Thinker’s Keys

Name 10 things you could never do in the Pongakawa School Reserve.

What are some disadvantages of recycling? How might they be overcome?

List the attributes of rivers. Use these ideas to improve the design of highways.

What if all the trees in New Zealand disappeared tomorrow?

Do an A to Z of environmental words.

Use the BAR key to improve a landform of your choosing.

How many ways can you cross the Cooks Strait?

Draw or find a shape of anything at all. Find as many links as you can between the landscape and the picture.

What would the consequences be if most people in the world lived in New Zealand?

List many uses for an out­of­date atlas.

What would happen if we all had to live underwater?

What do great mountains and oranges have in common?

The answer is Aotearoa. What are 5 questions that could have this answer?

Brainstorm ways to encourage the protection of our environment.

New Zealand’s ski fields are to be moved to Australia. Explain why this is so.

Consider alternatives to large cities.

How could you cross lake Taupo using a tennis ball, a rope and a brick?

How might an explorer use a

pencil to find his way through

a thick forest?

Invent a way of remembering the names of the native trees of New Zealand.

List ways of seeing Queenstown without actually going there.

“Living Landscapes”