Curriculum integration

Social Studies | English | Science | Technology

Living Heritage provides a learning opportunity that reflects the following principles of the New Zealand National Curriculum Framework:

independent and lifelong learning;
valuing New Zealand's different cultures and experiences, traditions, histories, and languages.

Living Heritage provides schools with a curriculum-based activity, integrating information and communications technology (ICT) into a number of curriculum areas, including:

Science
Social Science
Technology
English and Language

Living Heritage also incorporates the following Essential Learning Skills:

Communication
Problem Solving
Social and Co-operative
Self-management and competitive
Work and Study
Information Skills

Living Heritage fits into classroom programmes because:

it can be used as an ICT component;
it promotes interaction, mentoring, and resource-sharing in the classroom, in the school, and between schools;
it preserves and displays students' work worldwide.

Relevant curriculum strands and aims

Click here for the English or Maori curriculum documents.

Social Studies

Strands

Culture and Heritage
Place and Environment
Time, Continuity, and Change

Aim

Social studies education aims to enable students to participate in a changing society as informed, confident, and responsible citizens.

Students will achieve this by developing knowledge and understanding about human society as they study:

the contribution of culture and heritage to identity, and the nature and consequences of cultural interaction;
people's interaction with place and the environment, and the ways in which people represent and interpret place and environment;
relationships between people and events through time, and interpretations of these relationships.

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English

Strands

Oral Language: listening and speaking
Written Language: reading and writing
Visual Language: viewing and presenting

Aim

The aims of English in the curriculum are to encourage students to:

engage with and enjoy language in all its varieties;
understand, respond to, and use oral, written, and visual language effectively in a range of contexts.

To achieve these aims, students will:

develop control over the processes associated with using and responding to English language purposefully and effectively through reading, writing, speaking, listening, viewing, and presenting;
develop an understanding of how language varies according to the user, audience, and purposes;
respond personally to and think critically about a range of texts, including literary texts;
use language skills to identify information needs, and to find, use, and communicate information;
understand and appreciate the heritages of New Zealand through experiencing a broad range of texts written in English.

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Science

Strands

Developing Scientific Skills and Attitudes
Making Sense of the Living World
Making Sense of the Physical World
Making Sense of Planet Earth and Beyond

Aim

The aim of science education in the curriculum is to advance learning in science by:

helping students to develop knowledge and a coherent understanding of the living, physical, material, and technological components of their environment;
encouraging students to develop skills for investigating the living, physical, material, and technological components of their environment in scientific ways;
promoting science as an activity that is carried out by all people as part of their everyday life;
promoting science as both a process and a set of ideas which have been constructed by people to explain everyday and unfamiliar phenomena;
helping students to explore issues and make responsible and considered decisions about the use of science and technology in the environment;
developing students' understanding of the different ways people influence, and are influenced by, science and technology.

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Technology

Strands

Technological Knowledge and Understanding
Technological Capability
Technology and Society

Aim

The aim of technology in the curriculum is to enable students to achieve technological literacy through the development of:

technological knowledge and understanding;
technological capability;
understanding and awareness of the relationship between technology and society.

Students achieve this by:

investigating, using, and understanding the technological products, systems, and environments that have been developed in their society;
identifying and exploring needs and opportunities which may be met through technological activity;
designing their own technological solutions;
working to agreed specifications and quality standards;
recognising the inter-relationship of technology and society – now, in the past, and in the future;
feeling empowered to contribute to a technological society.

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