Social Sciences · Years 7–8 · NZ Curriculum
Global history
What Social Sciences intermediate students in Aotearoa New Zealand learn under global history, and where it shows up across Kōkiri Learn's inquiry worlds.
Social Sciences · 7 inquiry worlds cover this strand
New Zealand Curriculum, Phase 3
The teaching sequence
Year 7 sequence
- The Silk Roads: the Han-era trade network and the hardships of the route
- Merchants, monks and travellers exchanging goods, beliefs and technologies
- Venice, the spice trade and the Age of Exploration
- Conquest, colonisation, trading empires and the transatlantic slave trade
- Alternative context: China and the West 1644–1949
Year 8 sequence
- The US Civil Rights Movement 1954–1968
- The 13th Amendment and Jim Crow segregation
- Non-violent strategies and ordinary people: Montgomery, Greensboro, Birmingham, Little Rock
- The Civil Rights Act 1964 and the Voting Rights Act 1965
- Alternative context: expansion west in America 1803–1890s
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.
5 weeksPrint and Pattern: Printmaking and DesignYear 8 sequence · How patterns and textiles carry cultural identity and travel between peoples
5 weeksSilk Roads and Sea Routes: When Worlds TradeYear 7 sequence · The Silk Roads: the Han-era trade network and the hardships of the route; merchants, monks and travellers exchanging goods, beliefs and technologies (silk, paper, printing, the compass and gunpowder)
- 5 weeksSilk Roads and Sea Routes: When Worlds Trade
Year 7 sequence · Venice and the spice trade, the Age of Exploration, and conquest, colonisation, trading empires and the transatlantic slave trade, including resistance and abolition
5 weeksMana Motuhake: Power, Decisions and PeopleYear 8 sequence · Non-violent strategies compared: the Parihaka ploughing campaign alongside the Montgomery bus boycott and the sit-ins of the US Civil Rights Movement
5 weeksStanding Up: Civil Rights and Youth VoiceYear 8 sequence · The US Civil Rights Movement 1954–1968: the 13th Amendment, Jim Crow segregation and the restriction of African American voting rights
- 5 weeksStanding Up: Civil Rights and Youth Voice
Year 8 sequence · Non-violent strategies and ordinary people: the NAACP and SCLC, Montgomery, Brown v Board, Greensboro, and young people at the front in Birmingham and Little Rock
- 5 weeksStanding Up: Civil Rights and Youth Voice
Year 8 sequence · The Civil Rights Act 1964 and the Voting Rights Act 1965, and evaluating how effective one strategy for change was
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