Quaid Te Ara 3

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

3. Manukau Harbour

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Tamaki river into the search box and use the Harbours and wetlands page to answer these questions.

What two adjectives are used to describe the Manukau Harbour?

The adjectives are wide and shallow

What landforms are common in the harbour?

Wetlands and Rivers

What two things about the Manukau Harbour have led to shipwrecks?

Shifting sandbars and swells

What was the worst shipwreck on the Manukau bar?

HMS Orpheus and 259 people on board and 189 drowned.

Quaid Te Ara 2

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

2. Tamaki River

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki river

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Tamaki river into the search box and use the Eastern suburbs: Oraki  to the Tamaki estuary page to answer these questions.

Where does the river flow from and to? The river flows from Mangere east to a tidal estuary on the Waitemata.

What was the link used by Maori called?

The link is called Otahuhu portage to the Manukau .

What two bodies of water does it join?

The two bodies are Manukau and the Waitemata harbour

What sort of landform is Tāhuna Tōrea?

It is a sandspit

What is the name of the marina on the Tamaki river?

It is called Half Moon Bay

When was the first Panmure Bridge built?

It was built in 1866

When was the current bridge built?

It was built in 1959

Quaid Te Ara 1

Using Te Ara -

The Encyclopedia of New Zealand

1. Waitemata Harbour

L.I. Develop our knowledge of Auckland and the Tamaki River.

Familiarise ourselves with an online NZ encyclopaedia.

Use our skimming and scanning skills.

Use this link to open Te Ara

Enter Waitemata into the search box and use that page to answer these questions.

What sort of landform is the Waitemata harbour?

The Waitemata Harbour is a drowned river valley.

Why was it chosen to be New Zealand’s capital?

Because it is a navigable channel and its sheltered bays helped to determine Lieutenant-Governor Hobson’s choice of a site for New Zealand's capital in 1840.

What does Waitemata mean?

Waitemata means obsidian waters - The glassy surface known as obsidian rock.

Tell me one interesting fact about each of these features of the Waitemata-It has tidal flats and mangroves in the upper reaches to the west, and sandy bays with sandstone cliffs along the eastern shores.

Auckland’s chief port -By 1900, 132 acres (53 hectares) of land had been reclaimed from the harbour.

Viaduct basin -The Viaduct Basin, site of the old fishing harbour, was redeveloped in the mid-1990s as a site where the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron could host the America’s Cup in 1999 and 2003.

Westhaven -The Westhaven Marina, with 1,800 berths, is the largest managed marina in Australasia, and a symbol of Aucklanders’ love of sailing.

Harbour bridge -It was the last bridge in the world constructed with a steel lattice girder.

Greenhithe bridge - The Greenhithe Bridge was built in 1975 as an alternative harbour

Natural features -It was formed by lava flowing from the Three Kings eruption 20,000 years ago.

Photo Essay

Storm in a Teacup - Metaphor and Simile task

Storm in a Teacup

L.I. - The use of simile and metaphor in a poem

Read the poem

Complete these sentences:

A simile is… rhetorical figure expressing comparison or likeness that directly compares two things through some connective word . √

A metaphor is...a figure of speech in which a word or phrase that is used in a sentence about another object √

Identify the simile -  like a silver typhoon √

Identify the metaphor - Marshmallow floating ,chocolate sea, pink debris √

Think of an everyday object that has some moving parts e.g. a clock

ballpoint pen

Write your own poem describing the object using a mixture of simile and metaphor.  

Keep it simple and short.

The ballpoint pen rolls around as fast as a bowling ball

It slowly searches in desperation for more ink

As it runs out it becomes blurry

The writer becomes frustrated,

The pen just lies there

exhaustion has taken over the pens abilities

as fast a speeding rocket.

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