The HMNZS Manawanui sinking disaster Teaching Resource Activities (FULL)
The HMNZS Manawanui sinking disaster - NEW TEACHING AND LEARNING RESOURCES for Year 4-8 students!
The Navy ship HMNZS Manawanui recently sank off the coast of Samoa after running aground on a reef. This event made both national and International news around the world. The crew and passengers were fortunate to escape unharmed but what caused the crash and what will the impacts on the surrounding environment, including the livelihoods of the people of Samoa be? Research Responders delves into all of this with this 44 page teaching and learning resource that we have produced for Year 4-8 students. There are still lots of unanswered questions from this disaster. There are strong links to the Achievement Objectives of the NZ Social Sciences and Science Curricular. Your purchase includes one PDF file and one editable PowerPoint, which can easily be shared via Google Classroom or Hapara. You get 30 different activities for your students!
Activities included in this teaching resource are... (All Answers are provided on separate pages in the resource)
- Thinking Hats task
- History of the Manawanui and questions
- Roles/Jobs involved
- Mapping location and features
- What happened information and questions
- Video
- Background video
- Samoa true or false
- Traditional Samoan life
- Further Research
- Salamumu Village task
- Village life similarities/differences
- Video and questions - What happened to the ship?
- Design Task
- Captain (Commander) fact profile
- Captain questions task 1
- Captain questions task 2
- Design Task
- Environmental impact of a sinking
- Information slide
- Effects of Oily fish task
- More environmental impacts task
- Shipping container task
- Thinking skills task - sharks eating meat
- Research a sea creature found near the scene
- Record book dust jacket design
- Easy word search
- Harder word search
- Government response information and discussion question
- Thinking task and Where to from here task