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Back to Seat of Power Virtual Field Trip
This unit addresses the part of the achievement objective which
examines one system of government - democracy. To fully address
this
achievement objective, you will need to examine another system of
government elsewhere, in the past or present.
Who's the Boss online unit does this by comparing the
democratic government in New Zealand with a dictatorship - ie, that
in Cambodia during the rule of Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. You may wish
to use this Virtual Field Trip to enhance the New Zealand component
of Who's the Boss.
This Virtual Field Trip is intended to support and enhance your teaching of a unit on
people's participation in central government in New Zealand.
It uses online links to support the understanding
of Parliament and our system of government. It is in no way intended
to replace an authentic field trip to Parliament, which can be arranged by
contacting the Education Officer, Veronica Allum
on
veronica.allum@parliament.govt.nz
Fax 04 472 8206
Virtual Field Trips are a dynamic way in which the WWW is enhancing learning
in the classroom. Read these Virtual
Field Trip guidelines to see how you can cement a Virtual Field Trip
into your unit planning and make it an authentic learning experience. The list
of "does" and "don'ts" are a very practical set of guidelines which show the
importance of the teacher in guiding and facilitating the online experience
to gain maximum advantage as a learning experience. Surfaquarium
has amazing Virtual Field trips to interesting geographic sites around the world.
The "Find Out More" questions are easily accessible
from the web links provided earlier in each stop, or in the "Find Out
More" sections. You may wish to extend your students further in
this section by further web searches using
Google
or by using print resources.
A downloadable clipboard is provided for recording information for the
"Record" questions. The "Find Out More" questions will need to be
recorded in students' workbooks. You will need to select the stops
that you want students to undertake more research on, depending on the time you
have available and the needs of your students.
To access the audio links in
Stop 6 you will need to install
RealOne Player.
This requires Windows 98 or better.
Back to Seat of Power Virtual Field Trip
This material has been produced by UNITEC Institute of Technology
under contract to the Ministry of Education.
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