Connected+Curriculum

Term 4 ﻿  CAMP Rivers are probably the greatest hazard you will encounter in the NZ outdoors.

"Ask yourself 'Do I need to cross?' No one has ever starved to death by waiting in a hut for a flooded river to subside."Senior Constable Niall Shepherd

River levels rise quickly after heavy rain, but they also tend to go down fast. Don't cross a river ...
 * If the river is in flood
 * If the river is moving such as logs or boulders
 * If the water is so discoloured that you cannot see the bottom
 * If the water is flowing faster than you can walk. Throw in a stick and walk alongside it as it floats downstream to establish how fast the river is flowing
 * If you feel uncomfortable about crossing

Choose a crossing ...
 * Where there is an easy entry point on your bank and an easy exit point on the far bank
 * Where the river is shallowest. Looks for wider parts of the river or where it splits into more than one channel. Rivers are usually deepest and fastest where they narrow or on the outside of bends.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Where there is safe footing underwater. Avoid large boulders and logs and watch out for slippery algae.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">That has a safe run-out. Look downstream, could you safely swim for at least 200 metres?

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Crossing tips <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">For safe and happy river crossings...
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Cross on a slight downstream angle. Do not try to fight the river
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Take short steps, keep your feet a shoulder width apart
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Take care, don't rush
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Take off heavy clothing such as jackets and water proof or baggy trousers. They will drag in the current and also make it hard to swim should you fall
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Water-proof your pack, line it with a plastic bag or some sort of dry liner, and twist off the top of the bag to seal it
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Keep your boots ON! Wet feet won't kill you but loosing your footing and falling in could.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Ensure that you will be able to quickly undo your backpack if you fall in. Undo your chest/sternum strap but keep your waist belt snug to help with stability and to prevent your pack riding up over your head if you fall in.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Alone <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Use a pole on your upstream side as a support and face across the current towards the other side. Hold the pole with both hands. If the current is strong lean harder upstream on the pole. The ideal pole is stout and about your own height. If you have two trekking poles you can hold both of them together. Place one pole in front of you and the other upstream of you. Only move one pole or foot at a time. If you need to retreat, turn downstream, and carefully move back to the shore. Crossing alone is substantially more dangerous than crossing in a group and should only be done with care in easier crossings (say below knee depth and flowing slower than walking pace, with a safe runout).

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">In a group <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Link yourselves together by reaching through the gap between the back and backpack of your neighbours. Then grab a firm hold of their backpack shoulder strap where it joins the bottom of their backpack on the side opposite you as shown in the photograph. Position your strongest members at each end of the group. If a person loses their footing it is essential that everyone retains their hold on each other. Keep the group parallel with the river flow at all times. If you need to retreat, walk carefully backwards until you are in a safe depth then turn around. The use of ropes is inadvisable and has caused many drownings in the past.

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Falling into a river <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">If you fall or are swept off your feet you need to react quickly and aggressively. <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">If you fall in... <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Estuary Visit <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">In your project book, create an interesting heading 'Mangroves' in the front, under your Estuary section. Check out the following websites and take notes about mangroves. [don't copy and paste, bullet point the notes in your own words]. Record your bullet points under your heading. Mangroves! <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Environment Waikato <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**iThink** Write three stage one questions, two stage two questions and one stage three question to ask while we are on the visit. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"> <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Tasks: <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">iRecord ** <span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">**WALT**: create the life cyle of a mangrove. <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Use the Get a Life Life Cycle of the Mangrove as a guide to create your own life cycle of a Mangrove. You can use Kidpix, Adobe Photoshop or Inspiration. I am looking for awesome graphics sketched by YOU!! <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">**<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">iCelebrate ** <span style="color: #0000ff; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;"><span style="color: #000000; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12px;">Upload your life cycle of a mangrove onto your class page with your name above it.
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">If you are in a group hold on to each other and lean back onto your backpacks
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">If you are alone roll onto your back and face downstream
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Keep your feet together and near the surface to avoid foot entrapment
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Lean back to keep your pack down under you for floatation. If your pack pushes you underwater, unclip your waist belt and remove the pack
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">With your feet still facing downstream, point you shoulders towards the closest shore and 'ferry glide' towards it by backswimming with your arms (in a group only the people at the ends of your group can use their arms)
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Don't try to stand up until you have run aground in shallow, safe water. Take your upstream arm out of your pack straps and let the current swing the pack to your downstream side. In a group only one person should try to sand up at a time
 * <span style="color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 16px;">Don't try to re cross immediately. Work out what went wrong and consider again if it is safe to cross
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Term 3 All sorts of interesting things are happening within our Connected Curriculum topic 'Do You Understand Me?" this term. One of them is that we are going to be enjoying an Estuary visit.

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 * Reading:**

[|Science Fair Board Layout.doc]



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1. Activities based on Blooms [|Secret Life of Estuaries.pdf]
 * Possible Reading Response Activities:**

[|Interplanetary_Zoo_Activity.JPG] <span style="color: #000000; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 14px;">Download the above card. name it yourname data card, and use it to type your well thought out responses.

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