Integrated Learning: Cultural Narrative

You now need to do some further research about one of the resources (plants or animals) that the early Maori settlers found in Southwest Canterbury.

The audience for what you will present is other Year 5/6 children. What do you think they need to know on this topic?

You need to show your understanding in 2 ways:

1. Information Report

• Introduction
• Subtitles (questions) answer each question in a short paragraph````` (5-10)
• Overall statement conclusion

2. Creative

• Poster
• Diorama
• Collage
• Model….?

to show the habitat your resource lived in and how it was used by the people.

Information Report Writing Planning

Our names	breaden, Oli
The resource we are going to research is	Grey  mullet
Prior knowledge (What we already know about this)	It is a yellow eyed fish. The gray mullet is very common in some places.
Question Matrix: To help you with questions to help you research.
Write 5-10 questions we’d like to research and present in an Information Report	What is a grey mullet? How were they caught?  How did the Maori kill it?  What did the Maori use it for?  Where did they get them?  Where do they live?  What do they eat?  Are they carnivorous or herbivorous?  Are they almost extinct  What is it´s prey?
Teacher: Check with one of the Year 6 teachers before you go onto writing your report.

In this report we will be telling you about the mullet ( a type of fish ) but what do you want to know about it. I have 6 questions that I want the answers to but first let's look deeper into the mullet’s history.

but first some facts    

They grey mullet is the second mullet in the family

The fin is equipped with 8 ray fins

Mullets are bottom feeders which means they feed

of the bottom of the sea

Gray mullets can live up to 25 years and are capable

of staying in the sea for 16 years  

   

Now to answer the questions?

How were they caught?

By a fishing net in a waka or

And land also fits in there the maori use to

On them.

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How did the Maori kill it?

With the wood tools that they made from wood

On the trees that they chopped down and then they