Earth Dreamers: Growing hope in response to the Climate Crisis

Earth Dreamers is a teaching facing resource where the teacher acts as facilitator for the learning process, guiding students through the inquiry process and fostering learner agency and choice.  

Climate change, regeneration and sustainability are enduring themes of significance that are seen both within New Zealand and international contexts. They are all significant issues of social, economic, and environmental importance.

Earth Dreamers facilitates the use and learning of social science practices to investigate these concepts holistically and to take action for a thriving collective future. This resource is primarily designed to support social sciences learning for teachers of years 7–8, however, there are several ways in which each inquiry could be meaningfully integrated within other learning areas.  This resource can be used to support teaching and learning for either the 2007 New Zealand Curriculum, or the refreshed te ao tangata | social sciences learning area.

Earth Dreamers uses an inquiry model which facilitates learning through active connections with place and community. Each inquiry is divided into three stages – Setting the scene, Let’s investigate, and Let’s be changemakers. These stages have been influenced by Education for Sustainability, project-based learning, and other inquiry learning models. 

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