Educational Units
Hi Teachers
If you've purchased my two books 'Bird's-eye View' and 'Operation Nest Egg' and would like an educational unit to complement the book download my educational resource: 'Saving New Zealand's Native Birds'. The educational resource is for Years 3 to 8 and follows the new curriculum syllabus.
If you're looking for an educational resource to complement my book 'Save Our Seas' download the 'Save Our Seas Teaching Resource' and the 'Care for Our Coast' Unit from the Sir Peter Blake Trust site.
I've also prepared a short unit for Years 3 to 6 on working dogs to go with my book 'Dogs on the Job', download 'Working Dogs in Our Community'.
Want a volcano educational unit? Download the 'Rangitoto Teachers Resource'. It complements the book 'Rangitoto'.
I've designed a comprehensive 'Save the Planet' type educational unit to go with my 'Eco-Rangers Save the Planet' book.
For educational resources on Leadership and Antarctica please email Sir Peter Blake Trust for your free copy (written by Maria Gill).
For an educational resource on Organic Gardening in your school download this PDF or find out more about it here (also written by Maria Gill).
Teachers, download the long awaited Discovering New Zealand Non-Fiction Children's Book teaching unit that is now finished. Please email any comments about the unit. If you would like me to talk to a group of schools in your area about incorporating New Zealand non-fiction books into your reading programme please send me an email.
Keep an eye on this page because I'll be loading more educational units with each of my books.
I hope your class enjoys the units!
Cheers
Teachers' Workshop:
Using Dynamic Non-fiction in the Classroom
This workshop will encourage teachers to incorporate a dynamic non-fiction reading and writing unit in the classroom. In the session I will talk about a reading unit that will encourage children to love reading non-fiction books for pleasure. The unit uses thinking skills to enhance their ability to read non-fiction text and culminates in a non-fiction book ceremony. I will also talk about the characteristics of good non-fiction writing skills showing how to utilise fiction techniques to pep up their non-fiction stories. Teacher workshops can be combined with school author talks for students.
The workshops can be held in your staff room after school or during the school holidays. The session runs for one hour and teachers will have a reading and writing educational unit to use in their classroom at the end of it.
If the workshop is tagged onto a day or half-day author talk or workshop with students - the teachers' workshop is at the special price of $100 per workshop. If I am asked to speak at the Teachers workshop only it is $150 plus travel expenses.
Book your workshop today and receive a free copy of the 'Creative non-fiction writing unit'.
Using Dynamic Non-fiction in the Classroom
This workshop will encourage teachers to incorporate a dynamic non-fiction reading and writing unit in the classroom. In the session I will talk about a reading unit that will encourage children to love reading non-fiction books for pleasure. The unit uses thinking skills to enhance their ability to read non-fiction text and culminates in a non-fiction book ceremony. I will also talk about the characteristics of good non-fiction writing skills showing how to utilise fiction techniques to pep up their non-fiction stories. Teacher workshops can be combined with school author talks for students.
The workshops can be held in your staff room after school or during the school holidays. The session runs for one hour and teachers will have a reading and writing educational unit to use in their classroom at the end of it.
If the workshop is tagged onto a day or half-day author talk or workshop with students - the teachers' workshop is at the special price of $100 per workshop. If I am asked to speak at the Teachers workshop only it is $150 plus travel expenses.
Book your workshop today and receive a free copy of the 'Creative non-fiction writing unit'.
Activities for Books
For selected activities such as comprehension sheets, crosswords or wordfinds to go with the books click on the following to download and print:
Bird's-eye View Activity - PDF 45kb
Operation Nest Egg Activity - PDF 44kb
Interviews with Authors
Derek Landy, author of the 'Skulduggery Pleasant' series
interview. READ MORE
Fleur Beale, author of 'Juno of Taris', interview. READ MORE
Kyle Mewburn, author of 'Old Huhu', interview. READ MORE
Kate de Goldi, author of the '10 PM Question', interview. READ MORE
Lorraine Orman, author of 'Haunted', interview. READ MORE
Michael Morpurgo, author of 'Running Wild' interview. READ MORE
Blog
Teachers, if you're looking for children's or young adult books to recommend to your students - please check out the NZ Kids Books Blog. The site provides links to teaching resources and interviews that go with the book. The reviewers are either teachers or librarians and are also published authors.
If your class or school have been doing good deeds in the environment - please tell me about it so I can include it on the Eco-rangersNZ blogsite.
Maria's books:
| • | Bird's-Eye View |
| • | Operation Nest Egg |
| • | Dogs on the Job |
| • | Rangitoto |
| • | Save Our Seas |
| • | Eco-Rangers Save the Planet |
| • | New Zealand Hall of Fame - 50 Remarkable New Zealanders |
| • | Call of the Kokako |
Teachers Resources - PDF:
Books for Teachers:
| • |  The Big Book of School Journal Units 2008 encourages 6-12 year old students to explore stories, articles, plays and poems found in Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 School Journals 2008 (available in schools from Learning Media). Author: Maria Gill View Book Order your book or e-book from Curriculum Concepts |
