A Catalogue/Price List of our
Social Sciences Resources

NOTE: All Prices Quoted are as at February 2010,
in New Zealand Dollar Amounts and include GST

• Our visual resources have always been designed with flexibility in mind and are particularly suitable for inquiry based learning, integrated planning, thematic approaches and formative assessment. All Resources cover the 8 learning areas and the 5 key competencies and challenge students to:
- set high standards for themselves (managing self)
- work together to expand and share knowledge and ideas
- consider their own role locally and globally
- think creatively, critically and logically
- explore written, visual and oral text
• All resources contain:
- visual informations (charts, photos and maps)
- written information (including learning activities)
- comprehensive teachers resource book
- and cater for a wide range of learning styles, levels and ability
- are laminated and packaged conveniently for storage and access.
• Contact us:
  - for suggestions on how our resources may fit into your lesson plans
  -if you want to know what your school has bought in the past as we have this information on our database.
  - if you like to see resources on approval

NEW ZEALAND IN CHANGE 1880-1914

• 110 large Teaching Pictures with multiphotos (size 410 x 580mm)
• Over 50 photos depicting life In New Zealand for early settlers and Maori and the unique nature of Aotearoa/New Zealand society.
• Information on topics and Starter Questions on back of all charts
• Charts are laminated and in sepia colour
• TOPICS:
  Using the Land
  Where People Live
  Moving About
  Working for a Living
  Changing Role of Women
  What People Wore
  Going to School
  Family Life
  Enjoying Leisure Pastimes
  Playing Sport
  

$59

CELEBRATING NEW ZEALANDERS

• 11 x large (410x580mm) laminated Charts with over 70 photos depicting the lives of 11 famous Kiwi men and women. Careful balance given to gender, ethnic origin and range of contributions and achievements.
• Information on people and starter questions on back of all charts
• Famous Kiwis covered:Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, Dame Whina Cooper, Sir William Hamilton, Sir Edmund Hillary, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Katherine Mansfield, George Nepia, Sir Apirana Ngata, Lord Rutherford, Kate Sheppard, John Walker

$59

CHINA TODAY

• Teacher's Resource book (164 p.) with sample unit plans learning activities and over 140 reproduceable worksheets.
• Topics covered: map, cultural history, housing, children, transport, markets, festivals, minorities, etc.

$20

ANTARCTICA - Resource Pack

Information resources to support integrated planning.

• Geographical Map (60x60) with detailed information and graphics on back
• Card with teaching ideas and topics linked to curriculum areas;
• Four full colour laminated A4 charts (4 photos per chart). Information and questions on back
Topics: The land; Explorers; Scott Base; Scientific Research
• Large information poster with over 22 photos on life in Antarctica
• Packed in strong plastic bag with handle
• Teachers Book (full colour). Includes background information and learning activities.
• Multilevel
• Strands:Place and Environment/Economic World

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Jobs people do- WORKING WITH ANIMALS

• 14 F/C Photocharts(A4):
• Topics: Working with Animals in the Past;Security Animals;Domestic Animals;Specialist Animals;Farm Animals;Zoo Animals;Endangered Animals
• Teacher's handbook
• Background info, learning resources and student's worksheets
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organization/Economic World.
• Cross-curricular links with Science and Technology, English and the Arts
• Multilevel

$99.00

Now $69

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EMERGENCY SERVICES

• 8 Photocharts (A3): St John Ambulance, The Fire Brigade, Land Search and Rescue, Rescue Helicopter, Repairing a Landslip, Surf Life Saving, The Coastguard, Civil Defence (Flood Disaster).
• Teacher's Handbook with student's worksheets
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Economic World
• Cross-curricular links with Health, Technology and English
• Multilevel

$120.00

Now $69

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JOBS PEOPLE DO- AT THE AIRPORT

• 8 Photocharts(A3): Specifically looks at the jobs people do - The Check-in Counter, Baggage Loading and Refueling, Airline Catering, The maintenance Hangar, Airport Security, In The Cockpit, The Control Tower, Jean Batten - Pioneer Aviator.
• Teacher's handbook with student's worksheets
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Economic World
• Fits in with Technology and cross links with English.
• Multilevel

$99.00

Now $69

FOOD PRODUCTION:
       Processes & Occupations

• 16 A4 Full Colour Photocharts
• Topics: From Wheat to Bread, From Paddock to Plate, From Seeds to Veggie Market Stall, From the Sea to the Fish Shop.
• Teachers Handbook
• Strand: Economic World
• Cross-curricular links with Health and Food Technology
• Multilevel

$99.00

Now $69

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PEOPLE AND PLACE

• 9 Full Colour Photocharts (A3)
• Teachers Handbook
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Place and Environment
• Cross-curricular link with Science
• Multilevel.

