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Teachers notes
In this activity students will navigate their way around the QuickStats About a Place pages to research relevant information about selected places in New Zealand. Encourage students to select areas that no one else is researching so that there is a good coverage across the country.
Draw a map of New Zealand and fix it to the wall.
Ask students to locate exactly where their chosen place is on this outline.
Clicking onto the ‘Go to the related Boundary Map’ button will help them to do this accurately.
By completing the activity and sharing their findings, students will be able to answer the key question. While the question itself is closed in nature the key is the evidence that the students provide to support their answer.
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Key question: Do all places in New Zealand share the same statistics?
Provide evidence for your answer. |
Activity
1. For this activity students will need access to the Internet. Give them the opportunity to navigate their way around the QuickStats About a Place pages.
2. Stimulate discussion by asking students to consider which categories (from the 12) would provide interesting information that they could investigate to best answer the key question (perhaps not more than four).
3. Display the negotiated topics so that students can refer to them as they collate their individual sets of information.
4. Provide students with flashcards so that they can write their findings on them – a different colour for each topic, ensuring that the place name is included on the card.
5. Collect completed cards and sort into groups of the same category.
6. Re-distribute each category to a group of students. Ask them to present the information (evidence) in any way that they like to best answer the key question.
Next step
The 2006 Census Education Resource has several activities that could be used to follow up from this activity. All activities are now online and can be accessed through Schools Corner.
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