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Under the Sea
This article reports on a survey of a 100-metre long rocky reef located 11 kilometres off the Taranaki coast. Students from local high schools are partnering with divers, biologists, engineers, fishers, and local iwi to discover and record the plants and animals that make the reef their home. The article focuses on the survey methods being used and the different technologies involved in each method.
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Emotional Robots
This article explores the development of artificial intelligence (AI) from a social and ethical perspective. It invites the reader to consider high-level questions about the future for this technology, what emotional intelligence is, how humans think, the ethical implications of building AI that act like humans, and what would happen if AI became more intelligent than us.
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Square Eyes
Siali is selected to trial a new augmented reality device called SquareEye. While the trial starts off fun, he slowly starts to notice that SquareEye is affecting his experiences in ways he doesn’t necessarily consent to. This story, set in the not-so-distant future, explores how digital technologies can alter our experiences without us knowing.
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Breakdown
by Tricia Glensor
illustrations by Scott Pearson
Mum and Jake can’t go to the supermarket because Mum’s car won’t start. When the tow truck arrives, Jake takes a keen interest in everything the tow- truck driver does. Jake’s interest in the technology becomes the focus of the story, with a detailed description of the process of winching the car onto the tow truck woven into the narrative. The story concludes with a diagram that Jake has drawn.
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Junior Journal 65, Level 2, 2023
PDFs of all the texts in this issue of the Junior Journal are available online as well as teacher support materials (TSM) and audio for the following:
TSM Audio Articles Moving Your Body ✔ ✔ Moving with Technology ✔ Moving Pictures ✔ ✔ Activity Make a Moving Puppet Poem Bouncing the Beat ✔ ✔ Story Super Huhu ✔ For an introduction to the theme of Junior Journal 65 (Exploring movement) as well as a list of related texts:
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Moving Your Body
by Naomi Arnold
A report with information about bones and muscles and how they help the human body to move. This text can be used as an introduction to the topic of movement.
Moving with Technology
by Naomi Arnold
A report about tools that assist humans in tasks associated with movement.
Moving Pictures
by Ant Sang
An explanation by illustrator Ant Sang about how he conveys movement in his illustrations.
Make a Moving Puppet
by Fifi Colston
Instructions showing how to use split-pin paper fasteners to make a puppet with movable limbs.
Bouncing the Beat
by Serie Barford; illustration by Phillip Paea
A poem conveying the lively movement of the Samoan sāsā dance.
Super Huhu
by Sarah Johnson; illustrations by Scott Pearson
A fantasy story about five friends who have suddenly acquired superpowers and how they work together to get rid of a giant huhu grub they have accidentally created.
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