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TEACHER Bronwyn Wood

YEAR
11
LEVEL
6
DURATION
4-5 weeks

Achievement Standards being Assessed Achievement Criteria
Social Studies 1.4
Examine differing values positions
  • Explain with in-depth understanding why people hold differing values positions
  • Describe a range of consequences of these value positions and the significance of these.
Social Studies 1.5
Decide on social action in relation to a social issue
  • State possible social actions in relation to a social issue and identify their likely consequences.
  • Identify the preferred action(s) and justify with reasoned argument.
Strand Achievement Objectives to be Assessed Learning Outcomes



Place and Environment
how people's descriptions of places and the environment reflect particular purposes and points of view.

Students will be able to:

- Identify the purposes people have for describing places and the environment (e.g. commercial, historical, aesthetic) .
- Explain how people's points of view influence their descriptions of places and the environment.

Supporting Achievement Objectives Learning Outcomes



Resources and economic activities
how and why individuals and groups make decisions about the use of resources, goods and services.

Students will be able to:

- Identify factors (e.g. cost, values, historical significance) that influence the sale of land to overseas buyers
- Explain how individuals, households and businesses make decisions about the sale of land to overseas buyers
- Identify the likely consequences of decisions people make about the use of New Zealand sites and land

Processes Learning Outcomes
  Students will be able to:
Inquiry - Collect and record information about New Zealand's international image created by the Tourism New Zealand website
- Communicate findings about New Zealand's brand image by creating a pamphlet, using appropriate conventions
Values exploration - explain how values positions toward land or a site develop and change over time
- demonstrate how groups may share some values toward land and agree to differ about others
Social Decision making - identify a range of conflicts and problems associated with a land sale to an overseas buyer
- generate a range of possible solutions to an area of controversy over land
- plan possible actions in relation to the identified problem and identify the likely consequences of these actions
Requirements
Settings:New Zealand
Perspectives:Bicultural; Multicultural; Gender; Current Issues; the Future.
Essential Learning About New Zealand Society (ELANZS):
  • Maori culture and heritage and the influence of this heritage on New Zealand's social, cultural, political and religious belief systems;
  • The physical environment in New Zealand and how people interact with the landscape;
  • Changing patterns of resource and land use
  • The location and significance of important natural and cultural features of the landscape

Assessment
1.4 Examine differing values positions
Assessment schedule

1.5 Decide on social action in relation to a social issue
Assessment schedule

TEACHING AND LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Smiley Select and adapt these learning activities to best meet the needs of your students, and to fit the time available:

  1. Warm ups

    1. Picture perfect New Zealand

      • Get hold of a lot of tourist brochures (look the New Zealand tourism portal site) and pamphlets about New Zealand. In groups, examine these whilst considering the question: "How do they describe New Zealand?"

      • Complete the Retrieval chart using at least five tourist resources.

    2. Destination New Zealand

      • Divide into groups of 3-5. Choose one well known site in New Zealand that many of you have traveled to - one of New Zealand's major tourist sites may be a good idea. For example: Rotorua's thermal area; Milford Sound; Queenstown; Bay of Islands. Do not reveal the location of your selected site to anyone else.

        • As a group, come up with a description of this place from the perspective of a person promoting it as a tourist attraction. Keep this under 55 words and do not use the name of your site anywhere. Write this on a piece of card.

        • Now describe the same place from the perspective of a local resident. Keep this under 55 words and do not use the name of your site anywhere. Write this on a piece of card.

        • Read out your 2 descriptions to your class. They can all out at any time to try and guess your site.

      • Use your own card and then swap with another 2 groups and complete the Triple T Table. Describe what is characteristic of each type of description.

      • Complete the Venn diagram comparing the 2 descriptions, listing the differences and similarities.

 
PART ONE: For sale: regions of New Zealand

  1. How do regions in New Zealand promote themselves?

    How do they use features of the environment that are distinct to their place?
    Get some definitions of natural and cultural to help you. Look at the following websites and complete the retrieval chart.

 
PART TWO: For sale: Aotearoa New Zealand

  1. Branding New Zealand

    1. For what purpose is a marketing campaign for a place undertaken? Have a look at a advertising company that specifically creates a 'city brand' for Asian cities. Scroll to the bottom of the page to see the branding process.

    2. One of the main branding and marketing campaigns of Tourism New Zealand is the 100% Pure New Zealand campaign.
      Conduct an Online Mini Inquiry exploring why this campaign was established, what impact it has had and what image it creates for New Zealand (ie: how it describes New Zealand).

  2. Tourism at a national level

    1. Create a pamphlet describing the benefits of tourism to New Zealand. Use the summary from the Tourism Industry Association New Zealand. In the centre, put a blank map of New Zealand and on one side list and describe the benefits. Leave the other side blank for now.

    2. Use the following online resources to create a future timeline for tourism in New Zealand.

  3. Tourism - troublemaker?

    What harm can describing New Zealand in such rosy terms (e.g. attracting loads of visitors) cause to New Zealand? Go back to the pamphlet you created in 4a and complete the other side of the map with a list and description of damage that can be caused by tourism:

 
PART THREE: For sale: New Zealand real estate

Teachers: Try and find an issue of land sale to overseas buyers in your area. Adapt the following activities to make them appropriate to your local area.

  1. Selling up New Zealand

    1. Selling land in New Zealand to overseas buyers is a very lucrative business.
      What assets were sold to overseas buyers in 2002? and in the first three months of 2003 as documented in the NZ Herald?

    2. Criteria
      What criteria surround these sales?
      Look at the end of the article about assets sold in the first 3 months of 2003 and also the Overseas Investment Commission (scroll to point 46) to look at controls and restrictions on the sale of New Zealand real etstate.

    Complete a structured overview diagram about sales to overseas buyers.

  2. Case Study: Kaikoura Island in the Hauraki Gulf: For sale notice

    People have a wide variety of purposes and points of view on land that is for sale to overseas buyers.

    Create a mind map of all the business, conservation groups, and local people who are interested in Kaikoura Island. Include what they value this land for. In the centre, place the words 'The value and description of Kaikoura Island'. See a sample mind map for ideas

  3. Assessment: Valuing our place: Young Nick's Head

    Assessment: Valuing our place: Young Nick's Head
    Assessment schedule

  4. Your opinion: Sale of Kina Cliffs to American buyer

    1. Read the extract about Kina Cliffs, Mapua, sold to an American in 2002.

    2. Update news on Kina Cliffs - read section: Developer supports Council measures

    3. Examine these photos to give you an idea about the area. In groups, complete 2 Ps and WC.

    4. Complete a perception analysis table. Describe the point of view of 4 people in the Kina Cliffs.

    5. What is you point of view? Why?
      What do you think about the sale of land such as the Kina Cliffs to overseas buyers? Complete an opinion-proof chart to describe your opinion.

    6. Take action on your opinion.
      Assessment 1.5 Decide on social action in relation to a social issue
      Assessment schedule

RESOURCES

Electronic

Print

  • Chamberlain, Jenny 'Wild space race: loving the wilderness to death', North & South February 2003
  • Ansley, Bruce 'Where the sand turns into gold' NZ Listener December 7 2002 (pp18-24)




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