The main focus is on human impacts on braided rivers and wetland ecosystems, for example:
- hydroelectric power schemes
- farming
- didymo
- wilding pines
- what DOC and other stakeholders are doing to mitigate these impacts.
Level
Year groups: 5-13
Curriculum levels: 3-8
Learning areas
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Learning Area* |
Discipline |
Strand |
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Biology |
A.S. 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.6, 3.1, 3.2 |
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Education for Sustainability |
A.S. 2.2, 2.4, 2.5, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 |
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History |
Understand how people influence places |
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Geography |
Understand how people interact with environments Understand how spatial patterns are created A.S. 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 2.1, 2.4, 2.5, 2.6, 2.8, 3.5, 3.6 |
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Science |
Nature of Science |
Participating and contributing |
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Living World |
Ecology, Evolution (multiple AO) A.S. 1.11 |
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Planet Earth and Beyond |
Interacting systems – investigating water cycle and its effects |
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Social Studies |
Understand how people interact with environments |
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Migrant significance, access and use of resources |
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Different uses of place, records and people of the past |
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Understand how conflicts can arise and be addressed |
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*If you have another learning area you wish to explore, we can adapt.
Learning objectives
Students will:
- appreciate the severity of human impacts on our local landscapes and its native flora and fauna
- recognise Aoraki/Mount Cook's natural landscape, flora and fauna as special can make social and cultural connections to historic people and events
- understand the role that DOC and other stakeholders play in monitoring and acting upon environmental threats.
Key competencies
Thinking, participating and contributing
Details
Location: Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park Visitor Centre
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour presentation and 1 hour independent learning activity)
Hazard level: Minimal
Cost: LEOTC fee