Innovation and Exploration



How has exploration and innovation challenged individuals and communities.

Session ONE


We Are Learning To: Identify and describe examples of exploration and innovation in New Zealand.

What is Innovation?

To create or remake something to improve health or lifestyle.

Definition:
Introducing new things or new methods.
Something new that you have just invented or started using.
The action or process of innovating.




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Word Class: Noun

Antonym: Old, Bland, Boring, habit, regressive, unoriginal.
Synonym: New Invention, fresh, latest, modern, change, reform, novelty, revolution, alteration, departure
Suffix:'ation'

What is Exploration?



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What are some examples of innovation by New Zealanders?

Bill Gallagher
Fonterra
Godfrey Bowen
Ernest Ruthford
A.J Hackett
Pencil
Patrick Roskam
John Britten
Bill Hamilton

What are some examples of exploration by New Zealanders?

Simon Mitchell
Henry Wiggly
James Cook
George Betham
Sir Edmund Hillary



Session TWO


We Are Learning To: Explain the challenges faced by people, places and environments.

Select a New Zealander from our list of innovators and explorers. This person you will use to create a Biography.


What is a Biography?


biography or simply bio is a detailed description or account of a person's life. It entails more than basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death—a biography also portrays a subject's experience of these events. Unlike a profile or curriculum vitae (résumé), a biography presents a subject's life story, highlighting various aspects of his or her life, including intimate details of experience, and may include an analysis of the subject's personality.


 The Structure of the text
1.       The opening paragraph gives the reader the background information as to why this person is important and should have a biography written about them. The opening paragraph should briefly answer the questions: who, what, where, when and how.
2.       The recount then unfolds in paragraphs that retell a series of events, usually told in chronological order.
3.       The final paragraph is a conclusion with a comment on the contribution this person has made or a summary and evaluation of the person's achievements.
The Language Features of a Biographical Recount
1.       Use of names of specific people.
2.       Mainly written in simple past tense (the final paragraph could also include the present tense).
3.       Use of connectives to do with time (last year, then, at the same time, next, on Tuesday 24 May, later, before, meanwhile).
4.     Use of action verbs (painted, wrote, invented, discovered).


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EXTENSION: Look into challenges created by our environments (flooding, earthquakes, fire etc). Identify challenges and how we have responded to them.

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