Te tātari i ngā taukumekume mō te whakamahi i ngā rawa o Papatūānuku
This standard asks you to investigate the debates and disagreements about how we use natural resources from the Earth. You need to explore the main reasons different groups disagree about things like mining, oil drilling, renewable energy, and other resource use—considering Indigenous perspectives, business interests, government decisions, and environmental concerns. The core skill is explaining these disagreements and making thoughtful judgments about the impacts.
You explain the main reasons for disagreement about resource use (different priorities among groups, competing interests) and identify relevant science concepts, with some discussion of impacts.
You explain the debate clearly by connecting different viewpoints with scientific evidence, discussing multiple types of impacts (environmental, economic, social), and showing why these are contested issues.
You make a sophisticated, reasoned judgment about resource use impacts by weighing evidence from different perspectives, acknowledging where science provides clear answers and where uncertainty remains, and explaining why reasonable people disagree.
Standards typically taken alongside or after this one. Same subject, grouped by level.