This is the gateway to the Feet First (Walk to School Every Week) Curriculum Resource. You can read more about the resource below and then click on the links on the right to explore and download the full content.

Key Understanding

Walking benefits people, places and the planet.

The Feet First curriculum resource challenges students to ask, “walking: what difference can I make?” It is designed to help students to answer the following subsidiary questions:

1. Define walking.
2. Explain the benefits of walking.
3. Predict how using sustainable transport such as walking might improve people, places and the planet.

The Feet First Curriculum Resource connects students to the people, places and environments around them, encourages them to be actively involved participants and contributors to the well-being of their communities and environments, and provides experiences to develop critical and creative thinking and decision making (the New Zealand Curriculum Vision, page 8).

The resource is pedagogically designed to be consistent with the eight New Zealand Curriculum Principles of community engagement, Treaty of Waitangi, inclusion, coherence, future focus, high expectations, cultural diversity and learning to learn (the New Zealand Curriculum Principles, page 11).

Each Feet First Learning Area Resource includes the New Zealand Curriculum Values to be encouraged modelled and explored (the New Zealand Curriculum Values, page12), and the Key Competencies to be developed (the New Zealand Curriculum Key Competencies, page12), including example self-assessment rubrics.

The learning experiences and the success criteria in the self assessment rubrics have been designed against the Structure of Observed Learning Outcomes (SOLO Taxonomy), Biggs, J. & Collis, K. (1982).

For a more detailed explanation of SOLO Taxonomy you can read this HOT Differentiated Curriculum Model article -http://hooked-on-thinking.com/wiki/doku.php. 

Waikowhai school have been working with the SOLO taxonomy - in a series of very short videos the students and teachers discuss SOLO taxonomy as a framework for questioning. http://www.youtube.com/user/Chokearti