Last term we looked at how the environment affected people’s lives. This included:

• The economic environment• The religious environment• The political environment• The social environment• The physical environment.

This term we are focusing on how these environments create either order or chaos in the lives of those affected directly or indirectly.

We focused on Roman Life and how society was affected by their beliefs, laws and natural disasters (The eruption of Pompeii.)

Order and Chaos

ChaosChaos: Disorder; Anarchy; Bedlam; Confusion; Disorganisation;

Lawlessness; Pandemonium; Tumult.

Order: Tidiness; Method; Neatness; Peace; Calm; Control; Discipline; Law

and Order; Quiet; Tranquillity.

Term two Integrated Studies

Do Now:

In pairs, look up these words in a dictionary and record their meanings.

Then: Create a title page “depicting” “portraying” what you “predict” this topic will be about.

The New Zealand Way of Life

New Zealand is a democracy.

We have the right to vote for our leaders and representatives in Parliament.

We have the right to speak and assemble.

We have the right to be educated and receive health care.

We have the right to practise whatever religion we please.

Do Now:

Look up the word Democracy Democracy in a dictionary and write down its meaning. Then copy the information this slide beneath.

We are equal, not alone, we are a team.

Democracy in New Zealand• New Zealand is a democracy, meaning New Zealanders have ultimate

power over the way they are governed. But it is hard to make use of that power without knowing how the process of government works.

• We get to vote for Parliament once every three years. But there is a lot more to democracy than elections. A democracy should give citizens many opportunities to participate in decision making, and provide:

Provisions of Democracy• checks and balances so that people with power cannot abuse it. • respect for the voices of minorities, as well as those of the majority. • independent and impartial judges who treat everyone equally .• a free press .• access to official information. • protection for individual rights. • freedom from corruption.

Do Now:

1. In pairs, look up and record the dictionary meanings for the words in blue.

2. Record the information from this slide making sure that you put the Provisions of Democracy on the left-hand side of your page, so that you can then write a contrast description on the right-hand side of the page.

We have checks and balances in New Zealand to stop politicians from abusing their power.

Imagine a country where there weren’t these checks and balances and people could get or have what ever they wanted.

Minorities have representation in New Zealand

Imagine being a minority group in a country where you had no say in your life

If you go to court in New Zealand you have the right to be heard by a judge who is not biased against you

Imagine being in a country where you were afraid of going to court because they didn’t “like” you or what you stood for.

We have free pressImagine being in a country where the government says what gets put in books, on t.v. on the internet or the radio. Even who has a phone!

We have access to official information.

Imagine if you had no way of finding out what has happened to other members of your family.

It is unlawful for New Zealand politicians to accept bribes or money

Imagine living in a country where the only way to get something done was to pay a government official.

Learning outcome: Students will realise that “Order” comes from following a set of Rules, Rights and Responsibilities in any Society. That if any of these rules, rights or responsibilities are disrupted then chaos can occur.

Achievement Objective/learning intention: Student understanding that a democratic political environment doesn’t mean that there is always a state of order in a country.

Do Now:1.Head up in your Social Studies Projects Book, the Heading “Our country might be a democracy – but there is sometimes still chaos around me”.

2. In pairs, list below this heading, the times when there is chaos in your own world/family/country/sports team. Perhaps it was caused by weather, fire, fighting, disagreements, protests and marches, or people deciding not to work until they get better working conditions.

3. I will be asking each of you to share your list with the class.

My list would include protest marches about the smacking bill, the Vietnam War, fighting in the street during the Spring Bok tour and my family’s split between whether a game of rugby should be played in New Zealand or not.

SO WHAT HAVE YOU NOTICED HAPPENING IN NZ or YOUR LIFE THAT SEEMS MORE CHAOTIC THAN ORDERLY?

Bree, Emily, Tania and Nikita

• The smacking Bill• The foodtown strike• Illnesses in families and people becoming paralysed• Family poverty• Road works• Earthquakes and tsunamis• Fear of war• When family comes around for Xmas• Fights at school• Natural disasters eg. Eruptions• Boating accidents

The constitution• In many nations (for example, the United States) the constitution is a

supreme law that describes the nation’s major institutions, defines their powers, and sets out the rights of citizens.

• New Zealand’s constitution is based on the Westminster, or British, tradition. It has evolved over many years and has continued to change since we became independent of Britain.

• Parliament, government and judges must all do what the constitution says. • The constitution can only be changed by special procedures (for example, a

two-thirds vote by Parliament, or a referendum). • New Zealand’s Constitution is found in a combination of: • formal legal documents (particularly the Constitution Act 1986, the

Letters Patent Constituting the Office of the Governor-General, the Electoral Act 1993 and the New Zealand Bill of Rights Act 1990)

• decisions of the courts (known as common law) • long-standing and recognised practices (some of which are described as

constitutional conventions). Do Now: 1. Head Up The Constitution and answer the following questions in COMPLETE sentences 2. What is NZ’s constitution based on?

3. Who must do what the constitution says?

4. What two ways can the Constitution of NZ be changed?

5.In what four formal legal documents, court decisions and conventions is the constitution written into?

6 Look up the word Conventions referendum in the dictionary and record meaning.

Is this law and order? You decide!• Hitler walks with a young German boy.

What do you know about Hitler’s Government? Who was Hitler? (Copy this introduction and the following instructions.)

Hitler’s policies and ideas created a very organised and orderly society in Germany in the late 1930’s.

He also created employment and restored the German people’s pride after losing World War One.

But his beliefs were not peaceful. In what way?

He did not value all human life equally. What does this mean?

What do you think of this kind of law and order? Explain what you mean.