$125.00

Now $69

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LIVING IN A FIJIAN VILLAGE

• 6 Full Colour Photocharts(A3)
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Place and Environment
• Teacher's Book with students' worksheets.
• Multilevel.

$120.00

Now $45

LIVING IN THE COOK ISLANDS

• 10 Full Colour Photocharts (A3) cover topics such as education, family life, food, leisure, traditions and culture.
• Workbook and lesson plans 1-4.
• Multilevel.
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Place and Environment

$110.00

Now $69

CITY LIFE IN JAPAN

• Teacher's Handbook contains lesson plans for 1-4, Background information, learning activities and reproducible worksheets.
• Covers topics such as, education, leisure, housing, festivals, family life, Hiroshima, sport, culture and food.
• Charts not available anymore but they are reproduced in the book.
• Multilevel.

$20

AT HOME WITH WORLD FAMILIES

• 10 Full Colour Photocharts(A3) portraying 10 families with all their possessions outside their homes
• Covers: Samoa, China, India, Mongolia, Thailand, Bosnia, England, Russia, Iraq, and Ethiopia.
• Teacher's book included.
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Place and Environment
• Cross links with Technology strands

$125.00

Now $69

• 8 Full Colour Photocharts
• Teacher's Handbook
• Strands: Identity/Culture/ Organisation
• Links health / PE curriculum,
  strand C.
  "To develop understandings, skills and attitudes that enhance interactions, relations with other people."
• Topics: A New Classmate, Belonging, Lending A Hand, Picking Teams, Achieving Success, Accepting Differences, Bullying, Coping with Grief
• Multilevel

$99.00

Now $69

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NZ FAMILIES- Family Interaction

• 10 Full colour charts (A3) featuring 10 diverse NZ families in a range of settings doing everyday things (single, blending, disabilities, emigrants, caring for grandparents, etc).
• Focus on co-operation and sharing responsibilities.
• Teacher's handbook includes blackline masters - ideal for juniors.
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Economic World
• Fits in with health syllabus and visual and oral strand of English curriculum level 1 and 2 as well.

$115.00

Now $69

NZ IN CHANGE- THE 1960s

• 7 Large charts with more than 40 black and white photos montage style. Covers: family life, holidays, schooling, entertainment, fashion, memorable events.
• Includes Teacher's book with background info, learning/assessment and activities.
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation/Continuity and Change

$115.00

Now $69

FESTIVALS AND CELEBRATIONS (celebrated in NZ)

• 9 Full large Colour charts with 43 photos montage style. Covers: Samoan tattooing, Niuian haircutting, Irish St. Patrick's Day, Chinese dragon boat festival, Maori canoe launching, Indian Diwali, Ramadan, Jewish Passover, Dutch St Nicholas.
• Includes comprehensive Teacher's book.
• Strands: Identity, Culture and Organisation

$135.00

Now $79

TECHNOLOGY AND CHANGE

• 11 large charts with more than 60 montage style photos on communications, in the home, money, education, employment, food, environment, energy, warfare, and transport.
• Includes workbook.
• Multilevel.
• Also fits Technology and Science curriculum.
• Strands: Continuity and Change/Economic World

$149.00

Now $79

MAORI ACHIEVERS

• 10 A3 charts featuring montage photos of 10 young people and their achievements. Features good role models and highlights goal setting. Karroll Brent-Edmondson; Pauline Kingi; Moana Maniopoto-Jackson; Temuera Morrison; Ruth Pirihi; Simon Wi Rutene; Paora Sharples; Wai Taumaunu; Philip Tataurangi; John Timu.
• Bi-lingual handbook with background information on personalities, their struggles and achievements; key concepts, learning activities.
• Ideal for Maori Studies and Maori language immersion schools.

$99.00

Now $39