FOUR BEATS TO FREEDOM – Education
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Ideas for teachers who would
like to follow the expedition:
Classwork
– literacy, numeracy skills can come out of following the ride.
PSME
– consider the nature of challenges we encounter in our daily lives
Consideration
of nature of disabilities, what challenges these present, how we learn
to handle them.
Maps
- Identify New Zealand on
world map, Worksheet using New Zealand Map.
Large scale OS map of one part of High Country ride – evidence
of glaciation
Horses
and equipment – list items you think I need to have with me, compare
with actual equipment list. Identify which are essential, which are relative luxuries.
Weighing
and measuring –when loading a pack horse it is essential to have equal
weight on both sides – this needs to be accurately measured with a
spring balance each morning.
‘A
Pack horse’s dilemma’. The
Pack Pony’s problem’;
Maths sheets involving packing the pack horse – how can you make the
equipment add up to two equal packages.
Brooke
Hospital sheet – cycle of poverty, effect of improving the welfare of
the draught animal: worksheet
– Mohammed and his horse
Consideration
of issues raised by the Brooke Hospital – what happens when people are
very poor? –. Visit the
Brooke children’s page for more ideas.
Do
their own sponsored activity
Sponsor
sheets
and role-play activities to enable children or riders to collect
sponsorship
Literacy
hour activities KS2
- see text file, Tschiffley, or making use of diary
entries from web site.
Extension
ideas – materials can be accessed via the website to approach
?Art
activity using Maori art ideas as a
starting point
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Captain Cook and the ‘discovery’ of NZ
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The Waitangi agreement
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