Education Page
 
 
 
 

Welcome to the Auckland Regional Council's Community Education Site
. The site is presently set up for teachers who recently attended the “Urban Settlements” presentation to work through and to respond with comments and suggestions.

Please do not use this site if you are not currently registered as a test user.
 
 
 
  Tutorial
An introductory lesson, explaining how to use the maps and associated educational material.
     
  Auckland Region in a New Zealand Context
An introductory module using information from the Statistics New Zealand Census 2001 database to compare Auckland with other regions.
     
  Census 2001
Patterns of the Auckland Region shows the distribution patterns of several key social and economic characteristics of the region.
     
  Transport and Growth
Transport and Growth introduces several different types of data including aerial imagery of different parts of Auckland from 1940, 1959-60 and 2001.
     
  Commuting and Congestion
Commuting and Congestion stimulates thinking about the current trends in how and where people move in Auckland particularly in their daily journey to work.
     
  Planning for Growth... A Scenario
Growing Auckland is a planning scenario that has two main objectives, firstly to give some indication of the type of processing that was part of the constraints work in the Regional Growth Forum study and secondly to provide data and a working planning activity to be a template for senior geography.
     
  Changing Urban Auckland
A set of four modules which look at the spread of development in Auckland since 1991, how this has been taking place and the changes that could occur in the way we live. Some of the potential areas of change are presented with aerial imagery.