The Whale Rider – Teacher Planbook

Week Monday Tuesday Wedensday Thursday Friday

Computer Lab Day: Short

Project Introduction;
Computer Lab Day: Lecture on RSS Feeds;
Objectives and Book Discussion: Spring
Navigating in Google Interdisciplinary Lecture: Have students use
Outcomes; Read the (Chpt. 2-4);
1 Earth, Completing Anthropological and Google News and Google
Prologue; Book Adding Information to
Searchers; Posting to the Maori Culture Search to research topic.
Discussion: Prologue; Your Wiki Page
Discussion Page Show how to add feeds
Join Project Wiki
to wiki

Computer Lab Day: Computer Lab Day:

Creating Basic Creating Basic
Interdisciplinary Lecture: Book Discussion: Summer General Project Work
2 Placemarks (titles, text, Placemarks (video,
Geographic Concepts (Chpts. 5-8) Day
images, links, custom podcasts, animation, GPS
icons, paths) tracking data)

Book Discussion:
Interdisciplinary Lecture: Computer Lab Day:
Book Discussion: Autum Book Discussion: Winter Epilogue; Introduce
3 Biology of Right Whales Adding information to
(Chpts. 9-13) (Chpts. 5-8) Creative Writing
and Oceanography project wiki
Assignment

Movie: Whale Rider and Movie: Whale Rider and

online discussion with onine discussion with
General Project Work other schools using other schools using
4 Presenation of Projects Presentation of Projects
Day WizIQ or Elluminate WizIQ or Elluminate
(special event, more than (special event, more than
one class period) one class period)