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- Watch TV and discuss current events with your friends or family.
- Read Magazines / Newspapers and discuss issues with friends or family.
- Make links with class work and current events in a log or a blog.
- Keep a reading log of current events.
- Collect news items either physically or by making digital links in a portfolio.
- Share Google Docs from teachers with your parents.
- Share students’ Google Docs with parents and allow comments.
- Communicate with local national politicians over issues.
- Have a look in the newspaper to see what public meetings are being held and which may be topical.
- Visit Te Papa and Museum of the City and the Sea, as well as the Carter Observatory, Zealandia, and the Petone Settlers Museum.
- Keep records of weather information.
- Create quizzes and share with your classmates
- Investigate your Whakapapa and seek out ‘Family Treasures’
- Watch Television advertising for information relating to concepts/ideas.
- Watch parliament in session on TV.
- Identify bias (one-sidedness) in news coverage or opinion pieces (newspaper, magazine pieces, or shows like Campbell Live, Close Up, Sunday, State of the Nation).
- Write Letters to the Editor on topical subjects.
- Read and reply to other Letters to the Editor on topical subjects.
- Observe the behaviour on buses, malls and classrooms to identify cultural norms of behaviour and how people react when these norms are broken
- Investigate membership of groups with a conscience (for example Amnesty International, Environmental Group).
- Investigate alternative modes of transportation or energy & build generators.
- Investigate the possibility of growing your own vegetables.
- Plan a comprehensive earthquake tsunami family plan, including what to do if disaster strikes while family members are at work, in town, at friends etc. Check you have a survival kit. Quake safe your home. Find out where the relevant civil defence muster stations are.
- “Energywise” your home.
- Tune into morning report on National Radio.
- Ask your parents “Who would you have to vote for if you had to vote tomorrow and why?” and “Has the party you voted for changed over time and why?”