2011 Christchurch Earthquake Unit

Teach the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake with sensitivity, depth, and clear curriculum links using this integrated New Zealand unit for Level 2 learners.

This resource uses the Christchurch earthquake as a starting point for exploring natural events, safety, change, community, and how people respond during and after a disaster. It connects Social Studies, Science, and Health so students can build understanding from more than one perspective.

This unit is helpful if you want to teach about earthquakes in Aotearoa in a way that is thoughtful, age-appropriate, and more meaningful than a single worksheet.

Curriculum links include:

• Social Studies Level 2: Continuity and Change
• Science Level 1/2: Planet Earth and Beyond
• Health Level 2: Safety Management

Students explore:

• What happened during the Christchurch earthquake
• How natural events affect people and places
• How communities respond to change
• Earthquakes from a science perspective
• Safety, risk, and preparedness

This is a useful resource for New Zealand classrooms, inquiry learning, disaster studies, geography, social studies, and integrated topic work.

An integrated unit on the Christchurch Earthquake of 2011 in New Zealand looking at Earthquakes from a Social Studies, Health and Science Perspective.


This sensitively designed unit uses the Christchurch earthquake as a starting point to look at Earthquakes in New Zealand.

WHAT IS COVERED:
Achievement Objectives
Social Studies
L2 Continuity and Change
Understand how time and change affect people’s lives.

Science
L1/2 Planet Earth and Beyond: Interacting Systems
Describe how natural features are changed and resources affected by natural events and human actions.

Health
(2A3) Personal Health and Physical Development: Safety Management
Identify risk and use safe practises in a range of contexts

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