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A Long Way Home
A Long Way Home looks at refugees today and in the past. This Internet
based unit investigates how people organise themselves in response to
challenge and crisis. It also focuses on the causes of those events and the
ways they affect people's lives.
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Classroom Trade Day
In this unit students participate in a classroom simulation of an APEC Trade Fair. They
will learn about how and why countries view and use resources differently as they trade, and
the consequences of that.
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Crafty Consumers
This unit explores ways people use money differently when they buy goods
and services. It also examines how and why individuals and groups seek to
safeguard the rights of the consumer.
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Dr Livingstone, I presume?
An integrated English/Social Studies unit. Students identify the experiences
and challenges that people face as they explore and find out about new places.
They are encouraged to explain why and how explorers have undertaken journeys.
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Hillary Challenge
Reach the summit by taking on the Hillary Challenge and learn how Sir
Edmund Hillary's achievements have impacted on others.
This unit is designed for use with the
Hillary - Nothing Venture, Nothing Win CD issued to all
New Zealand schools during May 2003.
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Land of Plenty
New Zealand is made up of many ethnic groups who have migrated here.
This unit is about a few of the immigrant groups that left their homeland
for the unknown - New Zealand. It looks at how and why these groups
pass on their culture and heritage in New Zealand.
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Outbreak: The Influenza Epidemic in New Zealand 1918
In this unit students study the causes of the 1918 influenza epidemic and the effects it
had on people's everyday lives.
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More than a Holiday: Labour Day
Samuel Parnell's struggle to promote workers rights in New Zealand
is celebrated each Labour Day. In this unit, students learn about his
ideas, create a cartoon strip that tells his story and take a look
at current issues relating to children and work.
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Picking up the Pieces
This unit explores the effects of a natural disaster by looking at
the experience of the people of Gujarat in India, who faced a major
earthquake in January 2001. Students look at the short and long-term
effects of the earthquake and describe how aid organisations helped to
provide for people's needs after the earthquake.
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Silk Stockings and Sand-traps
In this unit the students interview a New Zealand
woman who experienced World War II. They analyse ways
women's lives changed during this time, and the response to this.
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Tangata Whenua: The First Innovators
This unit looks at the ways early Mäori settlers interacted with the
environment and how these interactions are reflected in the environment
today. It links to a number of aspects of Essential Learning About New
Zealand Society including Mäori migration, settlement, life, and
interaction in various areas of New Zealand over time; changing patterns of
resource and land use and the location and significance of important natural
and cultural features of the landscape.
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Tropical Rainforests: An Endangered Resource
Here's a chance for your students to conduct a Social Studies Inquiry
into the ways people use the tropical rainforest resource differently.
They can also use online resources to explore some of the important
issues that relate to this topic.
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Utter Isolation
In this unit students study the culture and heritage of Tristan da Cunha, the world's
most remote inhabited island.
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