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