Section outline

  • Continuity and Change – Students learn about past events, experiences, and actions and the changing ways in which these have been interpreted over time. This helps them to understand the past and the present and to imagine possible futures.

    Place and Environment – Students learn about how people perceive, represent, interpret, and interact with places and environments. They come to understand the relationships that exist between people and the environment.


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    Achievement Objectives:

    • Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments.
    • Understand that events have causes and effects.


    Global Studies Learning Intention

    We are Focussing on understanding the impacts of technology and can carefully evaluate the importance of it aspects to them and their lives



    Global Success Criteria

    I can identify the impacts of technology in our ives





    I can see the development of technology from the indsutrial revolution

    I can  make questions related to technologicas changes



    I can reflect on the differences between my generation and older generations.

    I can evalute the importance of the impact of the technology in our lives




    I can describe how why some aspects of culture must be handed down to be retained or otherwise lost

    I can explain how NZ’s isolation led to the idea of “Kiwi ingenuity” and why this has been important for our national identity (on field trip to MOTAT).


    I can explain rights and responsibilities associated with aspects of technology eg cell phones and the internet.


    Google classroom

    1.  How has technology changed our lives

    2. Word association 

    3. Invention that changed the world

    4. Race who is the fastest



    FOCUS / ARONGA

    FOCUS / ARONGA learning intentions:

    • We are FOCUSING on understanding the impacts of technology and can carefully evaluate the importance of it aspects to them and their lives
      • We are FOCUSING on New Zealand technology and describing the process of design of either a new invention or an innovation on existing technology