Year 11 – 13 Programmes

GEOGRAPHY

Programme Outline:
G1

Achievement Standard: 91007
Setting: NZ (Taupo Volcanic Zone).
Title: Demonstrate geographic understanding of environments that have been changed by extreme natural eventsFocus: Volcanic eruptions – Tarawera 1886.

Key Concepts that will be explored in this programme include:
Environments
Perspectives
Interaction
Change

Classroom introduction and presentation using images and lesson aids.

Gallery Exploration & Activity.
Cinema Experience “Rotorua Stories”
 Focusing Questions:

What process produces volcanic eruptions?
How often do volcanic eruptions occur?
What sequence of events occurs in volcanic eruptions?
How do volcanic eruptions effect the natural environment?
How do volcanic eruptions affect economic and social activities?
How can people decrease the effects of a volcanic eruption?

Tarawera Extreme Natural Events
G2

Natural Landscapes
Achievement Standard: 90331
Title: Explain a natural landscape
Setting: New Zealand (Taupo Volcanic Zone)

 Key Concepts that will be explored in this programme include

Environments
Processes
Perspectives
Patterns
Change

 Classroom introduction and presentation using images and lesson aids.
Gallery Exploration.
Cinema Experience “Rotorua Stories”.

 Focusing Questions:
What are the natural elements that make up this Natural Landscape?
What process gives rise to these particular landforms?
Why do these natural landscapes vary from place to place? (variations)
How do natural landscapes evolve and change through time?
In what ways does human activity affect natural landscapes?

G3

History of Tourism Development

History of Tourism Development
Achievement Standard: 90702
Title: Analyse a cultural process
Setting: Local (Rotorua)

 Key Concepts that will be explored in this programme include
Environments
Processes
Change
Patterns
Interaction

Focusing Questions specific to Tourism Development in Rotorua:
What are the elements and interactions involved in Tourism development?
Why are local spatial variations found in Tourism development?
How has Tourism development affected the distribution of phenomena in Rotorua?
How does Tourism development operate in Rotorua?
What factors have bought about changes in Tourism development in Rotorua?
How does Tourism development encourage concentration or promote dispersal?

 Classroom lecture presentation using images and lesson aids.
Gallery Exploration.
Cinema Experience “Rotorua Stories”.

Programme Outline:

H1

A significant Historical event in New Zealand
(Can choose from Mt Tarawera or 28 Maori Battalion)
Achievement Standard: 91006

Title: Carry out an investigation of an historical event or place of significance to New Zealanders.
Setting: New Zealand
Classroom introduction and presentation using images and lesson aids.
Gallery Exploration & critical thinking task.
Cinema Experience “Rotorua Stories”.

 Focus questions:
Who were the people/groups involved in this event?
How did this event affect these people or groups of people?
What do you think were the positive and negative outcomes of this event?
Describe what happened before, during and after this event.
How does this event continue to affect New Zealand society today.

M1

TOURISM

Programme Outline:

T1

Tourism in Rotorua
Achievement Standard: 9717
Theme: Demonstrate knowledge of the history of tourism.
Topic: Tourism Development in Rotorua.
Classroom lecture presentation using images and lesson aids.
Gallery Exploration.
Cinema Experience “Rotorua Stories”.

Focusing Questions:
What is the tourism industry?
How and why did Rotorua become one of New Zealand’s major tourism destinations?
What importance is the tourism industry to the national economy?
Why do visitors come to New Zealand/Rotorua?
What are the opportunities from an international, national, local and individual perspective?
What specific processes does a tourism attraction need to follow to be successful in the tourism sector?