Key Competency

Inquiry Taster

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• Define ‘environment’.
• Identify an environment that can be enjoyed by all – i.e. a shared resource or commons that is accessible to any member of the community, for example, clean air, clean water, parks, safe roads, pavements and walking tracks, a friendly neighbourhood.
• Identify how environments have been shared with communities in the past, for example the right to graze animals, the right to fish, to take gravel, to collect twigs and fallen branches for firewood.
• View the environments from 50, 100 and 150 years ago in the slideshows from Sustainable Future: Looking Backwards Conversations. Images from New Zealand’s past. Images of communities from New Zealand’s past.
• Ask others in your community to list the environments that can be enjoyed by all in your local area.
• Describe the environments that can be enjoyed by all and the stories they tell. For example, refer Now we are a city: How Wellington Buildings Tell Our Story. Article by Lindsay Shelton describing buildings in Wellington.