Technology/Maths
Strand: Strand Geo//Mea/Stat: Create and use simple maps to show position and direction. Conduct investigations using statistical enquiry cycle Technological Practice: Develop a plan that identifies the key stages and the resources required to complete an outcome.
Learning Outcomes: Students will:
Build knowledge and understanding of what they know & feel about their environment & can observe in their surroundings.
Keep a class Enviro Diary/Blog as a record of the learning (updated weekly or more).
Explore key concepts & relate them to the school situation.
Conduct a survey of sustainability in the school.
Recap & summarise key learning about the school environment.
Create a Vision Map that represents the values, principles and ideas of the whole class and whole school. What do we value in our school?
Assessment:
Whole class map that reflects students ideas & feelings about the health & sustainability of the school environment Whole school map.
Documentation of the processes.
Self assessment/rubrics for Key Competencies and Habits of Mind.

2. Term 1 Week 6 Week 7 Week 8-9 Term 2 Week 1 Week 2 Week 3-4
Me in My Environment
Learning Guide
Maths
English
The Arts
Health & PE
Science/
Technology
Social Sciences
Te Reo Maori
Term 1 Week 6
What do you know now?
Mapping My Place p62
Pepeha p64
Special Places p66 (all classes)
Sounds & Colours p63
Special Places p66
Social Profile p67
Special Places
Social Profile
Pepeha (all classes)
Week 7
What can you observe?
Pattern Hunt p75
Word Hunt p69
Alphabet Hike p70
Close Encounters (Hear) p72
Close Encounters (Touch) p73
Restless Minds p68
Close Encounters (See, Taste & Smell) p71, 74
A Day in the life of..p77
A Day in the life of.. P77 (ll classes))
Week 8-9
What can you learn?
A:Inter-reateness
B: There are limits…
C: We have..
Last Sunflower p102
World in a Lunchbox p103
Rangi & Papa p79
Tane & Tangaroa p98
Make a Tree p78
Mihi to Rangi & Papa p79
Web of Life 1 & 2 p95-7
Sustainability Photos
If Earth were p101
Term 2 Week 1
D: Kaitiaki…
E: Living…
F: Designing…
Design An Object p119
Kaitiakitanga p104
Various Values p111
Playing Our Part p113
Sustainability Puzzle (see cover) (all classes)
Decisions Decisions p109
Week 2
What can you measure?
EnviroSurvey p121 (all classes)
Week 3-4
What would you change?
Pool of Knowledge (all classes) - see kit

3. Goals reached at the end of the Term Reflective Assessment
Me in My Environment
Learning Guide
Maths
English
The Arts
Health & PE
Science
/Technology
Social Studies
Te Reo Maori
Week 5
Mapping a WHOLE SCHOOL VISION!
Integrated Activities
Mapping the whole school vision will need to be steered by your Enviro group who will co-ordinate and communicate with different groups in the school community.
Sharing class ideas: Pools of Knowledge or class maps shared with the school community.
May be a whole school exhibition/Community tour/Classroom tour/Hui/Open afternoon?
Compiling Draft Vision Map:
Establish guiding principles/sort ideas/create stroyboards/explore icons
Consultation with BOT, staff and other groups:
May be done at council meeting or at an open evening!
Drawing final Vision Map:
Use your community! Any expertise out there?
Vision Map Use:
What will it be used for?
Prioritising class projects/raising awareness/reflection/funding applications?
Whole school assemblies/class visits to view/share what classes have been doing.
Display vision map and actions on plasma screen in Office
Week 6
Week 7
Goals reached at the end of the Term
Each classes ideas have been collated into an overall school vision map that everyone agrees is the basis for creating a sustainable school.
The vision map is on display for the school and community to view & its use has been decided upon.
Teachers, students & community have a guiding vision to work towards, to plan for and to make happen!
Whole school, community & children’s participation and involvement in the whole school map is evident.
Reflective Assessment
Staff reflection on the Term unit ‘Me in My Environment’
Children’s reflection on the term and the processes they went through.
Community reflection on involvement in the processes (ie Envirogroup participation/Vision map consultation)
Documentation for facilitator (photos, scrapbooks, story boards, art etc)
Note: Many of the activities in the Me In My Environment section actually fit into more than curriculum area. For the purposes of this planner the two most dominant curriculum areas have been selected.

4. Activity Curriculum Links!
Term Overview
Maths
English
The Arts
Health & PE
Science
Social Studies
Technology
Number
The Last Sunflower
Design An Object
Envirosurvey
Written Language Reading
Word Hunt
Alphabet Hike
Rangi & Papa
Tane & Tangaroa
Pool of Knowledge
Visual Arts
Close Encounters (Touch)
Sounds & Colours
Personal Health & Development
Living World
Close Encounters (See/Taste)
Web of Life 1 & 2
Close Encounters (Smell)
Worms/Birds Eye View
Social Organisation
Social Profile
Kaitiakitanga
Decisions Decisions
Playing Our Part
Technological Knowledge & Understanding
A Day in the life of..
Statistics
Enviro survey
Written Language Writing
Special Places
Drama
Making a Tree
Motor Skills…
Physical World
Place & Environment
Mapping My Place Sounds & Colours
Various Values
EnviroSurvey
Technlogical Capability
Measurement
Mapping My Place
World In A Lunchbox
Oral Language Speaking
Pepeha
Make A Tree
Kaitiakitangi
Class Vision Map
Dance
Relationships with Other People
Material World
Culture & Heritage
Technology & Society
Algebra
Oral Language Listening
Close Encounters (Hear)
Music
Healthy Communities & Environments
Restless Minds
Planet Earth & Beyond
Resources & Economic Activities
If Earth were an…
World in a Lunchbox
Geometry
Pattern Hunt
Visual Language Viewing & Presenting
Time, Contuinty & Change
ME IN MY ENVIRONMENT
Activity Curriculum Links!
Note: The Pool of Knowledge collected over the term will reflect and encorporate many curriculum areas and strands as will the class vision map which could be presented in any number of ways!

5. PRINCIPLES & CONCEPTS Activity Principle Concept Mapping My Place
Children’s Participation
Physical Surroundings
Special Places
Diversity of people & culture
Pepeha
Maori perspectives
Living Curriculum
Social Profile
Organisational Principles
Sounds & Colours
Environmental Education
Word Hunt
Pattern Hunt
Alphabet Hike
Close Encounters-See/Touch/Taste/Hear/Smell
Restless Minds
A Day in the life of…
The Last Sunflower
Sustainability
World in a Lunchbox
Operational Practices
Rangi & Papa
Make a Tree
Web of Life 1 & 2
Tane & Tangaroa
If the Earth were an apple
Design an Object
Various Values
Kaitiakitanga
Decisions Decisions
Playing our Part
Note:
For the activities during Weeks 1-5, the principles and concepts of the enviroschools programme are listed. Once again some of the activities fit into more than one principle or concept so keep in mind that this is not a complete list 
PRINCIPLES & CONCEPTS