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Social Science - Creating new places

Social Science - Creating new places

Key Competency

Thinking.

Inquiry Taster

You can download the document above for the comprehensive inquiry and context but below is a taster of what it offers.

  • Define ‘exploration’.
  • Define ‘innovation’.
  • Identify a place you walk past in your local area.
  • Invite a local historian, long-time resident, and town planner to share stories about the ways people discovered and developed an identified local place.
  • Describe this place in terms of its use since discovery.
  • Describe the people who have used this place since its development.
  • Sequence the changes in a place and the way people have used a place since its discovery.
  • Map the changes to an identified place since its discovery.
  • Classify the different uses of a place since its discovery.
  • New Zealand Transport Agency. Waka Kotahi.
  • newzealand.govt.nz website.