Level 5 Resources & Sustainability Learning Workbook

This workbook provides a range of activities for a full Social Studies teaching programme typically taught at Year 9 or 10 that specifically covers the Achievement Objective ‘Understand how people’s management of resources impacts on environmental and social sustainability’ from Level 5 of The New Zealand Curriculum, Social Sciences.

This workbook features twelve independent units of work:

• Introduction
• Sustaining our native forests
• Saving our oceans and seas
• The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
• Managing e-waste
• Tuvalu struggles to sustain human life
• Sustainable Samsø Island
• New Zealand’s declining water quality
• Sustainable water trail at Auckland’s Botanic Gardens
• Waste disposal in landfills
• New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone
• Sustainable Aotearoa

Answers are available at www.esa.co.nz

The workbook, based upon contemporary New Zealand, Pacific and international locations, also features:

• key social studies concepts
• social studies knowledge, skills and competencies
• key social studies vocabulary.

Students working through this workbook will be able to:

• develop an understanding of the interrelationships between people and the environment
• recognise environmental and resource degradation and depletion
• describe the causes of resource degradation and depletion
• describe the consequences of resource degradation and depletion for people and the environment
• accept that resource use must be managed and sustained
• understand that conservation is necessary to ensure resource sustainability
• explain how groups attempt to protect the environment and manage resources
• take personal responsibility for environmental sustainability and adopt social action – get involved
• understand the concept of carbon footprint and suggest ways to reduce it
• understand that he/she is a global citizen and has a personal interest in managing resources to ensure environmental and social sustainability.

The write-on format keeps student notes and work together in a compact form, providing a useful revision tool for tests and other assessments.