Social Sciences · Years 7–8 · NZ Curriculum
Geography
What Social Sciences intermediate students in Aotearoa New Zealand learn under geography, and where it shows up across Kōkiri Learn's inquiry worlds.
Social Sciences · 11 inquiry worlds cover this strand
New Zealand Curriculum, Phase 3
The teaching sequence
Year 7 sequence
- International and internal migration: push and pull factors
- Forced migration, refugees and asylum seekers
- Post-war migrant origins, government schemes and Māori rural–urban migration
- How migrants shape places; contributions and barriers such as discrimination, language and unrecognised qualifications
- Flow maps and choropleth maps of population change
Year 8 sequence
- Natural hazards and the four Rs
- River systems, Te Awa Tupua and floodplain settlement
- Rainfall, land cover, stopbanks, forecasting and warnings
- Earthquakes: plate movement, liquefaction, tsunami and personal response
- Topographic maps and grid references
Where this shows up
Kōkiri Learn inquiry worlds that cover this strand
The whole class works on one world at a time — these are where this strand's focus actually comes up.
4 weeksNgā Tohu o te Taiao: Signs in Our EnvironmentYear 7 sequence · How people use and change a local place, and who looks after it
5 weeksRocks to Stars: Earth and SpaceYear 7 sequence · Tectonic landforms: how moving plates, volcanoes and changing sea levels shaped the rocks and landscapes of Aotearoa
4 weeksTō Mātou Rohe: Stories of Our PlaceYear 7 sequence · Why people settled where they did: harbours, river mouths and resources that drew waka, whaling ships and mission stations
5 weeksWhy We Move: Migration and BelongingYear 7 sequence · International and internal migration: push and pull factors; forced migration, refugees and asylum seekers; flow maps of migration to New Zealand
- 5 weeksWhy We Move: Migration and Belonging
Year 7 sequence · The post-war shift in migrant origins and government schemes (Assisted Passage 1947–1975); Pacific, Asian and Indian migration; Māori rural–urban migration after the war
- 5 weeksWhy We Move: Migration and Belonging
Year 7 sequence · How migrants shape places; settlement clusters and support networks; contributions and barriers such as discrimination, language and unrecognised qualifications; growth and decline on choropleth maps
5 weeksTe Awa Tupua: Rivers, Floods and PeopleYear 8 sequence · River systems from source to mouth; the river as a living ancestor with mauri and the 2017 recognition of Te Awa Tupua; floodplain settlement; topographic maps and grid references
- 5 weeksTe Awa Tupua: Rivers, Floods and People
Year 8 sequence · Rainfall and duration, deforestation and impermeable urban surfaces, stopbanks, forecasting and warnings, through the June 2015 Whanganui flood
5 weeksShaky Isles: Hazards and Getting ReadyYear 8 sequence · Natural hazards and the four Rs (Reduction, Readiness, Response, Recovery); direct and indirect impacts; managed retreat as a long-term reduction choice
- 5 weeksShaky Isles: Hazards and Getting Ready
Year 8 sequence · Earthquakes: plate movement, liquefaction, tsunami and personal response (Drop, Cover and Hold), with Canterbury 2010–11 and Kaikōura 2016 as case studies
- 5 weeksShaky Isles: Hazards and Getting Ready
Year 8 sequence · Rainfall, land cover, stopbanks, forecasting and warnings, and reading topographic maps and grid references, through Cyclone Gabrielle and the Esk Valley
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