Term 1- Week 2

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.

Learning Area: Global Studies

Curriculum 

Level 4 

Level 5

AO: 

Understand how exploration and innovation create opportunities and challenges for people, places, and environments.

Understand that people move between places and how this has consequences for the people and the places.

Learning Intention

We are EXPLORING  how the nautical history of New Zealand and national identity can be relevant for the success of a team in an elite sport using America’s cup and New Zealand team as a case study.

• Identify why New Zealand has been so successful in America’s Cup

• Recognise how America’s cup became New Zealand Cup

• Recall the main facts of this elite sport

• Describe the nautical History of New Zealand

• Summarise how the Polynesians explored the pacific

• Outline different navigating techniques 

• Explain how and why  New Zealand is a nation born of sailors

• Evaluate different sailors from other parts of the globe and other times in history