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Avatar Curriculum Unit
Inspired by the film I have posted some ideas on a possible unit of work for the Primary phase, ideally upper KS2. Please feel free to add to this wall.
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Design hardware videos (youtube will need converting)
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LITERACY
-Persuasive texts
e.g. From Sully's perspective writing a speech to persuade the other tribes to unite against the RDA.
History
Compare Na'vi with other indigenous people like the Incas,Aborigines (similiar beliefs) and Native American Indians .
RE
- philosophy living in harmony with nature
- Worshipping of Eywa
ICT
- Wordle describe Pandora, Character Wordles
ICT
- Voicethread video diaries for Jake Sully
- Wall wisher film review
- Databases Pandora Wildlife
- Film trailers using Photostory3
- Photoshop avatar
DESIGN & TECHNOLOGY
- Design RDA equipment of the future
- Moving vehicles, defending RDA in Pandora
SCIENCE
- Habitats
- Pandora foodchains
- Rocks and minerals
- Adaptation of living things
- Plants
LITERACY
- Advert for new Na'vi weapons against Sky People
- Playscripts - develop new scenes
- Poetry - how does it feel to fly a banshee, go into an avatar
LITERACY
- Newspapers - We've Landed on a New Planet
- Descriptive writing, setting of Pandora contrast day and night
LITERACY
- Wildlife documentaries - guide to banshees, direhorses, etc
- Drama meeting between RDA and Na'vi tribe
- Diary of Jake Sully
LITERACY
- Work force guide to Pandora e.g. Do's and Don't's, about Hometree, Tree of Souls
- Instructions how to train your Banshee
LITERACY
Formal letters
- On behalf of RDA Corporation to persuade the Na'vi tribe to leave Hometree
- From Sully to stop RDA after his 3 months with Na'vi
ART
- Pandora landscapes
- Half human/ half Na'vi portraits
- Na'vi action sketches
- Pandora at night
- New creatures of Pandora
GEOGRAPHY
- Why do we need 'unobtainium'. Look at our carbon footprint and use of fossil fuels.
- Compare and contrast Earth and Pandora
GEOGRAPHY -
- What has happened to our world in the future 'There is no green on our planet. we killed our mother"