This workbook provides a range of activities for a full Social Studies teaching programme typically taught at Year 9 or 10 that specifically covers the Achievement Objective ‘Understand that people move between places and how this has consequences for the people and the places’ from Level 5 of The New Zealand Curriculum, Social Sciences.

This workbook features eight independent units of work:

• Why people move and the impact on people and place
• Case Study: New Zealand and migration
• Case Study: The Chinese in New Zealand
• Case Study: Mexico / USA border
• Case Study: Refugees
• New Zealand and refugees
• Case Study: The Industrial Revolution
• Case Study: Maori urbanisation
• Case Study: Tourism
• 'Standing on top of the world' – the dark side of the climb to the top