School Journal Level 3, October 2013
Teacher support materials (TSM) are available for all the following texts in this issue of the School Journal:
| TSM | ||
| Stories | Kahawai | ✔ |
| Articles | Robot Challenge | ✔ |
| The Parapara Detectives | ✔ |
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Kahawai
by Paul Mason
“Kahawai” is set in an unfamiliar time and place (a much-changed Auckland in a not-so-distant future), but it conveys familiar ideas about sustainability, selflessness for the greater good, and cooperation in times of hardship. Āreta, and her grandmother, Trish, go fishing on a filthy sea and make a surprising catch.
Robot Challenge
as told to Karen Phelps
In “Robot Challenge”, the students describe how they designed and made robots for a competition. The article will interest many students and could inspire some to enter the competition themselves.
The Parapara Detectives
by Fiona Terry
Two friends are puzzled when they find dead and injured fantails in a local reserve. The article follows their detective work as they try to find out what is causing the deaths of the small birds. Using information from a plant expert, the Internet, and the SPCA’s bird rescue centre, they learn how the parapara tree uses sticky glue to spread its seeds – and kill birds.
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