Key Competency

Managing self.

Inquiry Taster

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Describe contexts for walking where you will need to make safe choices, for example, a busy city intersection, early morning mall walking, in a suburban street, in a mangrove swamp, across loose rubble, down a steep slope, down a flight of stairs.

Read books and view media showing people walking in a range of contexts and the hazards they encountered. For example, early NZ explorers, gold miners, civil engineers, shepherds, gum diggers, surveyors, shoppers with small children and modern day mall walkers.

Te Ara: Early New Zealand surveyors

Early surveyors’ attempts to map New Zealand.

Times Online: Baby Reins Good or Not

An article on the benefits and disadvantages of using baby reins when walking with young children.

Mallwalkers at LynnMall Shopping Centre

An article on a group of people who exercise by walking in shopping malls in the early morning.