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Note: This activity may be used as a formative assessment task for Achievement
Standard 1.3 Conduct a Social Studies Inquiry.
Students choose one Case Study as the focus for their Inquiry,
eg. Cambodia, Angola, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Iraq, Sudan,
Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya, Vietnam or any of the other nations
subjected to landmines.
Provide each student with a copy of the Inquiry Template and, if
appropriate, to Inquiry Steps - how to conduct a Social Studies Inquiry.
Focus: How changes in (Case Study) brought about by landmines have affected
people and the environment.
Students will communicate their findings as a news magazine article with at
least three relevant visuals.
Appropriate Conventions
for a news magazine article could include:
snappy headline, introductory paragraph; series of paragraphs logically
linked; key sentences with supporting evidence; relevant visuals with
captions; proof-read for spelling and grammar; concluding paragraph.
Refer to the Criteria for Conduct a Social Studies Inquiry if this activity
is to be used as an Assessment Task.
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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