Activity G20: The Impact of Landuse

Great Barrier Island Activity	Teacher Manual P 45 Social Studies Level 4 Place and Environment Created 15/09/2001	AO1 - Students will demonstrate knowledge and understandings of how places reflect past interactions of people with the environment. Process : Inquiry and Values Exploration. SLO - Students will be able to investigate and make conclusions about the natural environment resulting from local Maori and Pakeha land use on Great Barrier Island. © Heurisko Ltd www.learnz.org.nz/2001

Read the background pages European Settlements, Maori History, Minerals and Mining, Kauri - a natural resource. People in the past made use of the land on Great Barrier Island to meet their needs. Describe how people changed the forest or landscape when they were building dwellings: planting food crops: mining for gold and silver: farming animals: milling kauri: People in different times hold different values about forest ecosystems. Imagine you are a forestry worker working on Mt Hirakimata about 100 years ago. Without this work you wouldn't have much money or food. What would you value more - your job or preserving kauri trees? Why ? Now imagine that today you are a visitor from Auckland to Great Barrier Island. You've come to see the kauri forest and the pohutukawa in flower. Would you give a different value to the forest as a visitor today? Why/why not? The Department of Conservation manages land on Great Barrier Island to retain its conservation values. Use the drawing below to list the ways people can make use of these places.