Learning Intentions students are learning to...
- Compare and contrast rural and urban society of the 1950s with that of the present
- Compare and contrast the values promoted in the 1950s with the values of today’s society
- Understand how developments of the fifties have shaped our landscape.
Success Criteria how do students know they have achieved the learning intentions?
- Students will be able to describe elements of rural and urban fifties lifestyle.
- Students will be able to describe the differences and similarities of fifties society with their own.
- Students will complete a visual presentation comparing one 1950s landscape with the equivalent landscape of today.
Relevant Footage
Disk Two
Society:
Rural 1952
Country Town
Expanding Urban 1958
Lesson Outline
- Show the following extracts from the Society section discussing and/or making notes on the questions below
- Rural: How different is rural New Zealand society today?
What values are celebrated here that might have been typical of the 50s?
- Country Town: Ohakune. What values seem to be celebrated in this clip? (Saving, thriftiness, happily assimilated cultures, hard work, making your own way, being organised, well directed enthusiasm, competition, eager attention, formality, cooperation through a working bee – note gender roles) What values are discouraged?
- Now show Expanding town: Porirua. What is the tone and vision of this footage? -Confidence in progress, a vision of suburbia. Briefly compare the Porirua seen here with Porirua of today. How is it different? Very wealthy in some areas, poor in others, suburban in parts, urban and industrial in others, a truly multicultural society.
- Students can now begin a small amount of research where they compare Porirua as seen in this footage to views of Porirua as it is now. Encourage them to use maps and satellite images, for example those found on Google Earth or the Porirua City Council’s website.
- They can now present their own visual depiction of Porirua now and then. This could be two aerial views or a collage of typical images from the fifties and now.
