Year 11 modules

Year 11, ages 15 to 16. NCEA Level 1 History. Also suits Level 1 Social Studies.

Focus: Primary sources and significance, assessed. Standards: AS92024 Engage with a variety of primary sources in a historical context (internal). AS92025 Demonstrate understanding of the significance of a historical context (internal). AS92026 and AS92027 (external) can use this context.

Care Heavier content is fine with care. Watch for students with family links to recent wars.

Year 11, ages 15 to 16. Time: 3 x 60 minutes.

Learning intentions

• I can engage with, interpret and examine a range of primary sources.

Key questions

• What do these sources tell us about New Zealanders at Gallipoli?

Activities

• Source set: Cenotaph record, troopship list, Archives NZ service file, 1915 newspaper.
• For each: who, when, why made, what it shows.
• Practice task in AS92024 style.

Source material

• Ship audit
• Sources
• Roll Call

Success criteria

• Achieved: describes each source. Merit: interprets. Excellence: examines usefulness and limits.

Year 11, ages 15 to 16. Time: 3 x 60 minutes.

Learning intentions

• I can explain the significance of Gallipoli for New Zealanders.

Key questions

• Was Gallipoli the birth of a nation, or a myth?

Activities

• Read the Anzac Day and Gallipoli numbers pages.
• Significance ladder: then, later, now.
• Draft a significance essay.

Source material

• Anzac Day
• Gallipoli numbers

Success criteria

• Explains significance with evidence, for more than one group.

Year 11, ages 15 to 16. Time: 2 x 60 minutes.

Learning intentions

• I can use cause, consequence and change in a NZ context.

Key questions

• What did Gallipoli change in New Zealand?

Activities

• Cause and consequence map from 1914 to 1922.
• Practice paragraphs for AS92026.

Source material

• Teacher guide
• Facts

Success criteria

• Links a cause and a consequence with specific detail: names, dates, numbers.