Approach: |
One
to one |
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Level: Year
8 |
Focus: |
Reasons
for and consequences of migration |
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Resources:
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2
pictures |
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Questions/instructions: |
Hand
student both pictures.
Here are two pictures showing a sailing ship filled with new settlers coming
to New Zealand in the
1800s - about 200 years ago.
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%
responses
2009 ('05) |
y4 |
y8 |
1.
Which country or countries do you think these early settlers came from? |
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Britain (including England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland) |
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70
(84) |
Australia
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7
(3) |
Europe (excluding Britain) |
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30
(26) |
2.
Why did they come to New Zealand to live? Try to give me three reasons
why they chose to leave their country to live in New Zealand. |
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poor
living conditions in home country/ better in New Zealand (money, jobs, health and food) |
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45
(44) |
good
land/own land |
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14
(18) |
New
Zealand healthy place to live (more space, less crowds) |
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26
(29) |
3.
What new things would these people need to learn and do, so that they
could be okay living in a country that is very different and a long
way away from the one they came from? |
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Mentioned
learning about/ needing to: |
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Grow
crops: in
New Zealand conditions (understand seasons, soil) |
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2
(0) |
grow
food/farming |
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16
(18) |
build
own home |
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23
(35) |
gather
food from the environment (fish, kumara) |
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19
(34) |
speak
Mäori (new language)/ anything to do with living with
Mäori |
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26
(16) |
laws
of country/rules/customs |
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17
(12) |
learn
to trade/learn new trades/skills |
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11
(13) |
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Total
score: |
7–8
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2
(4) |
5–6
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10
(14) |
3–4
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40
(45) |
1–2
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42
(31) |
0
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6
(7) |