Kōkiri Learn

Week 2 of 5

How decisions get made in Aotearoa

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Session 1 · TRACE: Relationships

Three branches

  1. 15 minRead 'How Parliament makes a law': Legislature, Executive, Judiciary.
  2. 20 minWhere does your decision sit? Who had the power to make, carry out or challenge it?
  3. 15 minPetitions and submissions: how ordinary people push for change (the 1893 petition had about 32,000 signatures).

Session 2 · TRACE: Accounts

Competing accounts

  1. 10 minWhose voice does each source represent?
  2. 30 minCollect accounts for and against the decision from the time (Papers Past, NZ History).
  3. 10 minNote what each side wanted and why.

Getting started

Sort statements into 'for', 'against' and 'unsure'.

Stretch

Compare New Zealand's unwritten constitution with a written one such as the United States'.

Checkpoint

At least two competing accounts, each with its source recorded.

Activities for this week