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Children walking in current term

National Participation in current term
Week Kids walking
1 562
2 2387
3 2645
4 2813
5 2782
6 2158

Social Science - Helping the planet the way we travel

Social Science - Helping the planet the way we travel

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 travel, e.g. to go from one place to another.

  • Identify the ways people travelled in your local area in the past
  • Read stories and accounts describing the travel of people in New Zealand in the past.
  • View the photographic resources in Sustainable Future: Looking Backwards Conversations. Slideshow of images from New Zealand’s past.
  • View photographs and drawings of people travelling in New Zealand’s past.
  • View YouTube: Sidewalk Memories  A group of older people reminiscing about their childhood growing up in a local community in Boston.
  • Search Matapihi for images and drawings of New Zealand travel in the past.
  • New Zealand Transport Agency. Waka Kotahi.
  • newzealand.govt.nz website.