Learning outcomes
Unit title
- Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
Learning areas
Holding an ancient piece of the Tasman Glacier
Learning outcomes
Students will gain knowledge, skills, and experience to:
- Understand how the processes that shape natural and cultural environments change over time, vary in scale and from place to place, and create spatial patterns.
- Understand how people's perceptions of and interactions with natural and cultural environments differ and have changed over time.
Links to curriculum
- Social sciences: Geography
Level
Geographical location for field trip
- Aoraki/Mount Cook National Park
Unit or achievement standards
- AS90331 Explain a natural landscape (3 credits) or
- US5089 Describe and explain characteristics of a natural landscape (4 credits)
- AS90335 Carry out and present guided geographic research (5 credits)
- AS90336 Explain a contemporary geographic issue and evaluate courses of action (3 credits)
- US11083 Report on a work of fiction from a geographic perspective
- US11085 Report on a significant event from a geographic perspective (e.g. the avalanche on Aoraki/Mt Cook)
- US11090 Profile a resource-management issue in New Zealand
- EfS - AS90811 Describe the consequences of human activity within a biophysical environment in relation to a sustainable future (4 credits).
Themes
- Geology and landforms
- Glacial features and processes
- Alpine environments
- Climate and weather
- Plants, animals
- Tourism and recreation
- National Park management
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